Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 02 Apr 2018
We are recruiting a temporary Regional Programme Manager (for 3 months), who will work with the Regional Programme Officers for Asia/ Middle East and in close collaboration with the country teams in Asia/ Middle East. The post-holder will play a central role in providing daily operational support to country offices and support high quality programme implementation.
This role will act as the focal point for our programmes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen. You will act as the country programmes focal point and support with project management The RPM will provide critical support to the Regional Programme Officers (RPOs) ensuring all reports are clear, accurate, and submitted in a timely manner, and that learning is at the core of the projects we implement. This role includes ensuring effective internal communications between programmes team and the rest of War Child, with a particular emphasis on ensuring that fundraising teams get adequate information to support their needs, and that advocacy priorities are informed by programmes experience and evidence. Finally, the role will line manage two Regional Programme Officers (RPOs). The RPM will be line managed by the Head of Programme Operations (HPO). The HPO will provide direction on strategic alignment and programme development across the portfolio.
Your responsibilities • Daily operational support to country offices – this includes a wide range of activities including but not limited to: awareness of security context, status of programme implementation against plans, and assisting with the problem solving and troubleshooting required to keep the programme moving, compliance, BVA reporting. • Working with country teams to develop and translate country strategy into operational plans and lead on reporting against and monitoring annual plans. • Supporting the RPOs in ensuring timely reporting with institutional donors, foundations and corporate donors in Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen and compiling high-quality and impact oriented narrative and financial progress reports • Working with country teams to develop and translate country strategy into operational plans • Supporting the MEAL team in monitoring project progress and facilitate learning, by tracking project progress against indicators, and analysing results. • Responsible for monitoring programme finance (monthly or quarterly project expenditure against budget) in collaboration with Country Directors, the RPOs, Programmes Finance Advisor and the Head of Programme Operations • Quality control and sign off on all proposals developed for institutional donors • Ensuring compliance with the WCUK Quality Framework, and the Child Protection Minimum Standards through programme design • Ensuring effective internal communications between regional programmes team and the rest of War Child • Developing relationships with established donors in the UK and other actors to influence their activities in the context of our advocacy work • Representing War Child at external advocacy events • Helping to ensure that advocacy priorities are informed by programmes experience and evidence (this includes helping to write advocacy papers). • Recruitment, line management and performance management of RPOs • Undertaking any other reasonable duty and tasks that may from time to time be requested by the HPO and Programmes Director consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility. • Liaising with all other War Child staff and War Child Holland as appropriate • Represent WCUK at external networking groups • To attend and contribute constructively to team meetings and other meetings as required
How to apply:
https://www.warchild.org.uk/who-we-are/jobs/regional-programme-manager-cover