We are Hiring: Vice President, Programmes, HK

Note: Flexibility regarding location of position as long as candidate is based in one of these countries in which EMpower works. (S.Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, UK, US,HongKong, Turkey). If the candidate is based in a country where we have an office (India, HongKong, US, UK and Singapore), they will be required to come into office once a week.

About EMpower:

EMpower, a global philanthropic organisation, is dedicated to improving the lives and horizons of marginalised young people ages 10-24 in 15 emerging market countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Turkey. Through grants and other support (learning exchanges, technical assistance, thought partnering etc.), EMpower partners with ~125 local organisations working to strengthen education and livelihoods of young people, and to build their resilience, self-confidence, and well-being. EMpower has offices in Hong Kong, Delhi, Singapore, London, and New York, as well as programme staff in Ghana, Istanbul, Mexico, Argentina, and South Africa. EMpower is at an exciting time in our evolution and organisational strengthening. In the past few years, we have grown in staff size and global footprint, with a deliberate focus on fostering a workplace that ensures diverse perspectives, opportunities for contribution, and belonging.
 

Our Vision: We are building a world where all young people at the margins, especially girls, have the skills, opportunities, and power to live their full potential.

Our Mission: We partner with local organisations in emerging market countries, and other change-makers, to enable marginalised young people to transform their lives and communities.

Our Values:

To learn more about EMpower, please visit. https://empowerweb.org.

Position Summary

The Vice President, Programmes will lead EMpower’s programmatic work, including grant making and capacity building, contributing their significant expertise and strategic skills to shape EMpower’s future growth. They will be a dynamic, experienced leader, with deep programmatic knowledge and a systems thinking orientation. They will have significant management experience, enabling them to effectively lead and manage a strong and diverse team of programme professionals across multiple global locations. They will be a key member of EMpower’s Senior Leadership Team, contributing to decisions around strategy, programmatic priorities, policies, fundraising, budget management, culture and values, and stakeholder relations. They will report directly to the CEO, based in NY, and oversee a team of 19 staff, including six direct reports. They should be based, and legally eligible to work, in one of the countries in which EMpower works.

Principal Responsibilities

Programme Strategy and Planning

• Shape and own overall programme strategy, including ownership of multi-year and annual plans and ensuring their alignment with organisational goals.
• Provide strong, effective internal leadership on programme execution and evaluation.
• Identify and communicate key philanthropic trends re philanthropy and EMpower’s mission for utmost relevance of our work and uptake of best practices.
• Input and approve country strategies and other strategy documents.
• Proactively identify potential risks to programme success and develop strategies, including evolved policies or practices as needed, to mitigate them.

Strategic Leadership and Communications

• As a key member of the SLT (Senior Leadership Team), shape organisational priorities, model EMpower’s values, problem-solve collaboratively, and proactively engage with EMpower’s stakeholders.
• Spearhead cross-functional collaboration (Development, Influence and Impact, Finance, People and Operations) to facilitate teamwork and optimise organisational effectiveness.
• Direct and lead programme focused Board meetings (Strategy Trends and Results annual meeting, Grants Meetings, Global Programme Committee)

Team Management

• Directly manage, coach, and leverage the capacities of ~5 regional Programme leaders.
• Overall accountability and management of global Programme Team.

Budgeting and Resource Mobilisation

• Produce and manage the global programme budget to optmise impact, and ensure accountability and excellent stewardship of resources,
• Actively partner with the Development team in fundraising, including institutional funder strategies, proposal writing, reporting, presentations, engagement with major donors and prospects, and advancing our institutional fundraising aims.
• Work with Programme and Finance teams to ensure financial reporting and financial data serves the effective management and implementation of grants and other programme activities.

Grantmaking

• Oversight of grantmaking; ensuring adherence to organisational priorities, best practices and grant making parameters.
• Partner with regional programme leads in grants strategy and development.
• Review and approve grants proposed by Programme Staff for funding.

Partnership and Representation

• Build strategic partnerships, coalitions, and collaboration with peers and funders; represent EMpower in working groups, peer collaboratives and initiatives.
• Contribute thought leadership based on our partners and organisational insights, to influence the sector to drive more smart resources to programmes by and for young people.
• Build strategic partnerships, coalitions, and collaboration with peers and funders; represent EMpower in working groups, peer collaboratives and initiatives.

Learning and Evaluation

• Implement the necessary systems, processes, and tools to assess the effectiveness of programmes, and foster learning, ensuring best practices and lessons learned are integrated to achieve desired programme outcomes.
• Facilitate cross-learning, teamwork, and reflection by the Programme Team to maximise programme effectiveness, and, to refine programmatic learnings that can be shared with the wider ecosystem, in partnership with the Impact and Influence team.
• Support the production of key metrics to provide board and programme committee members with the information required to understand programme performance, portfolio composition and funding trends at organisational level.

Position requirements

• We are looking for a dynamic systems thinker, strong communicator and excellent connector, with the ability to demonstrate superior people and management skills.
• Willingness to uphold and actively demonstrate EMpower’s core values, fostering a culture of excellence, teamwork, integrity, and innovation, and adhering to high ethical standards of accountability and transparency.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 12 weeks each year, and to work flexible hours at critical times given global time zone spread
• Fluency in English; and ideally a degree of proficiency in one or more languages of any of our implementing countries.
• There is flexibility in respect of the location of the position; however, applicants must have the legal right to work in their desired location of residence.

Compensation and Benefits

EMpower offers competitive wages, benefits, and growth opportunities consistent with industry standards. Flexible benefits packages include health insurance and other insurance; pension plan with employer contribution/match; time off; and work/life benefits. Depending on the location of the candidate, the salary range for this position will be between 100k-150k USD. If the candidate is based in a country where we do not have an entity, they will be employed via our EoR provider.

How to apply : Send your cv/resume along with your cover letter to shughes@empowerweb.org by 30th September, 2024.