Associate, Performance Delivery Team – GL C – Temporary 12 months
Team: The Performance Delivery Team (PDT) was formed to accelerate key initiatives that will allow the Global Fund to enhance its performance and end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The PDT supports leaders and their teams across the Global Fund Secretariat on their most critical projects. It does so with best-in-class problem-solving and project management to accelerate Performance Delivery. Sitting within the Office of the Executive Director, the PDT benefits from a transversal view on the Global Fund’s operations and an ability to promptly convert strategic insights into decisions, implementation and impact. This vacancy will remain open with successful applicants contacted on a needs basis, as new positions become available. Role Summary: Under the leadership of the Performance Delivery Manager and with support and guidance from the Team Lead and Senior Associates, a PDT Associate leads projects with teams and leaders across the Global Fund. The projects assigned are targeted towards making mission-critical impact. The role of a PDT associate – depending on the project – ranges from program manager, strategic advisor, change coordinator to collaboration facilitator. This can entail the identification, structuring, monitoring, and execution of key initiatives aimed at driving effectiveness and efficiency and fostering of collaboration both within the Secretariat and across the Global Fund Partnership. Through diverse analyses and activities, the PDT Associate will diagnose performance, prioritize improvement opportunities, build recommendations, develop detailed and achievable action plans, and accelerate their implementation. In addition, they will implement best practice project and change management to support and drive effective implementation. The PDT Associate will facilitate the buy-in of key stakeholders across different levels and set mechanisms in place to deliver sustainable transformation and on-the-ground results. Over the course of one year, the Associate can expect to take end-to-end ownership of 2-3 projects within different teams of the Global Fund. For each of these projects, the incumbent will be embedded within the department they support and will be expected to interact with multiple stakeholders across the organization, including the Executive Director and their direct reports and teams. Additionally, the incumbent will be expected to leverage the PDT’s best practices from previous experiences and transversal view on Global Fund operations to provide a holistic solution design and sustainable impact. Overall, a PDT Associate will be expected to strive for constant impact orientation, pragmatic problem-solving, appropriate mobilization of resources in their surroundings, sustainable delivery of change, inspirational leadership, and deliberate personal development.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic advisory for performance:
- Work with the Manager, Team Lead, and Senior Associates of the Performance Delivery Team to successfully define, structure and implement key transformational and continuous improvement initiatives across the Secretariat
- Help develop and refine ambitious yet realistic recommendations and implementable action plans, with key owners
- Synthesize disparate findings to generate fact-based insights
- Bring relevant expertise and best practice approaches to problem-solving
- Interact with initiative owners and the Performance Delivery Team to manage interdependencies and effectively address implementation challenges, with a strong focus on performance delivery
- Develop hypothesis-driven perspectives to identify and diagnose issues, execute analysis, and translate data into meaningful insights
- Ensure effective organisational monitoring mechanism is in place to drive organisational performance, ensuring a strong link between initiatives implementation and effective performance realization
Project, Performance and Change Management:
- Ensure effective operationalization of project and change management principles to support robust initiative design, initiation, implementation and wrap-up with a focus on stakeholder management, results orientation, sustainable delivery, and knowledge sharing approaches
- Reinforce project and change management capabilities, to successfully implement critical initiatives’ components
- Monitor performance through best-in-class risk management and quality control standards
- Ensure development of critical capabilities within teams, specifically those pertaining to value orientation, process, and project management
- Conduct coaching, best practice sharing, and role modelling to ensure team capabilities are in place to complete implementation of initiatives
Coordination, stakeholder management and collaboration:
- Build trustful collaboration relationships with teams and senior management at various levels across the Secretariat
- Bring cross-functional perspective, and foster collaboration within the organization, where necessary to accelerate impact delivery
- Ensure robust information sharing, and thorough understanding of the delivery path across key stakeholders, to enable coordinated initiative implementation and performance delivery
- Facilitate problem-solving and decision-making
- Be actively involved in key project activities, such as business case development and articulation of requirements for operationalization
- Design and manage capability building and best practice sharing, specifically those pertaining to value orientation, process, and project management, in order to maximize learning, efficiency and value-for-money across the organization
- Seek feedback from project teams, end-users and external stakeholders to share ideas and best practices and continuously improve delivery process and buy-in
- Enhance project management approach based on lessons learned and feedback gathered and ensure continuous improvement
- Contribute to the development of a consolidated progress update, allowing tracking and steering of deliverables and budgets, management of delivery risks, proactive monitoring of issues for resolution and potential escalation and timely decision making
- Prepare materials for presentation to senior leaders within the organization, including the Management Executive Committee and individual Department Heads.
Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion.
Qualifications
Essential:
- University degree within the area of Business Administration, International Development, Public Policy, Financial Management, Engineering, Global Health, or any other relevant field
Desirable:
- Business process improvement or organizational change experience and/or qualifications
Experience
Essential:
- At least 2 years top tier Strategy Consulting experience, including experience in transformations, organizational effectiveness, strategy and/or performance improvement
- Significant relevant, post-university work experience in strategy definition and strategy implementation, performance measurement and management, and project management
- Project management and demonstrated change management expertise with the ability to deliver impactful changes with minimal disruption to an organization
- Demonstrated experience managing and delivering on timelines with tight deadlines and across disciplines
- Evidence of effective and successful stakeholder management at operational and management levels within an organization
- Experience serving in an advisory capacity with Executive leaders
- Significant experience preparing high-quality, professional documents for senior audiences
- Experience within multi-cultural and international environments and organizations
Desirable :
- Working knowledge & understanding of project management principles and application in multicultural settings including International Public/Private Organization
- Experience living and/or working in a country supported by the Global Fund
- History of holding positions of incremental responsibility since undergraduate studies
Competencies
Languages: An excellent knowledge of English. A working knowledge of French is helpful but not necessary. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.
Organizational Competencies
- Global Fund Awareness & Mindset
- Service Orientation
- Drive for Results
- Collaboration
- Interaction
Functional Competencies
- Adaptability
- Analytical
- Business
- Awareness
- Multicultural
- Project Management
- Geopolitical
Other skills:
- Strong analytical skills, with a demonstrated ability to turn data into meaningful business insights and actionable recommendations
- Respected and renowned for their interpersonal and leadership skills, tact and diplomacy
- Track-record in strategic thinking and creative problem-solving
- Strong business focus and result orientation, with an excellent understanding of project dynamics to ensure effective & impactful use of resources
- High degree of personal initiative and the ability to develop this in others
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Job Posting End Date
25 October 2023
