Regional Strategy

**Position Summary**

**Responsibilities**

**Regional operations management and contribution to global systems**
- Creates the annual partnership planning process based on partner and Portfolio Leads' needs and ensures partnership planning is effectively carried out and monitored.
- Leads on all regional step back processes ensuring that the right mechanisms for this are in place.
- Reviews existing regional operations and finds areas for development and growth.
- Creates new systems and dashboards, as well as improves and maintains existing regional ones to ensure optimal efficiency and productivity.
- Project manages one-off events as needed or contributes to the organisation and planning of others.
- Leads on most regional follow-ups from internal meetings as well as ensuring that different workstreams and work needs are moving forward by sharing insights and knowledge where and when needed.

**Informing regional strategy**
- Sets framework for developing regional annual priorities and creates systems for tracking progress throughout the year.
- Manages and maintains regional budgets, drafts annual budget proposals, sets up budget systems, monitors them throughout the year and advises on reallocations, changes and needs.
- Acts as the first point of contact for others to share regional strategy, provide input and inform others about anything needed.
- Ensures that the regional team's professional development needs are met and that training and development opportunities are created following closely the org-wide strategies and offerings as well as by working with the People Organisation Culture team.

**Regional communications coordination**
- Communications management for all events and opportunities in the Africa region, with regular communications with CEOs, portfolio leads, the head of region, event content and logistics leads etc.
- Sets up and maintains various channels of communication for regional team members and partners.
- Organises all the logistics for virtual team retreats and relevant team calls by ensuring that
- An engaging agenda exists.
- The regional team works collaboratively with other regions or individuals.
- Each call contributes to the team's growth and mutual sharing and learning.
- Has regular check-ins with other CoS as well as other team members to ensure good collaboration and exchange of information.

**Regional and global knowledge creation and management**
- Creates knowledge products coming from various strategic initiatives to inform our future strategy.
- Co-manages bi-monthly 'Welcome to the Network' calls for new partner staff members.

**Regional data and information management**
- Creates, maintains and monitors various data and information systems for the regional team and partners (like the Global Data System collection, Partner Survey, Power BI).
- Fields all requests for resources, knowledge, connections and data sharing between the Africa region and the rest of the network due to a thorough understanding of the team's work and how it relates to other teams' and the organisation's work.
- Responds to partner requests for information and proactively shares information that will be helpful.
- Analyses data and reports trends and works with partners to collect relevant data.
- Creates annual impact reports with key information about our regional impact which is shared with external stakeholders (information from the report is shared with CEOs, the Africa Advisory Council etc).

**Regional culture builder**
- Supports analysis of team data on organisational strength.
- Leads all of our efforts in ensuring we are achieving our vision of excellence as a team.
- Plans culture-building activities and celebrations on the team.
- Co-leads on the strategy for team culture change required to adapt to the new TFAll operational model.

**Partner support**
- Co-leads on designated partner initiatives.
- Tracks and ensures all systems regarding Partner Support are up-to-date.

**Special projects and other org-wide projects**
- Supports Head of Region with work related to reports, partner communications and follow-ups, various projects etc. as needed.
- Provides input on org-wide projects such as Knowledge Management, Salesforce etc.
- Co-project manages the annual Africa Virtual Summer Institute impacting all regional partners.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of 8-10 years professional experience required.
- In depth knowledge of the education sector within international development.
- Experience having managed a unit/team.
- Demonstrable skills in executing cross functional projects.
- Proven track record in strategic planning and operational execution.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance management systems to track the effectiveness of strategies and priorities.
- Experience of liaising and coordinating with multiple stakeholders.
- Track record in facilitating special operational initiatives that require rapid