Job Title: Programme Manager
Hiring Organization: Sightsavers
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 07/21/2024
Responsibilities
- Oversee IDC strategic planning and delivery,
ensuring team collaboration with the IDC Technical Advisor and Advocacy
Lead.
- Manage relationships with IDC champions,
facilitating their engagement through regular calls and meetings.
- Foster partnerships between IDC champions, GPSDD
partners, and other organisations to share experiences and strengthen
inclusive data systems.
- Lead the IDC impact and learning pillar,
capturing and sharing progress through data stories and knowledge
products.
- Oversee budget development, monitoring, and
reporting for IDC and Sightsavers, making resource allocation decisions.
- Collaborate with the IDC Advocacy Lead to
identify advocacy opportunities and plan major IDC events.
- Support the Technical Advisor in providing
resources and tools for Champions to develop and implement inclusive data
action plans.
- Facilitate engagement of IDC co-facilitating
partners, including GPSDD, Sightsavers, the UK’s Office for National
Statistics and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
- Lead Sightsavers’ inclusive data portfolio
globally, engaging with senior stakeholders.
- Line manage the Inclusive Data Project Manager
and Inclusive Data Operations & Planning Coordinator, overseeing
workplans and progress.
- Stay informed on trends in data disaggregation
and inclusive data, including the SDGs and the goal to leave no one
behind.
Skills and Experience
- The Programme Manager will provide programme
leadership for the Inclusive Data Charter initiative, ensuring the
development and delivery of agreed plans. You will coordinate the
engagement of co-facilitating partners and ensure effective participation
by Champions in Charter management. Additionally, you will advance
reporting and learning mechanisms to track progress against Champion
Action Plans.
- The Programme Manager will oversee Sightsavers’
inclusive data programme at a global level, offering strategic leadership
across the portfolio. Strengthening relationships with internal
stakeholders and external strategic partners will be key to advancing
organisational objectives and enhancing Sightsavers’ leadership in
inclusive data.
Jobholder Requirements
- Knowledge (education and related experience)
- Demonstrable experience in strategy, project
management, advocacy and/or communications in international development or
foreign policy
- Team leadership and staff management experience,
preferably in a decentralised environment
- Proven ability to coordinate stakeholders across
sectors and geography
- Ability to develop and maintain strong
relationships with people from a wide variety of organisations, cultures,
and with a wide variety of functional expertise
- Experience with the Sustainable Development
Goals, international development or work with marginalised groups required
Skills (training and competencies)
- Exceptional project & programme management
skills, as well as writing and communications
- Ability to work in a networked team and with
partners around the world virtually and in-person
- Ability to organize and prioritise work and
manage time effectively with little supervision
- Project management qualification or equivalent
experience desirable
- Strong planning, coordination and organisational
skills, ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently and meet deadlines
- Budget development, management and reporting
- Monitoring, evaluation and learning experience
desirable
- An understanding of and commitment to inclusion
and equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
