Country Director

hace 3 semanas


Bogota, Colombia Innovations for Poverty Action A tiempo completo

**Summary**:
IPA seeks a Country Director to oversee Colombia Country Program. The Country Director will be based in Bogota with travel domestically and internationally (10-20% expected travel). The Country Director will work with the IPA Global leadership to design and lead the implementation of the Colombia country program strategy and provide oversight of the country program’s administrative (Finance, HR, and Operation functions), portfolio of projects (20 active), staff (50 full-time), and budget (3 million USD, annual). They will develop and cultivate relationships with a wide range of policy, academic, and private sector partners to create high-value opportunities to test and measure the impact of promising products, programs, and policies and to generate and share evidence aimed at improving decision making and impact across a variety of sectors (e.g. migration, health, education, and financial inclusion, among others). The Country Director will supervise, coach, and mentor the country program leadership team (consisting of 10 Manager-level staff), supporting them in setting and achieving professional performance goals and guiding their growth towards becoming more effective leaders and decision-makers.

**Responsibilities**:
New project development
- In dialogue with public, private, and academic partners, identify and develop projects with meaningful research, learning, and policy outcomes;
- Participate in project design, planning, and budgeting during the proposal stage to ensure projects meet the quality standards of IPA and partners/clients; and
- Coordinate fundraising for project proposals;
Policy impact and external relations
- Identify and prioritize policy needs among key stakeholders in Colombia and initiate and manage the development of corresponding project proposals;
- Develop and cultivate relationships with key partners in the government, academia, and the private sector leading to meaningful collaborations;
- Represent IPA Colombia - and more broadly IPA - in various forums with a wide range of stakeholders and partners in the public and private sectors;
- Oversee strategic communication of project results and policy messages and encourage the scale up of successful interventions;
Oversee the implementation of high-quality Policy, Research, and RFE projects/engagements
- Support Policy, Research, and RFE teams in the implementation of projects/engagements. In most cases, the Country Director will primarily act as a manager to the Associate Directors and Managers leading the project/engagement. The involvement may be more intense for particularly complex and/or strategic projects/engagements;
- Drive continuous improvement of Policy, Research, and RFE service offering towards high-quality and high-impact outcomes;
- Strengthen current systems and structures to ensure that the implementation of research activities follows IPA’s research quality standards and processes;
- Coordinate skills training and provide mentorship and coaching to staff, especially country program leadership staff;
- Work to incorporate best practices and lessons learned across the project portfolio and operations, within the country program and with other IPA offices regionally/globally;
- Facilitate the Colombia country program’s collaboration with IPA’s policy, RFE, and sector program teams in the development and implementation of cross-cutting projects/engagements;
- Provide inputs to IPA’s global strategic directions beyond the Colombia country program;
Ensure sound operations and finances
- Provide supervision and support to country program administrative staff, overseeing, finance and accounting, human resources, safety and security, IT, procurement and asset management and legal functions;
- With support from the Global Finance, Grants, and Grants Financial Management teams, ensure compliance with financial procedures, approve expenditures, make accurate spending projections, and ensure overall compliance;
- Oversee the management of project budgets and donor reporting, with support from the country office management and finance team and in coordination with IPA’s global Grants and Grants Financial Management teams;
- Coordinate office and country-wide meetings and trainings and oversee contracting, staff performance planning and review processes, and salary reviews, compensation and contracting for locally hired country program staff;
- Create and monitor an annual budget for the Country Office and ensure that country office structures are supported by incoming revenue through country office budget planning and management;
Mitigate and manage risks
- Take steps to mitigate risks and to safeguard the organization’s staff and reputation;
- Ensure CO compliance with government laws and regulations, including updated rules and regulations in the implementation of Labor laws and the Data Privacy Act, and work with the Operations team and Local Counsel to gather up to date information and guidanc


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