Programme Manager - Urban Initiatives

The programme manager would be responsible for partnership and grant management and will support partners in the implementation of the program to achieve the programme outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Grant management related responsibilities including visits, reviews, reporting, payments, program revisioning, layering, deepening, pilots or any other program related activities.
• Lead efforts in strengthening ground level operations, bringing ownership, improving systems and processes of partners, team building, making subjective changes to program design, stakeholder engagement and collaborations with other partners.
• Identifying unaddressed issues of the community or gaps in implementation and do the needful to address the same, which includes feedback to partner, layering and deepening efforts
• Hold calendarized monthly and quarterly reviews with partners (together or individually) to share and facilitate cross learning
• Update internal leadership on a quarterly basis - mainly on progress in the program, challenges and ground level changes
• Initiate need-based assessment, review financial documents, process disbursements and provide regular inputs to the capacity building team on needs of each partner
• Contribute to our focused initiatives in informal settlements with children, youth, and elderly persons, and work with all the MIS coordinators across partners

What we are looking for:

• Candidates who have a good understanding of urban issues and communities living in informal settlements and with experience in organizations that have worked on their issues are encouraged to apply.
• High level of self-motivation, initiative, and creativity
• Willingness to travel extensively for work
• Substantial knowledge of organisational and project management
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, and solve problems independently or collaboratively as needed
• Minimum 8 - 10 years of experience in the sector