Global Programmes & Philanthropy Manager - CIFF Programmes

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 almost 9,000 team members working in 36 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‑centred 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

MSI seeks a Global Programmes and Philanthropy (GPP) Manager to support the management of a large scale five‑year multi‑country programme funded by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). The Manager will be responsible for supporting The Challenge Fund Programme (2024‑2028), a $100m programme with global and bilateral investments from CIFF to advance sexual and reproductive health services and increase modern contraceptive prevalence in six countries across West and Central Africa.

Working in the Challenge Fund programme team (composed of a Head of Challenge Fund, two other GPP Managers and one GPP Adviser), the GPP Manager will actively support the Senegal Country Programme, associated government engagement and support, ensuring delivery of agreed deliverables for the Challenge Fund Programme. In addition and given the strong focus on co‑funding of this investment, the Manager will support the Senegal country programme with their programme funded by the Gates Foundation. They also work very closely with other relevant donor teams, International Operations and Technical services departments to ensure MSI and donor priorities are reflected in programmes and learning agenda.

The Manager will play a critical role in donor relationship management including effective and timely reporting and serve as an important internal resource and ‘donor champion’. This is an exciting and internally high‑profile role that requires excellent financial and data analysis skills, strong communication and facilitation skills, analytical and problem‑solving skills, excellent ability to work across teams to deliver results, and great attention to detail.

This role and programme team is part of the broader team supporting CIFF investments and will work very closely with the Gates team. The team oversees the technical design and execution of CIFF investments and is responsible for safeguarding and advancing MSI’s relationship with CIFF and Gates foundations as a key contributor to achieving MSI2030 strategy. The team provides organisational leadership to ensure that MSI’s strategy, policy, systems, and capacities are responsive to donor priorities and investments and that CIFF and Gates programming advances the MSI2030 strategy.

About You

For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values. This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro‑choice. Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.

We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open‑mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions‑oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.

We seek exceptional communicators who are self‑motivated, solutions‑driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:

• Proven ability to liaise effectively with and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including global, regional, national, local, public, and private partners.
• Excellent skills in communicating evidence, facilitation skills with proven ability to synthesize complex technical component into easy‑to‑understand briefs or presentation.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships across cross‑cultural settings to achieve mutual objectives and maximise opportunities.
• Exceptional problem‑solving abilities and demonstrated confidence in handling difficult situations.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, perform under pressure and reputation for consistently delivering results to a high standard.
• Be data‑literate with an attention for details.
• Able to analyse and interpret datasets and spot trends.
• Fluent English and French oral and written communication skills.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:

• Experience of managing CIFF or Gates Foundation donor‑funded projects preferable, or large restricted foundations/government/institutional donor (multi‑country desirable), including project monitoring and reporting against deliverables, proactive risk management and escalation (essential).
• Experience in writing and editing reports, or externally facing project information/presentations for donors or other external stakeholders (essential).
• Financial management experience including budgeting, budget tracking and financial performance analysis (essential).
• Demonstrable experience managing complex relationships across organisations and across countries (essential).
• Experience in delivering capacity building support and skills development of others in either a technical area or project management skills, in order to meet project deliverables (essential).
• Understanding of the sexual and reproductive health and family planning fields (desirable).

Formal education/qualification

• Educated to degree‑level essential, master’s degree desirable.

Location: London, UK (minimum of 2 days per week in the office) or DRC, Senegal, Mali, Niger or Madagascar (any Francophone MSI country programme). Full‑time 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

Contract type: 12‑month FTC.

Salary: £40,000 – £51,000 per annum. The salary will be banded strictly within the local context. Salary band BG 9.

Closing date: 21st May (midnight BST). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates. 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.