Programme and Partnerships Lead

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Programme and Partnerships Lead

Location: Abuja
Type of contract: Permanent

About the Role

• Reporting in to the Global Head of Programme Policy and Practice, the Programme & Partnerships Lead is pivotal to the design, strategic oversight and impact success of signature programmes for the wider organization. It works closely with Multi Country Clusters (MCC) leadership to ensure coherence of the signature programme and ensure the programmes contribute to the wider organization's impact framework under the new strategy .
• The role provides leadership in managing the MEAL Advisor , a Programme Impact and Portfolio Management Advisor, and a Partnership & Civil Society and Faith specialist to help deliver high-impact programmes with an emphasis on decolonial approaches and methodologies. The role will provide specific support to the development of Christian Aid’s faith based partnerships. The role spearheads localisation and CSO approach as an underpinning ethos of the new organizational mode.
• The role provides programmatic leadership to Impact department and sits on the leadership team of the Programme , Policy and Practice Division (PPPD). Across MCC programme portfolios this role will provide support to ensure a coherent application of our partnership principles and alignment with organizational values and goals.
• The role oversees key technical capacity for global programmes covering MEAL, Programme partnerships and Programme Portfolio Management . The role provides technical oversight on the core signature programme architectural processes and methodologies, and provides leadership to the wider organization in ensuring programme , partnership and MEAL frameworks are enhanced and organizational capacity is built on decolonized and locally-led approaches to programming and partnerships.

Some of the main responsibilities of the Programme & Partnerships Lead include:

• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure financial processes and guardrails are in place to support the strategic allocation of programme resources to MCCs.
• 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.
• Collaborate with MCC's to develop
• Develop and maintains strong cross sector and internal relationships that fosters cross-functional consensus.

Requirements
Essential:

• Significant senior management/ leadership experience.
• Experience in problem solving to unblock obstacles for programme delivery success.
• Substantial experience of partnership management.
• Understanding of financial controls and procedures including due-diligence processes - highly numerate.
• Experience of developing budget recommendations linked to multi-country programmes.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Business, Economics, International Development, or a related discipline.
• Highly developed communication skill written and verbal.
• Experience of developing innovative multi-country programmes.
• Openness to understanding and working with decolonised approaches to project design, monitoring and evaluation tools.
• Experience of team design and recruitment of programme delivery roles
• Substantial experience of project design, monitoring and evaluation tools.

Desirable:

• Highly developed negotiation skills.
• Highly developed relationship building and facilitation and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Developed ability to devise and implement strategies.
• Developed understanding of operating with a total economy approach.