Department for International Development (DFID)Vacancy Announcement Position: B1 Programme Manager & Results Officer Job Description: Programme Management Expertise (25%)Work as a driving member of the DFID-Ethiopia Programme Champions team to:• Ensure Learning Forums (the office monthly training event) and Programme Network meetings promote good strategy development, learning and sharing of best practice. Quality assure all presentations in advance and actively identify interesting and relevant topics for the office.• Promote and develop the capability of DFID-Ethiopia staff on programme management issues (incl. safeguarding), embedding the new Programme Capability framework (the framework that sets out how programme management can be strengthened) and driving a culture change for better programme management• As part of the Programme team make recommendations to SMT on what more should be done to improve programme management and carry these activities outProgramme Management of Strategic Fund and Support to the Ethiopian Census (25%)• Form a seamless working relationship with the Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) of the Strategic Fund and Census programmes to ensure excellence in programme management• Be a first point of contact on the Strategic Fund, include raising awareness in the office on application procedure and conducting quarterly surveys amongst users on spend and quality of research outputs• Ensure programme Delivery Plans are regularly maintained and up to date• Support annual reviews and due diligence assessments as appropriate to time and quality• Ensure programme compliance with DFID’s Programme Smart Rules and that key programme capability principles and best practice is appliedSupport DFID-E’s results collection, reporting and data quality (20%)• Lead on results reporting at the bi-annual results reporting rounds. Actively liaising with DFID HQ to understand methodological requirement, commission results, work with SROs and Results Adviser to quality assure results and provide meta data to describe methodological assumptions made to HQ• Support further results returns throughout the year• Co-lead on Building DFID-Ethiopia capability on results and data quality through training activities, feeding into Annual reviews etc, and using the Learning Forum to share best practiceCompliance, Corporate Returns and Knowledge Management (20%):• Lead on the Statement of Assurance• Ensure 100% timely return of all corporate returns– allocating these out to relevant staff and ensuring all are clear on timelines for return• Lead on the Programme & Finance Compliance checks to be carried out on a quarterly basis by OPEX and feed into preparation for external audit• Ensure DFID-Ethiopia’s pipeline Business Case tracker is maintained and updated on a weekly basis, present alongside relevant and insightful analysis to SMT on quarterly basis• Ensure the DFID-E safeguarding area in VAULT is up to date with best practice and key documents• Update and maintain the team Lesson Learning and Evaluation subfolders on VAULT with latest relevant material. Actively promote this learning space amongst DFID-ESafeguarding working group (10%)• Schedule monthly meetings, write up minutes and follow up on actions with members of the group• Support group lead to present key findings and identify decision points to Senior Management Team on a quarterly basis.SUCCESS PROFILES – CIVIL SERVICE BEHAVIOURSSuccess Profiles are the new recruitment framework used within the Civil Service.Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the following behaviours:• Delivering at Pace• Leading and Communicating• Changing and ImprovingHow to ApplyThe full Job Description, Application Form and Civil Service Behaviors can be found at:https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/dfid-ethiopia/about/recruitment• The candidate must complete and send the application form to AfricaHRHubRecruit@DFID.GOV.UK with a copy of their most recent CV. The subject line MUST read “ETH/1902”.• Failure to follow the outlined procedure might result in the application not being considered. The closing date for the vacancy is COP on 11 August 2019. If no response has been received after 2 weeks from the closing date, consider the application as unsuccessful.DFID is committed to equal opportunities in its staffing policy and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or disability. Selection will be on merit.

Bachelor's

Job Requirement
• Essential: Excellent spoken and written English

0-1 year