Head of Programme Design and Development Full-Time

Save the Children Internacional (SCI), a non-profit humanitarian organization with focus on child well-being, is recruiting candidates for the position mentioned below: (1) Head of Programme Design and Development – Maputo.

The Head of Programme Design and Development (H-PDR) is a senior and strategic position within the Programme Development and Quality (PDQ) Department. The role holder leads effective innovative, transformational and high-impact project and program design, partnership and business development from both a quality (results for children) and a business perspective.

The role holder oversees the process of strategic portfolio analysis, identifying donor, partner and corporate engagement opportunities, and program and proposal development. S/he is responsible for overseeing and facilitating the process of new project design, based on learning from implementation and working closely with the Director of PDQ, Technical Specialists, NBD, MEAL, Advocacy, Campaigns, project implementation teams and support staff.

Key emphasis is also on fostering new business models, and developing non-traditional partnerships (both financial and non financial) to help achieve results for children at scale. The post holder will also be responsible for promoting programme quality – across emergency and long-term programming – with focus on cross-program integration, Child rights programming, gender transformative, inclusive and safe programming.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in an area of social development or equivalent.
• Masters is an advantage.

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years experience in a both emergency and development contexts, preferably with solid experience in more than one of the Save the Children International priority sectors: education, child protection, child rights governance, youth employment and economic empowerment, health and nutrition, climate resilience and emergencies;
• Proven track record in producing large-scale or complex winning bids, proposals, and reports for institutional donors, corporations and others;
• Proven ability to design high quality, and innovative programs;
• Excellent writing/editing skills, budget development skills and presentation/communication skills;
• Experience in presenting project information to donors and partners;
• Experience in developing large proposals for donors such as EC, USAID, BHA, FCDO, ECHO, NORAD, GAC, AICS, etc;
• Ability to coach or mentor senior staff in proposal development or funding strategies;
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching;
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures;
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets;
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in;
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner;
• Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies;
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written, required;
• Commitment to Save the Children International values and policies including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.

Desirable

• Fluency in Portuguese (or another Romance language) would be and added advantage.
• Experience of working with financial and other data systems to produce budgets, analyse data and track trends.

“As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage women and people with disabilities to apply. Save the Children is committed to ensure that all of the employees and programs are absolutely safe for children. We apply strict procedures to ensure that only candidates, suitable for working with children are allowed to join our organization and all candidates will therefore be subject to this scrutiny.”

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Save the Children Internacional does not charge any kind of payment in any of the stages of the recruitment process and does not proceed through recruitment agents.

NB: Only selected candidates will be contacted