Senior Manager – Partnership Performance & Enablement
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About the Role
Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation is hiring a Senior Manager of Partnership Performance & Enablement to lead governance, performance systems, and data integrity for partnership portfolios.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as AGF’s centre of excellence for partnership performance systems and governance.
- Strengthen institutional performance discipline through standardized partnership tools, KPIs, dashboards, and governance frameworks.
- Ensure alignment between partnership performance systems and Smart Systems architecture.
- Enable evidence based decision making across all partnership portfolios.
- Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of partnership performance tools, templates, dashboards, KPIs, governance standards, and escalation protocols.
- Support the SVP in promoting consistent adoption of enterprise standards across all partnership portfolios.
- Monitor adherence to partnership performance processes and escalate risks, inconsistencies, or compliance gaps.
- Support Senior Managers of Partnerships in assessing, preparing for, and securing new partnerships aligned with strategic priorities.
- Streamline partnership processes, tools, templates, and documentation to ensure consistency, quality assurance, and ease of use.
- Serve as the primary liaison to Smart Systems for all partnership related performance needs.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Education, Public Policy, Business Administration, or related field (or Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience)
- Strong understanding of governance frameworks and partnership compliance standards
- Experience with performance management systems, dashboards, and data reporting tools
- Knowledge of MEL frameworks and QA processes
- High attention to detail and audit readiness mindset
- Systems thinking and cross functional coordination capability
- Fluent in English and Arabic (preferred)
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Role Overview
- The Senior Manager of Partnership Performance & Enablement serves as AGF’s centre of excellence for partnership performance systems and governance, ensuring the institution operates with consistent standards, reliable data, and high quality processes across all partnership portfolios.
- The role enables and strengthens the work of the Senior Manager of Partnerships and their teams by developing, maintaining, and improving the governance standards, tools, systems, dashboards, templates, KPIs, frameworks, and processes that underpin partnership quality, evidence generation, and perfo
- The Senior Manager is the primary interface with Smart Systems, ensuring performance data, MEL frameworks, QA standards, and reporting systems are aligned with partnership and model needs.
What you will do
- Serve as AGF’s centre of excellence for partnership performance systems and governance.
- Strengthen institutional performance discipline through standardized partnership tools, KPIs, dashboards, and governance frameworks.
- Ensure alignment between partnership performance systems and Smart Systems architecture.
- Enable evidence based decision making across all partnership portfolios.
- Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of partnership performance tools, templates, dashboards, KPIs, governance standards, and escalation protocols.
- Support the SVP in promoting consistent adoption of these enterprise standards across all partnership portfolios.
- Monitor adherence to partnership performance processes and escalate risks, inconsistencies, or compliance gaps to Senior Managers or the SVP as appropriate.
- Support the Senior Managers of Partnerships in assessing, preparing for, and securing new partnerships aligned with AGF’s strategic and model priorities.
- Streamline partnership processes, tools, templates, and documentation to ensure consistency, quality assurance, and ease of use across engagements.
- Serve as the primary liaison to Smart Systems for all partnership related performance needs, ensuring dashboards, MEL frameworks, QA systems, and reporting tools meet partnership and model requirements.
What you will bring
- Master’s degree in Education, Public Policy, Business Administration, Education or related field. Or, bachelor’s degree in education, Public Policy, Business Administration, Education or related field.
- Strong understanding of governance frameworks and partnership compliance standards.
- Experience with performance management systems, dashboards, and data reporting tools.
- Knowledge of MEL frameworks and QA processes.
- High attention to detail and audit readiness mindset.
- Systems thinking and cross functional coordination capability.
- Fluent in English and Arabic (preferred).
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