Country: United States of America
Closing date: 30 Jun 2015
Title: Regional Vice President
Location: Washington, DC
Pact Overview At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development. Department Overview Pact exists to help create a world where those who are poor and marginalized exercise their voice, build their own solutions, and take ownership of their future. The Program Delivery and Country Office teams contribute to realizing this by:
· Ensuring effective project managementthrough supporting project startups, implementation, reporting and financial and human resource management as well as closeouts
· Portfolio coordination– Providing a leadership role in the regional portfolio teams in DC, and organize monthly calls for the portfolio team with each country office.
· Working with country teams to develop, refine and pursue their strategies by leveraging technical knowledge (our own and others), researching, and analyzing potential partners and opportunities.
· Grow and diversify –contributes to scoping, pre-positioning and proposal development with OppDev.
· Knowledge sharing and learning:PD enhances communication between country offices and DC, to ensure better understanding of the diverse operating environments and program approaches.
· External relations:Participating in the development conversation by attending events, hosting meetings, and reaching out to potential partners and donors. Position Purpose The Regional Vice President (RVP) reports to the Chief Global Program Officer (CGPO) and is responsible for driving and coordinating all activities within the Africa region and ensuring regional and global synergy. S/he prioritizes the management of the Africa Country Directors (CDs) ensuring each country has developed work plans and country strategies Scorecards and are held accountable to them. S/he is responsible for ensuring that Pact’s activities are implemented on-time, on budget, with high-quality products and services, and to the full satisfaction of the sponsoring organization, and that all programs are in alignment with Pact policies and guidelines. S/he works to identify new business opportunities that are consistent with Pact’s strategic priorities. Key Responsibilities Leadership:
- Serve as trusted leader, help move Pact from a transactional to a transformational organization;
- As Pact’s senior leader for the region, partner in advancing the mission and serve as a standard bearer of organizational philosophies and competencies;
- Represent Pact in the region to a wide range of private and public actors, acting as an advocate for Pact;
- Inspire, champion and spread a culture of shared success that makes true our belief that every imaginable problem has a solution;
- Strengthen the Pact brand through application of brand identity and contributing to efforts to communicate Pact’s values, approaches and global impact;
- Assist Regional Directors and country management teams to coordinate marketing and promotion of Pact within the region;
- Represent the region at Pact Board meetings (at least two Board meeting per year);
Strategic Implementation:
- As Pact regional leader, maximize strategic coordination, synergy and learning among Pact’s country programs in collaboration with Program Delivery, Program Advancement, Opportunity Development, Communications, HR, Finance, Grants and Contracts and IT leadership;
- Significantly contribute to the cultivation of establishing strategic alliances and partnerships with current and potential donors working in the region;
- Promote and support Pact’s efforts to nurture innovation and strengthen Pact’s cutting edge programmatic, grant making, finance, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and operations performance in full cooperation with organizational leaders;
- Ensure that Country Directors have in place a country strategy and workplans and to hold CDs accountable for targets, directly or in collaboration with Regional Directors;
- Promote interregional and global learning through regional exchanges and peer program reviews, in collaboration with Program Advancement and Program Delivery leads.
Program Delivery:
- Identify with country teams, key management and technical priorities for country programs and recommend courses of action to either fill gaps or address problems accordingly;
- Ensure that the Regional Directors develop and reach key program delivery targets across the region, select Country Directors who will drive and deliver on Pact’s strategic vision ensuring high quality, timely and on budget program delivery;
- Oversee country performance reviews and provide critical feedback to country management teams on how program approaches, management and standards can be strengthened and improved, in collaboration with other leaders;
- Work with Regional Directors to lead country management teams to ensure they are aware of, have access to, and are using information, tools and support, and apply standards to maintain quality program, monitoring, evaluation and learning, grant making, finance and operations performance;
- Support global and country efforts to improve the consistency of management practices and ability to mitigate risks;
- Ensure the development of an ethos of effective implementation and good financial and administrative practices;
- Oversee the regular review of relevant reports, evaluations and other internal and external resources (including the tacit knowledge of individuals) as necessary to utilize Pact expertise and experiences for improving program implementation;
- Ensure strong collaboration between Pact DC and regional compliance, finance and grant functions in their interaction with country programs;
New Business Development:
- Assist country programs to identify and develop new business opportunities within the region and ensure access to technical assistance in proposal development as needed. Attend weekly Opportunity Development bid review meeting.
Other Responsibilities
· Perform other duties as assigned. Basic Requirements BA and at least 20 years of relevant experience (or equivalent) Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree in a relevant field;
- Demonstrated experience and success in a progressively responsible program management leadership position with field and international non-profit experience;
- Proven track record of success in managing large complex projects in overseas settings;
- Expertise in creating and managing country office budgets and annual targets;
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, both participant-level and donor-level;
- Demonstrated capability in strategic visioning, planning and agency representation;
- Experience working with a variety of international donor organizations;
- Fluency in English and proficiency in at least one other regionally relevant language;
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally, up to 50%.
Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.
How to apply:
To apply for this position, please visit our website at www.pactworld.org
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