Senior Program Officer

At IDRC, your work goes beyond a job—it’s an opportunity to create meaningful global change while thriving in an environment that values collaboration, innovation, and care. Whether you’re an emerging professional eager to launch your career or an experienced leader driving systemic change, IDRC provides the platform to turn purpose into action.

Make an Impact: Contribute to initiatives addressing the world’s most critical challenges, from inclusive governance to climate resilience.

Grow and Thrive: Access personalized learning opportunities, career development resources, and supportive mentorship.

Collaborate Globally: Work alongside diverse colleagues and partners, bridging local insights with global strategies to deliver meaningful outcomes.

Enjoy Comprehensive Benefits: Experience work-life balance with flexible work arrangements, generous leave policies, robust health coverage, and retirement plans. Learn more about our benefits on the IDRC Careers page.

Step Into the Opportunity:

As Senior Program Officer, you will be joining an organization that values and models diversity, inclusion, and equity, while being responsible for:

• Providing intellectual advice for areas of the Program connected to your specialized knowledge.
• Developing, monitoring, managing, and evaluating research projects.
• Assessing proposals, including conceptual, methodological, operational, evaluative, and financial aspects, and identifying and developing research proposals in accordance with the Centre policies.
• Managing the preparation of contracts and grant letters, analysis of financial statements, adjustment of budgets and schedules, and project closures.
• Collaborating at the Centre-wide level with different stakeholders and contributing to knowledge dissemination and utilisation.

Take a minute to see if your profile fits IDRC:

• You Have the Following Qualifications and Experience:

Education Pathways:

• A Ph.D with a minimum of three (3) years or a master’s degree with a minimum of five (5) years of study and work in the fields of public health nutrition and food systems.

Language Proficiency:

• Proficiency in both French and English (reading, writing, and speaking) is required.

Relevant Professional Experience:

• Must have recent, cumulative experience in managing large-scale research programmes involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in the preparation and implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) frameworks and synthesis of programme-level results
• Work experience in a developing country.

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