Director - Programs

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Open Society Foundations

  • Location: Jordan, Senegal, Kenya, Colombia, South Africa
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Not specified
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 13/03/2024
  • Location: Jordan, Senegal, Kenya, Colombia, South Africa
Racial justice Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
As Director of Programs, you will: 
  • Accountable for articulating a creative and exciting opening to make impact in the world into a workable project plan for implementation according to established criteria 
  • Extensive experience working on the intersection of Gender, Race, and power issues in multiple country contexts 
  • Demonstrate experience of working with women political leaders and parties, including elected leaders particularly in the global south
  • Demonstrate substantive knowledge and experience in the provision of coordinated support and management of rights-based programs aiming to advance intersectional equality
  • Extensive experience working on the intersection of Gender, Race, and power issues in multiple country contexts 
  • Experience of working with women political leaders and parties, including elected leaders, particularly in the global south
  • Substantive knowledge and experience in the provision of coordinated support and management of rights-based programs aiming to advance  intersectional equity
  • Substantive experience and knowledge of working on racial justice issues
  • Evaluate an opportunity based on established metrics for MEL and ability to pivot to ensure the required outcomes are being achieved 
  • Ensure appropriate financial, risk, and legal management and control are articulated during the planning and implementation phase, and work with all relevant stakeholders to develop mitigation plans  
  • Oversee and manage the opportunity team, including external partners  
  • Engage with embedded staff from other OSF teams in close cooperation with senior leaders   
  • Articulate budgetary and workforce needs for opportunity leveraging internal and external resources, as required  
  • Monitor and regularly report on the progress of an opportunity to the Managing Director of Programs and other senior OSF leaders 
  • Leverage OSF’s work globally and employing the strategic capabilities of impact investment, strategic litigation, and advocacy to the opportunity  
  • Represent the given opportunity issue externally at all levels, and grow a network accordingly that  includes actors beyond the social sector into national and local governments, multilateral organizations, faith-based groups, grass-roots organizations, philanthropy, local experts, academia and think tanks, etc. to advance the opportunity. 


Qualifications 
  • Educated to a degree level (or equivalent) 
  • Prior experience at both local and global levels in leading social change and system-change work in civil society, government, multilateral institutions, and/or the private sector that has resulted in a positive societal impact 
  • Direct experience and knowledge of working in gender, race and power issues in the Africa, MENA, Latin America, Caribbean, Asia Pacific and Eurasia regions would be an advantage
  • Knowledge and understanding of global racial and reparative justice, global south Feminist, human rights and justice spaces
  • Prior financial ($20m+), legal and risk accountability at the large-scale programmatic level 
  • Network across the social sector in national and local governments, multilateral organizations, faith-based groups, grass-roots organizations, philanthropy, local experts, academia, and think tanks 
  • An excellent knowledge of English

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