Senior Program Manager - Malawi

About the role

The Senior Program Manager will report to the Director of Programs at Imagine Worldwide Malawi. Their role is to manage their assigned implementation service providers (ISPs) to ensure timely execution of all program activities in Malawi, to support Program Managers to conduct data-driven program management, and to support the Director of Programs as required with leadership of the Programs Team and coordination with the other country departments.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Program Manager's responsibilities will include - but will not be limited to - the following:
• Program planning and coordination
• Under the direction and guidance of the Director of Programs, draft and review program plans, budgets, and schedules across all existing sites, and support the expansion to new sites.
• Review, summarize key insights, and investigate issues arising from program reports such as ISP termly progress reports, ISP financial reports, and others.
• Support the sourcing, vetting, selection, and contracting of implementation service providers as guided by the Director of Programs.
• Under the supervision of the Director of Programs, manage school feasibility assessments and school selection to collect accurate data and ensure successful selection of schools.
• Facilitate regular coordination meetings with Program Managers and ISPs to monitor implementation progress, address operational challenges, and ensure consistent delivery of program activities across districts.
• Provide leadership support to the Director of Programs by representing the program in internal coordination meetings and stakeholder engagements when delegated, to ensure continuity in program oversight, decision-making, and coordination.
• Data-driven program implementation:
• Engage regularly with implementation partners to track progress and oversee implementation, including check-in meetings, progress reports, site-visits, and any other relevant activities.
• Collaborate with colleagues from MEAL, Analytics, Logistics, and other relevant teams to improve tools, systems, processes, and methodologies to support implementation and monitoring.
• Review and analyse monitoring data and share actionable insights with relevant stakeholders, i.e. identify successes, flag challenges, and make recommendations about adapting activities and approaches to achieve results.
• Work with the program and research teams to support program assessments, surveys, and impact evaluations.
• Data-driven accountability and learning:
• Lead efforts to maintain and improve data-driven practices for measuring program effectiveness and continuous improvement of all program operations.
• Facilitate cross-partner learning and own the process capturing key lessons and findings to inform evidence-based program design and implementation.
• Oversee implementation of strong accountability and beneficiary / community feedback mechanisms, including quality assurance of established processes.
• Coordinate learning processes and documents, including periodically organizing learning summits for reflections on program performance, dissemination of M&E findings, and driving partnerships and donor engagement.
• Collaborate with communications teams to collect, document, and disseminate impact stories.
• Stakeholder management:
• Coordinate and manage relationships with local community leaders, schools, parents, local education authorities, and other project stakeholders and partners.
• Support dissemination of project processes and outcomes with local and government stakeholders and share any feedback with Imagine's team.
• Ensure effective communications between Imagine, the ISPs and the Ministry, by detailing key activities, challenges, and programmatic needs to achieve program success.
• Represent the work in local meetings and forums relevant to the progress of the project in various sites.
• Capacity building:
• Support the Director of Programs in strengthening program quality by reviewing Program Managers' implementation

Benefits

Additional Information

About Imagine Worldwide All children have immense potential, but hundreds of millions don't have access to the learning they need. Imagine Worldwide believes that every child should be empowered with the basic right to literacy and numeracy. We provide an innovative education technology solution and implementation model to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis using the onebillion application and various toolkits and systems to support implementation. Our model is massively scalable, evidence-based, and can deliver foundational learning to millions of the most marginalized children. Imagine Worldwide partners with governments, organizations, and communities to provide child-directed, tablet-based learning that is accessible, effective, and affordable. We are incorporated in California (United States) as a nonprofit organization, but operate in Sub-Saharan Africa through locally-registered entities in Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. Learn more on our website .

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