Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
SUMMARY OF THE ASSIGNMENT
Reporting to the Deputy Team Leader and working closely with other GREAT staff, the Policy Manager will oversee and quality assure the work of a team of policy advisors and technical partners, provide strategic steering and technical support to partners to maximise outcome and document and share best practices on policy support at national and provincial level, updating of GREAT policy strategy and contribute to organisation-wide objectives as a member of the Strategy Team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Program Development:
- Lead and deliver the GREAT Policy Dialogue Strategy and annual policy dialogue plans, together with the GREAT management team, DFAT and selected partners.
- Identify opportunities to upscale GREAT successful approaches and models through government plans and policies at the province and national levels.
- Support the program’s Monitoring Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) objectives including identifying, measuring and reporting on policy changes and their impacts on women, their families and local communities, in conjunction with the MERL Manager.
- Prepare/review policy briefs as required.
- Provide ongoing advice to the Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader, DFAT and other program stakeholders as needed.
Project Management
- Lead policy support work under GREAT 2, including staff assigned including provide inputs for GREAT program level annual policy workplans and progress reports.
- Manage 3 projects with policy partners:
- Oversee partner project implementation and progress, providing quality assurance, guidance and support to achieve policy support objectives and to ensure projects are compliant with GREAT project management requirements.
- Provide technical assistance for selected assignments with national partners.
- Support institutional partners to quality assure technical assistance received.
- Support institutional partners in preparing and updating annual workplans and quarterly progress reports.
- Prepare quarterly reports.
- Conduct annual partner performance assessments.
- Work closely with the MERL team in implementing and embedding measurement and learning to support partners to adapt.
- Develop relationships and coordinate with other relevant partners for policy engagement and enhancement.
Stakeholder Communication
- Maintain a strong communication flow on policy support with national policy partners, the Project Management Units, target district governments and other stakeholders.
- Build and maintain effective communications and information flows on the policy environment, support activities and lessons learned with DFAT.
- Sharing GREAT-related experiences at relevant external events to promote learning and upscaling
- Represent/support GREAT and DFAT at relevant policy dialogue meetings.
- Provide input into GREAT program-level communications.
