COO - Policy Implementation - NGO

COO - Policy Implementation / Do-Tank

Key roles and responsibilities

- Work closely with the CEO to set and implement the overall strategy for the organisation. This includes facilitating discussion and decisions on organisational development, policy and implementation and other operations.

- Oversee alignment between strategic priorities and resource allocation, and ensure consistent, transparent and well-supported decision-making when considering new or difficult programming and operational opportunities, and expenditures.

- Help ensure the timely formulation and effective delivery of policies and plans.

- Overlook operations, expansion of the organisation across states, and inspire a performance-driven culture of transparency, accountability and commitment to the organisation.

- Work with state leads, partners and stakeholders to ensure smooth representation of the organisation externally.

- Build effective partnerships with relevant organisations and other external actors.

- Oversee and supervise functioning of all operations, business and organisational development, strategy, HR and project execution.

Required qualifications and experience include:

- An advanced university degree (master's or equivalent) in public policy, political science, or similar.

- Proven excellence in writing, editing, and communication

- Experience providing close support to senior members of think tanks, policy implementation organisation/s

- Strategic ability and sound political judgment

- Track record of managing knowledge workers and building and managing multinational, diverse and dispersed teams

- Experience in managing organisations in multi-national and multi-cultural settings, probably in a not-for-profit environment