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for communities, businesses, societies and economies.
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lives and create enduring value by working with governments,
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idea that progress will be supported by four key pillars:
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We create positive impact through more than 100 current projects with more than 2000 employees operating in over 90 countries.
Job Title: Deputy Team Leader (Planning, Delivery and Evidence)
Purpose of position
Voices for Change (V4C) is a UK Aid funded, four year programme
running from October 2013 to December 2017. The goal of V4C is to help
transform social attitudes towards girls and women in Nigeria by working
on specific individual, social and institutional changes. This role is
responsible for ensuring effective and timely planning and delivery of
the Programme's activities; and leading evidence collation, distillation
and communication. We are looking for an experienced project manager,
to optimise the impact and delivery of our programme through excellent
planning, reporting and analysis skills.
Key Responsibilities
Planning:
- Coordinate the development of work plans at national and state level, working with Output Leads and State Coordinators
- Responsible for regional programme coordination to ensure state
level interventions are coherently planned, communicated and weighted
between Outputs
- Responsible for critical review of plans to ensure programme interventions are layered and integrated, tracked and reported on.
- Liaise with Operations team to ensure coherence of work planning, budgeting and resourcing
Delivery:
- Monitor progress of all outputs in implementation of work plans,
including identification of implications for expenditure and forecasting
- Monitor the quality and pace of grantee delivery.
- Assist the Team Leader in quality assurance of deliverables, as per quality assurance framework
Evidence:
- Lead the team in a process of reflecting on progress, distillation
of learning and feeding this back into programming, as well as
documentation of changes
- Prepare and produce timely V4C quarterly and annual reports, drawing on inputs from across the team
- Ensure collection and collation of data for VFM indicators
- Lead on implementation of VFM Strategy, reporting against VFM
indicators and ensuring learning fed into Programme management in the
implementation of activities
- Oversee project Results and Monitoring function
Line Management:
- Responsible for managing performance in relation to planning,
delivery and evidence, identifying and effectively addressing
performance gaps/issues
- Develop and ensure team adherence to policies and procedures, and
ensure compliance with local laws, donor rules and regulations.
Minimum education and experience required
- Post-Graduate degree in a relevant business, project management or development field
- Managing delivery of complex programmes in challenging environments,
including widespread geographical areas with line management from a
distance.
- Proven ability in results-based planning and people management
- Commitment to gender equality and social justice
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment is essential, in Africa/Nigeria an advantage
- 5-10 years of experience working in a project management role in business or development
- Analysis and distillation of Evidence
How to Apply
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