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Vice President, Programs

2 months ago


Reston, Virginia, United States EMpower—The Emerging Markets Foundation Full time
Job Title: Vice President, Programs

EMpower—The Emerging Markets Foundation is seeking a highly experienced and skilled professional to lead our programmatic work as Vice President, Programs. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our organization and contribute to the empowerment of marginalized young people around the world.

About the Role

The Vice President, Programs will be responsible for leading our program strategy, grant making, and capacity building efforts. This includes developing and implementing multi-year and annual plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and providing strong internal leadership on program execution and evaluation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Shape and own overall program strategy, including ownership of multi-year and annual plans and ensuring their alignment with organisational goals.
  • Provide strong, effective internal leadership on program execution and evaluation.
  • Identify and communicate key philanthropic trends re philanthropy and EMpower's mission for utmost relevance of our work and uptake of best practices.
  • Input and approve country strategies and other strategy documents.
  • Proactively identify potential risks to program success and develop strategies, including evolved policies or practices as needed, to mitigate them.
Requirements
  • 15+ years' work experience in international youth development or gender-focused philanthropy, with at least 8 of these in a senior management role.
  • Demonstrated strategic analysis, program and systems thinking skills
  • Experience in program planning and developing and managing budgets
  • Experience in managing global staff teams - demonstrated ability to recruit, lead, coach and mentor, with a focus on talent management.
  • Strong internal and external communication and people skills – equally comfortable and adept speaking with all stakeholders (young people, grantee partners, donors, board members)
  • Excellent critical thinking skills and judgment - able to balance organizational perspectives and serve as a constructive sounding board to CEO, peers, team, and other colleagues
  • Commitment to fostering collaboration and co-learning with geographically dispersed staff
  • Extensive programmatic experience in Africa, Asia, and/or Latin America, and one or more areas related to EMpower's mission: youth development, meaningful youth engagement, education, livelihoods, health and well-being, gender equity.
  • Strong cultural competence with respect to philanthropy – understanding of power dynamics and sensitivity to the best use of grantees' time and resources
  • Experience working and partnering with foundations, other funders, and international organizations
  • Pragmatic problem-solver; effective and comfortable making decisions, and dealing effectively with ambiguity and change management
  • Willingness to uphold and actively demonstrate EMpower's core values, fostering a culture of excellence, teamwork, integrity, and innovation, and adhering to high ethical standards of accountability and transparency.
  • Ability to travel internationally up to 12 weeks each year, and to work flexible hours at critical times given global time zone spread
  • Fluency in English; and ideally a degree of proficiency in one or more languages of any of our implementing countries.
  • There is flexibility in respect of the location of the position; however, applicants must have the legal right to work in their desired location of residence.
What We Offer

EMpower offers competitive wages, benefits, and growth opportunities consistent with industry standards. Flexible benefits packages include health insurance and other insurance; pension plan with employer contribution/match; time off; and work/life benefits. Depending on the location of the candidate, the salary range for this position will be between 100k-150k USD. If the candidate is based in a country where we do not have an entity, they will be employed via our EoR provider.

Please submit your CV and cover letter to by 30th September, 2024.