The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

The Program Manager works closely with Lumos project staff and the Senior Country Manager to organize and coordinate the projects, to provide strategic guidance to teams and project managers in ways that promote Lumos’ commitment to end child institutionalization in Haiti. Lumos is working to end institutionalization as well as provide emergency and family care to children and lasting solutions to ensure their right to have a family and grow in a family environment.
The position provides leadership and management for project staff developing clear and concise action plans for Emergency Care and Family and Community Care teams. It ensures delivery of timely and desired outcomes to close institutions successfully and transition the children to family care and alternative care solutions. It is responsible for successful implementation of the projects and services provided to government and NGO partners to promote and expand deinstitutionalization in Haiti following the strategy laid out in the Performance Implementation Plan (PIP).
The position is based in Port Au Prince with occasional travel to other areas of the country as required by programmatic needs.
Reports to: Senior Country Manager
Number of direct reports: To be confirmed

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
• At least 5 years of program management experience in an NGO environment, with experience managing child rights based education, protection and other development programming
• Post-graduate degree in education, development or other relevant social sciences
• Understanding of DI process and alternative care systems
• Proven ability to manage cross-sector programmes, project/program management techniques and methods
• Self-motivated and results oriented, excellent knowledge of performance evaluation
• Highly numerically articulate with a track record of data manipulation and reporting systems
• Experience in management of finance and budget monitoring and risk management
• Proven ability to motivate and develop others
• Strong oral and written communication skills in French, English and Creole
• Experience of building, leading and developing a team of staff with different backgrounds and expertise
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office
• Outstanding leadership and organisational skills
• Commitment to and understanding of Lumos’s vision, values and principles
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Desirable:
• Prior experience of designing and/or delivering large scale and multidoor funded programmes
• Previous work experience in DI and in the region
• Previous international work experience

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
As a member of the Senior Management Team, contribute to:
• Leadership of Lumos Haiti program team development
• Support the development of an organisational culture of quality that reflects Lumos values, promotes accountability and high performance, encourages a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation, and enables to deliver outstanding results for children
• Help establish, maintain, and improve active, regular and accountable working relationships with key partners and partner organisations
• Support in maintaining timely and necessary service provision to children in line with Lumos principles and policies to end institutionalisation and assure adequate care and support in a family environment
• Support the Haiti Senior Country Manager to reach and maintain quality standards of Lumos and SCI
Strategic Planning
• Provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the program team to ensure deinstitutionalisation is effectively implemented
• Contribute to Lumos Haiti Country Performance Implementation Plan (PIP), Country Annual Reports, , Partnering Strategy, National Advocacy and Comms Strategy and other key strategic planning documents as required
• Contribute to Lumos Operational Systems Strengthening, Child Participation Mainstreaming, MEAL Approach and other transversal programme quality improvement initiatives as required
• Lead and motivate program team and partner organisations to deliver on programme objectives and build a shared culture of accountability
• Ensure strong internal communications with team members and partners
• Ensure clear processes in place for tracking and reporting on progress against deliverables, working with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) staff
• Lead on internal and external program/project evaluations as necessary and ensure the execution of baseline, periodic, and final evaluations as necessary in coordination with Senior Country Manager

Programme delivery and technical harmonisation
• Lead operational planning for the delivery of activities across projects, seeking to ensure harmonisation in approach where this achieves operational efficiencies
• With the Senior Country Manager, ensure the design and development of DI projects of a high quality that contribute to the PIP, informed by child participation and partner contributions
• Ensure managerial oversight to the achievement of technical harmonisation in programme approaches for targeting, data management and monitoring
• Conduct internal planning and progress review meetings and ensure regular progress monitoring is taking place at different levels
• Oversee knowledge sharing and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programme implementation
• Maintain clear overview of technical assistance requirements and ensure appropriate levels of technical support are provided
• Ensure that program team is appropriately staffed, including the appropriate combination of expertise across technical and operational areas
• Manage relationship with any contracted service providers and ensure KPIs are regularly monitored and reviewed through agreed performance management structure
• Conduct regular field monitoring of activities, maintain a continuous presence in the field and ensure DI programs are implemented in responsive ways to communities and children in line with quality framework, Lumos principles, values, compliance procedures and strategic plans.
• Conduct regular training and capacity building for program team and partner organisation in DI methodologies
Budget management and compliance
• Ensure that all program team projects progress in accordance with donors and Lumos compliance requirements, within time and on budget.
• Oversee program and projects’ budgets, ensuring that expenditures are in line with agreed budgets. Budget holding responsibilities to be determined in line with Lumos/Save the Children scheme of delegation.
• Monitor expenditure, forecasting and financial performance.
• Ensure timely preparation and submission of reports to donors, ensuring full review by internal stakeholders and partners as required.
• Identify and effectively manage all key risks related to the programme, in particular ensuring that anti-fraud and anti-corruption policies and procedures are followed to minimise risks in delivery of project outcomes.

Line & Partner management
• To directly line manage the program team and any short term technical consultants where required, and to provide managerial oversight to partners and counterparts
• Maintain a coherent communication structure for the program team in line with programme needs and priorities
• Ensure that the Program team engages in mutual assessment, feedback and learning with partners and assist partners to engage in knowledge building, advocacy and organisational strengthening in line with SCI Partnering Principles
General
• Ensure that the plans for any and all children consider first and foremost their best interest, safety and welfare.
• Comply with Lumos and Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures
• Oversee specific work in respect of children with disabilities and children at risk of abandonment
• Any other activities commensurate with the level of the post of assigned by the Senior Country Manager.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Lumos/Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Lumos, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

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