Deadline: 30 April, 2021
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Plan International is seeking to fill the role of Head of Programme Quality.
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
Responsibilities
- Provide overall strategic oversight in the delivery of the country strategy through contribution to development, monitoring and management of programmes that are gender-transformative
- Lead the overall programme quality within the overarching country strategy and support its subsequent operationalisation
- Model the organisation’s value-based leadership framework
- Ensure embedding of gender transformative and innovative approaches in all phases of the project cycle and ensure design and implementation of relevant strategies to ensure evidence-based planning and programming
- Ensure monitoring, evaluation, research and learning plan supports the CS delivery
- Oversee development, review and submission of annual plans and quarterly reporting
- Coordinate institutional learning mechanisms, ensuring knowledge management is in place and used by programme teams in a standardised and optimal way
- Ensure evidence-based learning mechanisms are in place to foster best practices to increase programme delivery
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Social Work, International Relations, Development, or a similar field
- Ten years, minimum, of relevant experience (not necessarily gained in an NGO or INGO)
- Ability to communicate effectively and authoritatively in area of expertise, and influence others to reach common goals
- Ability to develop effective working relationships across a network
- Five years, minimum, of experience in managing quality of development and humanitarian programmes in the INGO sector in areas relevant to the position
- Experience in handling humanitarian issues affecting girls, adolescent girls and women (preferred)
- Experience in managing complex teams, including staff management and development
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