Senior Associate, Programs

Program Management

• Design, plan, and manage the Centre s SOP, with the Centre Lead.
• Oversee Centre-level program management (while individual projects are managed by project teams).
• Track deliverables, budgets, timelines, and outputs.
• Work with Centre Lead to identify risks such as overlapping deliverables or stretched bandwidth and support mitigation.

• Maintain meeting notes, circulate follow-ups, and assist in agenda-setting.
• Support preparation of decks and updates for Centre governance forums.

• Manage plan on donor communications, reporting, and data collation.
• Manage logistics for donor visits and meetings.
• Act as point of contact for donor/partner queries.

• Lead planning and execution of events and convenings.
• Manage logistics: agenda, speaker coordination, outreach, vendor management, documentation.

• Maintain data and trackers for project outcomes.
• Consolidate lessons for future program design.
• Support reporting to donors, advisors, and leadership.

• Provide coordination support across teams (research, advisory, communications).
• Coordinate workflows across Centre teams.

• 4-6 years of experience in project management, stakeholder engagement, program coordination.
• Good organisational and communication skills to manage multiple stakeholders and project tasks, with an obsession for ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Ability to build strong relationships, and drive sustainable outcomes.
• Comfortable working with different teams and partners in a collaborative environment.
• Detail-oriented and proactive in following up on action points.
• A post-graduate degree in any discipline.
• Exposure to the social sector.
• Familiarity with monitoring & evaluation (M&E) frameworks for tracking impact.
• Familiarity with data science terms and tools