United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Programme advisor
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 28 Jan 2014
Programme advisor – Right to Essential Services
Salary: £33,805 – 37,505 pa (including London Allowance, if based in London).
Based: London, Waterloo, with flexibility for the post to be based at an international location in Africa, Asia or Latin America (local country employment terms and conditions would apply)
Closing date: 9am, Tuesday 28th January, 2014
Poverty and lack of access to basic services go hand in hand across much of our planet. Abuses of power and persistent inequality mean that marginalised people are most vulnerable to the risk of ill-health and least able to face its costs and impacts. Christian Aid believes that, through concerted action with our partners, we can root out and challenge the power relationships at the heart of this problem. Could you join us in this exciting work?
You’ll make a key contribution to increasing Christian Aid’s work on securing rights to essential services and particularly health. As an organisation we have developed strong models and programming in this area. Now we are looking to deepen our programme impact and our focus on supporting equitable institutions and inclusive social norms. We don’t see poor access to essential services as a technical issue so much as a political one with decisions being made about who has access to what. Building on our strong track record in community health and HIV programming, we have increasingly focused on the central role of power and inequality in accessing services. Our new strategy has laid out our ambition to challenge and change this, setting a transformative new goal of Just Power Relations.
Working as part of a global team of Programme Advisors, you’ll provide advice and support to teams on the ground as they seek to ensure greater access to essential services. You’ll help Christian Aid staff and partners across Africa, Asia and Latin America sharpen their work and to identify new opportunities to bring about change in their own contexts. You’ll equip them to put this analysis into practice through a portfolio of empowering projects within the framework of our newly developed community health framework.
You’ll enable programme teams to learn from their own experience, from other Christian Aid programmes and partners, and from wider good practice. With the rest of the advisory team and other colleagues, you’ll feed programme learning into a deeper organisational understanding and public position on access to essential services.
You’ll have the technical knowledge and practical experience to provide credible, relevant and useful support to fellow practitioners, including previous experience in an advisory role. You’ll also bring excellent communication and facilitation skills. Your ability to translate theory into practice will help programme colleagues engage with complex political and social challenges, and spark innovative and creative responses. Most important will be your ability to develop strong relationships and bring people from different parts of the organisation together around a common vision. You’ll be ready to pioneer new ways of thinking and develop new partnerships to achieve these ambitious goals.
We value the contribution each person makes to the success of our organisation. That’s why you can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance, an interest-free season ticket loan, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance
As this post is UK based, non-EC nationals will require current and valid permission to work in the UK.
To apply for this post, please visit our website. Please note CVs will not be accepted.
Job reference:647-MA
Closing date for applications: 9am, Tuesday 28th January 2014
Interview date: 7th February 2014
Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
How to apply:
To apply, please visit our website: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/aboutus/jobs/ukandireland/index.aspx
