Program Director - Kolkata, India - Trickle

Description

Position Overview

Reporting to the Asia Regional Director, the Program Director will be responsible for ensuring quality program development and implementation, demonstrating measurable results and impact, ensuring proper technical and managerial capacity at the project level to implement projects, achieve programmatic results outlined in proposals and projects and ensuring budget are effectively and directly tied to each project. S/he is also supposed to make active collaboration with global technical team at HQ. S/he will be an experienced, motivated, and value driven professional who will lead a team of Program Managers/Leads to ensure high quality and timely program design and implementation.The Program Director line manages members of the Asia Regional Program Team specifically project managers. S/he will demonstrate the highest levels of accountability, demonstrating his/her leadership skills and capacities while fostering team innovation, accountability, effective communication and cohesion.S/he will lead by example, and will have demonstrated programming expertise in livelihoods, women's empowerment, partnership and capacity building approaches, as well as monitoring, evaluation and learning.The Program Director will be a senior member of a dynamic team that places strong emphasis on building a strong and cohesive program team.S/he will also be responsible for nurturing effective partnerships to contribute to Trickle Up's mission. The Program Director will provide both technical and operational support, managing program operations that support interventions with strategic partners.

The Program Director will be a key member of the global Trickle Up Program Director team and will lead on behalf of the Trickle UP Asia team on global program priorities and task forces, and/or designate within the team as appropriate.

PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS:

Team Management:

·Ensure adoption of effective team management approaches across the organization, building synergies and talents across teams and individuals to ensure high quality achievements and results.

·Strengthen team capacity and team cohesion.

·Assume line management of program management and close collaboration with MERL teams in India and globally during design and implementation of projects in India.

·Ensure that team members bring their individual skills, expertise and competencies to form a cohesive and supportive team to achieve TU's goals and objectives in an accountable manner.

·Demonstrate and instill value driven individual and team approaches to ensure an optimal, harmonious and inspiring work environment.

·Ensure all team members have performance objectives, regular performance reviews and individual capacity building plans developed as needed to support talent development.

Program Design:

·Lead the development of innovative, effective programs that enable people to graduate out of ultra-poverty contribute to the sector's knowledge base and partnership capacities.

Budget Management

Staff Management

Partner Management

Program Management & facilitation

Coordination and Representation:

·Maintain a strong understanding of the top relationships in the organization portfolio in order to represent the organization and partnership strategies to internal and external stakeholders.

Research and Learning:

·Lead the development, in close collaboration with M & E Team, of research objectives and partnerships to produce rigorous, actionable research for Trickle Up and strategic partners in line with global priorities and relevant to the Asia context..

Member of senior leadership team of Trickle Up Asia:

Key Relationships:

Required qualifications and core competencies:

Academic :

Working Experience:

·Demonstrated - years management experience at field level working with field based staff to ensure timely and quality program implementation of livelihood program in an objective to alleviate poverty for international NGO ; out of which candidate should have at least more than 5 years' experience of leading a team. Experience in graduation approach and economic inclusion will get extra advantage.

·Overall experience managing livelihood and/or gender focused programs working in partnership with local NGOs and/or CBOs.

·Experience working in partnership with government and state/national level entities NRLM)

·Proven experience of handling projects involving linkages with industries, NGOs, National/State/ local organizations and government;

·Proven experience of handling indigenous peoples interventions in livelihood

·Any experience in terms of resource mobilisation would highly desirable.

Others:

·Deep commitment to Trickle Up's core values and ability to model those values in relationships with colleagues and partners.

·A strategic thinker contributing to the organisations long term vision and ability to innovate and adapt to changing scenario.

·Ability to engage with different stakeholders including donors, governments and partner organisation.

·Understanding of global trends, best practices

·Fluency in English and Hindi with excellent verbal and writing skills. Knowing any regional languages as Bengali, Odia or vernacular languages will be preferred.

·Prior experience working in teams in a leadership role.

·Experience with training highly desirable.

·Ability to travel frequently within the country and outside (up to % of the time).

·Ability to prioritize, organize and carry out multiple tasks efficiently under pressure and with little supervision; ability to accept supervision.

Location: Kolkata, West Bengal with frequent travel to the project areas.

Salary and Benefits:

Trickle UP offers a competitive salary and benefits for this full-time position. The successful applicant will join a dynamic, passionate, multicultural team deeply committed to the alleviation of extreme poverty. Trickle Up promotes a collegial, high-performing organizational culture in which staff communicate clearly and openly, and are reflective, innovative, and mutually accountable.

To Apply:

•To be considered, all candidates must fulfill the above prerequisites, provide a complete CV, covering letter referencing the required functions, skills and experience, and a writing sample, preferably a sole authored piece related to research or evaluation. Incomplete application will not be accepted.

•To submit your application, go to the Web Link given below and click on " Apply for this Position" button at the bottom of the page, and follow the instructions.

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Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until May, 4. We are sorry that we are unable to entertain phone calls related to this posting.

Trickle Up is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workforce and extend equal opportunity to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by law.