The Project Management team at Oxford Policy Management is seeking a Programme Manager on a fixed-term basis, contingent on the successful outcome of a bid for an upcoming project.  The position would be located in Ramallah, Palestine. 

We are an international development consultancy working to improve lives through sustainable policy change in low- and middle-income countries. Our vision is for fair public policy that benefits both people and the planet. 

 Through our global network of offices, we work in partnership with national stakeholders and decision makers to research, design, implement, and evaluate impactful public policy. We draw on our local and international sector experts to provide the very best evidence-based support. We deliver progammes and projects with expert knowledge and experience and can be relied upon for excellence in all aspects of progamme and project delivery. We work collaboratively, with ambition, to help deliver impactful public policy that will bring about lasting change. 

We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead the day-to-day management and delivery of a major, multi-year technical assistance programme implemented in close partnership with government institutions and an international donor. 
 
This is a hands-on programme management role, responsible for ensuring the programme is delivered to contract, meets all donor and compliance requirements, and supports the technical team to achieve meaningful, politically informed results. 

Key Responsibilities 

Programme & Delivery Management 

• Lead overall programme management across all phases, from mobilisation and inception through implementation and closure. 

• Maintain and oversee delivery plans, workplans, milestones and critical dependencies. 

• Coordinate a multidisciplinary team, including embedded advisors, short-term specialists and programme support staff. 

• Manage an adaptive, demand-led delivery model while maintaining coherence, focus and control. 

• Support politically informed and context-responsive decision-making in close collaboration with senior counterparts. 

Financial & Contract Management 

• Oversee programme budgets, expenditure tracking, forecasting and timely invoicing. 

• Manage delivery within a payment-by-results environment and performance KPIs. 

• Support value-for-money analysis and financial compliance requirements. 

Risk, Governance & Compliance 

• Maintain and actively manage the programme risk register and issue log. 

• Support programme governance structures, including steering committees and operations meetings. 

• Ensure compliance with safeguarding, duty of care, data protection and audit requirements. 

• Proactively identify, escalate and mitigate risks and issues. 

Reporting & Donor Engagement 

• Lead coordination and quality assurance of all programme reporting. 

• Ensure reporting is timely, accurate and written to a high professional standard. 

• Act as a key interface with the donor programme team on delivery and performance. 

Leadership & Stakeholder Management 

• Build, lead and sustain high-performing, multidisciplinary teams 

• Build strong relationships and influence across senior stakeholders, clients and delivery teams 

• Actively manage expectations, priorities, and competing interests 

• Surface, mediate, and resolve issues across projects and stakeholders 

• Facilitate timely, well-informed decision-making at the right governance level 

• Embed strong planning, documentation and quality-assurance practices. 

We are looking for a delivery-focused programme manager who is comfortable operating in complex, high-pressure environments. 

Essential Experience 

• Significant experience managing large or complex development projects and programmes. 

• Proven experience managing donor-funded programmes, ideally with FCDO projects. 

• Experience working in Palestine. 

• Familiarity with demand-led or adaptive delivery models and adaptive project management. 

• Strong track record in financial management, forecasting, risk management, and donor reporting. 

• Experience working in politically sensitive, fragile or conflict-affected contexts. 

• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams. 

• Working proficiency in Arabic. 

Desirable Experience 

• Experience working directly with or alongside government institutions. 

• Experience overseeing embedded advisory support and short-term technical assistance. 

• Educated to degree level or equivalent. 

• Project Management qualifications at APM PMQ or PPQ level (or equivalent) or qualified by experience with evidence of continued professional development (CPD). 

Skills & Attributes 

• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 

• Confident managing senior stakeholders while remaining delivery-focused. 

• Resilient, adaptable and able to manage competing priorities. 
• Collaborative with sound judgement and a solutions-oriented mindset. 

Whether you join us in a corporate position, as a project delivery colleague, or as an independent contractor driving programme management - at OPM you will find a company that places equal value on excellence and integrity. As a leading international development consulting firm, we strive to enable and empower everyone who works with us to do their best work in an environment that welcomes ambition, creativity and passion for positive change.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

We strongly believe in a fairer distribution of power between all stakeholders, and we commit to reflecting this in our organisational structures and in the design and delivery of our projects. We proactively work to evolve ourselves and our stakeholders to shape inclusive and fair programming, implementation, and policies. Our recruitment and procurement processes reflect our ambition to make the international development sector more diverse and inclusive.

If you share our vision for fair public policy that benefits both people and planet, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your application through our careers’ site by the closing date. We review and interview applicants on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply by way of CV via our careers site at the earliest.