Senior Advisor, Ecosystem Programmes and Partnerships

Job Summary

This is an eight-month fixed-term contract role.

•  Accelerate the Foundation’s transition from project-based interventions to ecosystem-led solutions that create sustainable pathways to employment, entrepreneurship and economic inclusion for young people.
• Build the capability of Foundation staff and market teams and embed systems thinking and ecosystem principles into programme design, capital allocation and partner engagement.
• Strengthen market diagnostics, the pipeline of ecosystem-focused initiatives, strategic partnerships and innovative financing approaches across priority markets.

Ecosystem Strategy and Capability Building

• Support the Foundation’s transition to an ecosystem-based programming approach across priority markets.
• Coach and mentor Foundation staff and market teams, lead workshops, and provide practical technical support.
• Develop, refine, and maintain guidance, toolkits, frameworks and resources that enable consistent application of ecosystem approaches.
• Facilitate learning and knowledge exchange across markets and with external experts.

Partnerships, Innovative Finance and Learning

• Lead or support ecosystem and market diagnostics to identify barriers, opportunities, stakeholders and leverage points in youth employment and entrepreneurship systems.
• Support the assessment of ecosystem maturity and readiness, translation of insights into clear recommendations, and development a robust pipeline of ecosystem-focused initiatives.
• Support the team in developing programme concepts, proposals and partnership structures, including opportunities to scale successful models and strengthen coordination.
• Advise on blended finance, catalytic capital, outcomes-based financing and other mechanisms that improve sustainability and mobilise additional resources.
• Capture lessons and good practice, develop learning products, strengthen evidence generation and adaptive management.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Preferably 15+ years of relevant work experience
• Systems Thinking and Ecosystem Development
• Strategic Partnership Development
• Market Diagnostics and Programme Design
• Innovative Finance
• Facilitation and Capability Building
• Monitoring, Learning and Adaptive Management
• Senior Stakeholder Communication and Influence 

Certifications / Qualifications 

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience in international development, economics, public policy, business, systems change or a related discipline.

Languages

• Fluency in verbal and written in Business communication is required.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Significant international experience across multiple countries and regions in systems change, market systems development, ecosystem building, collective impact or related approaches.
• Experience conducting ecosystem assessments, diagnostics and strategic analyses, and designing practical implementation tools and methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder management, partnership development, facilitation, analytical, presentation and communication experience, including influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority.
• Desirable experience in corporate foundations, philanthropy, development finance or impact investing; innovative finance; youth employment, entrepreneurship, skills or financial inclusion; and organisational capability building.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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