Programme Officer, GML (Francophone)

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 Partnerships & Philanthropy (P&P) team brings together MSI’s donor fund generation, relationship management, and project stewardship resources. The function is designed to secure the donor funding pipeline required to deliver MSI’s ambitious 2030 strategy goals, and provide stewardship of existing relationships and contract deliverables. The function brings together the Global Programmes Unit (managing existing grants and contracts), Project Design and Development (building programme design for new and future programmes), and our private philanthropy and fundraising teams, including the US fundraising office. P&P will handle approximately £150mn of existing grants and contracts, maintain and development the relationships which underpin these, and generate c. £100mn of additional funding via new relationships, especially philanthropic, HNWI’s and private giving, as well as impact investing.

The Programme Officer will contribute to the fulfilment of MSI’s mission through coordination of support to our Government & Multilateral Programme. The Programme Officer will support projects expanding the provision of SRH services to hard-to-reach, marginalised and underserved populations in addition to advancing SRH rights, policy and advocacy.

The Programme Officer will facilitate and monitor delivery of effective and consistent project management practices, donor compliance and strategies to improve capacity in our country programmes with a primary focus on francophone West Africa.

Key Responsibilities

• Programme Management and Support
• Coordination and Data oversight
• New Business Development & Policy Analysis
• Compliance

About You

At MSI, our mission, ‘Children by choice, not chance’, is at the heart of everything we do. This means that we need every single one of our team members to be supportive of the work MSI does.

We want individuals who truly believe in our mission and who can clearly describe how and why they feel that what MSI does is important. To achieve this, every candidate is given the opportunity to provide their thoughts and opinions on our mission statement in the online application form. We only consider applications from candidates who are absolutely aligned with MSI’s mission and the work that we do to achieve our aims.

For this reason, only fully pro-choice candidates will be considered for any role within MSI. Please ensure that you read the MSI Candidate Pack carefully, prior to submitting an application.

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

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to organise and present information in a compelling way • Ability to design, implement and monitor effective project management • Understanding of, and ability to write and edit donor proposals and reports • Understand, analyse and interpret data for reporting and decision making • Knowledge of government donor regulations, policies and procedures • Knowledge of budget tracking and monitoring • Fluency in both English and French, written and spoken

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

• Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights (gained through work, study or voluntary work).
• Demonstrated administrative, finance and programme management experience.
• Previous experience of working in a donor support role.
• Experience of working in an overseas location.

Personal Attributes:

MSI is dedicated to equal opportunity for all and recognises that every individual is unique. Whilst we always seek to embrace individual differences and celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we also want to ensure that every team member is suited to their role and that they are given the best opportunity to succeed.

The personal attributes described below have been developed in accordance with the job description and other contextual factors relating to the role and are considered essential.

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

Ability to work well with others in a team environment and across disciplines and cultures

• Ability to manage a heavy and fluctuating Results orientated.
• Demonstrates MSI team member behaviours
• Pro MSI philosophy of social enterprise and cost recovery
• Pro choice
• Ability to travel up to 4 weeks a year

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

Location: London Support Office (hybrid working) or any country where MSI operates

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (UK contracted hours)

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £34,000 – £40,000 per annum (UK salary), 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.

Closing date: 13th September 2022 (midnight GMT+1). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.