BHA Program Manager, West and Central Darfur

Role & Responsibilities

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure the programmatic and financial integrity of the WR Sudan BHA program, titled “Integrated Humanitarian Emergency Response: Health, Nutrition, WASH, Food Assistance, Agriculture, and Protection Program in West and Central Darfur.”
• Manage the project’s operational, financial, and day-to-day administrative priorities.
• Lead the replanning and budgeting processes.
• Approve project cash flow, detailed implementation plans, and the annual WR planning process, subject to Country Director approval.
• Ensure compliance with USAID/BHA operational policies and regulations, and that project deliverables meet the project ITT.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with USAID, implementing partners, UN agencies, and line ministries to maximize resource use and avoid duplication of effort.
• Review financial and logistical information periodically to ensure resources for project implementation are available, and work with finance and project staff to develop and track budgets, ensuring the project is implemented within budget and on time.
• Ensure budget projections, spending, and reporting comply with donor and WR requirements, and coordinate programmatic and budget revisions.
• Regularly review the Budget Variance Report (BVR) and take action as necessary, informing WR leadership of urgent matters requiring decisions.
• Mentor, support, supervise, and manage a team of highly qualified staff, ensuring their efforts align with timely project execution.
• Collaborate with the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team to develop strong M&E frameworks for effective data tracking to ensure project activities are implemented on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
• Ensure staff have annual performance plans and conduct performance evaluations.
• Participate in the recruitment of project personnel and provide appropriate onboarding.
• Ensure field activities adhere to World Relief’s monitoring and evaluation system and donor requirements.
• Work closely with World Relief’s security management to ensure the safety and security of field teams, including disseminating appropriate security information and adhering to staff safety guidelines.
• Travel extensively to field sites (approximately 50% of the time) to supervise project progress.
• Compile and submit project reports, including monthly, semi-annual, and annual reports, to the Programs Director and Program Officer for review before submission to the donor.
• Produce various publications related to the project and compile project lessons learned.
• Establish strong working relationship with other department including sector advisors, risk and compliance director, Program Design and Quality assurance, finance and logistics. 
• Regularly monitor project risks and regularly update the leadership. 
• Perform other duties as assigned by the WS Director of Programs and Country Director.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Successful track record of leading USAID or other US Government-funded projects preferred
• Experience overseeing and preparing project start-ups, particularly in complex environments
• Extensive experience and/or technical knowledge in designing, managing projects and activities, particularly related to agriculture, cash program, health, nutrition, WASH or protection sectors.
• Proven experience managing teams in complex environments, with experience managing teams remotely.
• Excellent management and leadership skills: experience working in a supervisory position with a team structure in a multi-national, multi-disciplined, multi-cultural environment and building good and healthy working relations and environment/s.
• Excellent interpersonal and written and oral presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience adapting project implementation and activities to achieve objectives and targets as needed. 
• Commitment to World Relief’s IM philosophy of engagement with the church to positively impact vulnerable people in their communities

Requirements

• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Master’s degree or equivalent in International Development, Rural Development Studies, Agricultural Economics, Public Health or relevant field
• Minimum 10 years of professional work experience managing integrated program with demonstrated senior management experience in managing relevant and complex USAID and funded programs, particularly in complex environments.
• Proven experience in managing complex agriculture, cash programing, health, nutrition, WASH or protection projects.   
• Leadership skills in designing, managing, and implementing, monitoring and evaluation of donor-supported programs as well ability to manage programmatic and financial reporting requirements. 
• Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving program needs. 
• Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID missions, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, UN Bodies and other donors.
• In-depth knowledge of BHA projects, regulations, compliance, and reporting.
• Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines, and intense pressure to perform. 
• Fluency of English is required with excellent oral and written communications skills. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and data collection software. 
• Proven leadership skills building and managing programs, high-level relationships and motivating diverse teams.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across projects, be flexible, and creative and successfully lead an intercultural team in complex development contexts.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in financial planning and management, human resources, procurement and other management support areas/functions.
• Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence.
• Up to 50% domestic and/or international travel required