Program Manager at Centre for Social Cohesion Peace and Empowerment (CENSCOPE)

Key Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership, coordination, and people-management skills.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong analytical, report-writing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership, coordination, and management of humanitarian programs in line with CENSCOPE strategy and donor requirements.
• Ensure effective planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities.
• Manage program budgets, work plans, and timelines, ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Lead and supervise program staff, fostering teamwork, capacity building, and performance management.
• Ensure compliance with donor guidelines, organizational policies, and humanitarian core standards.
• Coordinate with donors, government counterparts, UN agencies, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Identify risks, challenges, and opportunities, and propose adaptive management solutions.
• Contribute to proposal development, needs assessments, and strategic planning.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, International Development, Social Sciences, or a related field (Master’s degree is an advantage).
• Minimum of 5–8 years’ relevant experience, with at least 3 years in a project or program management role within humanitarian settings.
• Strong knowledge donor compliance, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
• Willingness to travel to field locations 
• Ability to work independently with minimal or no supervision.
• Excellent knowledge of the humanitarian principles and practices
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Confidentiality, integrity, and a sense of conflict-of-interest prevention.

IMPORTANT NOTE

• CENSCOPE operates in an equal opportunity environment and has policies that actively encourages inclusion and diversity, 
• CENSCOPE has zero tolerance for Sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the organization reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the stated deadline once a suitable candidate is identified.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Female candidates are encouraged to apply
• CENSCOPE does not charge any fee to facilitate any recruitment process.