Senior Program Manager

Summary

Join Winrock International, a non-profit organization, as a Senior Program Manager to support a 5-year Feed the Future Activity in Nepal. You will provide technical assistance and project implementation oversight, liaising with field offices and supervising Program Associates. Responsibilities include overseeing project activities, managing budgets, ensuring donor compliance, and contributing to proposal development. The role requires international travel and strong communication and project management skills. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, social sciences, international development, or related field
• Minimum of seven+ (7+) years’ experience in international development, especially in home office management, financial oversight, technical project management, and donor compliance
• USAID project management experience
• USAID contracts experience
• Experience training field staff and coaching and mentoring junior staff
• Ability to communicate effectively with donors, local partners and host country governments
• Adept at project planning, budgeting, management, and financial analysis
• Demonstrated skills in project management to achieve targets within scope, budget, and on time
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for project management, donor and partner relations, and new business development
• Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple tasks, and work under pressure while ensuring quality
• Demonstrated strong analytical capability and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and foster a positive working environment
• Ability to always demonstrate the highest level of ethical standards
• Experience in comprehensive inclusion of GESI considerations into effective programming
• Fluent English
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally

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 on budget
• Contribute to conceptualizing and developing new programming in the areas of agriculture and resilience
• Participate in new business development and where appropriate, serve in key roles for new business capture and proposal development working with multi-disciplinary teams from the 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, field personnel, and sub-awardees to strengthen maintain partnership networks and strengthen implementation, monitoring, and compliance
• Supervise 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 for field 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 field team and Program Associate prior to circulation for approval
• Travel to the field to conduct training, oversight, monitoring, and strategic relationship building
• Represent Winrock at external events, nationally and internationally

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• Feed the Future experience
• Experience with agriculture or resilience programs
• Demonstrated success in proposal development for US Government or other donors
• Local implementation experience
• Certification in PMD Pro/Project dPro
• Competency in additional foreign languages

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is set between $115,000 and $125,000, with the majority of candidates typically landing within the midpoint of this range
• There is an additional 10% contribution for a 403b annually
• Excellent benefits package