Company Description

We are a global team of experts and innovators tackling some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. We work with leaders and change makers around the globe to bring health strategies to life. We provide ideas, advice and technical know-how that enable our partners to build a path to lasting change.

With 30 years’ experience in global health, we collaborate with our partners to explore existing evidence, combine expertise, scale up ideas and co-create solutions that accelerate change. This includes collaborating on policy design, managing initiatives, building powerful coalitions and galvanising social movements. Our impact is felt across whole communities, with a focus on women, girls and those who have been marginalised.

As part of MSI Reproductive Choices, all our profits go back into supporting MSI’s own mission of children by choice, not chance.

We believe in a world where everyone can access the high-quality health services they need, without financial burden.

E4A-MamaYe (E4A) fosters sustainable local advocacy partnerships which bring together disparate actors to share information and navigate political processes and interests to make health systems accountable to women’s needs.

Position

Options seeks a proactive, self-motivated Assistant Programme Manager to join our Programme Management (PM) Team and play a vital role in ensuring the successful delivery of a portfolio of programmes in Africa and Asia.

As Assistant Programme Manager, you will be responsible for providing programmatic, financial and administrative assistance to the Evidence for Action-MamaYe (E4A) Programme, ensuring the programme is delivered effectively, efficiently and to a high standard. This includes supporting the effective and efficient project management and administration programme budgets, long-term technical assistance and short-term consultancy assignments for a variety of clients, developing project management systems, and supporting business development opportunities.

The Assistant Programme Manager will directly engage with teams across Finance, Technical and Business Development, developing experience on successfully delivering complex, global health programmes.

Requirements

You will have experience of project management in international development and public health or similar sector, and be looking to take the next step in your career. You will have experience of building successful relationships with clients, collaborators and consultants, be confident in financial management and be able to manage multiple and competing priorities. A confident self-starter, you will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, an eye for detail, and the ability to work in a fast-moving and complex environment

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Other information

• As an equal opportunity employer, Options Consultancy Services is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage or civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Options Consultancy Services.
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
• We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.