Programmes Director
February 2021
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About Generations For Peace Generations For Peace is a leading global non-profit peacebuilding organisation with its headquarters in Amman, Jordan. They are dedicated to sustainable conflict transformation at the grass roots in communities, by promoting youth leadership, community empowerment, active tolerance, and responsible citizenship. They are a volunteer movement, empowering, mentoring, and supporting volunteers to be change-makers to create a better future in their own communities. Since 2007, Generations For Peace have trained and mentored more than 19,432 volunteer leaders of youth in 51 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Their ongoing programmes address local issues of conflict and violence, and have touched the lives of more than 1,411,125 children, youth, and adults. They use sport as an entry point to engage with youth, and their carefullyfacilitated sport-based games provide a vehicle for integrated education and behaviour change. Generations For Peace is the only peace-throughsport organisation officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee. In addition to our sport-based approaches, we have also developed arts, advocacy, dialogue, and empowerment activities to support conflict transformation with children, youth, and adults in different contexts. The organization is committed to robust measurement and evaluation of their programmes to support continual learning and innovation, to identify and promote good practices, and to demonstrate impact and sustainability. The Generations For Peace Institute leads on undertaking programmatic research, independently or collaboratively with leading academic institutions, such as the University of Oxford. The Institute also conducts collaborative applied research projects to help advance the broader peacebuilding field and allocates various research grants and scholarships. The Institute’s indepth research serves as an evidence-base to assist in crafting and maintaining high quality tailor-made programming; a tool to gain support from local stakeholders, donors, or academics; and a knowledge-base to inform their educational and training materials as well as strengthen the capacity of the staff, volunteers, and local partners.
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Role Profile Position:
Programmes Director
Location:
GFP Headquarters in Amman, Jordan
Responsible to:
CEO
Supervisor of:
Programmes Managers, Programmes Assistant, Senior Programmes Officers
Purpose of the Position Reporting to, guided, and directed by the CEO, the Programmes Director is responsible for: 1. Strategic and Thought Leadership and Representation of the Programmes Department and GFP programmes. 2. Programmes Department staff management and development. 3. Leading programme development and delivery. 4. Programmes Department inputs to grant proposal development and grant management.
5. Promoting and supporting horizontal learning across Programmes Department Staff and Delegates/Pioneers. 6. Establishing and nurturing effective partnerships with Local Partner Organisations. 7. Participating as a member of the Senior Management Team, working and coordinating across other departments to contribute to overall organisational effectiveness.
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Responsibilities 1. Strategic and Thought Leadership and Representation • Provide overall strategic and technical leadership in the design, development, planning, budgeting, and implementation of Programmes. • Contribute to the strategic direction of the organization. • Support the CEO on strategic engagement with donors and identify fundraising strategies that benefit the organization. • Participate in the annual budget process, leading the programme budgeting process, and provide ongoing oversight and management of programme budgets. • Representation of GFP in high level gathering, meetings, conferences as assigned by the CEO.
4. Grant and proposal development, and donors reporting • Lead on coordination of Programmes Department inputs to proposals, presentations and reports to Donors and Partners, GFP Board/General Assembly, etc. • Ensure regular flow of high-quality information to feed Communications needs, and Donor/ Partner reporting.
2. Programmes Department staff management and development • Provide high quality leadership, mentoring and support to Programme Managers, and Senior Programmes Officers. • Supervise Programmes Department staff, on their recruitment, induction, development, and performance appraisal. • Ensure an efficient and relevant staffing structure and lead structural change processes when necessary.
6. Establishing and nurturing effective partnerships with Local Partner Organisations • Establish and nurture effective partnerships with Local Partner Organisations for every programme in the assigned countries, for enhanced local capacity, strengthened local administration, greater sustainability, and cost-effectiveness. • Lead on the assessments of Local Partner Organisations in the assigned countries.
3. Leading programme development and delivery • Set Programme priorities and assign countries/programmes to different Programmes Department Staff members. • Ensure the delivery of programmes with demonstrable impact and show accountability for overall programme quality. • Develop, implement, and embed, a knowledge management system, that will ensure the sharing of knowledge across the programmes globally. • In liaison with Institutional Learning Department, lead on ensuring programme adaptation based on feedback and recommendation. • Oversee the development of programme improvement plans, to ensure effective and timely implementation of the programmes • Oversee and track Programmes Department budget according to GFP annual budget.
5. Promoting and supporting horizontal learning across Programmes Department Staff and Delegates/Pioneers • Lead on the development and implementation of horizontal processes across all programmes.
7. Participate as a member of the Senior Management Team, working and coordinate across other departments to contribute to overall organisational effectiveness • Represent the Programmes Department in Senior Management Team, providing reports, assessments, ideas, recommendations as inputs to strategic and annual planning, budget plans, policies, and procedures. • Lead coordination by Programmes Department with Senior Communications Manager, Fund Raising Director, Finance and administrative and Institute Director. • Participate in Programmes Strategy Team meetings (with CEO, Institute Director, and Director for Institutional Learning).
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Key Results Areas • • • • • • • •
Contribution to Senior Management Team Leadership and development of each member of Programmes Department Quality of Programmes Department inputs to new Programme proposals Quality of Programmes Department inputs on reports to Donors, Partners, GFP Board Quality of relationships and agreements with Donors and Local Partner Organisations Quality of relationships between Programmes Department and other Departments Continuous learning, programme adjustment and improvement Personal development
Generations For Peace Values Leadership Demonstrating leadership and fostering leadership in others, both within the Programmes Department and with Delegates and Pioneers in the field. Respect & Tolerance Showing respect and tolerance for all, within the Programmes Department, within the wider GFP office, with Programme Partners, and with Delegates and Pioneers in the field. Empowerment & Teamwork Supporting Programmes Department members and Delegates and Pioneers in the field, through proactive delegation skills and coaching and guidance to empower them and encourage creativity, use of initiative, and positive participation in teamwork. Responsibility Demonstrating and encouraging responsibility, accountability and transparency, professionalism, care, and diligence in respect of all people and property, and the brand and reputation of the organisation; seeking quality, effectiveness, sustainability, efficiency, and good value for money; to maximise positive impact whilst minimising risk.
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Education, Qualifications, Competences, Skills Required Essential • University bachelor’s degree, preferably in a relevant discipline. • Master’s Degree or Post-graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline. • At least twelve years’ professional experience. • At least nine years’ experience of leading a team and proven ability to inspire, motivate, mentor and support team members. • Experience in strategic planning, annual planning, and budgeting, and tracking progress. • Experience in devising, assessing, and adjusting policies and procedures. • Experience in managing volunteer-led community programmes. • Experience in conflict transformation and peacebuilding programmes. • Experience in programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. • Experience establishing and developing partnerships with organisations. • Experience in training and facilitation. • Experience in mentoring others. • Experience in curriculum development. • Experience of working in a multi-cultural team. • Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and work under pressure. • Ability to reflect, learn, and improve, and experience in using feedback processes for learning.
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Excellent computer skills (documents/spreadsheets/databases/presentations/calendars/email). Excellent spoken and written English, including written programme plans and reports. Interest in global current affairs, conflict resolution, peacebuilding & international development
Preferred • Demonstrated knowledge of different theories of conflict transformation and social change. • Experience in international development, especially community development and behaviour change programming. • Experience in different forms of evaluation, including participatory evaluation, participatory video, most significant change. • Experience in sport-based approached to behaviour change. • Experience in arts-based approached to behaviour change. • Experience in dialogue approaches for conflict transformation. • Experience in advocacy for community-led change. • Experience in event management. • Travel and experience working in other countries. • Other languages (e.g., Arabic, French, Russian, local languages) are an advantage.
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How to Apply All correspondence, at this stage, should be via Oxford HR. To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button in the job advert page and complete our online application form. Please provide a CV and cover letter in two different documents, which should be prepared before applying as they will be considered in the application process. The cover letter should be no more than two pages and explain why you are interested in this post and how your skills and experience make you a good fit. The document should be saved in MS Word in the following format: Your First Name-Your LastName-Document Name-Date (mmyy) eg, Pat-Jones-CV-022021-GFP or Pat-Jones-CoverLetter022021-GFP. Timeline Closing Date: First stage interviews: Final interviews:
8th March 2021 From 15th to 23rd March 2021 TBD
Equality Statement Equality and diversity is at the core of Generations For Peace’s values. Staff are expected to work collectively and individually to promote a constructive and sensitive approach to others from a variety of backgrounds, where the work of others is valued and respected. Selection Process All candidates will receive an update regarding their application after the closing date. We advise candidates to add the role email to their safe senders list and regularly check their spam folder. Queries If you have any queries on any aspect of the appointment process, need additional information, or would like to have an informal discussion, please email at generations-for-peace@oxfordhr.co.uk in the first instance.
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