The foundation’s Donor Government Relations (DGR) team in London is seeking a Program Manager to provide strategy development, performance monitoring and portfolio management support for our donor country engagement in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The Program Manager is responsible for managing (and helping to implement) critical processes, projects and information that help to drive the rhythm and impact of the team. The Program Manager will engage effectively at all levels of the organization; collaborate productively with peers, partners, senior leaders, staff and consultants; and exercise good judgment and use influence appropriately to drive work forward.
Areas of Responsibility:
Strategy & Program Management:
- Supports strategic planning and investment decisions in close collaboration with the DGR Management Team, including research, analysis and project management to inform strategic direction of DGR. Selectively leads on strategy development for emerging areas of investment in collaboration with relevant foundation partners.
- Collaborates with the DGR Management Team and key stakeholders to facilitate DGR planning including goal-setting, donor country planning, budgeting and resource allocation and scorecard performance tracking and measurement.
Portfolio Management:
- Partners with the DGR Management Team and Program CFO’s office to support informed strategic investment decisions related to grants and contracts.
- Perform research and analysis as needed to support sound portfolio management.
- Drives and monitors progress against milestones and key decisions, leads key stakeholder meetings and prepares analysis and data to support key decisions.
Project Management:
- Demonstrates complex project management skills and lead multiple projects with simultaneous demands. Runs large and/or complex projects in support of strategy development, resource allocation (both financial and human), investment management, and business performance management.
- Establishes and executes work plans, monitoring progress against milestones and key decisions and managing partner communications.
Leadership Support:
- Prepares DGR Management for strategy reviews, learning sessions, briefings with the Co-chairs and foundation leadership.
- Ensures successful employee onboarding relative to strategy and planning processes, communicates performance expectations, creates goal alignment, integrates project and change management, provides mentorship and measures progress.
Partner Engagement:
- Responsible for high quality interactions and clear and consistent communication with grantees and other external partners.
Contract Management:
- Handles contracts that support strategy and program development and implementation.
- Provides guidance to DGR staff on appropriate use and development of contracts in support of DGR’s programmatic work.
Reports to: Interim Deputy Director, Strategy Planning & Management
Educational Background:
MBA or equivalent advanced degree in public health, business administration, public affairs or other relevant Master’s degree.
Skills/Experience:
- Strong analytical skills and ability to define and engage in formulation of strategic initiatives and/or investment decisions and evaluations.
- Excellent skills in developing and representing complex financial data clearly and concisely to inform decision making; ability to plan and manage budgets.
- Proven project management skills – ability to develop work plans that coordinate inputs from large number of people, to track progress against targets and to identify barriers to progress, to plan agendas and facilitate meetings, to organize data and information.
- Experience with scorecards and performance management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences, ability to interact with and influence senior leadership.
- Ability to work with diverse organizations and partners, with strong spirit of diplomacy and collaboration.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, including ability to work effectively and with sensitivity across barriers such as language, culture and distance.
- Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, with a high level of comfort preparing key project deliverables and communications in deck format.
- Knowledge and understanding of general development issues, policy making, and advocacy highly desired.
- Ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, and enthusiasm in a dynamic environment and ability to travel for short trips on a predictable basis.
- Extensive work experience with progressive responsibility in project management within management consulting firm or similar strategic positions in health/development-related field
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 12 2019
Active Until:
Oct 12 2019
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit