Architect of Cooperation - Team Leader

About IPPF

IPPF is a network of nongovernmental organizations working for sexual and reproductive rights. It is more than 70 years old and is present in 150 countries 27 of them in the Americas and the Caribbean. The membership is built by one per country. The federation has undergone a governance reform and will start implementing a new strategy in 2023 where the interest is that the member organizations are at the center and that they are the ones who, from their knowledge of the context, nurture the federation. IPPF members receive core grants, benefit from

exchanging lessons learnt, are accredited and important topics such as diversity and social entrepreneurship n are addressed. They are global leaders in sexual and reproductive rights and health, youth and gender issues.

The Role

The AoC Team Leader will be responsible for the effective management of the Caribbean team and advise on the Caribbean context. The focus of this role is on Footprint expansion in the Caribbean, accreditation, general support of business planning and connecting MAs with opportunities of the membership, Gender Based Violence, Social Enterprise and Sustainability. Experience developing proposals and reporting is required. This role needs to be bilingual Spanish and English, French is desirable.

This role will be working with the MAs in the Caribbean with larger service providers and in the bigger countries:

1. Suriname
2. Trinidad and Tobago
3. Barbados
4. Jamaica
5. CFPA
6. Cuba
7. Antigua
8. Dominica
9. Aruba

Context of role:

• Develop effective professional working relationships with Member Associations/Collaborative
• Network across the Regional and Global Secretariat team to access and deliver the best support to MAs/CPs by actively participating in and building on a global community of Architects of Cooperation (AoCs).
• Building an enabling environment to support free flow of information and contact (not acting as a gatekeeper or bottleneck).
• Role will be responsible for all MA contracting, programmatic and financial
• Ensuring the continuity of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) to all people in times of crisis by building institutional capacities of MAs operating in humanitarian prone-contexts to provide life-saving SRH services at the onset of humanitarian crises.
• Collaborate closely with other colleagues across the IPPF Secretariat and Federation including other members of the global humanitarian team, technical, strategic partnerships and program teams to ensure the sound design, development and delivery of humanitarian programs, and smooth transition between stable times, emergencies and back to stable times.

• Create and maintain country and MA/CP profiles that capture capabilities, capacities, country contexts, audiences, opposition and competitors in support of strategy development.
• Devise links between MAs/CPs/Centres of Expertise that promotes and enables networking, learning and capacity building.
• Advise MAs/CPs on accessing service delivery platform resources in support of operational
• Adapt global tools and frameworks for MA/CP use that reflect changes in methodologies and general sectoral advancements.
• Partner with MAs/CPs to incorporate key donor requirements and learning into business planning This includes developing Business Plans, half-yearly reports and annual reports/updates.
• Disseminate key regional information, commentary and changes in the political landscape to colleagues, MAs and CPs in support of the wider SRHR political and social change agenda.
• Advise MAs/CPs on opportunities to work with each other that support their own outcomes, specialisations and areas of interest.
• Support MAs in leveraging timely, efficient and life-saving responses by advising, promoting and providing guidance on IPPF’s Emergency Activation System, the IPPF Emergency Response Fund (Stream3), Global Surge Roster and relevant humanitarian policies, procedures, standards, technical tools and systems.
• Provide programmatic and strategic support to MAs in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian programmes.
• Facilitate resource mobilization in support of response efforts, including through assistance to MAs to access humanitarian pooled funds, the UNCERF and other relevant mechanisms for ongoing and new and/or emerging emergencies in the regions.
• Actively participate as a member of the Global Humanitarian Team, to ensure alignment with global strategic initiatives, advocacy priorities and technical approaches related to humanitarian.
• Evaluate MAs/CPs against Performance, Learning & Impact metrics that support global SRHR
• Partner MAs through the accreditation exercises, documenting areas for
• Escalate issues relating to MA financial transparency and accountability as set out in the risk assurance
• Contract management for all unrestricted core funding and restricted project funding under US$1million. This includes ensuring all deliverables (progress/financial reports) listed in the agreements are complied with and of high quality and that training on requirements is
• Oversight/provision of incident co-ordination resulting from concerns raised on IPPF’s SafeReport,  when
• Support and enable a safe environment, adhering to the safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements of this role.

• Create and maintain country and MA/CP profiles that capture capabilities, capacities, country contexts, audiences, opposition and competitors in support of strategy development.
• Devise links between MAs/CPs/Centres of Expertise that promotes and enables networking, learning and capacity building.
• Advise MAs/CPs on accessing service delivery platform resources in support of operational
• Adapt global tools and frameworks for MA/CP use that reflect changes in methodologies and general sectoral advancements.
• Partner with MAs/CPs to incorporate key donor requirements and learning into business planning This includes developing Business Plans, half-yearly reports and annual reports/updates.
• Disseminate key regional information, commentary and changes in the political landscape to colleagues, MAs and CPs in support of the wider SRHR political and social change agenda.
• Advise MAs/CPs on opportunities to work with each other that support their own outcomes, specialisations and areas of interest.
• Support MAs in leveraging timely, efficient and life-saving responses by advising, promoting and providing guidance on IPPF’s Emergency Activation System, the IPPF Emergency Response Fund (Stream3), Global Surge Roster and relevant humanitarian policies, procedures, standards, technical tools and systems.
• Provide programmatic and strategic support to MAs in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of humanitarian programmes.
• Facilitate resource mobilization in support of response efforts, including through assistance to MAs to access humanitarian pooled funds, the UNCERF and other relevant mechanisms for ongoing and new and/or emerging emergencies in the regions.
• Actively participate as a member of the Global Humanitarian Team, to ensure alignment with global strategic initiatives, advocacy priorities and technical approaches related to humanitarian.
• Evaluate MAs/CPs against Performance, Learning & Impact metrics that support global SRHR
• Partner MAs through the accreditation exercises, documenting areas for
• Escalate issues relating to MA financial transparency and accountability as set out in the risk assurance
• Contract management for all unrestricted core funding and restricted project funding under US$1million. This includes ensuring all deliverables (progress/financial reports) listed in the agreements are complied with and of high quality and that training on requirements is
• Oversight/provision of incident co-ordination resulting from concerns raised on IPPF’s SafeReport,  when
• Support and enable a safe environment, adhering to the safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements of this role.

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