Director Education Society SSA British Council London

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Job Description:
The Director E&S for SSA is responsible for translating and aligning our corporate and regional strategy into plans, both within the areas of education and society and across the wider portfolio, as a senior member of the regional and global leadership teams. Within SSA, the role is accountable for the pursuit, winning and successful delivery of £60m of full cost recovery, grant and partnership activity.

Some of the main duties include:
Strategic planning
▪ As a member of the Global Education & Society team, ensure the vision and narrative for the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) is in alignment with regional objectives; ensuring a balanced and corporately aligned portfolio is achieved.
▪ As a member of the regional Strategy Executive Group (SEG), contribute to the development of strategies and plans which ensure the Sub-Saharan Africa region maximises opportunities to generate value for the UK and achieve Brtitish Council corporate objectives.

Leadership & management
▪ Lead a multidisciplinary team of specialists and operational staff across the region
Business development and commercial management
▪ Lead management of regional client relationships and strategic partnerships

Quality assurance

Overall quality assurance and technical monitoring and evaluation of the delivery of the portfolio to ensure that all impacts are appropriately documented and disseminated

Resource management

▪ Ensure standard operating procedures for the implementation of projects based on best practice.
▪ Develop increased capability in region to pursue, design, deliver and evaluate programmes; and succession planning for senior E&S roles.
Risk management & corporate compliance
▪ Monitoring and reporting on regional compliance with all corporate policies and procedures, (e.g. HR, Finance, Legal, Security, EOD etc), intervening where required, to ensure effective management of risk.
Desired Skills and Experience
We require the successful candidate to have the following experience:
Business Development and account management with donors on large scale programmes
Experience of setting strategic direction for a business, department or region
Knowledge and experience of education or civil society in a development context
Credible at providing leadership at government and institutional level

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