Programme Manager - NGO

Programme Manager

Job Description

- The position involves managing the operationalisation of work across different areas (research, communications and learning and development).

- The Programme Manager will be responsible for working with the Director on overall management of teams based in the Delhi office as well as the field teams working in different states where projects may be running.

- The work will also require co-ordinating with clients as well as external partners such as various government officials, multilateral agencies etc.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Programme Coordination

- Engagement with Research Team: Working with the research team members in gaining access to information from the states on critical policy changes and decisions for shaping the current and prospective research designs.

- Coordinating, monitoring and supervising implementation of projects across all activities: communications, learning and development and research across states where working.

- Team Management: Manage the field team based out of 5 states remotely on daily/weekly basis, define individual work plan and ensure the team is meeting the quarterly/annual targets.

Engagement with Communications team:

- Working with the communications team to develop dissemination and advocacy strategies in the state.

- Coordinating the roll out of activities as per strategies prepared by the communications team and overall supervision of the dissemination work at state, district and block levels.

- Engagement with Learning and Development team: Assisting the Learning and Development team in managing operationalisation of the learning and development work in the states.

Networking

1. Networking with key government and non-government stakeholders in the states for establishing strategic partnerships for AI's research, communication, dissemination, external facing capacity building work and solution-oriented pilot programmes in those states.

HR Management

Recruitment:

- Assisting various teams with recruitment. Coordinating all recruitment related activities from advertising, interviews to drawing final contracts.

- Supervising induction process.

Appraisals:

- Ensuring timely and fair execution of appraisals. This includes drafting/updating appraisal policy

- Managing and maintaining work culture;

- Payroll management.

- Donor Management

- Working with the Director and Administrative Associate in preparing statements of accounts to be submitted to the donors as per their requirements.

- Assisting the Director in drafting project budgets to be submitted to the prospective donors.

- Assisting the Director in preparing AI's annual budget.

- Preparation of AI's monthly and annual statements of expenditure along with Administrative Associate.

- Coordinating with the CPR Accounts Department for accounts related issues along with Administrative Associate.

Desired Qualities:

- Minimum Master's degree

- Past experience of working with governments and managing external stakeholders

- Complete Fluency in both written and verbal Hindi and English

- At least 5-10 years of work experience managing large teams

- Prior experience of stakeholder and donor management.

- Entrepreneurial mindset and a can-do attitude (having a strong bent towards action)

- Operational style suited to working in a small organization where teamwork, resourcefulness and entrepreneurial

- Spirit is highly valued

- Intent and drive to make large-scale impact

- Clarity of purpose and intent of working in the public finance space

- Attention to detail and diligence