Winrock International · 4 hours ago
Senior Program Manager, Agriculture, Resilience and Water
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years exp
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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.
Qualification
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Required
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 required.
USAID contracts experience required.
Experience training field staff and coaching and mentoring junior staff required.
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 required.
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 is required.
Willingness and ability to travel internationally.
Preferred
Master's degree preferred.
Feed the Future experience preferred.
Experience with agriculture or resilience programs strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success in proposal development for US Government or other donors.
Local implementation experience preferred.
Certification in PMD Pro/Project dPro a plus.
Competency in additional foreign languages preferred.
Benefits
Competitive pay
Excellent benefits package
Company
Winrock International
Winrock International is a development with a focus on social, agricultural and environmental issues.
501-1,000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$47.43MKey Investors
U.S. Department of AgricultureVisa FoundationNational Institute of Food and Agriculture
2022-09-22Grant· $45M
2021-11-11Grant· $0.5M
2021-10-25Grant· $1.25M
Leadership Team
Rodney Ferguson
President and CEO
Mike Myers
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
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