Senior Manager - Programmes - NGO

Overview

The Senior Manager - Programmes manages an area of intervention for the organization 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 for the organization. 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 an 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 organization's understanding of an area.

- Ensure compliance with specific grant proposals to ensure that it meets the organization 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 the organization (as an orchestrator) 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 of 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 organization 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 of the organization reach them in time.

- Ensure compliance with the grant-making system at the organization 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 by the organization

Learning and Reflection

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

- Develop guidelines for effective reflection, learning, and change

- Work on the results from a learning and reflection exercises 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 and the organization.

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree strongly preferred

- 8 to 15 years of work experience, either in a field operations role or work experience with a grantmaker

- Should have made significant and long-lasting contributions to his/her area of specialization.

- Should have lead teams and have had accountability for large goals in his/her previous assignments

- Grant-making experience strongly preferred; desire to work in and with nonprofit sector is essential