Head of Department – Innovation and Operations Research

Syria

Social Services

Finished or Exempted (For male)

Strategic and operational process management:
• To manage the organization’s processes such as quarterly strategy reviews; budgeting and grant pipeline management.
• To support the senior leadership on special research projects, meeting briefings, and literature reviews to draw out well-packaged insights that advance strategic goals.
• To lead the stakeholder relationship management with internal and external parties
Resource Mobilizing:
• To manage and provide leadership to RM officer in research and identifying opportunities for funding, finalizing concept notes and proposals by coordinating with relevant program teams
• To manage donor reporting and communication externally and within AKDN
• To develop and maintain donor relationship and develop new leads and opportunities and serve as point of contact
• To maintain and update record on donor pipeline and funds as per strategic goals

Communication and Influence:
• To partner with different internal teams and external resources, manage the team’s influence strategies, partnership development, and communications processes.
• To lead internal teams and external partners to capture stories and progress towards goals and disseminate in reader-friendly formats.

Monitoring and Evaluation
• To review progress and quality of M and E plan, design and implementation
• To suggest methods and innovations for ensuring continuous improvement in quality and quantity of program performance
• To review and finalise periodic reports and validate information and data therein.
• To coordinate and liaise with HO for updating M and E framework as per latest Strategic Results Framework
• To design, improve and approve plans for conducting surveys and data collection methods
• To lead the analysis and presentation of data effectively using latest technologies

Skills:
• Excellent communication skills
• High degree of problem sensitivity and the flexibility to respond quickly
Technical Skills:
• Project Management: Ability to work-backwards from set goals and understand critical path dependencies, establish and manage different workstreams, draw from a diverse set of tools and approaches to manage progress and mitigate risks, and adapt when circumstances change.
• Execution: A strong sense of urgency and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders to drive towards milestones. Stays focused on priorities in the midst of many competing demands. Able to quickly develop “plan B” when original plans hit roadblocks.
• Communication: Able to translate complex topics into simple language. Can participate appropriately in executive settings and tailor briefs to a range of internal clients. Can represent AKAH in a wide range of settings.
• Leadership: An entrepreneurial sense of ownership over individual work and a sense of accountability to ensure the entire team succeeds. Comfortable with ambiguity and can move forward in the midst of changing circumstances.
• Teamwork: Flexible in playing whatever role is necessary for team success. Demonstrate inclusiveness in encouraging participation from everyone to generate the best ideas and results. Can leverage the entire team – reports, peers, and managers – to achieve results.
• Entrepreneurship: Proactive in crafting new ideas and creatively solving problems. Able to creatively secure and mobilize the resources required for a project’s success.
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Personal Characteristics:
• Leadership and motivational qualities
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, and ability to adjust in a diversified and professional environment
• Willing to travel to new sites for study and to explore opportunities

A new agency, the Aga Khan Agency for the Habitat (AKAH), works to ensure that people live in physical settings that are as safe as possible from the effects of natural disasters, that residents who do live in such high-risk areas are able to cope with disasters in terms of preparedness and response, and that these settings provide access to social and financial services that lead to greater opportunities and a better quality of life. The new agency merges the activities of the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services, with its prize-winning water and sanitation programmes and low-cost habitat products, such as smoke-free stoves; the humanitarian arm of AKDN, FOCUS, which promotes disaster mitigation and resiliency and intervenes after disasters; the AKDN’s Disaster Risk Management Initiative, which focuses on disaster preparedness in remote areas; and the environment- and habitat-related activities of the Aga Khan Foundation, including the Prince Sadruddin Fund for the Environment and the Foundation’s highly regarded rural support programmes.

Nov 23, 2021

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