Reporting directly to one of the Managing Directors of R4D and working under her/his guidance, the Program Officer will play an important role in designing and implementing R4D’s transparency and good governance projects, in close collaboration with the Senior Program Officer. Responsibilities encompass a range of managerial, analytical, and written/oral communications tasks. The Program Officer will be the coordinator and main point of contact for the Francophone grantees in the new phase of TAP work, which will include assisting with workplan development, reading and providing feedback on reports, and managing deliverables. Other duties will include providing technical assistance to all grantees as needed, coordinating advocacy and communications workshops for grantees, and fundraising. Given the nature of this project and the entrepreneurial environment of R4D, Program Officers are expected to be self-starters who can work relatively independently, exercise good judgment, and deliver results.

Potential tasks and responsibilities include:

• Developing workplans, budgets, and related planning documents and guidelines
• Organizing key meetings, workshops, and seminars, including drafting agendas, background materials, presentations, and summary reports of the proceedings and agreed follow up actions
• Overseeing studies undertaken by Francophone IMO grantees
• Building and managing relationships with grantees, government officials, and World Bank country officers
• Providing technical support, both in French and English, to grantees as needed
• Proposal development for TAP and other new Transparency and Governance Program projects
• Commissioning background papers and other studies/publications; including drafting terms of reference, soliciting and reviewing proposals, developing contracts for work streams, and managing contracted consultants and reviewing their products
• Conducting in-house studies as needed, including literature reviews and other pieces of focused analysis
• Developing case studies and briefs based on IMO work and possible field visits to be disseminated to an external audience (including NGOs, donors, and developing country government officials)
• Working with the project team to improve the visibility of TAP to a wide array of audiences
• Preparing slide decks, draft reports, and other outputs
• Presenting to internal and external audiences
• Performing other duties as assigned