Senior Manager - Programmes & Grants - NGO

The Senior Manager - Programmes manages an area of intervention by making grants playing the role of a guide to a set of programme staff who work together at the theme and portfolio level in delivering grants. The Senior Manager - Programmes ensures smooth program delivery and aids delivery of the operating plan. The incumbent will have complete accountability for a large programme and multiple grants that ensure the achievement of the stated goal/objectives.

Responsibilities

Leadership

- Provide guidance, mentorship and effective knowledge management within the team to ensure smooth program delivery

- Manage the disbursal of large and high impact grants within the organization in individual capacity. Supplement the research and development of frameworks, models and theories around the operating area.

- Initiate relationships with think tanks and civil society organizations in order to further understanding of an area.

- Ensure compliance of specific grant proposals to ensure that it meets the guidelines and requirements, and is a well drafted request, complete in all aspects.

- Work closely with the Senior Management Team of the organization in order to agree and ensure delivery of grantee organizational development plans, where applicable

Strategic Direction and Theory of Change

- The Senior Manager - Programmes will contribute significantly in curating strategy and concept notes in a given theme

- Co-create strategies, outcomes and impact frameworks with partners and external consultants

- Help build the Theory of Change as an orchestrator for strategic and systematic scale up grants

-Assist in working with the government, ministries and other departments when required

Grant opportunity and disbursement

- Review all completed proposals to ensure that required information has been provided. Ensure that the story of the grantee organization comes through clearly

- Lead the efforts on the Due Diligence Process and partner engagement

- Help the partner develop results frameworks and ensure that the thinking around the results framework is in keeping with the operating plan

- Conduct meaningful conversations with all grantees that validate their results framework/s for review and action by the Board

- Post approval, provide leadership to working with the finance team and the grantees to ensure that the financial resources reach them in time

- Ensure compliance to the grant making system through the entire lifecycle of a grant.

Program Management and Delivery

- Take charge of all program management activities, start to finish

- Work with the SMT to ensure optimum allocation of work within the team, adherence to timelines, achievement of milestones and take responsibility for corrective action as and when required

- Identify, assess and manage risks arising out of uncertainty of the program strategy, design or delivery

- Manage multiple stakeholders and work closely with them to bring together the program as envisioned

Learning and Reflection

- Ensure a balance with sometimes competing needs and priorities between the grantee

- Develop guidelines for effective reflection, learning and change

- Work on the results from a learning and reflection exercise to create best practices and introduce process improvements

- Report out on learning and reflection at an area level and make sure that the process is beneficial to grantees