Program Manager

Position Title: Program Manager

Job Location: Kabul City: Kabul Start Date: Close Date: 09 February, 2023 Status: Nationality: Afghan Organization: WYFAO Category: General Years of Experience: Minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role, Employment Type: Full Time Salary: As Per Organization Salary Scale Contract Duration: Open Ended Vacancy Number: 042 Gender: Male No. Of Jobs: 1 Education: Master’s degree in Public Administration, Public Health, Business administration, or equivalent Contract Extension: Possible

About Women And Youth Future Assist Organization

Women & Youth Future Assist (WYFAO) is a non-profiting, non–governmental and non–political organization that is mainly involved in humanitarian

and developmental activities and serves the people in need. WYFAO was founded back in 2016 by a group of young Afghan professionals with high

spirit of helping and shaping lives in Afghanistan. WYFAO was established to play a prominent role in addressing the actual needs of poor people and

enable all Afghans speak for their rights and have an enabling environment for their development and prosperity.

Job Description

Technical Duties:

• Planning and designing the programme and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
• Defining the programme's governance arrangements
• Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical, and specialist standards
• Facilitating the appointment of individuals to project teams
• Ensuring the delivery of new products or services from projects is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan and programme governance arrangements
• Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme's individual projects
• Working with the finance and operation departments for the preparation of budget or equivalent on the transition to the new projects.
• Initiating extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the programme are identified or issues aris
  
  

Managerial Tasks

• Daily program management throughout the program life cycle;
• Managing third party contributions to the programme
• Managing communication with all stakeholders
• Managing the programme's budget on behalf of the WYFAO, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the programme progresses
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
• Managing risks to the programme's successful outcome
• Managing the program’s budget;
• Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measurements;
• Managing and utilizing resources across projects;
• Managing stakeholders’ communication;
• Managing the main program documentations such as the program initiation document.
• Any other related task that assigned by the director
  
  

Coordination

• Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects
• Decide on suitable strategies and objectives
• Coordinate cross-project activities
• Assume responsibility for the program’s people and vendors
• Prepare reports for program General Director
• Coordinating the projects and their interdependencies
  
  

Job Requirements

Working Experience and skills

• Five years of Proven experience as a Program Manager or other managerial position with NGOs, UN, UN funded Projects, or similar
• Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and methods
• Excellent Knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; working knowledge of program/project management software (Basecamp, MS Project, etc.) is a strong advantage
• Outstanding leadership and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving ability
  
  

Education

Master’s degree in Public Administration, Public Health, Business administration, or equivalent

Language Requirements

Fluency in Pashto and Dari; Strong working knowledge of English is highly required

PSEA Aplicable

(Women and Youth Future Assist Organization) has a zero tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of beneficiaries. Protection from Sexual

Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of

PSEA, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours). Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential

requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause.

Submission Guideline

Please submit CVs and Cover Letters outlining why you are interested in the position and how your skills and experience match the skills,

qualifications, and competencies required for this position. Applicants who meet the qualification and requirements for the mentioned position will be selected on a rolling basis, with the last date for applications being 09 February, 2023, midnight.

Submission Email

[email protected] / cc: [email protected]