Chief Programme Officer /IDS Lead

• Advanced academic degree
  

• A minimum of 15 to 20 years progressive and relevant experience including working in a leadership position (at least 10 years at senior management level) in the international context.
  

Experience

• A minimum of 15-20 years leadership experience in overseeing work in multiple geographic locations, in various functional areas or in the international development context
  
• Multicultural work experience in a relevant leadership role
  
• Experience in the non – profit environment is a distinct advantage including experience at the grass-root level
  

Increasing Federation Impact from “ideas to scale”

• Responsibility for enabling the Federation to increase its global impact through Members and CVI-Run Operations taking up and scaling innovative programming, use of research, learning and application of high-quality programme policy.
  
• At the request of Members, facilitate and co-ordinate strategic international programmes/ multi country programming including advocacy programming, that groups of independent MAs and CVI run countries request and opt in to deliver.
  

Sustainable Income Development support

• Lead and drive sustainable income development in the organization, Supporting MAs to raise sustainable income through support to Grant/ Institutional income development, delivery of multi member systems & processes such as those enabling Child Sponsorship, digital fundraising, and CRM systems support.
  

Member support services

• Responsible for provision of “on-demand” support and digital services to Member Associations. This includes capacity & capability building to risk and growth Members in programme and operations areas. Provision of other on demand support services to Promoting and Supporting Members (“PSAs”), Sustainable Members, and Risk & Growth Members.
  
• Include contracting staff and maintaining a contract structure ensuring the stable and sustainable funding of Member focused support projects via PSAs.
  
• Overall maintain Member focused support structures to Members to achieve and maintain self-sufficient Member maturity status.
  

CVI run country operations & Transition countries:

• Overall responsibility for ensuring that CVI-Run Operations are run for maximum programme impact, quality and are compliant with policies and standards. Programme funding for CVI-Run Operations is not part of CVI’s budget and responsibility. It is the responsibility of the CVI-Run Operation in close alignment together with the but of respective location PSAs, who financially support those CVI-Run Operations to ensure the respective budgets are available and are disposed accordingly.
  
• IDS has the overall responsibility for ensuring that selected CVI managed countries transition to independent MAs.
  

Humanitarian Action

• Responsibility for development of the Federation’s Humanitarian Strategy and supporting Members and CVI- Run Operations to implement in their country (e.g., advice, capability building, development of policy).
  
• Responsible for coordination of Humanitarian response to rapid onset emergencies and for leading those which necessitate the use of international capacities.
  
• Lead and strengthen overall Member and CVI-Run Operations capacity to respond to global emergency situations.
  

Finance

• Joint responsibility as Executive Board member for the financial results and global finance processes in the federation.
  
• Joint responsibility with the CEO for the total overall budget of the IDS and FSC, including funding of additional global projects. Individual primary responsibility for the IDS budget.
  

Culture and Safeguarding

• Joint responsibility to role model and drive culture and safeguarding in the Federation
  
• Embed values-based conduct and safeguarding into all operations, strategy, and governance
  

Risk

• Assess federation-wide opportunities and risks, and collaborate with governance bodies and member associations to develop, and, when appropriate, lead mitigation strategies and response plans.