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Ipas is a global organization that works to advance and protect women’s reproductive health and rights. A nonprofit established in 1973, the organization is o

Audacious Project Director

Location

North Carolina + 10 moreAll locations: North Carolina | Indonesia | Bangladesh | Côte D'ivoire | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Ethiopia | Kenya | Malawi | Mozambique | Nepal | Nigeria

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12 days ago

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Bachelor Degree

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Audacious Project Director

Ipas

Role Description The Audacious Project Director is a senior leadership role within Ipas’s Program Support Team (PST), accountable for strategic stewardship, governance, and adaptive results-based management of the Audacious investment across implementation regions and countries. This role manages the Audacious project and helps leverage this investment to strengthen Ipas’s broader strategic plan. The Audacious Project Director will serve as a key integrator and steward of Ipas’s Audacious strategy, ensuring alignment across country strategies, budgets, logic models, results frameworks, and funding scenarios while enabling locally-led decision-making and learning. Primary Responsibilities: - Strategic and Project Results Leadership - Provide project leadership for the Audacious investment, ensuring the strategic and organization-wide value to Ipas is maximized. - Design, implement, and maintain Audacious governance structures, including project charters, decision‑rights, escalation pathways, and shared‑leadership practices. - Maintain a clear focus on driving Audacious project delivery and results. - Establish and steward Audacious project management systems. - Work closely with the Business Development team to leverage the Audacious investment to secure additional funding. - Strong collaboration with CSTO, TEX, and MERLA teams to maintain alignment and leverage cross-learning. - Lead and guide iterative redesign of projections, budgets, and implementation strategies. - Build and positively manage excellent relationships across the Ipas Network and external sector. - Project Management, Risk Management and Safeguarding - Develop technically sound and operationally robust project workplan. - Ensure coherence across country strategies, workplans, budgets, logic models, and results frameworks. - Ensure each implementing country develops and maintains a contextualized Audacious logic model. - Drive dynamic, results‑based management. - Anticipate, mitigate and manage programmatic, financial, legal, political, and reputational risks. - Ensure timely access to high-quality progress, performance, and compliance information. - Oversee preparation of donor-facing narrative and financial reports. - Champion safeguarding and ethical programming standards. - Financial Stewardship, Systems Integration & Value for Money - Provide project-level financial stewardship. - Oversee results‑based financial analysis and value‑for‑money reporting. - Ensure timely access to high-quality performance and compliance data. - Support MERLA team in ensuring Audacious reporting demonstrates efficiency and strategic use of resources. - Evidence, Learning & Results Architecture - Responsible for strong internal communication and knowledge management. - Ensure alignment of the Audacious Results Framework with long-term project outcomes. - Collaborate with the TEX team to operationalize the results framework. - Sponsor cross‑country and organization-wide functional learning agendas. - Contribute to the development of learning and communication materials. - Donor and External Relations - Collaborate with the country and global teams to support fundraising and communication strategies. - Build and steward relationships, leveraging country leadership and expertise. - Represent Ipas externally on Audacious‑related forums. Qualifications - Deep commitment to sexual and reproductive health and rights, especially safe abortion and access to contraception. - Strong record of leading through shared power and influence without authority. - Demonstrated successes leading large‑scale, complex, adaptive projects. - Proven experience engaging major philanthropic or bilateral donors. - Demonstrated experience implementing results-based management. - A master’s degree in public administration, international affairs, public health, or a relevant field, or a Bachelor’s degree with extensive experience. - 12-15 years of progressive professional experience in the international nonprofit sector. - Fluency in English required; proficiency in French and/or Spanish preferred. Requirements - Organizational‑level strategic thinking and results stewardship. - Decisive, values‑grounded risk management. - Feminist leadership and shared power practice. - Complex stakeholder and donor relationship management. - Systems integration, learning, and adaptive leadership. - Clear, credible communication in high‑ambiguity environments. Benefits - Ipas is strongly committed to providing a work environment that is free from all forms of harassment, discrimination, and inequity. - We recruit, employ, train, promote, and compensate our personnel without regard to personal characteristics protected by law or outlined by Ipas policy. Working Environment - This position is fully remote, subject to change based on business need. - Flexibility to meet virtually in different time zones required. - Ability to travel internationally up to 30%.

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