[Hiring] Enabling Methods Lead @War Child Alliance

Role Description

The Enabling Methods Lead provides strategic and thematic leadership for War Child’s Enabling Methods work and its relation to a specific portfolio of Evidence-Based Methods (EBMs). The role is accountable for the vision, quality, coherence, innovation, external positioning, and continuous improvement in their thematic area and on their assigned EBM portfolio. It ensures alignment with organizational strategy, the Partnership Journey Framework, internal quality standards, sectoral standards, frameworks, and humanitarian best practice.

The role has oversight of an assigned EBM portfolio and its related partner onboarding journeys, thematic quality assurance, and adaptive learning processes, while line managing thematic coordinators and guiding thematic coordinators and specialists.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and vision in their thematic area of work, liaising with other thematic Leads where relevant.
• Drive development and use of thematic strategies, translating sectoral trends, evidence, and standards into organizational direction.
• Identify emerging risks and opportunities in their thematic domain across relevant contexts and conflict phases.
• Shepherd the EBMs in their portfolio across the Partnership Journey, ensuring coherence, quality, learning, and alignment with War Child’s Care System.
• Engage effectively with other departments to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Provide thematic authority and quality assurance to War Child’s work, particularly around the consistent application of programme quality standards during the EBM Cycle.
• Maintain strategic oversight of assigned thematic and EBM portfolios, influencing resource allocation and ensuring prioritization and coherence on implementation, scaling, learning, and adaptation.
• Drive continuous learning, adaptation, and improvement of EBMs using evidence, quality data, and learning agendas to inform decisions.
• Lead or contribute to relevant thematic and/or EBM learning activities, task teams, working groups, and/or Communities of Practice.
• Lead and manage thematic Coordinators within the assigned EBM portfolio, providing direction, mentorship, and performance oversight.
• Provide authoritative thematic leadership to partners, country teams, and global colleagues.
• Represent and build up the profile and reputation of War Child's EBM Care System Portfolio externally.
• Contribute to creating a culture committed to the mission, vision, internal safeguarding standards, JEDI principles, and the CHS framework.

Role-Specific or Context Responsibilities

• Act as primary internal and external thematic focal point for an assigned EBM portfolio.
• Lead the development, refinement, and socialization of strategies, policies, SOPs, tools, and guidance related to the thematic area.
• Ensure EBM alignment with internal programming quality standards and sectoral thematic standards.
• Contribute to mainstreaming safeguarding, accountability, and participation standards within EBM guidance and tools.
• Advise on the technical/thematic components of partnership agreements related to the EBMs in their assigned portfolio.
• Support scalable learning approaches, driving development of EBM learning trajectories.
• Contribute to onboarding processes, including thematic and/or EBM training and mentoring to staff and/or partners.
• Support operationalization and implementation of MEAL processes within their thematic area.
• Lead thematic inputs into organizational processes such as development and delivery of strategies and annual plans.
• Collaborate closely with teams in their department and with other relevant departments.

Qualifications

• Relevant academic background in the thematic area or a closely related field.
• Relevant experience in the thematic area, including in humanitarian or post-conflict contexts.
• Demonstrated experience leading thematic portfolios or thematic streams.
• Experience working with partners on programme co-creation and delivery.
• Proven experience in programme design, needs assessments, learning cycles, and quality assurance.
• Experience developing methods, tools, guidelines, training materials, and toolkits.
• Experience facilitating trainings, workshops, and communities of practice.
• People management or matrix leadership experience.
• Portfolio or programme coordination experience.
• Fluency in English is required; additional languages may be useful.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of quality standards, evidence-based programming, and MEAL integration.
• Knowledge of cross-sectoral integration (Education, Child Protection, MHPSS).
• Understanding of localisation, accountability, and participation principles.
• Familiarity with digital collaboration and learning tools (e.g., Mural, Miro, SharePoint, MS Teams).

Benefits

• This vacancy is open to internal candidates only.
• Type of contract: This is a locally contracted position.
• Salary and secondary employment conditions are aligned with the applicable in-country salary scale.

How to Apply

Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit their applications (CV and motivation letter in English) by 10-July-2026. We are reviewing submissions on a rolling basis, so early applications are strongly recommended.