Program Manager, LME at Co-Impact

Where You Fit

• Reporting to the Director for Learning Measurement & Evaluation (LME), as a key team member you will support the program team across multiple areas, including but not limited to assisting Co-Impact’s account leads in understanding and supporting LME with program partners (grantees), working directly with selected partners in developing LME components during the design phase of their work, managing reporting requirements across existing grants, collating and communicating key lessons learned across a range of partners, themes and geographic areas, and supporting Co-Impact’s organizational learning practices.
• You will have a mix of project-management, team coordination, measurement, data and lesson synthesis, and administrative responsibilities. You will be asked to support account leads across different grants and may be the team point person for critical cross-cutting issues.
• You will need to demonstrate excellent organizational ability, strong analytical skills and strategic instincts, robust problem-solving skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a high level of personal initiative, and a kind and collaborative spirit and supportive approach, including the ability to work well in a distributed, diverse, deep-thinking, and fast-paced environment. This role will provide a valuable opportunity to gain insight and experience at one of the leading edges of philanthropy and social change, and to learn, stretch and grow, with the potential to take on added responsibility over time.
• You bring a commitment to learning, gender equality, inclusion, and justice, and to supporting enduring systems change at scale, as well as an abiding curiosity and humility. You are motivated by how measurement, learning and evaluation can help program partners to identify root causes, seek justice and solve social problems at scale, and how the lessons can be synthesized across the portfolio to learn and to inform future practice.

The Role

As part of Co-Impact team, core responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Work with the Director of LME to develop, hone, and apply adaptive learning, evaluation, and feedback practices and culture within Co-Impact
• Together with account leads, support existing and new program and research partners (primarily on LME) through check-ins, strategic or operational support, and other portfolio capacity building activities. Depending on level of experience and capacity, you may become the primary account lead for specific partners. 
• Be responsible for overall program management for the LME team, including development and maintenance of annual workplan; tracking program partner engagement and key milestones; calendar management for partner calls, taking clear notes, and managing follow up; keeping LME documentation well organized; drafting internal and external communications, and other program and project-management related core tasks
• Manage the collation and synthesis of partner reports and dashboards for Co-Impact’s purposes, including regular reporting.
• Collaborate effectively with Co-Impact’s Philanthropy and Communication teams to make best use of the data, lessons and insights arising from program partner’s work.
• Conduct research and landscape analyses to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities in measurement and learning, and stay informed on relevant updates that can inform Co-Impact’s learning approach.
• Source new research investment opportunities through meetings with regional experts, academic professionals, and by attending conferences and regional gatherings.
• Help build partnerships and coordinate across efforts of diverse ecosystem actors.
• Support the Director and liaise with other program managers to coordinate work across the regions.
• Prepare write-ups, reports and other communication materials of our work and program partner achievements and lessons, and share these internally and externally.
• Help conceive and support events, convenings, and gatherings that enable partners and peers in the field to learn together.
• Support the LME Director and the broader Program team as needed, as well as participate in special projects as they arise.

Qualifications and Experience

• At least 7+ years of relevant professional experience working to advance learning, measurement, evaluation and applied research in social justice organizations or programs. Understanding of system-change approaches to LME is highly desired. Specific focus on education, health, economic opportunity, and gender equality is welcome.
• Experience with supporting practical application of LME approaches and tools with a range of actors, e.g., government, civil society, private sector, funders, etc.
• Significant experience working directly with senior-level staff
• Track record of increasing responsibility
• A Master’s degree or equivalent is preferred; a first University degree is required
• Fluency in English and at least one other language
• Experience in grantmaking, lived experience and knowledge region, and linkages to feminist/women’s rights networks strongly preferred
• Must be authorized to work in India or Kenya

Required Skills

• Process Management and Results Orientation: Strong project management skills, deadline management, sense of responsibility and accountability, the ability to manage multiple responsibilities, adjust and adapt along the way.
• Supporting colleagues and senior leaders: History of thriving in a role where your success is highly dependent on your team’s success, where your first responsibility is to provide outstanding leverage and support to your colleagues, including successfully and smoothly “managing upwards” by helping to guide and set-up things for your manager to be efficient and effective.
• Strategic Acumen: Ability to spot high-potential opportunities and facilitate the design of strategic approaches backed by evidence informed analysis.
• Sound analysis and judgment: Ability to listen well, integrating gender analysis, evidence, and strong logical analysis, while seeing perspectives from different sides, resulting in strong recommendations and judgements based on values and principles balancing data, experience, and risk.
• Working with People: Experience contributing to and managing collaborative teams to work productively, effectively, and inclusively towards shared goals.
• Managing Action with Purpose and Values: Ability to work with colleagues and get things done in accordance with core purpose and values.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Great at making and fostering relationships inside and outside the organization, keen intercultural appreciation, inclusive style, comfortable around senior leaders, can represent Co-Impact well.
• Financial understanding: Basic familiarity with the core elements of an organization’s financial model, financial statements, strategic financial analysis/ projections, and budgeting.
• Learning Orientation: Humble and intellectually curious; seek and work with evidence, demonstrated openness to new ideas and a diversity of perspectives; unafraid to admit and learn from failure.
• Strong Moral Compass: Impeccable personal ethics and integrity, kind and caring.
• Proficiency with core business tools: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Communications: Exceptional ability to write and communicate ideas concisely and with clarity. Excellent oral communication skills, including the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
• Global Flexibility: Given the global nature of organization working across time zones, a willingness to be flexible with working hours, work remotely and periodically undertake international travel (once COVID permits).
• Perspective: Sense of humor and ability not to take oneself too seriously