Overall responsibility:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the quality implementation of an approximately $30 to $40 million, diverse grants portfolio of projects financed by a variety of institutional donors and foundations.
The incumbent will bring proven leadership and program management experience working in an international development context.
Specific responsibilities:
• Leading a team of program and grants compliance professionals, ensures workloads are well balanced, roles and responsibilities are clear and a positive team environment is fostered.
• Ensuring all grants in the portfolio have start-up and subsequent annual workplans and corresponding budgets which are developed in a participatory manner with field colleagues and subject matter technical experts at Plan Canada. Ensuring workplans are developed within a results framework and receive appropriate donor approval.
• Providing financial oversight to the grants portfolio including analysis, review and oversight of relevant budgets, financial reporting, ensuring donor compliance requirements are fully met and required forecasts and information flow in to internal planning.
• Ensuring all grants are regularly monitored against standard Program Management KPIs for timely identification and mitigation of potential risks to implementation.
• Working with the Program Effectiveness team, ensure all grants in the portfolio have a mechanism for regular monitoring and reporting of results including coordination of project evaluations and contributions to Plan’s knowledge management.
• Fostering and maintaining strong relationships with key partners including Plan Country/Regional colleagues and implementing partners.
• Travelling to program areas (approximately 30% international travel) to support start up and implementation of programs, donor visits, steering committee meetings etc
• Maintaining a standard of excellence in all donor reporting and donor relationships.
• Organizing forums to share successes and program learnings with donors, partners and peers
• As a People Leader, maintaining full accountability for recruitment, hiring, setting performance expectations, and managing performance, promotion, demotion and discipline up to and including termination in line with organizational policy and adherence to minimum legislative requirements including ESA and Human Rights Code. Leadership includes: temporary, contract, intern, volunteer or permanent staff
Skills, experience, qualifications:
• Master’s degree in relevant area and/or equivalent work experience (an undergraduate degree in combination with qualifying experience accepted in lieu of an advanced degree)
• Minimum ten years’ experience managing grant funded international development programs, some of which should have been gained overseas
• Proven leadership and people management skills
• Superior skills in building productive working relationships with team colleagues, field offices, donors and partners and in promoting and maintaining a collaborative working environment.
• Solid understanding of compliance requirements of donor government agencies such as GAC; Development Banks; and other multilateral agencies / charitable organizations / foundations.
• Demonstrated competency with gender-sensitive, rights based programming
• Familiarity with Results Based Management (RBM)
• Skilled in budget development and financial management and report writing
• Solid understanding of monitoring and evaluation systems
• Flexible approach to dealing with ambiguity/changes in priorities
• Fluent in oral and written English; French is considered an asset
• Exceptional cross-cultural, oral and written communications skills
• Excellent computer skills using Microsoft Office and Internet
• Ability to travel internationally (a valid passport will be required) to implementation areas, some of which may be in remote locations
• Must be eligible to work in Canada
About Plan Canada:
Imagine working for a leading international non-governmental organization (NGO) that’s dedicated to creating a better world. That’s Plan International, a global movement for change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to support social justice for children in developing countries.
Founded in 1937, Plan is one of the world’s oldest and largest international development agencies, working in partnership with millions of people around the world to end global poverty. Not for profit, independent and inclusive of all faiths and cultures, Plan has only one agenda: to improve the lives of children. Because I am a Girl is Plan’s global initiative to end gender inequality, promote girls’ rights and lift millions of girls – and everyone around them – out of poverty.
Plan Canada is part of a global network of offices in over 70 countries. Our busy Toronto and Ottawa-based offices undertake fundraising, donor engagement and public outreach, as well as overseeing a wide variety of field programs led by our International Program Department, which includes experts in health, education, water and sanitation, economic security, gender equity, child protection and participation, and humanitarian assistance.
We at Plan Canada are a dedicated, passionate and diverse team of over 200 employees who are committed to making a difference in the lives of children.
Join us and Plan to change the world.
Visit our website at www.plancanada.ca
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply for this role please forward your CV, covering letter, outlining your skills and experience and salary expectations to gethired@plancanada.ca by August 26, 2016. Please reference Senior Program Manager in the subject line.
Plan sincerely thanks all applicants for their expressed interest in this opportunity; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.
Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
Consistent with our Child Protection Policy the successful candidate must receive clearance by a police background check, including the vulnerable sector screen.
Plan Canada is an inclusive workplace, and is committed to championing accessibility, diversity and equal opportunity. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process providing the applicant has met the Bona-fide requirements for the open position. Applicants need to make their requirements known when contacted.