Remote Senior Program Manager, Forestry and Natural Resource Management

Summary

Join a dynamic team at Winrock International as we strive to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. As a Senior Program Manager, you will provide technical assistance and project implementation oversight to programs supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable management of natural resources, biodiversity protection, and resilience of vulnerable communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, forestry, biology, international development, or related field. Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of (8+) years’ experience in international development, especially in home office management, financial oversight, technical project management, and donor compliance; direct experience with project implementation in technical or supervisory role
• USAID project management experience required
• Experience with forestry, natural resources management or biodiversity protection programs required
• E xperience with private sector engagement and market development approaches preferred
• Demonstrated success in proposal development for US Government or other donors
• Experience training field staff and coaching and mentoring junior staff
• International project implementation work experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as Senior Program Manager for assigned projects, working closely with project teams to develop project strategies, work plans, budgets, and reports
• Track and monitor programs, as assigned, to ensure they are fulfilling deliverable and performance requirements at a high quality, on time, and within budget
• Contribute to conceptualizing and developing new programming in the areas of forestry, natural resource management, biodiversity protection, and climate change
• Participate in new business development and where appropriate, serving in key roles for new business capture and proposal development working with multi-disciplinary teams from programs, new business, and cost and pricing units
• Manage information dissemination and electronic communications among relevant parties, including project teams, internal groups, and external audiences
• Build and maintain relationships with current and future donors, partners, and external audiences
• Promote programming strategies that go beyond individual beneficiary-level impacts to promote systemic change, ownership, sustainability, and scalability
• Develop and maintain close communications with host country government counterparts, local organizations, project personnel, and sub-awardees to strengthen maintain partnership networks and strengthen implementation, monitoring, and compliance
• Supervise and coach assigned Program Associate(s), as needed, providing direct support and guidance
• Serve as budget manager for projects to ensure effective financial management including tracking of budgets, monthly field spending, obligations, and subawards, and flag issues as needed
• Prepare and oversee the preparation of project deliverables, including writing and doing initial technical reviews
• Provide final review of subawards and procurement documents and provide feedback to project team and Program Associate prior to circulation for approval
• Travel to the project offices to conduct training, oversight, monitoring, and strategic relationship building
• Represent Winrock at external events, nationally and internationally

Benefits

Salary: This position has a salary range between $120,000 - $134,000 with an additional 10% 403b annual contribution and additional excellent benefits package