Head of Programmes

About the Team:

The Sustainable Programmes Department (SPD) provides strategic and technical leadership in executing WaterAid Ghana's Program Plans. The department's core responsibilities include program design, delivery, risk mitigation, project implementation, and adaptive management, ensuring alignment with WA Program Quality Standards, PMER Policy, Core Procedures, donor guidelines, and global best practices. SPD is dedicated to designing and implementing high-quality, impactful programs that address the needs of the underprivileged and vulnerable communities.

About the Role:

The Head of Programmes (HOP) provides strategic leadership, direction, and management for the Programmes Department, while serving as a key member of the Senior Management Team. This role is responsible for the successful design, delivery, and impact of all programs under WaterAid Ghana’s Country Program Strategy, ensuring high-quality interventions that address the needs of the poor and vulnerable.

In this you will;

• In collaboration with the Country Director provide strategic direction for the design of the country program strategic frameworks and plans, including the development of resource mobilization strategies to optimize the impact of programming interventions.
• Lead/Supervise high-quality project design incorporating Project Management Standards, Quality Program Standards and Program Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (PMER) methods, appropriate to scope, context and technical requirements of projects.
• Effectively plan and manage the successful and timely delivery of programmes/projects that comply with both internal and external standards and contract terms, while also ensuring they deliver the best contributions to our strategic outcomes and the expectations of our national and local partners and communities.
• Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyse and respond quickly to deficiencies.
• In coordination with Country Director and the Funding Manager oversee the business development cycle to ensure quality proposals per WaterAid and donor standards.
• Ensure technical assistance and capacity strengthening for project teams and partners in project management standards and related PMER, business development, gender transformation, safeguarding and operational activities (WASH System strengthening, WASH in Public Health and Climate Resilient WASH). Identify training opportunities, develop training curriculums and deliver training.
• Represent WaterAid in meetings with NGOs, Government Ministries, donor representatives and diplomatic missions, and other external partners

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