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Date Posted: Thursday, June 06 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Position Summary
• As part of the Global Policy team, the Senior Policy Manager, Scaling will play a key role in advancing IPA’s strategy to catalyse and equip partners to scale effective development programs and policies, creating impact at scale.
• The Senior Policy Manager will report to and work closely with the Scaling Director to proactively identify and prioritize evidence-based solutions at scale for IPA to advance at a global, regional, and country level. S/he will help build coalitions of implementers (public, NGO, and private), funders, advocates, and academics to promote the implementation of these solutions at scale. S/he will also provide technical support to apply evidence to programs and policies in a locally-grounded way; and work closely with IPA’s country offices and teams in the resourcing, piloting and planning for scale of promising evidence-based interventions.

Responsibilities
40%
• Work closely with the Scaling Director to refine and implement IPA’s scaling strategy.
• Collaborate extensively across programmatic and functional teams at IPA to deliver on IPA’s scaling strategy and share lessons across teams and contexts.
• Identify, develop, and manage tools and resources for IPA teams and partners to leverage in evidence use and scaling projects.
• Provide technical support to IPA teams and partners in scaling evidence-based interventions.
• Develop and lead partnerships with key stakeholders in governments, NGOs, foundations, and multilateral aid agencies to facilitate and sustain scaling projects.
25%
• Manage the documentation of key learnings and challenges during the implementation process of country- and cross-country scaling projects, and communicate these lessons across IPA and our partners to advance the field of evidence-based scaling and implementation.
• Write original policy communications publications and materials to communicate IPA’s scaling lessons to internal and external stakeholders. This may include writing and/or ghost writing original blog posts, case studies, website content, and other materials.
• Develop and advance the program’s communication strategy leveraging it to disseminate IPA’s scaling work and lessons.
• Represent IPA externally to share lessons learned on evidence-based scaling (i.e. articles, presentations, events, etc.).
25%
• Provide strategic thinking and talent management to facilitate coordination across different IPA teams to implement technical assistance in scaling projects.
• Provide strategic guidance and follow-up to the work plan of the Best Bets agenda in close coordination with IPA’s Global teams and country offices.
10%
• Proactively identify scale-relevant business development opportunities, and lead the pursuit of these opportunities in collaboration with global and country office-based staff.
• Coordinate grant reporting and deliverable management for scaling-related grants.

Qualifications
Required
• 7+ years of relevant experience applying rigorous evidence to program or policy design and implementation, including at least 1 year of experience working closely with large NGOs or governments, preferably in a developing country context. Experience in on-the-ground adaptation and implementation of evidence-based programs at scale strongly preferred.
• Master’s degree in economics, development, international relations, public administration, public policy or a closely related field is strongly preferred. Will accept additional experience in place of master’s.

Preferred
• Exceptional ability to understand academic research studies, draw policy lessons from these and communicate them to various audiences.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including clear, precise, non-technical written and presentation skills; as well as effective spoken communication and presentation style.
• Experience with business development and/or fundraising.
• Proven ability to multitask and successfully complete projects on tight deadlines with little supervision.
• Experience supervising staff teams and managing multi-country projects.
• Willingness to work hard, be self-motivated, learn, be a team-player, and adapt quickly will be essential for doing well in this position.
• Strong ability to manage up and across.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

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