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Program Manager, Partnerships and Systems Job at Spark Microgrants
Spark Microgrants
Job Description
Spark seeks an experienced Program Manager for Partnerships and Systems to lead the development and implementation of Spark’s organizational systems for partner management, program risk mitigation and cost optimization. The role will strengthen Spark’s ability to work effectively with its implementing partners by building standardized approaches and tools, providing training and quality control to ensure compliance and quality, and supporting cost-effective program design and delivery.
The Program Manager will work closely with Country Directors and their teams to create or strengthen and execute fit-for-purpose systems for partner management and oversight. They will provide quality control throughout the selection and engagement of new partners or subawards.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsibility: Partner Management Systems Building
- Duties:
- Assess Spark’s current partner management system and procedures and design standardized systems, tools, and guidance for partner selection, onboarding, risk assessment, and implementation oversight across programs
- Develop and maintain partner management documentation, including templates and standard operating procedures
- Strengthen systems for partner budget review and negotiations to support cost efficiency and alignment with program design
- Lead validation and organizational rollout of updated partner management tools and procedures across relevant teams.
- Represent the Global Programs Unit in cross-functional discussions to align partner management systems and standards across the organization
- Advise on strategies for assessing organizational capacity, both internally for expansion and non-NGO partners like district and central government
- Responsibility: Surge Support and Quality Assurance throughout Partner Life Cycle
- Duties:
- Provide quality assurance and technical review throughout the partner lifecycle, including partner capacity assessments, budget negotiations, subaward reviews, and implementation oversight.
- In coordination with country teams, review partner scopes of work, subawards, and budgets to ensure alignment with program design and cost expectations.
- Provide surge support to country teams in partner identification, selection, and negotiation processes, as needed.
- Responsibility: Lead Cost Rationalization Workstream
- Duties:
- Lead cost analysis and rationalization exercises across country programs, including analyzing program and partner costs, identifying cost drivers and inefficiencies, and developing cost efficiency analyses
- Using analyses, develop recommendations for Spark leadership and country programs and work with country programs to adjust the delivery model to implement quality programs more efficiently
- Build and institutionalize tools and practices to support ongoing cost rationalization at the country-level
- Responsibility: Program Risk Mitigation
- Duties:
- Lead the setting and enacting of a process for identifying, assessing and mitigating risk across country programs
- Contribute to Program designs and proposal development relating to risk identification and mitigation
- Where necessary, lead cross program work streams to minimize and mitigate identified risks
- Responsibility: Cross-Organizational Skill-Building and Support
- Duties:
- Provide ongoing support and coaching to country teams on the partner management and cost rationalization systems through proactive identification of challenges, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
- Develop and deliver training and support to other relevant departments, including Design and M&E, on skills and systems related to partner selection/management, risk assessment, and cost efficiency
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