C - Programs Cycle Compliance Manager

**Careers That Empower Young Dreamers**

When you make a decision to work with Children Believe you’re not just doing something great for your career, you’re helping empower children around the world to access education, pursue their dreams and be a voice for change. We know there are lots of career options for talented, top performers like you, but not many offer the opportunity to help children live and dream fearlessly. Children Believe is currently recruiting for the following position:
**Manager, Programs Cycle Compliance**

Based out of Canada Office and reporting to the Director, Program Effectiveness and Resource Management, the PCC Manager will be embracing the new global strategy for CB, and in appreciation of the new ways of working including collaborative, co-creative, agile working approaches, ensures the compliance of core-programs at all cycles such as annual planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

Working in close collaboration with the Director, PERM, MO-Finance Department and Country Offices, the PCC Manager coordinates with and advise relevant CO program teams for the adherence of performance based budgeting, and contribute to efficient/effective utilization of approved budgets. The incumbent serves as the main contact person for ongoing core-program implementation, risks analysis and implementation of risk mitigation measures. The PCC Manager is also responsible to orient, elaborate and build better understanding and ensure compliance during partners’ identification, capacity building and disaffiliations. This position will contribute to best practices and knowledge management leading to qualitative changes in core-program design, proposals development and implementation. Core-Program: Programs that are implemented by Country Programs with investment from Children Believe other than grants funded program.

**This role includes, but not limited to**:
The incumbent provides core program cycle compliance management support to country offices, notably to Program Managers, in line with Children Believe program quality principles and standards, various institutional guidelines, and industry best practices as well as agreed upon country plans to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to children, poor and vulnerable communities.

**Ensure Core-Program Cycle Compliances in Annual Planning and Performance Based Budgeting**:

- In consultation with the Director, Program Effectiveness and Resource Management, support COs, in the preparation and timely submission of quality Country Annual Program Operating Plans:

- Update, share and orient country program planning guidelines, associated planning templates or tools to ensure that all country offices have consistent approach to annual program planning;
- Support COs in their program planning processes notably through virtual conference calls and consultations with Program Managers to ensure the delivery of quality country program planning documents;
- allocation of budgetary resources to advance CB's strategic program priorities and promotion of issues based approaches.
- Support Country Offices, notably Program Managers in annual and quarterly performance based budgeting and core program resources alignments.

**Enhance quality and evidence based core-program cycle impact reports**
- In consultation with the Director
- PERM, support the preparation of country level Annual Progress Reports (APRs);
- Update and elaborate country program reporting guides and templates, provide clarity to Program Managers/ COs and contribute to program coherences;
- Support the planning processes at COs level notably through virtual conference calls and support the delivery of quality planning documents by Country Offices;
- Support the tracking of annual progress reporting processes at country office level through virtual consultations.
- Facilitate quarterly conference calls with country Program Management Team to review country level ongoing core-program implementation and performances;
- Based on feedbacks from quarterly M&E reports, follow-up with Country Office staff to ensure identified issues and/or gaps are properly addressed/resolved as well as risk mitigation measures are taken;
- Coordinate and share annual progress reports to internal stakeholders and ensure that reports are saved and made accessible in shared folders and drives.

**Strengthen partners’ capacity in internal system and knowledge management support**
- In collaboration with Director/ PERM and responsible Country Office staff, maintain accurate core-funded program information and management systems. Where possible, make effective use of the SMART system/ SharePoint towards attaining this goal;
- In consultation with the Director, PERM and other internal stakeholders, review the effectiveness of performance based funding (PBF) ‘
- Facilitate financial transfers for core
- programs implementation in collaborations with relevant departments.
- Support