Senior Program Manager – Emergency Response
Senior Program Manager-Emergency Response
Status: Permanent Full-time position
Reporting to the Director of Emergency Response, the Senior Program Manager manages and develops a portfolio of projects ensuring effective implementation of quality programming. This role supervises a small team.
The position is based in Toronto Canada with frequent travel to Plan field offices.
People Leadership:
• Manages work distribution across the team and assists team members to balance competing priorities
• Monitors work progress and provides regular feedback to team members
• Supervises, supports, coaches, mentors and develops the team to attain personal and professional goals
• Assists with the design and organization of team building activities and tools for increasing teamwork and collaboration
• Ensures good working relationships with Plan field offices
• Monitors work progress and provides regular feedback to team members
• Supervises, supports, coaches, mentors and develops the team to attain personal and professional goals
• Assists with the design and organization of team building activities and tools for increasing teamwork and collaboration
• Ensures good working relationships with Plan field offices
Program development
• Ensures new growth opportunities as part of project development/fundraising are well streamlined and leveraged within the Emergency response program
• Ensures positive relationship with donors and partners
• Keeps well informed and actively participates in discussions on issues of emergency response and international development, in particular those that relate to natural disasters, conflicts and other crisis within the human rights framework and trends in international aid funding
• Ensures positive relationship with donors and partners
• Keeps well informed and actively participates in discussions on issues of emergency response and international development, in particular those that relate to natural disasters, conflicts and other crisis within the human rights framework and trends in international aid funding
Program Management:
• Ensures effective implementation of quality programming and donor compliance including:
• Ensures timely and quality reporting to donors
• Organizes periodic evaluations of projects
• Works with Grants Accountants to review and oversee relevant budgets, and helps prepare financial reports for donors
• Helps formulate, review and revise country/ regional plans, as well as organizational/ programmatic strategies and plans
• Shares successes and program learning in appropriate forums
• Supports the Program department to increase its capacity for innovation, generation of new knowledge and knowledge sharing
• Organizes forums to share results of Plan’s work with donors, partners and experts
• Ensures timely and quality reporting to donors
• Organizes periodic evaluations of projects
• Works with Grants Accountants to review and oversee relevant budgets, and helps prepare financial reports for donors
• Helps formulate, review and revise country/ regional plans, as well as organizational/ programmatic strategies and plans
• Shares successes and program learning in appropriate forums
• Supports the Program department to increase its capacity for innovation, generation of new knowledge and knowledge sharing
• Organizes forums to share results of Plan’s work with donors, partners and experts
Skills/ Experience/ Qualifications
• Proven track record of strong people leadership in both project development and project management in humanatarian assistance programs.
• Experience leading a multifunctional team in a matrix environment
• Demonstrated understanding and experience of international Humanatarian issues.
• Ability to build and retain positive relationships with Plan field offices
• Self-driven, organized and results-oriented people leader
• Excellent information gathering, assessment and presentation skills
• Exceptional communication skills and demonstrated capacity to work effectively with others
• Exceptional report writing abilies
• Innovation and rights based programming
• Proven skills in results based management approaches
• Experience leading a multifunctional team in a matrix environment
• Demonstrated understanding and experience of international Humanatarian issues.
• Ability to build and retain positive relationships with Plan field offices
• Self-driven, organized and results-oriented people leader
• Excellent information gathering, assessment and presentation skills
• Exceptional communication skills and demonstrated capacity to work effectively with others
• Exceptional report writing abilies
• Innovation and rights based programming
• Proven skills in results based management approaches
Requirements
• Post graduate degree in Humanitarian/development or other relevant discipline
• Minimum 7 years program experience in international humanitarian assistance; some of which should have been gained overseas
• Previous experience managing a team
• Bilingual capacity in English / French is an asset
• Senior experience managing international Humanitarian/development projects
• Familiarity, networking and working relationships with donors and partner organizations
• Demonstrated ability to review, synthesize information and produce appropriate reports
• Excellent computer skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power Point) and internet use
• A good knowledge of global Humanitarian/ development issues
• Able to work as part of a team and in a fast-paced environment.
• Minimum 7 years program experience in international humanitarian assistance; some of which should have been gained overseas
• Previous experience managing a team
• Bilingual capacity in English / French is an asset
• Senior experience managing international Humanitarian/development projects
• Familiarity, networking and working relationships with donors and partner organizations
• Demonstrated ability to review, synthesize information and produce appropriate reports
• Excellent computer skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power Point) and internet use
• A good knowledge of global Humanitarian/ development issues
• Able to work as part of a team and in a fast-paced environment.
About Plan Canada
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.
Visit our website: www.plancanada.ca
How to apply:
To apply for this role please forward a resume and cover letter outlining your skills and experience togethired@plancanada.ca by October 18, 2013. Salary is commensurate with experience. Please reference Senior Program Manager – Emergency Response in the subject line.
Only those applicants that have permanent residency status in Canada will be considered for this role.
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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