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Position Overview

This position’s primary mission is to establish Centers of Excellence (COE) throughout our global network to improve our overall ministry effectiveness. These Centers will achieve this goal by finding and disseminating best practices and providing leading-edge knowledge across our network. More specifically, the Director will accelerate our market penetration strategy by conducting evaluation research, identifying evidence-based best practices, promoting adopting these best practices, and training National Ministry leaders throughout our global network.

The Director will develop and test the first COE in Colombia over the course of the next three years. Once the prototype has been developed and evaluated to be effective, the Director will lead the replication of COEs in other regions throughout the world. This position requires successful collaboration across all PFI departments including program and regional offices, marketing & communications, development, and evaluation teams.

Core Responsibilities

• Identify a portfolio of promising programs that can be implemented by the host National Ministry and studied empirically. Ensure sufficient program scaling to provide adequate experimental and control groups for each program. Establish a rich program testbed that serves as a laboratory for identifying best practices.
• Work with evaluation partners to implement a comprehensive evaluation strategy, including targeted program activities, evaluation standards and processes and reporting and publishing requirements.
• Ensure full buy in and support from prison officials and ministry leaders. Ensure timely and high-quality data collection and reporting.
• Work with evaluators to publish and disseminate findings in peer reviewed journals and the popular press.
• Identify a cluster of evidence-based best practices within each program area that emerges from our evaluation research. Package these best practices in simple, understandable formats that are user- friendly and can be implemented out of the box.
• Lead COE marketing and communications strategies. Work cross functionally with MarCom to create and implement a comprehensive communications strategy and plan to promote evidence- based best practices worldwide. Drive best practice awareness and adoption through PFI communications resources and regional forums.
• Develop training curricula that supports the training of National Ministry leaders in each best practice program. Work with subject matter experts to create learning experiences, courses and assessments that are uniquely designed for National Ministry leaders. Package in the form of trainer and participant handbooks and resources.
• Develop and work cross functionally with Global Impact teams to execute a global training strategy that includes forum-based training, online workshops, and boot camp style onsite training. Mobilize a team of program innovators as an adjunct faculty to assist in the delivery of training worldwide.
• Mobilize and lead the core team responsible for each Center of Excellence, including program, evaluation, training and communications experts. Provide tactical leadership for Centers of Excellence that research and develop new programs, implement innovative projects and programs, evaluate and promote outcomes, and identify and promote best practices.
• Actively work cross functionally with PFI’s development teams to generate donor investments in the expansion and growth of COEs. This includes hosting vision trips, major donor proposals/reports, promoting Centers of Excellence, third-party evaluations, etc.
• Develop and maintain the COE operations plan, including outcomes and output Conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the Colombian prototype. Develop a multi-year Center of Excellence business plan to include replication sites around the world.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience in program design and development within a prison context is essential.
• Knowledge and experience with program evaluation techniques and methods. Strong background in data analytics.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills. Strong communication and relationship-building skills across a range of stakeholders.
• Proficient in strategic and business planning as well as project management.
• Experience leading or managing a Center of Excellence within government or nonprofit sector is desired.
• Digitally proficient (technically adept; comfortable learning new software).
• Proficient in the Spanish language desired.
• Major donor fundraising experience desired.

Education & Experience

• Master of Business Administration, Public Policy, Criminology, or Sociology plus five years of relevant experience.

Work status

• Full-time position located in Medellin, Colombia

Travel

• ≤ 40% travel

Applications for this position should go to [email protected]

Position Overview

The purpose of this role is to restore the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims in the LAC region through a network of PFI ministry partners. The Senior Regional Director is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to increase the scale and impact of National Ministry (NM) partners in the region to achieve organizational goals and objectives. This role requires an experienced, dynamic, adaptable and innovative leader with strong cross-cultural and relational competencies. This role combines both partial director level and manager levels of responsibility.

Core Responsibilities

• Increase the scale of PFI NM partnerships throughout the region.
  • Maintain NMs by providing member services outlined in the charter agreement.
  • Ensure consistent implementation of PFI charter policies by PFI and NMs.
  • Expand the PFI network in the
    • Cultivate NM opportunities and interest in non-PFI represented countries.
    • Qualify new NM partners to become a chartered PF National Ministry.
    • Develop national strategic partnerships with other existing entities.

• Increase the impact of PFI Ministry partners in the region.
  • Oversee implementation of all PFI Program Partnerships in the region according to program standards and agreed goals for the region.
  • Monitor and build the capacity of affiliates by customizing PFI capacity building resources according to NM needs.
  • Develop pipelines of National Ministries qualified to enter formal PFI partnerships.

• Increase the financial investment in Prison Fellowship Ministries in the region.
  • Coordinate, support and/or host major donor vision trips.
  • Support PFI’s donor engagement team as requested.
  • Supervise your Regional Manager and contract temporary staff as required.

Requirements

• Mature Christian who is a dynamic and energetic leader with evident passion, skills and ambition to lead, facilitate, and serve the Prison Fellowship mission in the region.
• Strong organizational development skills and experience.
• Performance-based orientation with demonstrated experience in goal setting and developing and executing plans to achieve them.
• Ability to internalize and communicate PFI’s vision, mission, values and statement of faith.
• Strong relationship building skills at all levels (volunteers, staff, leaders, board, donors).
• Demonstrated program and financial management experience.
• Skilled in negotiating and executing financial agreements.
• Outstanding verbal, written and presentation skills to promote PFI program and reporting to donors. Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
• Available for regional and international travel.
• Willing to work flexible hours to accommodate time zones in other regions where PF staff and contractors are based.

Education & Experience

• Advanced degrees in business management plus 3 (three) years of relevant leadership experience working in a regional/or global environment or with diverse business or a Bachelor’s degree in business management plus 5 (five) years of relevant experience.
• Divinity, international development or similar is desired.
• Proficiency in using digital technology including Microsoft Suite, video conferencing and project management tools (access to reliable internet infrastructure required).

Work status

• Full Time

Travel

• ≤ 50% travel

Applications for this position should go to [email protected]