Senior Program Manager - NGO

Senior Program Manager

Role and Responsibilities :

- Identifying and structuring problems, synthesizing hypotheses and, developing and applying appropriate analytical frameworks and approaches

- Actively partnering with Government (Department heads and second line), and other stakeholders, to define project workstreams

- Creating systems for partnerships between government and other stakeholders and identifying an external advisory group of individuals and organizations

- Working closely with senior academics, organization technical functions and government stakeholders to tailor data-driven solutions to local context, and translate technical rigour to on-ground implementation

- Providing management oversight on day-to-day activities in each project to ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs -

- Ensuring application of organization-wide protocols designed for data protection, data management and project management on the assigned projects

- Managing teams of individuals from diverse backgrounds and supporting reportees to plan and prioritize activities on assigned work streams, including timelines, content, and deliverables

- Proactively identifying risks and issues affecting tasks or work stream delivery, and promptly communicating upward with proposed solutions

- Drafting high-quality written documents and presentations

- Identifying, obtaining, and collating relevant information and data, and performing quality control to ensure validity and accuracy of data

- Overseeing field and desk research using qualitative and quantitative analysis, and relevant tools as necessary