Senior Specialist Graduation Program Design

**About the role**

In order to support this work, we are seeking to hire a senior specialist in graduation programme design who is interested in exploring and leading our global work on how graduation approaches can be redesigned so that they can be scaled through government systems. The role will be based within the Program Design and Impact (PDI) team, which aims to support country teams and Government partners by ensuring that the decisions in the engagements are informed by an understanding of evidence, lessons, and recent trends relevant to the Graduation approach. The role will require out of the box thinking, an understanding of how to work in partnership with Governments, and creative suggestions for design that can work within the opportunities and boundaries of their existing systems and capabilities. The Senior Specialist in programme design will lead our support to the country teams and our Government partners, providing senior expertise and connecting them to knowledge and networks, as well as ensuring that we are learning across our efforts globally.

We are looking for someone who enjoys a challenge, likes thinking outside the box, and is interested in exploring how to do development work differently and support Governments and local efforts to develop nationally owned and sustainable solutions towards eradicating extreme poverty.

**Primary Responsibilities**
- In close cooperation with the Global Lead for Programme Design and Impact, lead the PDI team in delivering high quality technical assistance on graduation programme design to Country Teams, Governments and local partners on a demand driven basis:

- Lead efforts to ensure that country governments’ Graduation programme are designed for scale, with an eye particularly for how design and implementation of the Graduation approach can be effectively adapted to government-led contexts, whilst building on international evidence on what works;
- Provide senior leadership and quality assurance globally and to country teams with regard to evidence of what works in graduation programming and on distilling lessons on how to adapt the approach for Government led delivery at scale;
- Oversee the development and delivery of technical materials on graduation programme design and implementation for Country Teams, Governments and local partners across the programme implementation cycle;
- Under the leadership of country teams, support the delivery of high-quality technical assistance and thought partnership to government partners when requested;
- Lead on synthesizing our emerging understanding of what works and how to design and implement government led graduation programmes from a technical perspective, drawing from the work in countries and international literature and the work of other relevant actors;
- In partnership with the Senior Specialist Government System, further learning on how to design and deliver graduation programming so that it can be delivered by Governments using Government systems. Ensure that learning feeds back into our ongoing country work.
- Support Global influencing work when requested by representing in external fora such as conferences, webinars, and other influencing environments to drive greater global understanding of the intersection of the Graduation approach and government-led social protection programming/youth programmes/rural development programmes
- Provide Technical leadership and quality assurance of the development of internal
- and externally-facing materials highlighting key considerations in adaptation of the Graduation approach with governments to influence key stakeholders (e.g. program/policy briefs, literature reviews, technical blog posts)
- Provide regular review of knowledge products on adaptation of the Graduation approach with governments (e.g. journal articles, multilateral and NGO reports, thinktank/consulting reports) and identify implications for work.
- Work closely with staff from a range of technical and cultural backgrounds to build or enhance their technical understanding of graduation as a concept, as well as their ability to adapt and adjust the model to local contexts and delivery by Governments;
- Manage more junior global team members within the programme design and impact team and provide mentorship and guidance more broadly on graduation programme design and implementation

The role requires planning, vision, and management capabilities and an interest in doing things differently and a certain degree of comfort and interest in adaptive programming and learning.

**Other (Safeguarding Responsibilities)**
- Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation.
- Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
- Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case