Officer, Programme Design and Development

About Us

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

The Programme Design and Development (PDD) team, as part of MSI’s Partnerships and Philanthropy department, plays a critical role in securing new donor funding to drive the strategic growth of our global partnership. PDD works with MSI’s country programmes, donor leads, and technical teams to design programmes and develop winning proposals. The PDD team plays a pivotal role in supporting country programmes with strategic fundraising efforts and diversification of MSI’s institutional funding base.

As a part of MSI’s PDD team, you will play an important role in supporting the development and submission of high-quality, competitive donor funding applications. This includes conducting research, drafting documents, maintain team folders with proposal writing resources, editing and proof reading, and leading on gathering information from across the organisation to include in funding applications. You will also serve

as the PDD lead to ensure PDD processes, tools, and templates are up to date, fit for purpose, and in use across the team. You will also serve as the key link with other teams for sharing information and improving cross-team learning.

About You

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

To succeed in this role, you must have:

• Experience and demonstrated ability to manage a fluctuating workload
• Experience tailoring messages and content to different audiences
• Experience writing and/or conducting research for a job or in an academic setting
• Demonstrated ability ensuring accuracy and completeness of your work

Skills:

To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following skills:

• Strong attention to detail and follow-up;
• Ability to take initiative and achieve results;
• Strong communications skills with demonstrated patience and diplomacy
• Ability to manage conflicting demands of a large team
• Proven relationship building skills and ability to work jointly and effectively in cross-cultural settings;

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (public health, international development, or related field);
• Outstanding English writing skills. All applicants will be required to undergo a written evaluation as part of the recruitment process.

Personal Attributes:

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and be committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:

• Pro-choice
• Team player, energetic, enthusiastic, and positive
• Quality-focussed and results-orientated
• Takes initiative
• Highly organised and action-orientated
• Decisive and confident
• Resourceful and determined
• Determined to succeed
• Calm under pressure
• Self-aware

For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.

Location: London Support Office

Full-time: Full Time

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £30,500 – £35,000 per annum. Discretionary bonus + benefits

Closing date: 25th January 2023 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.