Director of Programme Development

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £64.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Mary's Meals

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2002

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Logistics

Mary's Meals is a charitable organization focused on providing life-changing school meals to children living in some of the world's poorest communities. The organization operates in 16 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Mary's Meals aims to encourage education by offering the promise of a nutritious meal to hungry children, thereby helping them to focus and participate in class. Every day, Mary's Meals serves over 2. 4 million children worldwide. The organization relies on donations to fund its global school feeding program, keeping running costs low to maximize impact. They involve volunteers and regular donors to maintain and expand their mission.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategic development of Mary’s Meals programmes globally • Ensure programme alignment with organisational priorities and global growth ambitions • Drive programme quality, innovation and learning across the global movement • Oversee programme frameworks, policies and country-level strategies • Ensure frameworks and strategies translate into effective practice and support sustainable growth • Champion research, impact measurement and organisational learning • Embed evidence-based decision-making across programmes • Lead innovation approaches, including piloting and gathering evidence for future direction • Represent Mary’s Meals with governments, partners and external stakeholders • Strengthen relationships and promote thought leadership within the international development sector • Work closely with Programme Management, Programme Operations and country programmes • Report to the Chief Programmes Officer • Shape organisational strategy and support the ambition to reach more children with daily meals in places of education

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in international development • Proven track record of shaping organisational strategy, driving programme excellence and delivering change at scale • Experience leading programme development, design, quality improvement, learning and research functions in complex international contexts • Experience using evidence, insight and impact data to inform decision-making and maximise organisational impact • Substantial experience developing programme strategies, frameworks, policies and approaches • Experience overseeing research, learning, monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement • Experience building and developing high-performing, multicultural teams • Skilled at leading through influence across diverse functions, cultures and geographies • Excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills • Confidence engaging with senior leaders, partners, donors and external stakeholders • Strong understanding of safeguarding within international development programmes • Commitment to the vision, mission and values of Mary's Meals • Willingness to travel to countries where programmes operate • Required to register with the Protected Vulnerable Group Scheme or local equivalent before undertaking the role • CV and short covering note of no more than one page required for application

🏖️ Benefits

• 34 days annual leave including bank holidays, increasing by 1 day each completed calendar year to a maximum of 39 days, plus option to buy another week • Flexible working • Employee Assistance Programme • Life assurance • Medical insurance for candidates located in Kenya, Liberia, Malawi and Zambia • Pension, depending on the location of the candidate • Remote and flexible working supporting work-life balance • Occasional or regular use of the Glasgow office