Program Manager

Job Summary / Responsibilities:

Program Manager will be based in Colombo and will work under the direct supervision of Technical Advisor, LINKAGES Sri Lanka, based in FHI 360 in India. S/he will assist the Technical Advisor in developing annual work plan and progress reports for submission to USAID and to undertake other important documentation. S/he will play a major role in overseeing local procurements and in the day-to-day coordination with local partner/s and consultants to ensure timely execution of the different technical assistance activities in Sri Lanka.

Key Responsibilities

• Support in the day-to-day operations of the project including preparing annual/monthly work plans.
• Support in procurement of external services, vendors and consultants as per requirement of the project.
• Ensure monitoring of partner scope of work and budget spends, oversee implementation, ensure quality of program delivery / deliverables, ensure timely and accurate reporting and fund flow management;
• Support the project team in design, implementation and monitoring of sub-contracts including tracking deliverables, maintaining a central repository of all deliverables.
• Support in carrying-out periodic assessment using standard tools e.g. Integrated Technical Organizational Capacity Assessment (ITOCA) and Action Planning tools, Organisation Performance Index tools etc.
• Active participation in building capacity on organization development (OD) and advocacy of the community champions and KP representatives.
• Attend key trainings and capacity building activities of the local sub-grantees and ensure that all procurement requirements for organizing the training as per FHI 360 requirements are met.
• Support on all relevant documentation including donor reporting.
• Attend all key stakeholder meetings including meetings with sub-awardees and donor planning and review meetings.
• Any other business as assigned by the Project Director / FHI 360 Country Director.