Senior Portfolio Lead – SPA III / Frameworks

The Senior Portfolio Lead will manage the Danida SPA III portfolio, overseeing program delivery, financial oversight, and donor relationships. The role involves leading a cross-functional management team and ensuring high-quality program compliance and reporting across multiple country operations and global projects.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a consolidated overview of portfolio delivery, expenditure and risk, and lead preparation of the annual portfolio review
• Provide supervision of the SPA III Program Coordinator, and direct a cross-functional SPA III Management Team drawing on colleagues from across HQ
• Oversee and ensure high-quality guidance, support and compliance monitoring is delivered to country operations, executed through the SPA III management team
• Oversee the global projects on the SPA III to ensure coherence and quality of delivery
• Oversee the results monitoring and reporting pipeline to Danida
• Act as facilitator to the high level SPA III Steering Committee across DRC, advising, informing and ensuring follow up on key decisions
• Hold the SPA III portfolio relationship with the Danish MFA, and participate in Danida reviews of DRC
• As additional donor framework agreements come into effect, integrate these into the portfolio’s management arrangements

Requirements

• 8-10 years experience in international humanitarian and/or development program management
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-country portfolios and donor relationships
• Strong budget management and financial oversight skills
• Strong understanding of conflict and displacement settings and program responses
• Experience in managing donor framework agreements (e.g. Danida, SIDA, NORAD)
• Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field
• Fluency in English
• Proficiency in Danish (desirable)
• Experience with Nordic institutional donors (e.g. Danida, SIDA) (desirable)
• Field experience from a fragile, conflict or displacement context (desirable)

Skills

• International Programme Management
• Multi-Country Portfolio Management
• Donor Relationship Management
• Budget Management
• Financial Oversight
• Conflict and Displacement Programming
• Donor Framework Agreement Management
• Program Compliance
• Program Reporting
• Cross-Functional Team Management
• Humanitarian Programme Management
• Development Project Management

Languages

English, Danish