Program Manager - SomRep

The Program Manager for the SomReP Program will work alongside the Chief of Party to facilitate planning, coordination and management of the donor funded Program “Strengthening livelihoods and self-reliance to prevent displacement” to deliver on-time, on-target and to quality standards for purpose specific interventions. The Program Manager will maintain oversight of the detailed implementing plan, coordinating layering, sequencing and integration of technical approaches into the implementation plans of consortium members and implementing partners.  He/she will backstop SomReP Technical Advisors and Regional Program Coordinators to support consortium and implementing partners to pro-actively identify and address- and if need be- elevate challenges to consortium leadership. He/she will facilitate SomReP technical unit teams to plan and implement technical support, assessment, data-gathering and monitoring field trips and trainings for government, consortium members and implementing partners. The Program Manager will liaise with SomReP North and South RPCs and implementing partners in Somaliland, Puntland, Jubaland and South West States for trip planning, government engagement, security issues, organize cross-learning and share planning.  In close partnership with the Chief of Party, the position-holder will oversee the technical unit’s procurement planning process, including coordinating actions between the technical unit and WVCore, consortium members to develop scopes-of-work, advertise and recruit consultants, cash agents and other services and inputs the program will need to deliver quality programming.

The Program Manager will serve as the focal point for Enterprise Risk Management for the Program, working alongside technical unit, consortium members and implementing partners to proactively identify risk at program, sector and intervention levels, establish control, report incidents of aid diversion or near-misses and support investigations.  He/she will work through partner Program/operational focal points to monitoring consortium member and implementing partners’ delivery of detailed implementation plans, support SomReP finance and M&E teams to mobilize financial reports and partner reports in a timely manner. He/she will develop and manage a database of graduation cohorts, coordinating with SomReP technical advisors to track performance and identify other Program/programs in the Program target locations where they could be linked to receive additional support.  Oversee consortium member and partners’ performance improvement plans, mobilizing SomReP, World Vision local and global resources to strengthen their organizational and technical capacity to deliver graduation programming.  

The Program Manager will liaise with key government stakeholders at federal and member-state levels to coordinate consortium activities.  He/she will participate in cluster coordination mechanisms, map basic service providers in coordination with SomReP technical advisors and facilitate program-supported groups to link to financial-inclusion, social-cohesion actors in targeted areas. The role will identify and document key House Holds and cohort-level achievements and challenges for learning and marketing purposes, developing mini-reports, media content (Facebook, LinkedIn and X posts), learning products to raise awareness of the program and enable program iteration and improvements.

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