Program Manager – Stay At Home Jobs

Job Type: Program Manager from home
Location: Arizona work from home
Company: FHI 360

Position Description:

The job of the Program Officer differs depending on the organization’s location. Program Officers in Business Units are largely responsible for worldwide awards, business growth, and administrative aspects of technical inputs and resources. Regional Office Program Officers serve as the primary management support for country-managed programs. Project-based Program Officers are in charge of direct project execution and delivery.

Accountabilities:

• Coordinates project resources (people), plans deliverables, and leads meetings to assist the management team.
• Advanced expertise in a technical domain, as well as understanding of integration with project management.
• Verify that donor criteria, as well as corporate rules and procedures, are met.
• Initial assessment and comments on programmatic reports and annual work plans are provided.
• Oversees the reporting process to ensure that client requirements are met; may aggregate reports for project oversight.
• Participates at external events and represents the project at client/funder meetings.
• Liaison with the client on the entire project, communicating planning and job fulfillment.
• Acts as the project’s point of contact with subawardees and partners.
• Encourage and enable communication between assigned projects and other important internal and external stakeholders, such as various country or headquarters units (HQ).
• Watches and acts on subawardee/partner deliverables.
• Monitors project risks and alerts upper management about problems.

Administration of Programs:

• Help projects with knowledge management initiatives document their approaches and achievements.
• In project reporting, it provides context and frame.
• Ensures that the project team’s use of the document management site is suitable.
• Offers operational support, such as writing employment descriptions, participating on staff interview panels, and acting as hiring manager when necessary.
• Performs new recruit orientation to department procedures and administrative processes.
• May liaise with Corporate on data integrity issues relating to HR systems, team finance systems, and other administrative responsibilities delegated by senior project workers.

Assistance for Business Growth and Proposal Management:

• Contribute to the identification of financing opportunities and participate in Business Development and Diversification (BDD) efforts, such as capture work and the formulation and/or assessment of proposal narratives and budgets.
• Leads areas of business development and project design efforts, such as writing a proposal’s management section.
• Design activities, sub-components of a bigger project, or the complete design of some minor prizes may be led.
• Project design tasks and approach to project activities are led, and project-level tasks in several task areas may be led.
• Participates in capture management by selecting partners and drafting team agreements, as well as leading areas of proposal design.
• Supports subaward design and is in charge of subaward monitoring.

Financial Assistance:

• Assist with project start-up, work planning, budget formulation, project reporting, and general problem-solving.
• Continuous programmatic and financial control of assigned projects, including monitoring of spending rates, sub-awards, deliverables, reports, and so on.
• Purchase orders are reviewed or approved in the financial system of record (HQ only).
• Contributes to the budgeting process for the project.
• To understand tracking, reads and interprets budgets.
• Examines and approves expense reports.
• Invoices are reviewed or approved.
• Superior knowledge and skills in project management principles and methods.
• May have or be in the process of obtaining functional content knowledge.
• Strong written and oral communication abilities.
• Good and proven project management abilities.
• The ability to persuade and collaborate with others.
• Capability to analyze and interpret data, detect problems, and create reports.