CARE Senior Program Manager Jobs in Ethiopia

CARE Senior Program Manager Jobs in Ethiopia

Job Description

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response.

CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face.

Job Summary:

The purpose of Senior Program Manager Food and Water Systems position is to provide management support and supervision to the team of technical managers belonging to CARE Ethiopia’s Food and Water Systems Unit. She/He will work directly with Food and Water Systems’ program managers during proposal development as well as direct liaison and coordination with the Learning Design and Measurement (LDM) Manager.

She/He contributes significantly to the Country Office’s commitment to quality Food and water systems programming by identifying and mobilizing resources, maintaining donor relations, and contributing to strategic planning, representing CARE in internal and external fora, building the capacity of program staff, and contributing to learning and knowledge management.

She/He will be responsible for ensuring coherence between project documents, including log frames, narrative proposals, and budgets and for providing direct support during proposal development processes. She/He will liaise and coordinate directly with CARE Ethiopia’s Business Development team during proposal development and Contracting process.

Responsibilities

Job Responsibility #1: Program Development and Implementation

Support program Coordinator and program managers in the identification of new business opportunities reflecting CARE Ethiopia humanitarian Strategy, and that all thematic areas are adequately resourced.

Coordinate with internal processes, from Go/No-Go until the signing of donor contract/agreement, for all new funding opportunities

Lead and coordinate FWS programs portfolio and finalization to ensure quality and on-time implementation

Coordinate and liaise with CARE Ethiopia Business development about new opportunities and more specifically work with agreed contacts on new proposal opportunities

Ensure FWS programs are implemented in line with CARE’s strategic direction for FWS portfolio

Ensure that new projects accurately budget and fulfill for core humanitarian unit requirements

Ensure that new projects& integrates up to date technical standards & guidance for each sector

Lead and communicate with all donors for budget realignment in collaboration with FWS program coordinator.

Job Responsibility #2: Networking and Representation and program standards

In collaboration with program coordinator, liaise with all stakeholders and regularly represent CARE Ethiopia in technical forums, and workshops at national level for purposes of influencing and advocating policies in favor of poor and marginalized communities.

In collaboration with program coordinator promote networking with other stakeholders working with similar impact groups to explore new partnerships.

Closely work with different CMPs and alliances to further enhance the impact area portfolio.
Identify donors interested in funding related activities and promote relationships at all levels.

In collaboration with CARE’s PQL unit take the lead in setting quality standards and ensuring quality control mechanism are in place in close consultation with the LDM function.

In coordination with the LDM staffs and the program managers, ensure regular monitoring of project activities is being conducted

In collaboration with FWS program coordinator, ensure documentation and dissemination of learning and integration into new proposals

Support documentation of best practice and thought leadership in humanitarian response

Ensure the development of realistic and strategically focused detailed implementation plans (DIP) per project which encompass existing commitments to donors and government and are subsequently supported by individual operation plans of the field office team

Lead the Provision and support to grant start-up and any required

training for partner and other stakeholders

Provide support to closeout process for assigned projects.

Monitor the timely and appropriate support (technical, administrative and financial) by the respective departments and sections for quality program implementation

In collaboration with FWS program coordinator, ensure that reports are prepared and submitted to concerned parties, donors, counterparts and CARE members on time and in a professional quality manner

Ensure compliance with specific Donor’s and CARE’s policies and procedures

Ensure program materials are regularly shared with PQL team for fundraising purposes and external communications

Job Responsibility #3: People Management

Provide proper supervision and management for all direct reports and lead the establishment and functioning of a strong, effective, and coordinated Program team.

Ensure the proper implementation of CARE's performance management system for direct reports, including job description and APO development, regular feedback, mid-term reviews and annual performance appraisals.

Supervise cross cutting senior staff members and directly liaise with grant and sub grant team

Proactively address performance issues through regular, constructive & honest feedback and coaching.

In collaboration with FWS program coordinator, identify necessary staff development, career development and succession planning strategies for direct reports.

Oversee the recruitment and orientation of new program staff.

Facilitate conflict resolution mechanisms and ensure that grievance and whistle-blowing mechanisms are functional and fairly administered as per CARE policy

In collaboration with the program coordinator, the incumbent will manage field office based senior project managers or project managers

Job Responsibility #4: Financial Management

Engage in business development and lead the development of budgets as part of the financial proposal development

Ensure budget utilization and establish systems to improve financial management and utilization of unit budgets per plans and commitments made to donors and government, and that appropriate revisions and adjustments are made as required

Work closely with CARE’S financial analysis and reporting manager on humanitarian budget pipeline analysis to ensure real time budget monitoring

Support HRMs and the senior program managers in efforts to ensure field level expenses are managed efficiently and recorded in a timely manner
Job Responsibility No. 5: Networking and Learning

Establish and maintain formal and informal communication mechanisms with government, local partners, donors and other stakeholders in the humanitarian sector

Monitor developments in the FWS sector at large and in CARE Ethiopia’s key sectors of competence and share accordingly with the wider team

Participate in the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practice

In collaboration with the program coordinator, the incumbent will monitor and support local partners and identify and act capacity development needs

Oversee and support sector advisors’ engagement of humanitarian networks and clusters

Job Responsibility #6: Other

Perform other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

Qualifications

Required:

MSc. in agriculture, water and natural resource development, water+ related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience or related field of study.

5 – 6 years of experience working in community, watershed management, WASH, rural development, water supply and irrigation –with a minimum of 3 years in senior leadership role

Understanding of the importance of gender, youth and social inclusion, resilience, sustainable development

Demonstrated commitment to principles of gender, equity, diversity, inclusion and PSHEA (safeguarding) through previous positions or programming experience

Desired:

Key sectoral experience in CARE Ethiopia sectoral competency areas (FWS, WASH, Food Security)

How to Apply

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