RISE program Manager

JOB OPPORTUNITY AT CRS/RWANDA Job Title: RISE Program Manager Department: Programming Band: 10 Reports to: Country Manager Location: Rwanda (Kigali) About CRS Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. Job Summary: You will manage and provide technical oversight of the development and implementation of the Country Program (CP) Secondary Education programming for a multiyear project. You will ensure effective systems and processes are in place that support high-quality programming advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work in serving the poor and vulnerable. Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that the CP delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of its Secondary Education programming in keeping with stringent donor and Government of Rwanda standards. Roles and Key Responsibilities: Lead management, guidance, and technical oversight of a proposed new Secondary Education for Out of School youth project throughout the project cycle to ensure project design, start-up, implementation and close-out are in line with CRS quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices. Lead activities required for ensuring the financial, material and human resources for the quality implementation of the project in Rwanda. Conduct periodic budget reviews and follow-up with partners on timely submission of financial reports to facilitate proper tracking of resource use. Ensure timely and appropriate project expenditures in line with financial plans and efficient use and stewardship of project material sources. Ensure learning properly accompanies project activities throughout the project cycle. Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities following MEAL Policy. Proactively identify issues, report them to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules. Facilitate the dissemination of promising practices and lessons learned to contribute to the agency knowledge management agenda. Ensure integration of innovations and best practices. Effectively manage talent for Secondary Education project and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance management for direct reports. Engage and strengthen partnerships relevant to the Project, applying appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools, and approaches. Represent the project with donors, INGO working groups, UN, relevant local partners and relevant local government and community actors advancing youth secondary education. Overs