• Relevant university education or an equivalent of qualifying experience
  
• Post-graduate qualification in management or leadership for humanitarian, development or resilience programming
  
• IMPACT or equivalent knowledge.
  

• Minimum 10 years’ experience managing complex, multi-country or regional programmes in humanitarian and/or development contexts.
  
• Demonstrated experience leading large, multi-partner and multi-donor consortia.
  
• Proven track record in building programme management capacity across organisations or countries.
  
• Experience in strategic programme design, governance and portfolio management.
  

Required:

• Advanced analytical expertise for context, humanitarian and development landscape in Africa
  
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills, including ability to lead within a matrix management structure and utilize talents/experience of team members in a productive way.
  
• Solid track record in building collaboration architecture or coalition for programme design and implementation
  
• High degree of discretion, diplomacy and inter-cultural intelligence and sensitivity in dealing with stakeholders at all levels.
  
• Results-oriented, demand driven, entrepreneurial, ability to lead in
  
• unprecedented and/or ambiguous situations.
  
• Demonstrated track record in innovating, contributing to a learning culture, sharing knowledge, and promoting new approaches to engaging partners and donors.
  
• Advanced practice of planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting to inform programme intelligence and accountability
  
• Outstanding networking, representational, communication and negotiation skills.
  
• Proven good judgment and ability to work with complete integrity and confidentiality.
  
• Self-supporting in computers (Email, Internet, spread sheets, word-processing, etc.).
  
• Fluent spoken and written English
  
• Fluent spoken and written French
  

Strategic Oversight of Pan-African and Multi-country Programmes

• Provide overall coordination leadership for the design, governance and implementation of pan-African and multi-country strategic programmes.
  
• Facilitate the establishment of country programmatic platforms driving ‘bottom-up’ programme design, planning and budgeting within a coherent multi-country framework and narrative, with a view to ensure that at least 75% of any programme funding supports country-led implementation.
  
• Enable effective cross-team way of working and strategic coherence across thematic functional leads and cross-cutting functions, including humanitarian analysis, PMER, information management, CEA and PGI.
  
• Establish a result-based regional programmatic dashboard to monitor risk and progress across programme implementation. Ensure alignment with Strategy 2030, Renewal 3.0 as well as regional and country Unified Plan.
  

Programme Management Excellence and Capacity Building

• Ensure that any programme design is bolstered by solid country and regional context and stakeholder analysis, in collaboration with delegation and humanitarian diplomacy/policy teams.
  
• Line-manage and mentor delegation programme coordinators responsible for country implementation as part of major multi-country initiatives.
  
• Set standards and establish a reference checklist for programme leadership, planning, budgeting, risk management and delivery.
  
• Build programme management capacity across delegations and National Societies through coaching, communities of practice and learning initiatives.
  
• Ensure effective collaboration between IFRC programme teams, functional leads and National Societies with a view to facilitating locally led implementation.
  

Quality, Accountability and Impact

• Ensure compliance with IFRC Renewal KPIs for programming excellence.
  
• Establish and enforce a region-wide quality and accountability framework based on IFRC PCM, application of the Way of Working and locally led principles for implementation
  
• Mainstream eVCA as IFRC reference tool to collect and analyse community data and information for programme design, baseline, quality and evidence-based impact.
  
• Ensure consistent use of IFRC tools (planning, risk management, reporting, learning).
  
• Work with PMER to harmonise M&E systems for IFRC-wide reporting and to lead the roll-out of impact measurement for major programmes.
  
• Ensure learning loops between evidence, adaptation and strategic decision-making.
  

Governance, Partnerships and Grant Compliance

• Define governance models for complex and multi-partner programmes.
  
• Work with Partnerships & Resource Mobilisation to design grant compliance frameworks.
  
• Ensure donor requirements, risk controls and accountability mechanisms are embedded from design to closure at country and regional levels.
  
• Support Membership coordination and shared leadership arrangements on programme design and implementation.
  

Resource Mobilization and Strategic Growth

• With the support of technical leads and Africa SMT, proactively identify new funding opportunities aligned with Africa Regional Office and country strategies.
  
• Contribute to the development of high-value, multi-country and pan-African proposals.
  
• Shape programmatic narratives and investment cases with technical teams and partners