Regional Director, Policy & Partnerships

As the Regional Director, Policy and Partnerships, You will provide partner relationship oversight to all our programs across NewGlobe (excluding Nigeria). You are responsible for building and managing diverse stakeholder relationships, and focused on account management in sustaining (and expanding) our work and operations. You are responsible for building and managing diverse stakeholder relationships, and focussed on account management and sustaining our work and operations in each Program. You own the government engagement with the diverse stakeholders and the many moving parts involved in our work in the Program. You are the first point of call for any communication between thePprogram, the Government and other key stakeholders in the location.

You ll be taking over existing relationships from the Policy and Partnerships Programme Development team and other Executives, and make these your own to ensure close collaboration and on-time execution of the program. This entails significant relationship management, as well as project management in ensuring data and approvals needed to pass between the government and program do so in a timely way for program deadlines. You will ensure that the government partners understand the program, and support its implementation. This will require coordination of stakeholder sessions, government workshops, and government public events and celebrations. During government workshops, there will be a need for careful engagement and collaboration on programme details -- to be successful in this role, you must learn about all aspects of our programming, and what can be negotiated and what cannot to ensure we deliver on what the government requires of us -- improved learning outcomes. You will need to be diplomatic and have discretion; know when to speak and when to listen.