Program Director
Oxfam
- Addis Ababa
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Under the leadership of the Country Director, provides overall strategic and technical leadership in the revising, planning, budgeting, and implementation of the Oxfam Country Strategy
- Ensures the delivery of a country program with demonstrable impact and is accountable for ensuring that the programme meets overall program quality and learning standards.
- Manages and is accountable for the programme budget including responding to high-level management and variance reports.
- Working with the Program Quality and Learning Manager, develop, implement, and embed, a knowledge management system, that will ensure the sharing of knowledge across the program, other country programs, and the broader confederation.
- Oversees the development of program and project improvement plans, to ensure effective and timely implementation of the projects and program.
- Working closely with the Business Development Manager, identify opportunities for funding to ensure the financial sustainability of the country programme of Oxfam in Ethiopia
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of Oxfam’s partnership approach, including work with coalitions and networks, adopting a strategic, proactive perspective on how to achieve partnerled approaches to achieve sustainable change
- Oversee the partner portfolio, with specific reference to the identification of both implementing and strategic partners and building and maintaining these relationships
- Leads the development of country-level programme reporting – facilitating Programme Managers and other team members’ contributions to reporting, consolidating programme reports and providing high-level strategic analysis of programme impact
- Directs and coordinates external program engagement
- Strong links between development programmes, humanitarian preparedness and response and policy and advocacy interventions
- Ensures that all work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to community needs and gender issues. In particular, promote the full and equal participation of women in all aspects of the work
- Assist the programme team to develop, finalise and closely monitor their programme(s) budget
- Work closely with the Finance Department to ensure effective financial and budgetary control of the programmes, according to OI’s policy and procedures
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