Vice President, Technical Quality - Silver Spring, United States - Global Communities

Global Communities

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Silver Spring, United States

1 day ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Overview:

Global Communities works at the intersection of humanitarian assistance, sustainable development and financial inclusion to save lives, advance equity and secure strong futures.

We support communities at the forefront of their own development in more than 35 countries, partnering with local leaders, governments, civil society and the private sector to achieve a shared vision of a more just, prosperous and equitable global community.

The Vice President of Technical Quality & Impact shares overall leadership responsibility as part of the Global Programs Leadership Team and the Executive Team, setting the technical vision, strategic direction, thought leadership agenda, and solutions-creation for Global Communities.

Following our Strategic Vision 2030 and 3-year Strategic Plan, the Vice President will define standards of Anchor Program technical excellence and build Global Communities' Technical Quality & Impact Framework, with a primary emphasis on providing oversight and strategic guidance to the Global Support Team (headquarters) and Country Teams in supporting new business opportunities, proposal development, thought leadership and the achievement of both project and organizational goals and objectives.

Ensuring the technical brand Global Communities is known for is captured in every proposal.

This includes planning, developing, and supporting the adoption of systems, tools, policies, and objectives for the organization to ensure it delivers technical proposals and programming in line with internationally recognized standards and best practices.

The Vice President inspires, champions, and fosters a culture of shared success intended to continuously strengthen the technical quality of program implementation and support the realization of the Global Communities Mission and Strategic Plan.

Leading and directing the Department of Technical Quality & Impact, the Vice President oversees the teams that support monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management and learning, and technical excellence across all Global Communities' projects and geographies.

S/he will work seamlessly with the Vice President for Strategic Growth and Partnership, who oversees new business development; the Vice President for Humanitarian Assistance, who oversees humanitarian business development and emergency response; and the Vice President of Operations, who supervises field leadership, country teams, and headquarters-based operations staff.

The Vice President ensures the technical component is delivered according to the proposal during program implementation, providing quality assurance and control to Global Communities Global Support and country teams to enhance activity effectiveness and impact across sustainable development, humanitarian, conflict, and post-conflict contexts to support quality program delivery.

In turn, they support the Vice President of Operations, who is ultimately accountable for Global Communities program delivery.

The Vice President of Technical Quality & Impact works closely with senior leaders to ensure coordination and complementarity of all program quality, representation, and external engagement opportunities.

The Vice President supports Business Development teams in facilitating the expansion of Global Communities work, building on existing projects, technical expertise, and demonstrating positive impact.

The Vice President is accountable for ensuring that appropriate quality assurance support is provided to the country in response to needs identified through the Country Plan and/or project implementation in pursuit of program excellence.

The Vice President develops departmental strategies, approaches, and tools to ensure the organization's relevance, credibility, and viability.

The Vice President sets goals, monitors work, and evaluates results to ensure that departmental objectives and operating requirements are met and align with the organization's needs and mission and its donors, clients, and project participants.

They represent the organization to third parties, including donors, clients, partners, and governments, seeking to grow the profile and brand of Global Communities as a high-quality, adaptive partner.

Responsibilities:

Responsibility Area:
Technical
Strategy and Proposal Development

Conceptualize and lead the development of the Global Communities Technical Strategy, working closely with the VP of Program Operations, VP of Humanitarian Assistance, and VP of Strategic Growth and Partnership to refine the organization's core sectors and differentiators.
Establish the "Global Communities Technical Approach" (its operating model that builds on established institutional and operational strengths and further requires minimum crosscutting quality standards such as in local engagement, safe and accountable programming, and climateinformed) to working in today's global complex environments, drawing from sustainable development, humanitarian assistance, pe