Programme Manager Right 2 Grow (32-38 hours)

Programme Manager Right 2 Grow (32-38 hours)

Department: International Programmes Department

Working together with country offices to implement a multi-stakeholder programme to make a huge impact on children’s lives – that is what this position is all about. Together with a team, you represent Save the Children Netherlands (SCNL) in an Alliance, and you are responsible for ensuring that SCNL and country offices deliver high quality programming.

About Save the Children Every child has the right to a happy childhood. That is why Save the Children is committed to improving the lives of children – and thus the future of our society.

We respond to emergencies, achieve sustainable development, and ensure that children’s voices are heard. As the largest independent children’s rights organization in the world, we give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from injustice. Every day again. unconditionally.

What will you do as Programme Manager You are a team player who is used to working in a multi-cultural setting with colleagues all around the world. You can use your partnership expertise and knowledge to motivate other team members and ensure that SCNL is a pro-active and contributing member within the Alliance, able to improve processes and dynamics within the team at all levels.

In this position your responsibilities consist of:

• Leading the SCNL part of the grant as programme manager and budget holder of a significant (> 8 million) alliance grant in line with the internal programme management guidelines, including work processes and the respective systems
• Represent SCNL in the Global Programme Team of the Alliance. Ensuring that SCNL is seen as a good partner that offers technical added value and deals with complex alliance problems in a solution-focused way;
• Mainly responsible for the internal support to various staff within SCNL that contributes to the alliance (TE, MEAL, advocacy, FPM, etc.) and aligning with the project coordinator on overall programme strategy. Ensuring a common vision and contribution to the alliance, in consultation with the staff concerned;
• Support Save the Children International country offices in the implementation of their part of the grant design, including quality reporting.
• Responsible for ensuring financial procedures and reporting requirements are met, and work closely with the financial programme manager where required.
• Ensuring proper Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning within the assigned portfolio, in consultation with the MEAL advisor, and contributing to portfolio-transcending learning within the Programme Department and within SCNL as a whole (with other departments) if applicable.
• Tasks and responsibilities will be carried out in close coordination with the respective Financial Programme Manager, colleagues within the internal project team and Development Team Leader
• Portfolio may expand beyond Alliance programming.

Who are you? You are very familiar with working in Alliances because you have worked on a multi-country programme with multiple partners for several years. Because of this experience, you are comfortable with the collaborative and operational sides of working in Alliances. You are driven to both improve the quality of programmes by working with country offices using Save the Children Common Approaches, as well as focus on the collaboration within the Alliance. You are a team player with an eye for internal and external partnership dynamics. You are comfortable with holding administrative tasks and ensuring expected deliverables are met in time.

What’s on your resume?

• Relevant MSc or BSc degree;
• Extensive experience within and knowledge of working in Alliances. Multi-country programming and with a nutrition or lobby and advocacy focus will be an asset;
• Excellent command of English and French;
• Good knowledge of all stages of Project Cycle Management;
• An affinity with ensuring the quality of programmes and experience in guaranteeing this quality.
• An excellent team player. Capable of inspiring others, convincing them, and creating ownership, in a respectful way;
• Leadership skills, with an external orientation, situational agility, strategic vision, and commitment to delivering results;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral as well as capable to build a good work relation with partners, donors, and other organisations;
• Good financial knowledge and able to assess and prepare financial reports (for donors);
• An affinity with the vision and mission of Save the Children as well as a proactive attitude, and able to work independently, project-based, and result-oriented;
• Entitled to work in the Netherlands;
• Preferably live in or near The Hague.

What do we have to offer you?

• What you do helps millions of children worldwide. Direct or indirect.
• Salary of course. We follow the salary scales of the government based on a 38-hour working week. This position is classified according to salary scale 10 (minimum €3.121,48 and maximum €4.969,11);
• Your travel costs are fully reimbursed, with sustainable transport being our standard;
• Annually 25 vacation days based on a 5-day working week;
• The possibility to save extra leave days;
• Favorable pension scheme with Pensioenfonds Zorg & Welzijn;
• Plenty of room for training & development, such as unlimited use of the New Heroes training platform;
• A humane employer, that is constantly evolving. That means a place where you can be yourself, shape changes and grow;
• Good to know: if you are hired, you will initially receive a one-year contract, with a chance of extension.

Offers are subject to positive references and the submission of a recent Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG).

Why do we ask for references and a VOG? Save the Children participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.

As a children’s rights organization that fights abuse – in whatever form – we first of all want to be able to guarantee that our own employees are not guilty of this or have done so. That’s why we participate in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. And we purchase standardized references when you apply for a job with us. By applying you agree to this.

What kind of employer is Save the Children? In the Netherlands you work together with approximately 120 colleagues, but you are also part of an international network of more than 25,000 colleagues in 120 countries. We are the world’s largest children’s rights organization, but that doesn’t mean our organization is impersonal. We make sure that everyone’s voice – just like that of the children we fight for – is heard. That every colleague can be themselves and develop further.

At Save the Children, we are proud of our diversity. That is why we invite everyone to apply for a job with us, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religious and/or cultural background, personality and/or other visible and invisible characteristics. We celebrate our differences because they allow us to grow together.