Program Quality Advisor

• Do you want to do work that really matters? Help us end avoidable blindness.
• Full time, permanent role based in Asia or South Asia (open to candidates from Bangladesh, Vietnam and Philippines).
• Closing Date: Tuesday, 4th March 2025

ABOUT THE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION

The Foundation is an international development organisation working to prevent blindness and restore sight. We continue to carry on the legacy of Professor Fred Hollows, who believed every person had the right to quality eye care, no matter where they live. The Foundation is known around the world as an organisation that works with purpose and determination. With a reputation for excellence, we are well known for making change happen.

The Foundation has grown to work in more than 25 countries throughout Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, as well as Australia. The Foundation has restored sight to more than 3 million people worldwide. We have an ambitious five-year strategic plan that aims to take us even closer to realising our vision of a world in which no person is needlessly blind, or vision impaired and Indigenous Australians exercise their right to sight and good health. To find out more about our work, please visit our website https://www.hollows.org

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Program Quality Advisor provides technical advice and support to country teams and partners to develop, plan, monitor and learn from strategies and projects, with the key aim of capacity strengthening and skills transfer.

The Program Quality Advisor supports country and market teams in the design and delivery of innovative and best-practice projects, aligned with The Foundation’s strategy, the context-specific needs in-country, and the goals of partner institutions.

ABOUT YOU

You are a strategic and detail-oriented professional with a passion for strengthening program quality and impact. With a strong ability to provide technical guidance, you excel at supporting country teams and partners across the program cycle, with strong interest and experience in monitoring and evaluation. Your expertise in capacity building and skills transfer enables you to drive effective and context-specific solutions that align with organizational strategies and partner goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical support and guidance for the development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of high quality and strategic country, thematic and global programs and projects.
• Working closely with country teams and other programming and technical teams, support programmatic learning, knowledge sharing and continuous program improvement, and ensure projects are designed and delivered in line with the most up to date global knowledge, and are embedding clinical quality, research and innovation into projects and their management.
• Ensure guidance and principles for ensuring equity and inclusion are applied throughout the project management cycle, using evidence and knowledge translation programming, while building the capacity of country team staff through use of available guidance, tools, and training materials.
• Working with others, actively assess the capacity of country teams and other internal and external stakeholders in project cycle management principles, processes and standards, and build capacity using a supportive, structured and outcomes focused approach to learning and capability strengthening.
• Support country teams to develop their strategies and associated implementation and monitoring plans, including by facilitating and coordinating broad stakeholder engagement, reviews and approvals.
• Represent The Foundation at the global level, where appropriate, raising The Foundations profile with partners, donors and other organisations through engagement in external coordination mechanisms, reference groups, conferences and global meetings.
• Other tasks as requested by your manager.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, International Development or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in international public health or international development.
• Expertise and professional experience in project cycle management, with strong experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Experience working within a development setting to strengthen systems, preferably with a strong understanding of health systems.
• Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to support and influence multiple stakeholders and effectively engage people across the organisation.
• Advanced written communication skills, with the ability to write effectively for varied purposes and audiences; including program designs, donor proposals, reports and publications.
• Experience in coaching and strengthening the capacity of others.
• Outstanding interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation and presentation skills.
• An energetic self-starter with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, evolving environment, effectively managing workload, adapting to changing priorities.

How we recognise your contribution

Through our internal programs and employee benefits we aim to create an environment where you will feel supported and empowered. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or finding an environment which enables you to thrive while balancing family or personal commitments, we have a range of programs in place to support you.

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