Program Development Advisor - Africa & Middle East at The Fred Hollows Foundation

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role, you should be an experienced and dynamic professional with a track record in project design and implementation within the fields of public health or international development. Your expertise in project coordination, including planning, data management, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation, will be vital to support country teams in developing high-quality strategies and programs. Your ability to effectively incorporate Gender Equality, Diversity, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) considerations into project proposals, coupled with your experience in resource mobilization for donor-funded projects, will ensure the Foundation's projects align with its mission and strategic plan.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Program Development Advisor supports the development of innovative and best-practice projects that are aligned with The Foundation’s mission and strategic plan, the context-specific needs in-country, and the goals of partner institutions. Provide technical support to country teams to develop, plan and monitor their projects for current and future programming, via in country or remote support.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Program Development Advisor will own the outcomes of:

• Provide and coordinate technical support to country strategy, program development and budgeting processes in ways that actively build the capacity of country teams to develop high quality strategies and programs (including the facilitation of reviews and approvals and coordination with key global office and country support network stakeholders).
• Work closely with Strategic Initiatives and Public Affairs teams in the design of new institutional and donor funded projects to ensure GEDSI considerations are well embedded in project proposals.
• Work closely with the Medical, Research and MERL teams to ensure key principles and practices of development effectiveness, research and innovation are embedded into program development, management, and review process with a view to continuous learning and quality improvement and respond to requests from country teams to resolve any technical issues in project implementation.
• Provide technical input into the development of policies, strategies, guidelines, procedures and tools as well as technical position papers to strengthen the quality of programming across the Foundation.
• Remain current on the latest sector trends, policies and innovations in health and development (including equity and inclusion) that align with the organisation’s current and expanding core and global business and work with other technical advisors across The Foundation to support learning, collaboration and knowledge sharing with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide leadership, where appropriate, to ensure that working groups established for specific projects (which may include representatives from multiple teams, divisions, and locations) work collaboratively and effectively.
• Represent The Foundation at the global level, where appropriate, raising The Foundations profile with donors and organisations through engagement in external coordination mechanisms, reference groups, consultations, conferences and global meetings.
• Other tasks as requested by your line manager.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in project design and implementation.
• Experience in public health or international development.
• Experience in project coordination, including planning, data management, budget management and monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience in resource mobilisation, including supporting the delivery of donor funded projects in the international development sector.
• Experience in mainstreaming GEDSI within international development programming.