SayPro Partnerships & Learning

Overall, Leadership and Management Play a role in guiding and driving work aligned with values and principles and its strategic objectives. Provide overall leadership and management of the Partnerships & Learning Team, including leading and directing the team, consultants, and other resources in line with budgets available and project and grant commitments o This will include overseeing work planning, performance management, and professional growth and development for the team It will also include ensuring effective hiring, development and mentoring to build a collegial, collaborative, and high-performing team. Play a key role in organizational and strategic planning, management decision making and policy development, implementation, and review. Serve as a senior external representative of the partnership through networking, public speaking, writing, presentations, etc. Partnership Building, Grantmaking, Grant Delivery, and Shared Learning Contribute to the design and lead the implementation of our new Partnerships & Learning strategy, taking into account the results of the cross-team and cross-partnership “reflection and visioning process” Lead the Partnerships & Learning team to ensure effective delivery of grant-funded programmes and projects, including holding staff accountable to goals, overseeing grant budgets and compliance, and providing consistent feedback and coaching Serve as the thought leader for our Partnerships & Learning work, both internally and externally, to increase visibility and ensure strategic organizational growth Lead the team and partners to understand, articulate, communicate, and learn from the impact of our work and collective effort, including facilitating cross-regional collaboration and shared learning Allocate and manage team and partner budgets, ensuring effective reporting and variance analysis on budget lines Guide and drive learning, capacity sharing, and technical supports offered to Partnerships & Learning and provide guidance and support in the use of participatory monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning tools Business Development and Project Design Work in a matrixed way with Head of Business Development on partnerships and learning funding concepts, business development priority setting, and funder identification and prospecting and donor relationship management Work with the Partnerships & Learning team to identify institutional funding opportunities and to ensure high quality concepts that are in line with both the strategic plan and donor priorities Cross-Partnership Advocacy and Communications Work in close collaboration and in a matrixed way with other Management Team members (as well as other colleagues and partners) on advocacy, influencing and communications initiatives to ensure we are leveraging data, stories and experience from across our partnership to raise gender equality up policymaking agendas.