Programme Operations Manager, WISH 2 West and Central Africa

We are a global team of experts and innovators tackling some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. We work with leaders and change makers around the globe to bring health strategies to life. We provide ideas, advice and technical know-how that enable our partners to build a path to lasting change.

With 30 years’ experience in global health, we collaborate with our partners to explore existing evidence, combine expertise, scale up ideas and co-create solutions that accelerate change. This includes collaborating on policy design, managing initiatives, building powerful coalitions and galvanising social movements. Our impact is felt across whole communities, with a focus on women, girls and those who have been marginalised.

As part of MSI Reproductive Choices, all our profits go back into supporting MSI’s own mission of children by choice, not chance.

We believe in a world where everyone can access the high-quality health services they need, without financial burden.

The UK aid funded Women’s Integrated Sexual Health 2(WISH 2) programme will support women and adolescents, including the poor and most marginalised, to have greater voice, choice and control over their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

The Programme Operations Manager (POM) supports improved programme delivery efficiency, specifically in administrative, programmatic, and financial operations, to accelerate the programme success. This includes: development of coherent overarching and country level work plans and budgets across Options activities under the WISH 2 programme, financial forecasting and management, contracting, risk management and procurement. The POM accurately manages an ongoing system of collecting programme performance metrics and derives insights from the data they’ve collected to recommend improvements.

• Significant experience of working in international development at Programme Management level. Experience with FCDO preferred.
• Significant and proven experience working in international development at a senior management level or above for at least five-seven years.
• Strong leadership and organisational skills
• Extensive experience in leading the coordination of complex multi-country programmes
• Proven skills in people management
• Proven experience in strategic work planning and managing large, complex, multi-country budgets
• Proven experience in risk management
• Experience of developing and managing consultancy contracts and sub-contracting
• Skills in security, due diligence, and quality assurance processes
• Experience in developing and delivering high quality outputs, able to write fluently and accurately in both English and French

• Options is dedicated to equal opportunity for all and recognises that every individual is unique. Whilst we always seek to embrace individual differences and celebrate the diversity of our workforce, we also want to ensure that every team member is suited to their role and that they are given the best opportunity to succeed.
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
• We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.
• Applicants must have the right to work in Dakar, Senegal