Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC) creates a future of hope for children, families, and communities by helping them develop the skills and resources to overcome poverty and pursue justice.

For more than 50 years, we have followed the example of Christ by serving the poor regardless of their faith, cultural, and ethnic background. Headquartered in Markham, Canada, CCFC currently has thousands of children receiving sponsorship and we are involved in child centered community programs through 7 program countries in Africa, South America and South Asia.

Description Of Job

We have a vacancy for a Program Manager in Tamale. The Program Manager (PM) is CCFC’s manager in the country office, focusing on assisting the Country Director in managing program partners in an assigned geographic area to plan, implement, monitor, train and evaluate project activities supported by CCFC. The Program Manager also provides support to the Grants Manager in acquiring and managing grants and related projects from both local and international development funding agencies.

Scope of the Position:
The Program Manager is accountable for the overall leadership and implementation of programs in the country office and for achievement of program goals and objectives including meeting standards, and mitigating known risk including but not limited to the following:

•  Leading the development of policies, strategies and operational plans for programs and projects.
•  Visiting programs and projects regularly for the purpose of ensuring plan implementation, and to monitor program implementation, sponsorship and financial activities. Ensure compliance with CCFC and donor policies, procedures and guidelines to support the quality assurance and quality control initiatives. Undertake constructive intervention when necessary.
•  Directing and providing guidance to partners in participatory planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes for program/project related activities to ensure
•  Leading the facilitation of community mobilization and capacity building efforts of CCFC Country Office partners and the communities served through networking, advocacy and awareness rising.
•  Managing and/or conducting capacity-building training for partners, clients and CCFC staff.
•  Conducting analysis and providing relevant reports on areas such as global/Country priorities and CCFC’s role in a timely manner.
•  Communicating, networking and building effective working relationships with partner staff, development funding agencies, representatives of other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and appropriate government officers in order to help further the goals of the programs/projects. Maintain collaborative relationships primarily with key staff in Toronto and other Country Offices.

Qualification Required & Experience

•  Degree in a relevant development field; post-graduate degree an asset
•  Minimum seven years work experience in the development field with at least two years in a leadership role
•  Minimum two years’ experience building relationships with development agencies, funding agencies and writing successful concept papers, grant proposals and donor reports
•  Program/project planning, management, monitoring and evaluation experience, including budgeting and reporting
•  Professional expertise in one or more of CCFC’s key sectors: micro-enterprise development (MED), education, health, and/or water and sanitation; advocacy an asset
•  Experience in practicing Results Based Management (RBM) and in using Participatory Development Approach (PDA) tools. Experience in Logical Framework Analysis (LFA) is an asset
•  Excellent skills in group facilitation, training, capacity-building and community mobilization
•  Excellent interpersonal communications, relationship-building, conflict management and networking skills, especially when developing / maintaining contacts and influencing development and funding agencies.
•  Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including public speaking, networking and presentation skills; ability to speak and write in English and relevant local language(s)
•  Strong computer skills including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and internet; intermediate MS Project
•  Commitment to CCFC's Vision, Mission and Values

Attributes:

•  Results-oriented, proactive, deadline-driven, self-starter
•  Well-organized and detail-oriented
•  Good organizational skills; attention to detail
•  Cross-cultural sensitivity and experience
•  Works effectively independently and in a team setting.

Language Skills:

•  Excellent oral and written English is required. Fluency in some of the local language(s) in the communities we serve would be an asset.

Travel:

•  Extensive local travel required.

How To Apply For The Job

If you have the passion and expertise in working in CCFC Ghana country office to achieve the visions of CCFC, submit: (1) cover letter, (2) current resume, (3) salary expectation to:

program-manager@ccfcanada.ca

Closing Date: 25th November, 2012

Applications will be received until position is filled.

For more information about Christian Children's Fund of Canada, visit our website www.ccfcanada.ca