Senior Programme Manager (Public Financial Management)
Company Overview:
Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of high-end consulting and engineering services. We are over 25,000 employees dedicated to solving water, environment, sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy, and international development challenges for our clients and communities.
Tetra Tech International Development Europe is Tetra Tech’s European business unit focused on international development project management, technical advisory, and monitoring and evaluation services. We have a 40-year history of successfully delivering international development projects on behalf of donors around the world, including the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the European Union (EU), development banks and multilateral institutions. Our people are focused on improving lives and work side by side with local partners to support sustainable economic growth, stability, governance, and environmental and climate practices. You can find out more about our international development work with UK and European clients here.
Our Values:
We are committed to maintaining business practices that honour and protect the dignity and integrity of everyone with whom the company conducts business, employs, and serves. As a leading international development organisation, we fully support continued progress and improvement within the development community to make development initiatives more effective. We are also committed to addressing various cross-cutting issues relevant to international development to ensure that all people can access and enjoy the benefits of our activities.
- We value our people: we support the development of our people, ensuring that the environments in which they work are fair, safe, and flexible.
- We deliver quality results: we go the extra mile to deliver value for our clients, impact for beneficiaries and a fair financial return for the company to grow sustainably.
- We collaborate effectively: we work authentically with our clients, beneficiaries and partners and strive to always communicate clearly and openly.
- We encourage creativity and innovation: we encourage entrepreneurial thinking and provide the freedom, support and investment for new ideas and initiatives.
- We operate with integrity: We will do the right thing, be honest and keep to our commitments.
Location: London with travel to Palestine and other locations
Flexible working available: We operate a hybrid working policy, with people working from the office two days a week and the rest working from home. People may choose to come in more often.
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.50 hours per week.
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary & Benefits
Job Overview:
The role is being advertised as ‘Senior Programme Manager (Public Financial Management)’ to reflect the level of responsibilities and external-facing seniority. The organisation’s formal/internal job title for this post is ‘Manager within the UK structure.
We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a candidate with strong experience in international development project management and a demonstrated interest or background in Public Financial Management (PFM) and Economic Governance. The role will primarily involve delivering a large PFM reform programme in Palestine and supporting a growing portfolio of PFM and economic governance programmes in Palestine, Nigeria and Libya. Applicants with relevant skills, experience, or equivalent qualifications are encouraged to apply.
This role would suit someone mid-career with project management and business development experience who has previously worked with FCDO or other major international donors.
This role is UK (London) based, so you must have the right to work in the UK. It requires frequent travel to Palestine (Ramallah and Jerusalem) for one week every 1-2 months.
You should be able to demonstrate experience in or an interest in Public Financial Management projects. A track record of business development is also desirable.
Main Duties:
- Manage and deliver a large FCDO programme in Palestine, with responsibility for supporting the Programme Director to meet strategic objectives.
- Oversee programme financial management, operations and HR, programme monitoring and reporting, quality and risk management.
- Build and maintain strong client/ team/ partner relationships to ensure successful programme delivery.
- Lead business development in economic governance / PFM, including the successful development of pipelines, pursuits and responding to full tenders in collaboration with pursuit/ bid teams.
- Provide technical advisory work on a short-term basis to support project implementation as needed. This requires a basic understanding of PFM and economic governance.
- Develop and maintain strong networks and relationships with clients, partners and consultants.
- Line management of individuals and teams, and supporting the professional development of other team members.
Aptitude and skills:
- You must have significant experience managing international development projects in technical areas such as public financial management, economic reform, or economic governance.
- Experience with international development consultancies, government agencies, or international NGOs is desirable; an equivalent combination of relevant experience and education will also be considered.
- Good understanding of key concepts such as political economy analysis, adaptive management, institutional reform and organisational development.
- Excellent written and fluent spoken English. Other languages, including French or Arabic, would be an asset.
- Comfortable working in a multinational, multicultural environment.
- Highly numerate with experience of project focused budgeting and financial management, and proficient in Excel.
- Analytical and have an ability to think strategically, logically and problem solve.
- A ‘team-player’ with strong soft skills able to build strong relationships with team, clients and partners at all levels.
- Pro-active, self-motivated, and able to thrive in a fast-paced programme and team environment.
- Tenacious and resilient, and able to cope well with change and uncertainty.
- Entrepreneurial and motivated to identify and pursue new opportunities for Governance, Security and Justice.
- A willingness to travel to other permanent offices of the business and project locations, including fragile and conflict-affected states, as required.
Qualifications:
Degree level educated, preferably with a Master's in a relevant subject (e.g. economics, international development, public finance or related field).
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:
In accordance with the Equality Act 2010, Tetra Tech prides itself in a workplace culture that complies with and ensures the workplace is free from discrimination, harassment, bullying, racism, and hate speech of any form regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage, and civil partnerships. We encourage all applicants from different backgrounds to apply for this role.
Disability Confident Employer:
Disability Confident is a UK government scheme that supports employers in creating and fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces. We have self-identified as registered disability confident participants.
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Safeguarding:
Tetra Tech International Development has robust policies and guidelines which exemplify our commitment to safeguarding and technical excellence in gender equality. Our team of dedicated GEDSI advisers work closely with our staff and partners to ensure a context-specific and consistent approach is applied to all of our programmes to improve the livelihoods of the world’s most marginalised groups.
Region: United Kingdom and Europe Teams and Clients
Role Category: Headquarters Positions or Project Opportunities