Programme Manager

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Education (bachelor’s degree or master’s degree) in Project Management, International Development, or equivalent
  
• Experience: at least 6 years of experience in project management within the I/NGO sector, or equivalent.
  

Project Development:

• Responsible for the development of project ideas, project design; concept note, log frame, proposal narrative and activities for budget planning
  
• Identify Partners in alignment with Country Director, Fundraising teams and Initiative
  
• Collaborate with and support the Partner Portfolio team in planning and conducting partner assessments and addressing identified gaps related to programmes and governance.
  
• Preparation and onboarding of partner (Kick off workshops; explanation of CBM’s and donor specific tools, processes, and reporting calendar).
  

Partner Capacity Building

• Conduct Partner Programmatic Capacity building events/ trainings
  
• Support the CD in Bi-annual/annual review meetings with multiple partners
  

Project Coordination & Quality Assurance

• Coordination with partners on agreed activities and timelines. Ensure activities are carried out by the partner as per agreed timeline; communicating with partners on project progress; guidance to partners on implementation issues.
  
• Manage Budget and/ or activity change requests: Alignment/discussion with partners, analysis of budget or activities and managing deviations, communication and coordination with relevant divisions
  

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Conduct monitoring visits to Partners: Remote or travel on-site. Pre-arrangements and coordination with partner, ToRs development, documents check (including a high-level check of key vouchers), stakeholder meetings, debrief, monitoring report, follow up on agreed actions.
  
• Evaluations: ToRs development, consultant recruitment, capturing and dissemination of learnings; follow up on actions.
  
• Knowledge and Learning management: Documentation, dissemination, and representation of learnings/best practices – internal & external.
  

Reporting & Audit

• Project Reporting: Review and finalize all reports, programmatic and financial
  
• Check activity and budget status to calculate forecast and Request of Funds
  
• Ensure compliance with donor requirements and organizational policies.
  
• Audits: follow up on programmatic and governance related actions.
  

Compliance & Risk Management

• Risk Identification and Mitigation: Identify project risks/ issues and develop mitigation plans.
  
• Ensure implementation, monitoring, and follow-up.
  
• Compliance assurance: Ensure that implementing partner has programmatic systems, processes, and capacities in place to guarantee compliance with CBM requirements.
  
• Support in implementation of Partner Assessment programme and governance related recommendations and actions.
  
• Project Administration in ERP System (PROMIS/ NGO Online)
  
• Set up of project in PROMIS and ensure project related data in PROMIS is kept updated during implementation and completion.
  
• Timely Forecasting, Budget adjustments in system considering unspent funds & unimplemented activities, maintain monitoring system and carryout required status updates (forecasts, cost plan revision, upload of reports, Quick Status Review) etc.
  

Internal Alignment & External Stakeholder Management

• Ensure internal alignment with relevant stakeholders
  
• Represent CBM on behalf of Country Director and upon delegated responsibility to external stakeholders
  
• Line Management
  
• Line management of Project/Programme Officers(s)