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MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Technical delivery, quality assurance and accountability
• Provide high quality safeguarding services to a range of clients including international financial institutions (IFIs), government departments, international agencies, nongovernmental organisations, foundations, and consultancy partners.
• Work with colleagues to embed safeguarding within other SDDirect portfolio (GBV, Governance, Education, etc.) projects and programmes.
• Contribute to positive relationships and collaboration with clients and partners.
• Manage and supervise service contracts and consultancies undertaken by SDDirect technical staff and network consultants (including relevant project management responsibilities, client and relationship management, technical leadership and support of consultancy teams)
• Ensure high quality delivery of programmes, analysis and deliverables to clients, partners and affected communities
• Provide quality assurance support across programmes and ensure that quality assurance systems and resources are in place to deliver contractual services to a high standard
• Assure compliance with SDDirect project management requirements, client specifications and contractual obligations (including timely reporting, recording of consultant inputs, contract budget monitoring, and use of the SDDirect online project management system)
• Represent SDDirect and its work as needed at meetings and events.
• Technical leadership and professional excellence
• Support the development of SDDirect’s safeguarding body of knowledge and practice, strategic thinking, intellectual leadership and planning, staying abreast of current thinking methodologies and good practice in the field.
• Provide intellectual and methodological leadership in this technical area as well as up-to date technical advice across the organisation
• Support portfolio strategy development and delivery and achievement of SDDirect’s mission and strategic goals and role model SDDirect’s values
• Develop and grow SDDirect’s tools, resources, capacity and knowledge base in this technical area, fostering a culture of learning and innovation within and beyond the organisation
• Team leadership and resourcing
• Provide effective line management fostering a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Support internal resourcing strategy and recruitment, including learning and development of in-house staff with expertise in this thematic area
• Support external partnership and resourcing strategy – including identifying
strategic partnerships and SDDirect’s network of consultants, Senior Associates and Associates
• Business planning and growth
• Support the growth of SDDirect’s safeguarding portfolio of work through providing technical input and content for relevant expressions of interest, bids and research proposals to prospective clients.
• Support the growth of emerging areas of work for SDDirect such as case handling and investigations, working with IFIs and safeguarding in the private sector.
• Identify areas of growth and new business opportunities through close and direct contact with clients, potential clients, partners, potential partners, in-house staff and external consultants
• Work closely with the Business Development Team to secure new business,
providing high quality design and technical content for relevant bids and proposals to clients.
• Provide technical leadership and quality assurance on bids and build respectful partnerships and alliances into bids that deliver quality.
• Proactively seek out and create relationships with relevant stakeholders, funders and partners within the safeguarding area.