Program Manager (PM) at CARE International

About CARE International
CARE is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. We are known everywhere for our unshakeable commitment to defending the dignity of people. CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security. We put women and girls at the center of our work because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities. CARE has been working in Uganda for over 50 years. In FY ending June 2020, CARE improved the lives of nearly one million people in Uganda (62% women). Our ambition for the next five years is to reach 5 million people, through life-saving and gender transformative programs. CARE International in Uganda seeks to recruit a highly motivated and qualified professional to fill up the position of Program Manager-Livelihoods, Location: Kampala with regular field travels up to 50%
Job summary:
CARE is looking for a qualified female Ugandan for this role. The Program Manager (PM) provides overall leadership for the Livelihoods Program. The PM is responsible for defining the strategic direction of the program, securing funding for the program, ensuring effective program delivery, budget, and grants management. The PM is responsible for program quality and learning (PQL) oversight as well as strategic engagement, networking, and partnerships to grow the visibility and influence of the Livelihoods program. The PM is responsible for team leadership and people management to ensure the program is properly resourced with competent, motivated, and high performing teams. The PM ensures that CARE’s Livelihoods program strategy is robust, contextually relevant and program models and approaches protect and empower women and girls, delivering high-quality results with good value for money (VfM). If you are passionate about gender equality, you are the person we are looking for
PROGRAM SUMMARY CARE
Uganda portfolio is comprised of 4 programs: Livelihoods, Climate Justice, Gender Justice and Emergency, all spread across five sub-regions: Karamoja, Southwest, Acholi, Lango and West Nile. The program portfolio is approximately $10 million annually, funded by various donors. The Livelihoods Program is comprised of Food and Nutrition Security, Agribusiness Value Chains, Private Sector Engagement, Financial Inclusion and Youth Employment. The Livelihoods program will focus on enabling women and youth, especially girls to increase their benefits and control of food production systems and food markets through market-based and evidence-based advocacy and policy engagement. The program will empower women and youth, especially girls to increase their benefits and control of agribusiness value chains through inclusive private sector engagement(PSE). The program will catalyze youth employment by investing in youth leadership to enable young people, especially girls to engage in various government, civil society and private sector job creation initiatives.
JOB SUMMARY
The Program Manager (PM) provides overall leadership for the Livelihoods Program. The PM is responsible for defining the strategic direction of the program, securing funding for the program, ensuring effective program delivery, budget, and grants management. The PM is responsible for program quality and learning (PQL) oversight as well as strategic engagement, networking, and partnerships to grow the visibility and influence of the Livelihoods program. The PM is responsible for team leadership and people management to ensure the program is properly resourced with competent, motivated, and high performing teams. The PM ensures that CARE’s Livelihoods program strategy is robust, contextually relevant and program models and approaches protect and empower women and girls, delivering high-quality results with good value for money (VfM).

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
1.Program STRATEGY & Business DEVELOPMENT (20%)The Program Manager (PM)is responsible for developing the program strategy including program focus, theory of change, delivery approaches and models. The PM is responsible for developing position papers and profiling the program to potential donors and partners. The PM is responsible for establishing strategic relationships, partnership, networks and gathering intelligence on upcoming funding opportunities. The PM is responsible for establishing winning consortia, developing competitive proposals and securing viable funding for the program estimated at averagely $3M per CARE INTERNATIONAL IN UGANDA JOB DESCRIPTION
year. This will require the PM to deliver high quality results from current programs, establish good relationships with current and potential donors and be first to know and capture upcoming funding opportunities. The PM should be able to influence funding priorities of donors by pro-actively sharing emerging learning and innovations from ongoing programs with current and potential donors. The PM should constantly review the program focus, approaches and models to ensure the program is protecting and empowering women and girls and aligned with government of Uganda priorities, regional and global development goals (SDGs) and CARE International vision 2030.
2.Program DELIVERY Oversight (20%)
The PM is responsible for ensuring timely delivery of planned deliverables across all projects as per approved project proposals, budgets and grant agreements. This will require the PM to ensure all Initiative Managers (IMs) secure required staffing, partners, consultants, volunteers, equipment and other resources in a timely manner. This will require the PM to provide effective oversight for planning, implementation and regular reviews of all project work plan sand budget projections, providing timely remedial actions. It will require the PM to ensure proper management of sub-granting process and supervision of implementing partners as per CARE’s award and sub-award policy. It will require the PM to ensure effective budget and grants management oversight including effective budget forecast and monitoring of budget utilization for all projects to ensure a culture of zero tolerance to over spends, under spend sand ultimately, No-Cost Extensions (NCEs). It will require the PM to ensure effective risk management measures across all projects, where risks are clearly defined and managed by IMs using appropriate risk management system and tools.
3.Program QUALITY
Assurance and LEARNING (20%)The PM is responsible for program quality assurance, accountability and learning across all projects, ensuring that all projects deliver high quality results empowering women and girls. This will require the PM to embrace and embed CARE’s quality markers (gender, resilience, governance) across all projects cycle (design to closure), regularly monitoring and reporting progress of all projects using the established MEAL system including program dashboards and PIIRS reporting system. It will require the PM to maintain a solid PQL field footprint and consistent field presence across all locations where the program is implemented across the country. It will require the PM to establish and implement effective reporting mechanisms which allows all projects to report progressively and account for their resources to donors, government of Uganda, beneficiaries and CARE: this will include individual monthly reports from IMs and PMs as well as quarterly project reports to donors. The PM will establish a reporting mechanism that ensures quality, timeliness and consistency of these reports. The PM will ensure quality engagement of all projects at various PQL platforms including monthly Program Review Meetings (PRMs) and quarterly PQL learning workshops. To ensure continuous learning, the PM will define the research, evaluation and learning agenda for the program and ensure that the research is robust, evaluations are rigorous and learning is continuous across the program. It will require the PM to effectively manage a growing body of knowledge and credible evidence generated through research, evaluation and learning, and to use the knowledge and evidence to inform the design of new projects, inform strategic discourse/debate and influence development policy, practice and programs. It will require the PM to ensure robust communications and visibility across different platforms including CARE shares, media and social media using high quality content from current program results, knowledge and evidence. The PM will establish and maintain a CO level coordination mechanism for Livelihoods program and provide Livelihoods TA to all CARE programs supporting respective PMs to integrate Livelihoods approaches across their programs.

4.Strategic ENGAGEMENT and INFLUENCE (15%)The PM is responsible for external engagement, networking and representation to influence systemic change at the highest level through different platforms, networks and coalitions. This will require the PM to regularly represent the program within CARE global networks and across different external platforms including Technical Working Groups, INGO coordination mechanisms and Women and Youth Organizations and networks at national and international level. It will require the PM to regularly engage with and maintain strategic relationships with current and potential donors, relevant GOU line ministries, INGOs and Local/National CSO and institutions of higher
learning/research bodies implementing similar programs. It will require the PM to engage and maintain influential relationships with advocacy coalitions, mainstream media and social media platforms. It will require the PM to bring credible knowledge and evidence from the program to inform strategic discourse/debate, policy debate and advocacy initiatives positioning CARE as evidence-based and data-driven actor within the sector. It will require the PM to produce think pieces, research papers and publications to inform and influence strategic and technical debates/discourse within the sector and especially on how the program is contributing to gender transformation and empowerment of women and girls. This will require the PM to establish a structure for strategic engagement and mechanism for reporting back to ensure feedback is shared and applied across CARE.

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