Program Manager

(This is a re-advertisement of the vacancy announced on September 26, 2025. Applicants who previously applied do not need to reapply.)

Programme Manager

The Programme Manager provide overall leadership for the Clean Air for Mothers and Newborns in Nepal (CAM) programme is a high-impact, 12-month intervention is supported by the Breakthrough Initiative and Innovation (BTII) Fund, under the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)-financed Samartha Programme. The project addresses a severe public health emergency—air pollution, which is the leading risk factor for death and disability in Nepal, surpassing malnutrition and tobacco use.

S/he will be responsible for translating the project’s vision, strategy, and technical direction into actionable plans, ensuring high-quality implementation across health systems, household/community, and policy levels. The Programme Manager will serve as the primary operational lead for grant delivery, overseeing work planning, partner coordination, compliance, monitoring, and reporting.

This role requires close collaboration with local, provincial, and federal stakeholders’ civil society, and health facilities to reduce air pollution exposure among pregnant women and newborns, strengthen local health systems, and advance policy reforms. This position is a core position which requires funder approval.

• Lead the development and execution of annual and quarterly work plans, ensuring alignment with the programme’s theory of change, FCDO and management agent requirements, and FHI 360 standards. 
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of outputs and outcomes across the three programme domains: health systems, households/communities, and policy. 
• Build and maintain strong relationships with municipal and provincial governments, stakeholders, health facilities, and community leaders. 
• Represent the programme in policy dialogues, technical working groups, and review meetings and other platforms of the local, provincial, and federal levels. 
• Ensure interventions are contextually relevant and inclusive. 
• Provide strategic oversight to the local implementing partner on various aspects of programme implementation while ensuring compliance with subaward terms and FHI 360 policies.
• Facilitate partner capacity building in technical delivery, compliance, and reporting. 
• Manage implementing partner and Lead routine performance review meetings with partners to assess progress, address bottlenecks, and adapt strategies. 
• Provide guidance to the partner to document and disseminate lessons learned, good practices, and success stories. 
• Identify and mitigate programme risks.
• Liaison with fund management agency and the FCDO in relation to programmatic and operational requirements of the programme.
• Support the Country Representative in donor reporting and strategic communications. 
• Represent the programme in external events and forums as assigned. 
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor and the Country Representative. 

• Master’s degree in Public Health or Environmental Health, with five years’ of demonstrable experience managing complex, multi-sector programmes in health systems strengthening, maternal and newborn health, or environmental health (preferably air quality management) OR Bachelor’s degree in Public Health or Environmental Health with seven years of experience in the relevant field mentioned above.
• Proven track record in policy advocacy, governance engagement, and integrating environmental health interventions into health systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate multi-stakeholder initiatives, including government, civil society, and private sector actors.
• Strong understanding of Nepal’s federal governance structure and municipal systems, particularly in relation to air quality and maternal and newborn health.
• Competence in managing sub-awards, budgets, compliance, and delivering donor-funded programmes to a high standard.
• Skilled in adaptive leadership, strategic problem-solving, and risk mitigation in dynamic contexts.
• Excellent communication and representation skills for policy dialogues, technical forums, and stakeholder engagement.
• Willingness and ability to travel to intervention municipalities for up to 30% of the time.

Only Nepali citizens are eligible to apply.

The final deadline for application is November 29, 2025.

This job posting summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

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