Senior Program Manager, Food Assistance
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Status
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1 year Full-time Contract
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Responsibilities
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Reporting to the Director, Children in Emergencies, the Senior Program Manager, Food Assistance oversees a portfolio of grant funded projects and contributes to ongoing strengthening of internal systems to ensure effective implementation of quality programming and donor compliance.
The position is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with travel to Plan field offices.
Main Responsibilities:
- Leading a small team of program professionals, ensures workloads are well balanced, roles and responsibilities are clear and a positive team environment is fostered.
- Leading Plan Canada’s food assistance unit by suggesting new strategic directions, maintaining oversight of all grants in the portfolio (22 grants in 2013 worth over $60M), leading development of new grants and other portfolio support and management as requested by the Director of Emergencies.
- Developing and finalizing new grants (identifying new business opportunities, developing proposals and budgets together with Plan field staff and Plan Canada staff, reviewing contracts and ensuring that all administrative and entitlement criteria are met).
- Managing grants, and overseeing the management of grants by others on the team. Ensuring regular monitoring against workplans and budgets, and ensuring that team is following process for timely identification and mitigation of potential risks to quality implementation.
- Ensuring all grants in portfolio have the relevant project documents in place, including narrative and financial reports, updates, workplan reviews etc, and that these are developed in a participatory manner with field colleagues as well as subject matter technical experts and Grants Compliance staff within the Plan Canada Program team.
- Ensuring positive relationships are maintained with Plan field offices and other partners.
- Maintaining standard of excellence in all donor reporting and donor relationships.
- Working with other Program Management colleagues to contribute to standardized quality and risk indicators for all grants.
- Providing financial oversight to assigned grants portfolio including analysis, review and oversight of relevant budgets.
- Organizing forums to share successes and program learnings with donors, partners and peers.
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Skills/ Experience/ Qualifications
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- Proven success as a People Leader – teambuilding, mentoring, etc.
- Demonstrated experience in strategic oversight role of a grants portfolio
- Proven track record in international development project management including participatory planning, report writing and financial management
- Experience in managing emergency programming, particularly with UN donors
- Exceptional communications skills both oral and written
- Solid understanding of compliance requirements of donor agencies such as WFP and FAO
- Solid understanding of monitoring and evaluation systems within a results based management context (CIDA RBM preferred)
- Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders including Plan field offices, donors, consultants and other partners
- Excellent information gathering, assessment and presentation skills
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Requirements
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- Post graduate degree in development or other relevant discipline
- Minimum 10 years’ experiencemanaging international development programs or emergency programs in Africa, Latin America or Asia; some of which should have been gained overseas
- Previous experience managing UN-funded projects
- Previous experience managing a team/staff
- Solid understanding of monitoring and evaluation systems
- Strong financial management skills
- Fluent in oral and written English (French and/or Spanish an asset)
- Ability to build/maintain networks and working relationships with donors and partner organizations
- Solid understanding of development issues in Africa, Latin America and/or Asia
- Excellent computer skills using Microsoft Office and internet
- Ability to travel internationally frequently
- Must be eligible to work in Canada
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About Plan Canada
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Imagine working for a leading international non-governmental organization (NGO) that’s dedicated to creating a better world. That’s Plan Canada, 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 69 countries. Our busy Toronto-based office undertakes 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 all dedicated, passionate and a diverse team of over 170 employees who are committed to making a difference in the lives of children.
Join us and plan to change the world.
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How to Apply
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To apply for this role please forward a resume and cover letter outlining your skills and experience, by August 2, 2013 to gethired@plancanada.ca. Please reference Senior Program Manager, Food Assistancein 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.
Consistent with our Child Protection Policy the successful candidate must receive clearance by a police background check, including the vulnerable sector screen.
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