Deputy Team Leader - Planning, Delivery and Evidence at Voices for Change (V4C)

Purpose of Position

• This role is responsible for ensuring effective and timely planning and delivery of the Programme's activities; and leading evidence collation, distillation and communication.
• We are looking for an experienced project manager, to optimise the impact and delivery of our programme through excellent planning, reporting and analysis skills.

Key Responsibilities
Planning:

• Coordinate the development of work plans at national and state level, working with Output Leads and State Coordinators
• Responsible for regional programme coordination to ensure state level interventions are coherently planned, communicated and weighted between Outputs
• Responsible for critical review of plans to ensure programme interventions are layered and integrated, tracked and reported on.
• Liaise with Operations team to ensure coherence of work planning, budgeting and resourcing

Delivery:

• Monitor progress of all outputs in implementation of work plans, including identification of implications for expenditure and forecasting
• Monitor the quality and pace of grantee delivery.
• Assist the Team Leader in quality assurance of deliverables, as per quality assurance framework

Evidence:

• Lead the team in a process of reflecting on progress, distillation of learning and feeding this back into programming, as well as documentation of changes
• Prepare and produce timely V4C quarterly and annual reports, drawing on inputs from across the team
• Ensure collection and collation of data for VFM indicators
• Lead on implementation of VFM Strategy, reporting against VFM indicators and ensuring learning fed into Programme management in the implementation of activities
• Oversee project Results and Monitoring function.

Line Management:

• Responsible for managing performance in relation to planning, delivery and evidence, identifying and effectively addressing performance gaps/issues
• Develop and ensure team adherence to policies and procedures, and ensure compliance with local laws, donor rules and regulations.

Minimum Education and Experience Required

• Post-Graduate degree in a relevant Business, Project Management or Development field
• Managing delivery of complex programmes in challenging environments, including widespread geographical areas with line management from a distance.
• 5-10 years of experience working in a project management role in business or development
• Analysis and distillation of Evidence
• Proven ability in results-based planning and people management
• Commitment to gender equality and social justice
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment is essential, in Africa/Nigeria an advantage.