Mary’s Meals is delighted to be recruiting for a talented Head of Programme Delivery to provide
effective and inspirational leadership for our teams, as we strive for programmatic excellence and to
reach the next child waiting for Mary’s Meals. We are looking for an experienced, hands on,
participative leader who thrives in a varied and challenging role covering, delivery of our school
feeding programme.
Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on
one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to
change the lives of over 1.6 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals. We have been school
feeding in Liberia since 2005 and today working with both national and local stakeholders we are
reaching over 157, 000 children with a daily meal in 625 schools located in five counties: Grand Cape
Mount, Bomi, Montserrado Gbarpolu as well as Bong county. Mary’s Meals Liberia also runs the
Oscar Romero School for the Deaf in Tubmanburg.
Based in Tubmanburg, you will empower your teams to build and maintain strong systems and
processes, ensuring the required controls are in place and are adhered to diligently across the whole
programme. This is more than a role, this is an amazing opportunity to have real impact in your daily
work, you will be an advocate for the important work we do and a role model for everyone involved
in the MM Liberia programme. Occasional travel to other programmes and MMI head office in
Scotland will also be required.
This role undertakes ‘regulated work’ with children and vulnerable adults under UK legislation which
underpins our Safeguarding policy and therefore is subject to a successful PVG check or appropriate
police check.
Key duties include:
• Develop, implement, and maintain robust systems of internal control to ensure good
stewardship of Mary’s Meals resources.
• Lead the Programmes function providing leadership and management to employees.
• Responsible for effective and efficient delivery of the School Feeding Programme to ensuring
the highest standards in line with the MM school feeding model.
• Support the Country Director to develop an annual strategy and programme plan within
budget.
• Develop of a roadmap to direct the future growth of the programme.
• Provide strong people leadership for large, geographically dispersed teams, and maintain a
positive work environment with a focus on employee wellbeing; and
• Mentoring and coaching your teams, developing our people and succession planning.
You will have strong analytical skills and the ability to motivate and encourage collaboration across
your teams. You will play a key role in the Senior Leadership Team and be skilled in developing
relationships across the organisation. You will also bring:
• Experience of leading change management projects.
• Exceptional time management and organisational skills.
• Strong strategic planning for departmental growth and efficiency; and
• A positive and innovative approach to problem solving.
Head of Programme
Delivery – Liberia
If you want to become part of a worldwide movement of people who will not accept that any child in
this world of plenty should endure a day without a meal, then we would love to hear from you. To
apply, click the link below and tell us why you want to work for Mary’s Meals and why you are
interested in this role
Mary’s Meals is a value driven organisation, we believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the
dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources
entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.
If you want to become part of a worldwide movement of people who will not accept that any child in
this world of plenty should endure a day without a meal, then we would love to hear from you. To
apply, click the link below and tell us why you want to work for Mary’s Meals and why you are
interested in this role.