Programme & Partnerships Lead

Who we are looking for:

Essential:

• Degree or equivalent qualification in business, economics, international development, or a related discipline.
  
• Significant senior management/ leadership experience.
  
• Experience in problem solving to unblock obstacles for programme delivery success.
  
• Experience of developing innovative multi-country programmes.
  
• Experience of developing budget recommendations linked to multi-country programmes.
  
• Experience of team design and recruitment of programme delivery roles
  
• Substantial experience of partnership management.
  
• Substantial experience of project design, monitoring and evaluation tools.
  
• Openness to understanding and working with decolonised approaches to project design, monitoring and evaluation tools.
  

• Inspire and motivate the team and colleagues in the Programme Policy and Practice division to support MCC’s, to drive meaningful impact across our programmes.
  
• Work across Departments to support the design of signature programmes, including building connections across the MCCs, developing an appropriate MEAL framework and ensuring effective reporting and links to Organisational Effectiveness.
  
• Guide the Global MEAL Advisor and collaborate with Organisational Effectiveness Department to commission internal and external impact evaluations and research for signature programmes and the wider organization impact framework ; this will include a focus on decolonial approaches to evaluation.
  
• With an emphasis on signature programmes work with IPE and MCCs to identify opportunities for the further development of signature programmes.
  
• Ensure financial processes and guardrails are in place to support the strategic allocation of programme resources to MCCs.
  
• Develop and maintains strong cross sector and internal relationships that fosters cross-functional consensus.
  
• Collaborate with MCC's to develop