Program Manager IINew!

• Lead, manage and implement all activities throughout the project cycle, including start-up, implementation, monitoring, learning, and close-out, ensuring quality delivery in accordance with CRS program quality standards, donor requirements, and best practices. Ensure project staff and partners effectively utilize approved systems, tools, and processes. Work closely with partner leadership and technical teams to support partner-led implementation, jointly address challenges, and ensure effective coordination throughout project delivery.
• Foster and maintain collaborative relationships with faith-based health institutions, church structures, government entities, private sector actors, and other stakeholders to support project objectives and strengthen health system outcomes.
• Lead the development, implementation, and coordination of community health financing and other innovative approaches that promote sustainable access to quality health services and increased community ownership.
• Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships that contribute to project goals, strengthen local leadership, leverage resources, expertise, and opportunities for improved health outcomes. Support local partners to develop strategic relationships that enhance their influence, credibility, sustainability, and leadership within the health financing ecosystem.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with project stakeholders, ensuring effective communication, coordination, joint planning, and alignment of project activities. Facilitate transparent dialogue, collaborative problem-solving, and shared decision-making to foster trust, mutual accountability, and effective partnership performance.
• Support project design, business development, and proposal development efforts related to health systems strengthening, health programming, and institutional capacity strengthening.
• Strengthen and manage partnerships using CRS partnership principles, tools, and approaches, ensuring mutual accountability, collaboration, and long-term impact. Maintain regular engagement with partner leadership and staff, proactively address partnership challenges, facilitate joint planning and reflection processes, and support implementation of agreed Partnership Capacity Strengthening (PCS) priorities.
• Coordinate and monitor financial and material resources relevant to project needs, through planning and oversight to ensure efficient use of project resources.
• Supervise, coach, and mentor project staff, fostering professional growth, high performance, teamwork, and commitment to CRS values and program quality standards.
• Represent CRS in technical working groups, stakeholder forums, learning events, and coordination meetings at national and sub-national levels, promoting project visibility, collaboration, and influence
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of high-quality technical, financial, and donor reports, while documenting lessons learned, best practices, and project achievements.
• Ensure the integration of safeguarding, accountability, gender, localization, and locally led development approaches across all project activities and partnerships.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant university degree in a related field
• Demonstrated experience in a similar role with an international NGO
• Strong written and spoken English required

Skills & Competencies:

• MEAL skills and experience required.
• Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.
• Good experience in project grants management, including project design, preferably for grants from multiple public donors, including USG, UN and other relevant donors
• Demonstrated ability to write high-quality technical proposals.
• Experience engaging with partner organizations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to make sound judgment and decisions and offer innovative solutions
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship.
• Good presentation and facilitation skills
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to write reports
• CRS Country Representative, Head of Programs, Head of Operations, Uganda-based technical experts for MEAL, Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion (GYSI) and Partner Capacity Strengthening (PCS), Technical Health team, Regional and Headquarters technical staff.