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Job Description:

The Program Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, coordination, quality implementation, and compliance of the GFFO and BMZ-funded integrated emergency and resilience projects in East Darfur, South Darfur, and Blue Nile.

Reporting to the Zonal Operations Manager and receiving technical support from relevant Technical Advisors, the position provides strategic oversight of Protection, Health, Nutrition, WASH, and Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) and FSL interventions delivered through World Vision and implementing partners.

The Program Manager ensures timely delivery of project objectives, donor compliance, effective budget management, quality reporting, coordination with government and humanitarian stakeholders, and strong leadership of project teams to achieve measurable humanitarian outcomes

Key Job Responsibilities

(a) Grant Management, Compliance and Reporting (GFFO & BMZ)

• Lead overall implementation of the integrated GFFO and BMZ programme across East Darfur, South Darfur and Blue Nile State
• Promote strong collaboration and information sharing across GFFO, BMZ and other related grants to maximize programme integration, efficiency and impact
• Maintain strong working relationships with World Vision Germany and ensure they receive regular programme updates, success stories, implementation highlights and early notification of any issues that may affect project delivery.
• Maintain regular and proactive communication with the WV Regional Office and GFFO and BMZ focal points, providing timely updates on programme implementation, emerging risks, key achievements and required management actions.
• Lead the preparation and submission of high-quality donor reports, briefing notes, presentations and information requests, ensuring accuracy, consistency and compliance with GFFO and BMZ requirements.
• Conduct regular field monitoring visits across project locations to verify implementation quality, identify bottlenecks, ensure accountability to affected populations and provide timely technical support to field teams
• Provide strategic oversight of Protection, Health, Nutrition, WASH, FSL and MPCA interventions.
• Monitor implementation progress and address bottlenecks through adaptive management

(b) Protection, Safeguarding and Capacity Strengthening

• Lead organizational capacity strengthening in Protection and Safeguarding
• Provide technical guidance on safeguarding standards and survivor-centred programming.
• Develop and facilitate safeguarding and protection training for programme staff and partners.
• Strengthen safeguarding risk management, reporting pathways and accountability mechanisms
• Ensure safeguarding actions comply with World Vision policies and international standards.
• Ensure integration of protection mainstreaming, safeguarding, AAP, gender, disability inclusion and humanitarian principles throughout implementation.

(c) Programme Quality, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL)

• Ensure project implementation complies with GFFO and BMZ donor requirements, World Vision policies and humanitarian standards.
• Develop and oversee Detailed Implementation Plans (DIPs), procurement plans, work plans, ITTs, cash forecasts and MEAL plans
• Oversee baseline studies, needs assessments, monitoring visits, evaluations and learning activities
• Monitor project indicators and ensure data quality.
• Promote evidence-based programme improvement through learning and adaptive management.
• Ensure proper documentation, filing and knowledge management.
• Capture best practices, lessons learned and success stories.

(d) Reporting, Compliance and Donor Accountability

• Maintain high donor satisfaction through proactive communication, submission of high-quality reports on time, regular field engagement, positive stakeholder feedback and production of at least two quality case studies or success stories per quarter that demonstrate programme impact, working closely with Communications and MEAL teams.
• Monitor project performance against logframe indicators and targets.
• Coordinate with MEAL teams to monitor indicators, analyse performance data and recommend improvements.
• Respond promptly to donor information requests and recommendations.

(e) Financial Management, Resource Stewardship and Compliance

• Monitor project budgets, expenditures and burn rates.
• Forecast project expenditure and recommend budget realignments where necessary.
• Ensure procurement, logistics and finance processes comply with donor regulations and World Vision policies.
• Review partner financial performance and support grant compliance

(f) Coordination, Representation and Partnerships

• Represent World Vision in coordination meetings, technical working groups, donor engagements and humanitarian forums
• Promote strong collaboration and information sharing across GFFO, BMZ and other related grants to maximize programme integration, efficiency and impact.
• Coordinate with government authorities, UN agencies, clusters and implementing partners
• Strengthen partnerships through regular coordination meetings and joint monitoring.
• Support donor field visits and external reviews.

(g) Team Leadership and Capacity Strengthening

• Provide leadership, supervision and performance management to Project Coordinators and project staff
• Build staff capacity in project management, donor compliance, reporting, safeguarding and humanitarian programming.
• Promote teamwork, collaboration and cross-sector integration between technical teams
• Support recruitment, onboarding and performance appraisal processes.

Required Education, Knowledge, Professional Experience for the Role

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, International Development, Humanitarian Studies, Law, Social Work, Development Studies or another relevant discipline.

• A Master's degree is an added advantage
• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible humanitarian programming experience.
• At least 5 years managing large donor-funded projects (preferably UNHCR, GFFO, BMZ, ADH).
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-location programmes.
• Experience supervising multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-sector emergency projects involving Health, Nutrition, WASH, Protection and/or Cash Assistance.
• Experience in protection programming within humanitarian settings.
• Experience working with government institutions, UN agencies and national NGOs.
• Promote community-based protection approaches.
• Ensure protection risks are identified, monitored, and addressed through coordinated interventions.
• Strengthen accountability to affected populations through effective complaint and feedback mechanisms.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

• The job requires regular travel to project sites in Darfur and Blue Nile States
• Staff is required to be physically fit.
• Proficiency in the English language; Arabic is an added advantage

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