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Head of Programmes

Employer
Harris Hill
Location
Manchester
Salary
£35k - 44k per year
Closing date
7 Aug 2019

Job Details

An international charity are looking for a Head of Programmes to be responsible for the strategic and programmatic support and guidance of all the charity's operations.
You will lead on all programme development: design, monitoring, evaluation and learning, across Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Jordan.

You will lead programme development, inspiring the programmes team and country staff and ensure the charity is operating a portfolio of high-quality programmes.

You will take a leading role in developing the charity's programme strategy and work with the Programme Partnership Manager to maximise funding from international donors, strategic partners and UN agencies.


Key Responsibilities:
Strategy:
-Providing broad leadership across the organisation, contributing to the strategic planning and development of the programme portfolio
-Responsible for the overall strategy of humanitarian work, and for ensuring that each programme, thematic area and country has a strategy

Programming: Implementation & Capacity building:
-Has overall responsibility for ensuring high-quality project design and delivery of their work, through effective support of Programme staff.
-Provides technical advice on the design and delivery of high quality programmes.
-Ensures that proposals are developed to a high standard including undertaking hands on support for proposal development where necessary.
-Holds Programme Managers to account for proficient full-cycle management of projects through the relevant in country line management structures.

Fundraising & financial management:
-Works with the Programme staff to develop and implement the fundraising strategy and growth.
-Build effective working relationships with key external stakeholders including donors, bi-lateral aid agencies, implementing partners, etc.

Monitoring and Evaluation:
-Oversees a high-quality, organisation-wide monitoring and evaluation function that enables a culture of learning and growth and ensures key project level lessons inform their technical approach and project design.
-Drives technical expertise and excellence throughout the organisation and supports a culture of learning and growth.

Skills and Experience required:
-Bachelors or Diploma in International Development, Disaster Management or equivalent
-Experience of programme development including: implementation, with either Education, Public Health/Nutrition, WASH, Protection and livelihood or similar
-Several years' experience of working within international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO's)
-Experience of managing staff (and in country staff)
experience of writing fund winning proposals to INGOs and international donors such as USAID, DFID, and ECHO
-Experience of managing donor relations
-Good knowledge of the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East region

Company

Harris Hill has been providing the Charity and Not-for-Profit sector with high quality recruitment solutions for over 27 years. In the past year we have worked on more than 3,000 charity vacancies (approximately 2,000 permanent and 1,000 temporary) and are continuing to grow, developing new teams to respond to the strong demand for specialist charity professionals.

Our teams focus on specific functions within charities including Fundraising, Marketing/PR/Digital, Data Management & Business Support, Finance, Human Resources, Temporary and Executive-level roles.

We are committed to delivering a level of excellence to both candidates and clients alike and have an unrivalled reputation for finding talented people their ideal charity jobs within the UK's leading national and international charities and non-profit organisations.

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Company info
Telephone
020 7820 7300
Location
1 - 2 Paris Garden
London
London
SE1 8ND
United Kingdom

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