Mary's Meals is hiring a
Programme Delivery Lead

Summary

Join Mary's Meals International as a Programme Delivery Lead to lead the evolution and implementation of their global school feeding delivery model, collaborate across the organization to drive programmatic excellence, and provide key technical support. This is a remote role with travel requirements and can be held in several countries.

Requirements

• Proven leader with strong working knowledge of programming principles and the development of operational systems and processes, including strong project management skills
• Experience of implementing programme delivery strategies and frameworks in global contexts, ideally within the international development sector

Responsibilities

• Lead on strategy development and annual planning to improve and develop SFDM and collaborate with global stakeholders on development and implementation
• Provide strong leadership for your team and work in close collaboration with our programmes to guide, mentor and build capacity
• Utilize process analysis and improvement techniques to continually review and improve, ensuring best practices are identified and implemented globally
• Ensure successful project management and implementation of SFDM project, within agreed objectives, timeline and budget
• Develop and implement relevant people forums to ensure ongoing reviews, improvements and overall success of SFDM
• Recommend on team structures and role definitions required to ensure SFDM is effective and efficient across our programmes
• As SFDM “product owner”, ensure the technology requirements of SFDM are delivered by our Technology & Projects team, and that functional requirements are well defined and understood
• Define and implement detailed SFDM dashboards for various management levels within our programme countries and MMI
• Lead and coordinate the implementation of highly effective and efficient logistics strategies across our programmes
• Ensure strong coordination of food planning, warehousing and distribution to drive consistent and timely feeding

Preferred Qualifications

Strong analysis skills, IT skills and robust experience of working with digital tools to support programmatic delivery would be beneficial

Benefits

• 8% non-contributory pension contribution in the UK (for international candidates, the % depends on location)
• 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each completed calendar year, to a maximum of 39 days (+ option to buy another week)
• Flexible working
• Employee Assistance Programme, including perks and cash back opportunities
• Life assurance