Manager, Program Development and Management

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Associate Director of Program Development and Management (PDM) in the Asia-Pacific Office (APO), the Manager, Program Development and Management will provide strategic support on program development and management to Habitat for Humanity International country offices in the Asia-Pacific region to ensure that programs and projects pursued by country offices are aligned with the country office strategic priorities and based on program quality and effectiveness standards. The role will focus on supporting the country offices (COs) in : (a) the review and strengthening of their strategies to ensure these are logical, coherent, feasible, desirable, and scalable; and (b) monitoring the implementation of these strategies, helping ensure they are on-track and have the appropriate capacities and technical support from APO Subject Matter Experts (SME) as identified by the CO’s plans. Furthermore, the role holder will manage the development or optimization of program and project design and management systems, processes, templates and tools in the region and their implementation in Country Offices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

A. Strategy Development Support

• Together with the Lead for Strategy and Governance and Associate Director of PDM in the APO, guide country offices in the development of their strategies, ensuring alignment to Habitat’s regional strategic frameworks and program initiatives.
• If needed and upon country office and APO agreement, support country offices :

1). with the development of their external and internal analysis to inform their program priorities, and / or

2). in the development of capacity requirements and implementation plans, helping ensure deliverability of strategy and targets.

B. Strategy Execution Support

1. monitor Country Office’s Annual Operating and program capacity strengthening plans.

2. conduct annual review of country office’s strategic performance and support country office review their strategic assumptions, and

3. analyze Country Office’s program quality and effectiveness data as needed for Country Office and AP senior management decision making.

o Participate in Global Foundations, Organizations, and Institutions (GFOI) and / or AP Resource Development (APRD) - led Go / No-Gos to ensure funding opportunities pursued align with their strategic program priorities.

o During proposal / CN development, provide quality assurance review and recommendations together with other APO SMEs, ensuring also cohesion of AP programmatic recommendations.

C. Support Regional Initiatives on Program Quality and Systems Strengthening

Minimum Requirements

Education

Years of Related Experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Child and Adult Safeguarding : HFHI recognizes that building and sustaining a safe organization requires commitment to children, families who partner with Habitat, community members, partners and our colleagues. Managers at all levels shall commit to reinforcing HFHI’s responsibility to create and maintain operational, programmatic and workplace environments that are safe, inclusive and healthy for children, at-risk adults in communities where we operate, and our staff and volunteers by referencing and acknowledging the role of other HFHI policies.