Director, Regulated Programmes

The Director, Regulated Programmes leads the global Regulated Programmes team to enhance programme quality and impact through strategic leadership, risk management, incident oversight, and regulatory compliance. The role supports the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) function and ensures safe, high-quality, and compliant programmes globally.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the global Regulated Programmes team, including Medical and Construction, driving programme quality and impact, setting strategic priorities, and fostering a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing culture aligned with organisational Quality & Impact objectives.
• Develop and implement risk management strategies for Medical and Construction programmes, ensuring risks are proactively identified, mitigated, monitored, and controlled.
• Lead medical incident management and escalation processes, coordinating with senior leadership, the Audit & Risk Committee, Charity Commission, donors, and members to ensure appropriate governance and transparency.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant external regulatory requirements, including holding and maintaining SCI licences for MHRA WDA(H) and Home Office controlled drugs.
• Promote a strong culture of accountability, safety, governance, and adherence to organisational and legal standards across regulated programmes.
• Maintain and regularly review programme risk registers, ensuring mitigations and controls align with the SCARF framework and incorporate cross-functional inputs.
• Proactively manage emerging risks and issues at Country Office level, ensuring timely escalation and response to significant residual exposures in line with enterprise risk management requirements and risk appetite.
• Coordinate closely with thematic technical teams, including Education, Health, and Climate Change, to ensure strong technical alignment, programme quality, and integrated delivery across the Medical and Construction portfolio, contributing to organisational Quality & Impact objectives.

Requirements

• A post-graduate degree or equivalent in Medicine, International Development or a related field is essential.
• Consideration for a combination of relevant academic qualifications and substantial work experience is possible.
• Medical Professionals are encouraged to apply.
• Strategic leadership and programme management skills, with the ability to translate organisational strategy into high-quality programme delivery and measurable impact.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and manage diverse global stakeholders and teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organisational and cultural change while fostering collaboration, inclusion, accountability, and high performance.
• Strong commitment to programme quality, compliance, safeguarding, risk management, and continuous improvement across regulated programmes.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, sound judgement, and resilience in managing complex and high-risk portfolios.
• Strong ability to work effectively across organisational, regional, and technical boundaries, including with Supply Chain, Operations, Education, Health and Climate Change teams.
• Proven ability to build strategic partnerships and foster cross-functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

• Strategic Leadership
• Programme Management
• Organisational Strategy Implementation
• Programme Quality Assurance
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Management
• Safeguarding
• Incident Oversight
• Monitoring Evaluation Accountability Learning
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Change Management
• Negotiation
• Influencing Skills
• Global Programme Delivery
• Supply Chain Coordination
• Health Programme Management
• Climate Change Programme Management
• Medical Expertise

Languages

English