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Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership to the programme, articulating a clear vision, and fostering confidence and team spirit among programme staff and partners.

• Actively participate in and/or lead the programme’s governance structures, including the

• Steering Committee and the Programme Implementation Team (PIT), ensuring effective decision-making and implementation.

• Actively participate in ICD’s Senior Management Team (SMT), and adhere to the duties enshrined therein.

• Steward strategic partnerships and relationships.

Programme Management

• Oversee and manage the design, development, and timely programme execution, including setting annual budgets, goals and targets

• Provide quality assurance and technical oversight to the implementing teams to foster continuous improvement in quality, programmatic and financial performance.

• Ensure programme operational tools such as programme charter, M&E frameworks, budgets, and work plans are in place for effective implementation.

• Embed data-driven, adaptive implementation approaches to sustain relevance and facilitate continuous improvement and timely course correction.

• Ensure programme alignment with the funder and Amref’s corporate strategies, policies, operational guidelines, and protocols, as applicable.

Talent Management

• Foster the development of the programme team, line manage direct reports, and build a culture of high performance and resilience in line with Amref’s values of ubuntu, integrity and quality.

• Identify staff development needs and provide coaching and mentorship, as well as link to training and development opportunities, to spur performance.

• Support the building of cross-country and cross-entity effectiveness and efficiencies, making strong operational and strategic linkages for the programme in the organisation.

Evidence and Learning

• Drive the programme's learning agenda, including documentation of promising practices.

• Provide oversight for all donor reports, evaluation reports, and other reports emanating from the programme to ensure timeliness and quality.

• Effectively manage the generation and dissemination of strategic information to staff, partners and stakeholders.

• Establish a conducive environment for learning across the programme's implementing countries and entities.

• Provide thought leadership to advance the health and livelihoods agenda in the region and beyond.

Partnership Management, Advocacy and Networking

• Provide leadership in identifying relevant policy issues and support policy advocacy actions and processes.

• Contribute to and facilitate team participation in relevant external technical working groups and committees to inform the health and livelihoods agenda in the region

• Manage internal and external relations with public and private sector players, including funding partners, implementing partners, and collaborators that are stakeholders in the programme.

Business Development:

• Cultivate, maintain and deepen relationships with the funding partner, and partner entities to facilitate programme growth

• Work closely with the corporate and ICD’s business development team to identify, pursue and secure funding opportunities for leverage and extension of the programme.