Global Programmes & Philanthropy Advisor at MSI Reproductive Choices Tanzania

About the Role
You will line manage Regional Financial
Managers, to ensure high quality, disciplined and supportive financial
structure is in place to support all programmes under MSI Africa. You
will also be responsible for managing the Regional Finance Teams and
coordinating with the Senior Africa, Director and Africa, Director
Deputy to ensure strong financial oversight of country programmes.
Moreover, you will develop and implement the necessary strategy to
ensure standardization, simplification and compliance across MSI Africa
operations.

Working closely with the MSI Senior Director, Africa
you will have significant internal and external facing responsibilities
ranging from ensuring compliance with MSI’s financial internal
standards to representing MSI financial systems vis-a-via donors and
strategic stakeholders.

About the Role
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
(CIFF) is an independent philanthropic organisation, working with a
range of partners to transform the lives of children and adolescents.
CIFF’s portfolio focuses on child health and development, climate
change, sexual and reproductive health and rights, girl capital and
child protection. CIFF has been partnering with MSI since 2015 to boost
sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. The Challenge Fund
Programme (2024-2028), a newly approved $70m programme with global and
bilateral investments from CIFF to advance sexual and reproductive
health services and increase modern contraceptive prevalence in six
countries across West and Central Africa.

MSI seeks a Global
Programmes and Philanthropy (GPP) Adviser to support the implementation
of the CIFF Challenge Fund Programme. Working in the Challenge Fund
programme team and directly reporting to Head of Challenge Fund, the GPP
Adviser will provide programme management and administrative support to
the Head of and two Programme Managers across the Challenge Fund
Programme to ensure timely and quality delivery of deliverables against
donor reporting obligations (including payment by results KPIs), and
close budget monitoring. In addition, this role will play a key role in
the coordination of overarching internal ways of working, including the
organisation of external donor engagement meetings and events. This is
an exciting role that requires excellent financial and data analysis
skills, strong communication skills, analytical and problem-solving
skills, excellent ability to work across teams to deliver results, and
great attention to detail.

This role is part of the broader team
supporting CIFF investments, headed by an Associate Director. The team
oversees the technical design and execution of CIFF investments and is
responsible for safeguarding and advancing MSI’s relationship with CIFF
as a key contributor to achieving MSI’s mission. The team provides
organizational leadership to ensure that MSI’s strategy, policy,
systems, and capacities are responsive to donor priorities and
investments and that CIFF programming advances the MSI2030 strategy.

About You
For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.
This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.

Our
values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction.
They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and
align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members
truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all
that they do.

We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with
diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering
measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed
to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and
contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity,
resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to
promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and
clients.

We seek exceptional communicators who are
self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and
entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social
change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and
globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous
setting.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:

• Strong
  project management and organisational skills and the ability to
  multi-task, problem solve and prioritise to manage multiple and
  competing demands from internal and external stakeholders
• Be data-literate with an attention for details. Able to analyse and interpret datasets and spot trends.
• Excellent communication and multimedia skills, plus strong interpersonal skills
• Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and Powerpoint, as well as other applications (Adobe etc)
• Knowledge of existing and emerging online platforms and tools for meetings and workshop facilitation
• A
  demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, perform under pressure and
  reputation for consistently delivering results to a high standard
• Knowledge of reproductive health care and rights
• Fluent English and French oral and written communication skills.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:

• Demonstrable
  experience in a grant management role, ideally in an international
  non-governmental organisation (INGO) or well acknowledged
  non-governmental organisation (NGO) (essential)
• Experience working with a range of internal and external stakeholders across organisations and across countries (essential)
• Experience
  of managing restricted foundations/government/institutional
  donor-funded projects (desirable), including project monitoring and
  reporting to the donor, proactive risk management and escalation
  (desirable)

Formal education/qualification

• Degree
  in related subject (e.g. social sciences, international development or
  related field) or equivalent on-the-job experience in a grant management
  role

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Location: London, UK (hybrid working, minimum 2 days per week in the office) or any country programme which MSI operates in.

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (For UK based team members).

Contract type: Permanent.

Salary:
£34,200 – £42,750 per annum for UK based candidates. Discretionary
bonus + benefits. For all other locations, the salary will be banded
within the national context.

Salary band: BG 7

Closing date: 6th June 2025 (midnight BST). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
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internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role
will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country.
Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.
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