About the Innovation Practice
Around the world, individuals and institutions are finding new ways to work faster and smarter to address pressing challenges in health, education, and nutrition systems. By adapting innovations to different contexts, creating novel approaches and solutions, and anticipating possible futures, these change agents are delivering better outcomes for citizens and challenging systemic inequalities.
In partnership with change agents, we facilitate the scale-up of innovations — addressing supply and demand-side barriers to scaling the impact of individuals or cohorts of innovations. We also facilitate the strengthening of innovation ecosystems — addressing specific gaps, weaknesses and inefficiencies in the environment that are constraining innovation and scaling processes.
To achieve these goals, we work with a range of innovation ecosystem actors, including social entrepreneurs, governments, civil society organizations, and development agencies. Read more about the practice and some examples of our flagship programs here.
Opportunity
R4D is seeking up to two Senior Programme Managers to join our Innovation Practice, based in London. This opportunity represents a chance to work with a highly collaborative team that embraces innovation and learning together, taking ownership of critical components of the team’s portfolio. Experience working in the field of Equity & Inclusion and/or Systems Innovation and/or technology Innovation is highly desirable.
The Innovation Practice operates a matrixed resourcing structure, with team members feeding into different programmes and projects in line with their expertise and programme resourcing needs. An integral member of the Innovation Team, the Programme Manager will therefore be responsible for leading the successful implementation of a number of projects within the Innovation portfolio as well as contributing technical expertise in the innovation scaling process, innovation/entrepreneurship ecosystems, and/or innovation policy and practice.
The right person for this role will be an entrepreneurial, strategic, and highly organized individual. They will have a strong track record of managing multiple projects and programmes involving: detailed work planning, collaboration across geographically disbursed teams, funder engagement, management of multiple contracts and partnerships (including with innovation and/or public sector actors), risk management, and ensuring the production of high-quality deliverables.
The role will report to the Senior Programme Director, Innovation (based in London) or Associate Director, Innovation (based in London). The position may over time adopt management responsibility for other Innovation team members.
Responsibilities1. Innovation Practice Strategy & Management
2. Project / Programme management
3. Partner engagement
4. Technical input
Potential Salary: GBP £53,000 – 69,000. Salary is commensurate with experience and other compensable factors.
With many of the initiatives within our portfolio at an exciting stage of development/implementation, we are eager to find someone who is able to start as soon as possible. As a result, we will be interviewing candidates on a rolling basis as we receive strong applications.
Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people. We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks. Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results. Then we share what we learn so others can achieve results for development, too.
We have a unique and vibrant culture at R4D. Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of our work environment and help advance our mission. Diversity—of ideas, identities, perspectives and backgrounds—is vital to who we are and what we do. We seek people who embrace these values and will help reinforce them. Our work culture is collaborative, creative and entrepreneurial. We operate based on trust and respect. Teams across the organization frequently collaborate on programmatic work and support each other in continuously building a better R4D.