Come join our Solomon Islands team and use your experience and passion to shape the future of our programs and make a lasting impact on children’s lives! We are committed to transformative change for children, their families and their communities in the Solomon Islands. Your role will provide strategic direction for our programs, ensure we are evidence based, while also supporting our team grow and deliver in their roles!
A place to make a difference:
In this full-time permanent role, based out of our Honiara country office, as Program Development and Quality (PDQ) Director, you will be part of the Senior Management Team and be responsible for ensuring the relevance, strategic coherence and impact of all programs for children.
As PDQ Director, you will:
· Lead strategic direction for Save the Children’s programs in the Solomon Islands
· Ensure program relevance, coherence, and impact across our priority areas
· Drive evidence-based strategy and program development
· Oversee monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems
· Mentor and develop the PDQ team to deliver high-quality programs
You will make an impact in the following areas:
· Identifying and securing strategic partnerships and portfolio funding
· Ensuring all our projects are built on a strong evidence base
· Championing innovative approaches in our designs
· Ensuring our work is accountable to children and other stakeholders
A place to feel valued:
You will be determined to make a difference for the lives of children and their families in the Solomon Islands. You are a strategic and logical thinker, you have problem-solving skills, you are an excellent communicator with cross-cultural sensitivity . You thrive in complex environments, you are calm in a crisis, and you work to tight deadlines while managing multiple stakeholders.
This role requires:
· At least 5-10 years’ in a senior role driving development programming.
· Experience in developing and implementing organisational strategies.
· Demonstrated professional experience designing and implementing programming within at least one of Save the Children’s thematic areas (health & nutrition, education, child protection and child rights governance) or cross-thematic areas (adolescents, climate, gender and partnership).
· Experience in managing and supporting professional development opportunities for staff.
· Cultural sensitivity, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, training and coaching.
· Demonstrated experience in establishing strategic partnerships with key stakeh olders like local NGOs, UN, donors, government and research institutions.
· Strong written and oral English skills.
A place to belong:
We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:
· Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
· Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
· Internal employment and development opportunities
· Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
· Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We’ve established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion a nd allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Committee).
· Full salary packaging benefits if applicable (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)
· Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum
Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.
Does this sound like the place for you?
We’d love to hear from you. Please apply by submitting your CV AND a cover letter addressing the key requirements of the role by clicking on the ‘Apply’ button.
We strongly encourage Solomon Island natio nals to apply for this role.
Applications close 9am Honiara time, Monday 10th March 2025.
Position Description – PDQ Director
For more information about this position, please contact Adele Harmer at adele.harmer@savethechildren.org.au or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.
We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it’s straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fi ts-all when it comes to recruitment – so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.
Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.
If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact people.culture@savethechildren.org.au for further support.
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