Principal Consultant - Brighton, United Kingdom - Itad Ltd

Itad Ltd

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Brighton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies development finance institutes, private sector and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments.

We have a 40 year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people's lives.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including; Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings, Human Development and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

We are seeking a Principal Consultant to join a highly skilled group of people, united in their purpose to contribute to a more equitable and sustainable world.

We believe in the power of evidence in driving positive social, economic and environmental change.

Through our monitoring, evaluation, learning and strategy work with partners globally, we are helping to deliver better outcomes for people and the planet.

We want to make a difference, come and join us and be part of our long term goal of striving for technical excellence that meets the highest professional and ethical standards.

We are located in the heart of Brighton but you don't need to be in the office every day, we work on a hybrid basis where travel to the office is expected for weekly team meetings and key company events.

However, you will already have the right to live and work in the UK and be able to travel both nationally and internationally.

Location:
Hybrid

Contract:
Full time permanent

Practice Overview

Our growing education practice focus includes education reform, and providing data, information and evidence to policy-makers, program architects and implementors.

We have an internal team of 14, working across the portfolio, supported by a large network of external experts, and by our own business services teams.

We leverage this expertise to deliver high quality services to a diverse client base including FCDO, UK Department of Health & Social Care, Gavi, World Health Foundation, USAID, Global Partnership for Education, the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNICEF, BMGF, CIFF, Wellcome Trust, Public Health England, Hewlett Foundation and Elma.

The Role

We are recruiting for an experienced consultant to join the team to provide technical delivery and leadership on projects and programmes across the whole portfolio and to provide operational management and leadership to the Practice.

Technical delivery:

They will lead and contribute to project delivery, develop and own stakeholder relationships, support the development of strong, high performing teams, contribute to business development activities, and build our reputational capital and market presence.

The core technical strengths of all our consultants are focused around four key areas:

Evidence Advocate: using robust evidence to support clients and shape global debates;
Change Agent: guiding clients in reflecting, learning and managing change;
Project Manager: building high performing project teams that deliver quality and commercial targets;
Trusted Advisor: building and shaping long term relationships with clients and partners that add value and deliver commercial success.

Leadership:

Working closely with the existing leadership team, the role is essential to the success and development of our collective work.

It will be delivered by close liaison with Human Development team members and other parts of the business. This role requires a collaborative mindset, emotional intelligence and strong organisational skills.

It is focused around three key areas:

People: Shaping the team structure and individual portfolios appropriately to ensure balanced workloads and utilisation targets are met, facilitating the sharing of resources with other Practices.
Commercial: Coordination of bid management and the Practice's engagement with and delivery of account management. Oversight of all commercial KPIs including project profitability, management of billing schedule, and debt management.
Building Itad: Ensuring management messaging is cascaded, discussed and actioned, active engagement in company initiatives, oversight of adherence to company policies and ways of working including effective planning of practice meetings and awaydays, overseeing implementation of Practice strategic plan and associated KPIs.

You will have a proven track record in a global health area, which may fall within one or more of the following topics: health systems strengthening, global health strategy, sexual and reproductive health and rights, global health security and/or education.

As we continue to develop our service offering in the US, experience with US government related project delivery would be welcomed

As a Principle Consultant you will have a track record in managing and leading the delivery of complex projects, set