Oxford Policy Management
201 - 500 employees
Founded 1979
💼 Consulting
🏥 Healthcare
🍽️ Food & Beverage
Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage
Oxford Policy Management is dedicated to improving lives through sustainable policy change. The organization partners with governments, funders, and key decision-makers to deliver evidence-based policy expertise and practical solutions aimed at strengthening resilience and advancing sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries. With a global network, Oxford Policy Management focuses on areas like climate, education, governance, health, and poverty, providing research and insights to facilitate informed decisions and impactful policies.
Team Leader, Institutional Development Expert, Innovation Ecosystems
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Oxford Policy Management
201 - 500 employees
Founded 1979
💼 Consulting
🏥 Healthcare
🍽️ Food & Beverage
Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage
Oxford Policy Management is dedicated to improving lives through sustainable policy change. The organization partners with governments, funders, and key decision-makers to deliver evidence-based policy expertise and practical solutions aimed at strengthening resilience and advancing sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries. With a global network, Oxford Policy Management focuses on areas like climate, education, governance, health, and poverty, providing research and insights to facilitate informed decisions and impactful policies.
📋 Description
• Provide overall strategic direction and quality assurance across the assignment • Review and sign off on diagnostic findings, maturity scorecards, and capacity development roadmaps • Oversee the coherence and quality of the final assignment report and knowledge products • Coordinate the wider expert team across diagnostic, capacity building, and MEL workstreams • Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders throughout inception, delivery, and reporting • Lead engagement with participating Innovation Support Organisations, adapting the approach to local context and constraints • Undertake field missions to Tanzania and Uganda for inception, coordination, quality assurance, and selected ISO visits • Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of all assignment outputs within budget
🎯 Requirements
• University degree in business, management, economics, development studies, public policy, entrepreneurship, or organisational development • At least 10 years of professional experience in institutional strengthening, organisational diagnostics, or entrepreneurship ecosystem development • Experience working with hubs, incubators, accelerators, or similar support institutions • At least 5 years of relevant experience gained working in Africa • Strong understanding of institutional diagnostic frameworks and maturity assessment approaches • Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams on multi-country technical assistance assignments • Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with donor representatives and institutional leadership • Excellent written and spoken English • Ability to produce clear, donor-ready reports • Experience designing or delivering capacity-building programmes is strongly preferred • Experience with institutional diagnostic tools, maturity scorecards, or capacity development roadmaps is strongly preferred • Familiarity with secondary or regional city ecosystems is strongly preferred • Experience working within donor-funded programme structures, including phased deliverables and MEL reporting, is strongly preferred • Working knowledge of Swahili is an advantage • Familiarity with local languages spoken in the Ugandan project areas is beneficial • Field missions to Tanzania and Uganda required
🏖️ Benefits
• Environment that welcomes ambition, creativity and passion for positive change • Commitment to diversity and inclusion • Opportunity to work as a corporate employee, project delivery colleague, or independent contractor
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