Director - Programs

Role Title: Director, Programs

Contract Type: Regular (3 year Opportunity)

Reporting To: Managing Director, Programs

Program/Department/Unit Name: Programs

Location: Amman

Team Name: Strengthening Governance in the Levant

Role Purpose

The Director of Programs will oversee work in the Levant region, focused on strengthening governance and equity in countries undergoing various forms of post-conflict transitions. Directors will be strong managers, as well as subject matter experts for this specific opportunity, able to build teams and work closely with the Program VPs, Managing Directors and their fellow Director colleagues in building a collaborative culture of both risk-taking and teamwork.

Key responsibilities

• Accountable for articulating a creative and exciting opening to make impact in the world into a workable project plan for implementation according to established criteria
• Evaluate an opportunity based on established metrics for MEL and ability to pivot to ensure the required outcomes are being achieved
• Ensure appropriate financial, risk, and legal management and control are articulated during the planning and implementation phase, and work with all relevant stakeholders to develop mitigation plans
• Oversee and manage the opportunity team, including external partners
• Engage with embedded staff from other OSF teams in close cooperation with senior leaders
• Articulate budgetary and workforce needs for opportunity leveraging internal and external resources, as required
• Monitor and regularly report on the progress of an opportunity to the Managing Director of Programs and other senior OSF leaders
• Leverage OSF’s work globally and employing the strategic capabilities of impact investment, strategic litigation, and advocacy to the opportunity
• Represent the given opportunity issue externally at all levels, and grow a network accordingly that includes actors beyond the social sector into national and local governments, multilateral organizations, faith-based groups, grass-roots organizations, philanthropy, local experts, academia and think tanks, etc. to advance the opportunity. Depending on the opportunity this might include developing strong relationships with other funders and bringing them as partners into the opportunity
• May be designated as a Geographic Lead representing OSF’s work in a critical geography (country or region) and leading a Geographic Policy Group, that defines OSF’s strategic approach to the priority geography and ensures a consistent and informed presence

People Responsibilities (Total Team/DRs)

Yes

Key relationships

Program Teams; Managing Directors; Grants Management; Advocacy; Communications; Strategic Litigation; Operations; external partner; Public and Private sector leaders.

The ideal candidate

• Prior experience in leading social change and system- change work in civil society, government, multilateral institutions, and/or the private sector that has resulted in positive societal impact
• Extensive expertise in the specific topic area as set out in the “Opportunity Description” above
• Prior financial ($20m+), legal and risk accountability at large-scale programmatic level
• Network across the social sector in national and local governments, multilateral organizations, faith-based groups, grass-roots organizations, philanthropy, local experts, academia, and think tanks
• Proven people management experience (of individual contributors and external partners)
• Prior experience leading programmatic or organizational level change within organizations and/or systems that have gone through significant transformation
• Experience in multiple sectors and knowledge of philanthropic tools such as advocacy and communication, strategic litigation, and social impact approaches

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