Director, Programmes And Development

AIDHA

Aidha is an award-winning Singapore-registered charity. Our mission is to provide financial literacy and self-development skills to migrant domestic workers and other lower income women to enable them and their families to break out of the cycle of poverty.

Started initially under the auspices of UNIFEM Singapore (which became UN Women Singapore and subsequently United Women Singapore), Aidha became an organisation in its own right in 2006. Since its inception, Aidha has impacted more than7,000 women and their families and communities. We attained IPC (Institution of Public Character) status in 2015 and have retained it ever since.

Aidha provides training in money management, computer skills, leadership, entrepreneurship and English. We conduct most of our classes on Sundays when most migrant domestic workers have their day off. Most of our classes take place at our new main campus located at Catapult in Buona Vista, with other classes held at our satellite campus at the Singapore Management University in the CBD.

We typically have 300-400 students attending our courses every month, supported by a pool of 150-200 active volunteers.

Aidha's a small but successful organisation, now in an exciting stage of scaling up of its operations.

The role of Director, Programmes and Development, is one that is responsible for the development of all of Aidha’s curriculum content – this includes overseeing its development by others as well as being deeply involved in creating it. The role also takes a leadership role in the strategic development of Aidha’s programme offerings, and is responsible for developing strategic partnerships with partner organisations to support Programmes activities.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Programmes and Development Director is responsible for guiding the development of new programmes, enhancing existing curriculum and developing new curriculum content to ensure Aidha’s programmes remain effective and relevant to its students, as well as determining the direction of the current student and alumni programmes;. The Programmes and Development Director will also play a key role in developing new partnerships to further Aidha’s programme priorities, including partnerships with local and international non-profits as well as funders.

The Programmes and Development Director is expected to spend up to two Sundays a month on campus. (

Note:

Often only a half day is required on Sundays and time off-in-lieu will be provided for work on weekends.)

Develop a comprehensive strategy to guide all aspects of programme development and management including continuous programme improvement. Key priorities include:

• Spearhead the writing, evaluation, and refinement of curriculum to ensure strong alignment with programme objectives, driving continuous improvement and the delivery of high-quality educational content. The Director will have significant content production responsibilities
• Expanding Aidha’s current programme offerings to include relevant short courses which will provide practical actionable information on specific key financial decisions
• Development of Aidha’s online initiatives and strategy including the design, development and delivery of online content for Aidha’s online resource centre
• Enhancement of Aidha’s programmes for low-income local women
• Stay abreast of best practices in the delivery of financial education and entrepreneurship training to ensure optimal design and execution of Aidha’s programmes
• Oversee the planning and implementation of a portfolio of impactful programmes, working with the CEO and rest of the team, to meet the needs of Aidha’s beneficiaries
• Develop and lead new strategic priorities for Aidha’s programmes in collaboration with the other teams at Aidha
• Develop and build partnerships with corporate partners or other non-profit organisations to enhance the impact of Aidha’s programmes

• Develop and lead Aidha’s research agenda to inform new programme activities to support…