The Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health team, in the Global Development division focuses on addressing maternal and newborn mortality, and helping children thrive. Our work spans the spectrum from upstream research (collaborating with the MNCH Discovery & Tools team in GH) to implementation research, to supporting scale (collaborating with Country Offices, Global Delivery Program, and PAC).
MNCH has an opening for a Senior Program Manager position. This role supports strategic, operational, and programmatic aspects of the MNCH team, including oversight of strategic planning, annual planning and budgeting, pipeline and portfolio management, body of work reviews and updates, and coordination of our IPP and monthly concept reviews. This role will also help strengthen programmatic aspects of our work, including strengthening systems for knowledge management; supporting internal engagement across PSTs and country offices; and shaping efforts to strengthen the capacity of grantees and partners in-country.
- Lead a team of Program Coordinators / Senior Program Coordinators, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, mentoring, and supporting professional development
- Provide operational and process leadership – including assisting in team culture efforts; working with POs and business team to identify and solve process and operational inefficiencies; leading roll-out of new foundation tools (e.g., INVEST);
- Lead efforts to develop initiative- and BoW- level financial targets, and to report against those targets
- Lead IPP and monthly concept review meetings for MNCH
- Work with FP&A colleagues to monitor grant and contract pipeline, to produce accurate forecasts – requiring close liaison with SPM colleagues in other teams
- Partner with MNCH DDSPM on strategic planning and annual planning
- Provide mentorship to programmatic staff on structuring complex program investments – providing strategic thinking on shared BoWs, and on how to structure and finance investments
- Lead efforts to strengthen MNCH engagement with partners – supporting efforts to identity and strengthen capacity of local in-country partners
- Provide thought partnership to support the development of aligned rhythm of the business in the FP-MNCH-Nutrition cluster
- Lead Performance Partnership processes for team
- Support efforts to gather operational and programmatic insights from active and recently closed-out investments, and translate these into actionable recommendations for the MNCH team
We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment in which they thrive, will do phenomenal things.
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Strong portfolio and people/team management skills.
- Proven complex project management skills and a successful track record of leading or running multiple projects simultaneously.
- Program management of complex strategy development, execution planning and business process redesign projects.
- A preference for rigor, purpose driven measurement and cost effective use of resources.
- Ability to act independently to figure out methods and procedures on assignments.
- Ability to build structures and develop frameworks to increase clarity and transparency of decisions, trade-offs and impact on financial and organizational resources.
- Ability to effectively alternate between thinking strategically and executing at high quality.
- Financial acumen plus budget development, financial analysis and operational management skills.