International Non-profit Careers – Program Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

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Job Title: Program Manager
Organisation: Innovations for Poverty
Action (IPA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About IPA:
IPA is an international non-profit
research organization. Based in New Haven, CT, with offices in Washington, D.C.
and worldwide, IPA works with development partners and academic researchers to
create and evaluate approaches to solving development problems, to communicate
“what works” in development and to scale up successful projects in a variety of
fields, including health, education, microfinance, governance and agriculture.
About Evidence Action:
Evidence Action is a new organization
working in partnership with IPA to scale proven interventions. IPA has played
in important role incubating technical assistance and service delivery
programs, such as the Dispensers for Safe Water program and the Deworm the
World Initiative. The management and further growth of these “scale up” initiatives
is transitioning to Evidence Action. IPA will continue to provide support for
these programs during their transition period.
About the Dispensers for Safe Water Program:
Each year, over 1.8 million children
under the age of five die from diarrhea, a leading cause of which is unsafe
drinking water. Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) is an entrepreneurial team
tasked with scaling chlorine dispensers – a proven innovation that dramatically
expands access to water treatment at an extremely low cost. The dispensers
program is growing rapidly: we currently serve over 200,000 people in Uganda,
and over 1 million in Kenya. Our goal is to provide 25 million people in
multiple countries with on-going access to safe water to reduce the disease
burden by 2018.
Job Summary: The new IPA Program
Manager will build on the team’s experience and innovation, leveraging
technology and streamlined field operations to reach 9 million people by 2018.
Day to day, the Program Manager will work with the Uganda field teams to build
a platform for top-tier implementation and roll-out thousands of chlorine
dispensers across Uganda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Take lead
    in the performance management and professional development across the
    Uganda program;

  • Responsible
    also for leading the Uganda team and oversee team growth and development
    essential for successful nationwide chlorine dispenser service delivery
  • Develop
    program operations strategy and lead activities between field operations,
    research/evaluation, information systems and support functions;
  • Offer supervision,
    guidance and support to the program management team, developing team
    members into future leaders of our initiative;
  • Generate,
    manage and share knowledge for continuous program improvement;
  • Build,
    mentor and strengthen partnerships with government and other organizations
    which leverage DSW’s ability to deliver high-impact programs;
  • Contribute
    to setting program-wide research and development priorities.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The
    Program Manager must possess a good track record of inspiring and
    empowering teams with the right level of structure and direction (at least
    3 years of senior management experience);
  • Prior experience
    leading scale-focused work with a major operations component – building
    systems, bringing together organizational functions, and developing teams
    with the ability to Possess a High level of comfort with information
    technology and databases;
  • Prior experience
    working in the water sector desirable;
  • Work
    experience in managing a cross-cultural team, ideally in Uganda/East
    Africa;
  • Demonstrated
    knowledge of working on policy and partnerships desirable;
  • Highly critical,
    analytical, and process-oriented thinker with a willingness to form and
    adjust opinions based on evidence;
  • Inspired
    by our mission of cost-effectively bringing safe water to millions of
    Ugandans
  • Possess a
    good track record of being a good steward of program funding and
    responsibly managing resources; alignment with our philosophy of building
    cost-effective program
  • Exhibit
    high commitment to evidence-based practice and policy in the development
    field;
  • High entrepreneurial
    spirit – the ability to lead in a fast-moving start-up environment;
  • Possess a
    good sense of humor
  • Possess willingness
    to spend ~50% of the time in the field in rural Uganda and Kenya
How to Apply: 
If you so desire to join us, please
kindly send your email CV and cover letter to jobs@evidenceaction.org with the
subject line “Uganda Program Manager Application.”
IPA is an Equal Opportunity Employer
(EOE), adhering to the laws that prohibit discrimination in the terms and
conditions of employment. The IPA EOE policy provides equal employment,
volunteer, and service opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to
race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual
orientation, gender identification, marital status, veteran status, disability
(including HIV/AIDS), or any other status protected by applicable law.
How to apply:
Please send all application materials
to jobs@evidenceaction.org
Deadline:  28th February
2014 by 5.00 p.m
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