View Vacancy – Deputy Programme Manager, Grade-HEO, Islamabad

Notice: All candidates are required to mandatorily fill the entire on-line software type together with the employment and academic particulars, experience-based phase and the behaviours and technical/ skilled skills-based questions. We will probably be totally reviewing the applying varieties just for all of the required particulars. Types which are incomplete the least bit won’t be thought of whereas shortlisting for the following stage.

Primary goal of job:

Commerce and Economic system Group (Marketing campaign 6) on the British Excessive Fee, Islamabad is trying to recruit three suitably certified Deputy Programme Managers who can begin from 1 June 2024. All three roles are thrilling alternatives the place you can be main on programme administration of BHC Islamabad’s most excessive profile and sophisticated programmes, in addition to not directly help the brand new authorities on what appears to be their prime precedence: selling financial reforms. 

The profitable candidates will both be a part of a vibrant Macro-economic Stability and Progress  (MSG) crew or Personal Sector Group (PST) comprising senior advisers and programme managers inside the (Marketing campaign Purpose 6) Economic system and Commerce Group on the British Excessive Fee Pakistan. Their particulars are as follows:

Macro-economic Stability and Progress (MSG) crew is the “hub” for macroeconomic reforms for the BHC Islamabad. It focuses on offering technical, financial and coverage help to help Pakistan in attaining sustainable and inclusive financial progress. MSG gives technical help for greater and fairer tax income, higher circumstances for funding together with UK and different overseas direct funding, enhanced commerce prospects, and improved macroeconomic administration. 

• Function 1: This Deputy Programme Supervisor in MSG would be the Programme Accountable Proprietor of the Income Mobilisation, Funding and Commerce Programme (REMIT) in MSG crew. REMIT is a £39 million technical help (TA) programme supporting Pakistan to implement macroeconomic reforms and enhance circumstances for top and sustained progress, job creation and poverty discount. It’s being applied by 4 implementing companions: AdamSmith Worldwide, World Financial institution Group, His Majety Income and Customs (HMRC), and the UK Authorities Communications Providers. The programme’s targets are in keeping with the British Excessive Fee (BHC) Islamabad’s Nation Enterprise Plan which seeks to advertise a affluent and economically steady Pakistan. REMIT’s commerce and funding advisory can be well-aligned with UK’s prosperity agenda and helps the UK’s goals of eradicating market limitations and bettering market entry in Pakistan. Above all, the crew helps Authorities of Pakistan to ship its financial reform plans by constructing Pakistan’s functionality.

• Function No 2: The Deputy Programme Supervisor in MSG would be the Programme Accountable Proprietor of the Sustainable Power and Financial Growth (SEED) programme in MSG crew. SEED is a £37.5 million programme selling Investments for Financial Growth and Local weather Motion. SEED’s present mandate covers bettering public funding administration together with funding facilitation in KP province, rising potential of Pakistan to entry worldwide local weather finance and rising entry to renewable vitality nationally. It’s supporting the Authorities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (GoKP) to enhance its public funding administration, together with planning and financing local weather good infrastructure and different investments it wants for sustainable progress, jobs, and prosperity. The programme made noticeable efforts throughout the years to deal with local weather challenges together with pivoting to answer 2022 floods and supporting Pakistan’s potential to entry worldwide local weather finance for chosen tasks. The programme has additionally contributed to addressing Pakistan’s vitality disaster by offering experimental monetary options for the adoption of sustainable vitality practices by the business. SEED additionally plans to supply quick time period technical help to the newly elected provincial governments to implement crucial financial reforms to advertise progress and job creation.

Personal Sector Group (PST) is the personal sector “hub” for the BHC Islamabad. It focuses on boosting entry to finance for SMEs, exploring local weather finance initiatives, and widening and rising the export base. The dwell PST portfolio is at the moment simply over £200 million. This may improve considerably as two new programmes are in at the moment the pipeline. As a part of the UK strategic priorities, PST can be anticipated to convey collectively a stronger provide by harnessing Abroad Growth Help (ODA) in addition to non-ODA levers. This may require exploring various supply choices for PST’s current and new programmes (together with however not restricted to partnerships with British Worldwide Funding, InfraCo Asia, IFC, World Financial institution, ADB), with a view to optimise improvement influence while leveraging monetary assets and managing our portfolio danger.

• Function No 3: The Deputy Programme Supervisor in PST would be the lead programme supervisor for an upcoming programme, on financial transformation which goals to unlock financial transformation, help self-sufficiency, and increase inclusive progress to enhance productiveness and create good high quality jobs for the poorest in society. This programme will create as much as over 20,000 full-time jobs in Pakistan, spur hundreds of thousands in funding, in addition to catalyse a lot wanted tax and export revenues.

This could be achieved by selling aggressive sectors, supporting companies alongside chosen worth chains via: (i) higher enterprise practices; (ii) funding and improved coverage and regulation to unblock market constraints; and (iii) coaching and specialist experience to enhance productiveness. 

The job holder can be anticipated to supply programme administration help to the SRO of one other upcoming mission on local weather finance.  It should intention to crowd in personal local weather finance utilizing a ‘blended finance’ method, complemented by deal-focused technical help. Precedence programme interventions might embody offering concessional, ‘de-risking’ capital to mobilise personal finance into nascent local weather mitigation and adaption options and focused, deals-based technical help to assist develop a bankable pipeline of local weather investments, strengthening the event of Pakistan’s capital markets.

Total Commerce and Economic system Group (CG6), the place these positions reside, is a prime performing unit, that gives a lovely and rewarding work surroundings, and which delivers programme outcomes and gives coverage and technical enter throughout the UK mission in Pakistan. CG6 crew strives to work collectively inside a optimistic crew surroundings, make improvement and profession development a precedence, and supply flexibility to ship outcomes at tempo on high-profile priorities whereas sustaining work-life stability.

We reserve the proper to overview, revise or amend the roles and tasks every now and then reflecting the altering wants of enterprise.

Roles and tasks / what is going to the jobholder be anticipated to attain:

All staff of FCDO have a accountability to embrace the modifications of the FCDO because it transforms, constructing the tradition we wish to see and delivering our cultural assertion in how we lead and behave in the direction of others; how we make choices and the way we get the job achieved is everybody’s accountability. The function’s key tasks are highlighted as follows. The function can be anticipated to evolve to maintain up with the BHC’s future priorities and the revised ODA settlement.

These thrilling alternatives can be found to each inside CBS trying to switch laterally or be promoted to HEO, in addition to exterior candidates.  
The profitable candidates might want to possess sturdy programme administration expertise and the flexibility to work independently to design, mobilise, and ship programmes all through the programme cycle. Earlier expertise in main inside and exterior coordination will probably be a bonus. Because the DPM, a few of the key tasks will embody:

Managing the programme cycle:

• Lead the execution of one among CG6 tasks in keeping with the FCDO Programme Working framework, delivering by way of a mixture of funding modalities (accountable grant, belief fund, and industrial contracts) with minimal supervision.
• Set up and keep complete mission supply plans, leveraging Assist Administration Platform (FCDO’s programmes portal) information for knowledgeable decision-making and lesson incorporation.
• Drive monetary administration for these programmes guaranteeing well timed and credible crew forecasts, figuring out points and tendencies, and incorporating classes realized into monetary processes.
• Act as a programme professional for assigned initiatives, guaranteeing adherence to compliance to FCDO’s guidelines and transparency necessities in keeping with FCDO’s Programme Working Framework.
• Oversee the tasks annual/programme completion overview cycle, guaranteeing well timed planning, useful resource allocation, and supply.
• Implement efficient monitoring and analysis practices to collect vital information for understanding programme supply and influence.
• Construct enough experience and understanding of programme actions to have the ability to present some stage of technical and/or strategic recommendation to the crew chief in circumstances the place the Senior Accountable Officer is on depart or in any other case unavailable.

Managing Danger and Points:

• Display proficiency in figuring out and evaluating dangers, making use of mitigation methods throughout mission mobilization, and sustaining mission controls for assurance.
• Take the lead on delivering and sustaining key programme administration paperwork equivalent to due diligence reviews for brand new companions, programme supply plans and danger registers.
• Lead on following up due diligence, audit, and annual overview suggestions for the programme.
• Safeguard FCDO funds by understanding fund flows, figuring out fraud dangers, and implementing methods to deal with recognized fraud circumstances rigorously and promptly.
• Lead the follow-up on due diligence, audit, and annual overview suggestions for the Programme.

Partaking crew and others:

• Function the road supervisor of programme officer(s), actively contributing to their skilled improvement to foster continuous enchancment of their programme administration expertise.
• Often work together with industrial contractors, senior officers of DFIs, and senior officers from the Authorities in addition to the Personal sector.
• Help the crew by drafting clear and concise mission documentation (submissions, info notes,) and high quality assuring them earlier than submission to senior administration.
• Proactively liaise with different applications throughout the BHC Islamabad portfolio to establish synergies.

Company Obligations:

• Bear company accountability in the direction of the general mission, actively collaborating in numerous administrative actions equivalent to coordinating BHC occasions, managing high-level visits, and offering administrative help to CG6 senior administration throughout discipline visits.

Sources managed (employees and expenditure):
All Place holders are anticipated to line handle one or two programme officer(s).

Working patterns:
0800 – 1645 (Monday – Thursday)
0800 – 1400 (Friday)
The timings above are considerably versatile to the wants of the job-holder. This can be a full-time job with expectation that the person will work from the workplace following FCDO’s related steerage. 
Any ad-hoc versatile working will probably be topic to Line Supervisor’s approval. The appointment will probably be beneath native phrases and circumstances of FCDO’s “Nation Based mostly Workers” and topic to safety clearance.

Every other info (or particular native Put up necessities):
To make sure a profitable software it is vital that you just present statements with proof to help towards the behaviours talked about. It’s due to this fact strongly suggested that you just learn the Success Profiles Civil Service Behaviours Framework, which gives extra detailed steerage on how the behaviours are outlined and the requirements anticipated on the HEO grade. 

Candidates are inspired to make use of the STAR (Scenario, Activity, Motion, End result) format to organize particular examples of after they have demonstrated these behaviours of their software. Utilizing the STAR format to supply proof of your expertise and expertise in your software and at interview helps to provide a construction.  You briefly describe the state of affairs through which you confirmed the behaviour, after which clarify your job in addressing the state of affairs, what motion you took and the results of this. For steerage on STAR technique, see amongst others right here: A brief guide to competencies – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Important on arrival:

Expertise:

• BA in administration research / economics and finance or related topics.
• 5-7 years of labor expertise in managing improvement tasks.
  
• Expertise of managing and delivering improvement programmes throughout the programme cycle.
• Good monetary administration expertise.
• Good oral and written communication expertise.
• Good industrial, monetary and danger administration expertise.
• Good oral and written communication expertise.
• Potential to prioritise workload and reply flexibly as new priorities come up.

 Technical Competencies:

• Delivering Worth for Cash
• Reaching Industrial Outcomes

 Language necessities:

• Language: English
• Degree of language required: Fluent