Roles and responsibilities:

The key functions of this role are the following:

• Supporting Project Delivery: Using your delivery skills and expertise you will help technical devisers implement theories of change and monitor programme progress.
• Risk: Identify and manage delivery risks, working with PROs and advisors to keep data on risk updated, flag, and escalate as appropriate.
• Commercial and supplier management: lead on working with Procurement team on managing large tender/s, supplier management, ensuring we are compliant with the supplier review and safeguarding policies, including through refreshed due diligence reports and reporting of KPIs.
• Managing stakeholders: develop close relationships with relevant Partners Across Government (PAG), for different levels, including for Mutual Accountability reporting.
• Financial management: Delivering effective financial planning, managing forecasting and Monthly Financial Reviews (including drafting speaking notes), meeting agreed portfolio ODA and FY spending targets and. Ensuring Aries forecasts are loaded annually; variances are minimised, republished monthly; accruals and prepayments identified and managed; and flagging/managing large payments.
• Line Management: Line management of lower grade staff within the sub-block; having a strong focus on continuous learning for oneself, others, support the continual professional development of the programme team, proactively identify training needs and opportunities for training and act as role model and mentor for the reportee.
• Support effective management of commercial engagement, procurement process, lead due diligence assessments and relationship management on programmes, in compliance with PrOF and to maximise every UK pound spent throughout the lifespan of the programmes.
• Support on actively managing and monitoring risks, including risks of fraud and sexual exploitation and harassment, escalating issues as required.  Ability to develop programme/project risk registers and delivery chain maps by agreed timelines, hold discussions within relevant sub-teams for consolidated views.
• Communications: providing inputs for parliamentary questions and briefings, working with partners on communications and branding, identifying, and sharing human-interest stories.
• Visit management: providing support for key VIP visits and dinners/arrangements

Resources managed (staff and expenditure):

• This position may have a line management responsibility for EO staff.