Program Development and Quality

1 week ago


Singapore Save the Children Full time
**Future Job Opportunity as Program Development and Quality (PDQ) Director.

The Organisation


We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection.

We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

  • No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
  • All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
  • Violence against children is no longer tolerated


We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.

We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

**General Job Responsibilities:
Strategy, Planning and Reporting

  • Lead the development/update of the Child Rights Situation Analysis, including analysis of country context taking into account child rights principles, ensuring participation and buyin from all relevant staff, partners and other stakeholders as necessary
  • Lead the SLT to develop/update and drive forward the Country Strategy Plan (CSP) in line with the global strategy, Ambition 2030, with child rights at the core of all programming and advocacy work.
  • Provide leadership on development of the Country Annual Plan, monitoring of progress against the plan, and completion of accurate, ontime Country Annual Report of outcomes and impact for children, aligned with the Global Results Framework.
  • Facilitate development and pursuit of thematic and crosscutting strategic priorities in line with the CSP, including gender equality, to guide current and future SC programming and Humanitarian Strategies.
  • Support ownership and commitment to the Country Office strategy by all staff and departments through clear communication, regular feedback on progress and engagement of all functions in updates.
  • Participate in global discussions and working groups to represent country office, and voice of children, in strategy design and policy development.
  • Support organizational/programmatic change processes and rollout new ways of working to improve achievement of the CSP.

Program Design & Development

  • Based on tracking provided by the Awards Management team, review prospects and opportunities that will drive the CSP.
  • In consultation with the Country Director and Member Countries, ensure technical engagement with donors to preposition and prepare for opportunities, and engage in strategic positioning of SC.
  • Play a leading role in designing proposals, including:
  • Engaging with technical experts as needed to ensure high quality, evidence-based designs that draw on needs assessments (in humanitarian, development and environmental sustainability context), learning from past programs and child safeguarding principles;
  • Ensuring partners are identified and appropriately engaged in program design, linking with Operations and Awards teams as need be for assessments, especially to strengthen child rights governance, gender sensitivity and environmental sustainability at design stage;
  • Ensuring proposal designs and their budgets include robust MEAL plans that are aligned with the Global Results Framework (and, therefore, advance towards our Breakthroughs), incorporate Common Approaches as relevant, and build in critical research and learning questions.
  • Ensuring budgets will enable projects to be delivered as designed.
  • Incorporating child and community participation into design processes and implementation arrangements, as relevant.

Program Quality and Program Technical Excellence

  • Ensure the country program delivers high quality, multisectoral programming in humanitarian, development and environmental sustainability contexts (as appropriate).
  • Monitor and advance technical and operational quality of programmes, including conducting regular field visits to provide feedback on quality benchmarks, soliciting inputs for design of new programs and collecting ideas for innovation.
  • Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and, in partnership with other functional leads, take steps to improve the quality programming platform to meet agreed upon standards.
  • Work closely with the Director of Operations to ensure Quality Framework standards are met and procedures are followed throughout the project lifecycle and across the portfolio.
  • Ensure technical experts proactively and regularly communicate planned requirements for program design, learning and implementation to relevant CO departments/functions.
  • Ensure the strategic direction, technical quality, and operationalization of the multimember funded programs, by ensuring strong member, donor,


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