Regional Programme Advisor

About Us

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

The successful candidate will contribute to the fulfilment of MSI’s mission in Nigeria and India by facilitating effective project and donor-funded grant management; supporting financial and narrative donor reporting and compliance; contributing to the development of strategies to strengthen capacity in our country programmes as needed and supporting key business functions and processes including business planning, monthly performance reviews and risk and compliance meetings.

About You

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to organise and present information in a compelling way
• Ability to design, implement and monitor effective project management
• Excellent analytic skills with ability to effectively and efficiently review performance data and identify trends and outliers.
• Understanding of, and ability to write and edit donor proposals and reports
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills
• Ability to manage a heavy and fluctuating workload as well as competing priorities and remain calm under pressure.

To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following experience:

• Demonstrated administrative, finance and programme management experience
• Demonstrated project management experience of significant donor-funded grants.
• Knowledge of donor regulations, policies and procedures
• Experience of proposal development

Personal Attributes:

We seek exceptional individuals who are aligned to MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You must be a strong communicator, self-motivated and solutions-seeking, committed to driving social change in an environment that measures sustainable results and impact at an individual and global level. You must be able to work effectively with and across diverse teams and be comfortable with ambiguity.

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:

• Able to work proactively, with an enthusiastic, positive and determined mind-set
• Able to work well with others in a team environment and across diverse disciplines and cultures
• Excited about reproductive health care and pro-choice
• Readily embraces MSI values
• Able to travel to country programmes up to 3-4 times per year
• Pro-choice.

For more information about the role, please view the job description and person specification on our website.

Location: London Support Office (hybrid working, 2 days per week in the London office).

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (UK contracted hours).

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £34,200 – £42,750 per annum for UK based candidates. Discretionary bonus + benefits.

Salary band: BG 7

Closing date: 9th April 2024 (midnight GMT+1). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

Please see the job description

For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.