Head of the Programme Quality and Advisory Department

Job posted by: Islamic Relief - Worldwide - Fri, 17 Oct 2014

Job Details:

Organisation: Islamic Relief - Worldwide

Deadline Tue, 28 Oct 2014

Job type: Contract

Location: United Kingdom

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Location: Birmingham, UK

Ref: HoPQ&AD/IPD/1014

Contract: One Year Fixed Term

Salary: Starting from £44,982 per annum (Depending on Experience)

Islamic Relief Worldwide is seeking a Head of the Programme Quality and Advisory Department to be based in the Birmingham Office. The post holder will deal with all aspects of programme quality from policy, technical design, review & evaluation and learning, leads on the IPD quality assurance, covering IRW’s current global £100m+ humanitarian and development programme portfolio. The post-holder will ensure that IRW’s is of the highest impact, fully accountable, technically sound and produces learning for IR and the sector.

The Head of Programme Quality and Advisory Department Direct the IPD Quality Assurance programme to ensure that IRW humanitarian and development programming is at least ‘fit for purpose’ from the outset and ideally ‘right first time’, by managing the quality of inputs at the conceptual stage through programme policy, prior to the service delivery through technically-grounded conceptualisation and inspection processes that both ensure services are according to specification and a feedback loop is created to improve future interventions.

The successful candidate would set ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team. You will Take responsibility for your own personal development and you will encourage your team to do the same. The Post Holder will be approachable, a good listener and being able to build and maintain two-way effective relationships with colleagues, members, external partners and supporters. The successful candidate will be able to work cross-culturally, values diversity and different people’s perspectives.

Islamic Relief promotes equality and meritocracy, and seeks individuals who agree with the IR values together with our policy standards on Anti-Bribery, Child Protection and Code of Conduct. We will carry out screening checks and will take out references on your behalf if you are selected.

Please note, for UK based roles, we are only able to accept applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK. We are unable to progress applications which would require sponsorship.

How to apply:

If you are talented, reliable, service minded, resilient and a highly motivated professional, with a strong commitment to IRW`s values and beliefs, please apply by downloading the application form from our website: http://www.islamic-relief.org/work-with-us/ and forward the completes form to recruitment@irworldwide.org on or before the closing date.



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