Country: Canada
Closing date: 12 Dec 2014
Status: Full Time Permanent
Department: International Programs
Reports To: Director, Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director, Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance, the Senior Program Manager, Humanitarian 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.
- Supporting Plan Canada’s humanitarian assistance unit by suggesting new strategic directions, maintaining oversight of all grants in the portfolio, 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 work plans and budgets and ensuring that the 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, work plan 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 others in the department 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.
People Leadership/Managerial Responsibilities
The Senior Manager position has people leadership as a core competency with at least 15% of time dedicated to this effort and noted on his/her respective performance framework. This person is directly responsible for the management of that team. Budget and number of staff can be directly correlated to scope of portfolio. Role includes 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
- 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 developing and managing emergency programming, funded by UN and other 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 (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
Requirements
- Post graduate degree in development or other relevant discipline
- Minimum 10 years’ experience managing international development programs or emergency programs in Africa, Latin America or Asia; some of which should have been gained overseas
- Previous experience managing emergency response programs and 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
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 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: www.plancanada.ca
How to apply:
To apply for this role please forward your CV and covering letter, outlining your skills and experience by December 12, 2014 to gethired@plancanada.ca.
Please reference Senior Program Manager, Humanitarian Assistance 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. Applications from Canadians and Permanent Residents will be given priority.
Consistent with our Child Protection Policy the successful candidate must receive clearance by a police background check, including the vulnerable sector screen.
Applications from Canadians and Permanent Residents will only be considered.
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.
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