Major Duties and Responsibilities

Actioning Strategic Insights

• Collaborate with others to translate strategic, performance and risk management insights into opportunities for improvement and gaps in strategy execution.
• Work cross-functionally to determine the drivers and levers for improvement and articulate clear, implementable recommendations, solutions and/or action plans at the CO, regional or divisional/global level.
• Partner with Regional Operations Directors and Global teams to sequence delivery actions, assign roles, and support follow-through.
• Develop lightweight tools, checklists and guidance that help CO teams adopt improved practices without additional reporting burden.

Targeted Strategy Delivery and Enablement Projects

• Through actioning strategic insights (in above), identify priority strategic, performance or risk management initiatives at the global or regional level
• Lead selected time-bound improvement initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions.
• Support COs to plan and embed change management approaches to ensure adoption of improved delivery practices.
• Track delivery progress, troubleshoot risks, and ensure practical, tangible results.

Coordination Across Teams

• Align global, regional and country-level enablement and improvement work with regional delivery rhythms and COD operating guidance.
• Connects COs with enabling functions (finance, HR/talent, operations, legal/risk, PMEL/data, partnerships, resource mobilisation) to secure fit-for-purpose support at the right time.
• Support CO leadership and delivery teams to build execution discipline (workflow routines, decision cadence, follow-through).
• Supports CO leadership to navigate trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, and communications that sustain execution momentum.
• Work alongside the Head of Impact to ensure CO improvement efforts reinforce PMEL principles and use shared performance insights, without duplicating PMEL responsibilities.

Monitoring Uptake & Learning

• Capture emerging practices and replicable solutions from CO implementations and share across regions.
• Maintain a simple improvement log and progress view to inform leadership decision-making (no new governance cycles).
• Curate peer learning exchanges focused on delivery (distinct from PMEL learning communities)

PROFILES

Required Qualifications.

Education:Advanced degree or equivalent experience in management, international development, organisational development, or a related field.

Experience:Minimum 10 years enabling strategy execution, delivery enablement, or organisational effectiveness in complex, multi-country or matrixed organisations.

Consultant management:Experience managing consultants or short-term experts to deliver targeted outcomes.

Sector knowledge:Familiarity with conservation and/or international development and mission-driven networks is preferred.

Regional/global exposure:Experience working across diverse cultural contexts and geographies.

• Collaborate with others to translate strategic, performance and risk management insights into opportunities for improvement and gaps in strategy execution.
• Work cross-functionally to determine the drivers and levers for improvement and articulate clear, implementable recommendations, solutions and/or action plans at the CO, regional or divisional/global level.
• Partner with Regional Operations Directors and Global teams to sequence delivery actions, assign roles, and support follow-through.
• Develop lightweight tools, checklists and guidance that help CO teams adopt improved practices without additional reporting burden.
• Through actioning strategic insights (in above), identify priority strategic, performance or risk management initiatives at the global or regional level
• Lead selected time-bound improvement initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions.
• Support COs to plan and embed change management approaches to ensure adoption of improved delivery practices.
• Track delivery progress, troubleshoot risks, and ensure practical, tangible results.
• Align global, regional and country-level enablement and improvement work with regional delivery rhythms and COD operating guidance.
• Connects COs with enabling functions (finance, HR/talent, operations, legal/risk, PMEL/data, partnerships, resource mobilisation) to secure fit-for-purpose support at the right time.
• Support CO leadership and delivery teams to build execution discipline (workflow routines, decision cadence, follow-through).
• Supports CO leadership to navigate trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, and communications that sustain execution momentum.
• Work alongside the Head of Impact to ensure CO improvement efforts reinforce PMEL principles and use shared performance insights, without duplicating PMEL responsibilities.
• Capture emerging practices and replicable solutions from CO implementations and share across regions.
• Maintain a simple improvement log and progress view to inform leadership decision-making (no new governance cycles).
• Curate peer learning exchanges focused on delivery (distinct from PMEL learning communities)

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in management, international development, organisational development, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years enabling strategy execution, delivery enablement, or organisational effectiveness in complex, multi-country or matrixed organisations.
• Experience managing consultants or short-term experts to deliver targeted outcomes.
• Familiarity with conservation and/or international development and mission-driven networks is preferred.
• Experience working across diverse cultural contexts and geographies.