At TechnoServe, we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better life. For over 50 years, we have given smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs the skills, connections, and confidence to lift themselves out of poverty. We leverage the power of markets and the private sector to create sustainable economic growth to benefit people and the planet. Our unique mix of business solutions, deep knowledge of local contexts, and data-driven insights is helping to fight poverty across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
TechnoServe staff are local–95% are from the countries in which they work. We put a high premium on collaboration and entrepreneurship. We hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards of integrity and transparency. And we focus on delivering lasting impact for our mission.
Job Summary:
The Senior Program Manager is responsible for managing the implementation of CocoVate and requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. The Senior Program Manager will drive innovative solutions to complex problems by operationalizing the work plan, adapting technical approaches and interventions, and overseeing project resources.
Program Overview:
CocoVate is a three years Coconut Oil (CNO) development program funded by Abbott Nutrition, the Adams Group and shared value partners slated to start from July 2026 in Southern Leyte in the Eastern Visayas and SOCCSKARGEN. The program aims to uplift the livelihoods of up to 5000 coconut farmers to supply premium quality white copra by aggregating coconut farmer members of selected cooperatives into self-help groups, professionalizing Farm Service Crews, establishing Copra Processing Hubs, capacitating farmer cooperatives and promoting cacao intercropping and dairy integration.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:
- Oversee implementation and management of the program, from inception to close-out, ensuring that the program achieves established goals, objectives and targets
- Provide guidance, leadership, management and general technical oversight of the program
- Oversee development and submission of project deliverables on time and within budget
- Ensure high-quality data is being collected to demonstrate project impact and results
- Monitor the project budget to ensure a healthy burn rate and allowability of costs
- Prepare donor reports and presentations
- Represent the program to internal and external stakeholders
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum seven years of experience in Agriculture and Rural Development or a related sector plus a Master’s degree in Agriculture, Economics, Business Management or a related field or a Bachelor’s Degree plus ten years of experience.
- Experience in successfully implementing and monitoring programs of similar size and budget
Required Languages: Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills, including fluency in Filipino, and English languages. Fluency in Cebuano and/or Tagalog is desirable.
Travel: Travel up to 80%
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in the Philippines is required and prior experience in Regions VIII, XI and XII are preferred
- Experience with supply chain programs in CNO is preferred
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Analytical, writing, social and management skills required for delivering technical assistance to development programs or initiatives.
- Ability to work both persuasively and diplomatically in a team-based environment with a high degree of complexity and ambiguity.
- Ability to communicate complex issues with clarity, precision and prioritization is a must.
- Strong capacity building skills, including participatory facilitation techniques, coaching, and mentoring
Supervisory Responsibilities: Field teams in both locations
Work Authorization required: Candidates must have valid, unrestricted work authorization in the Philippines. TechnoServe will not provide sponsorship for this position.
We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe's vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply.
With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and affirmative action employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.
We are also proud of our commitment to protecting staff, partners, and beneficiaries from abuse and exploitation and thoroughly vet all final candidates through rigorous background and reference checks.
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Skills Required
- Minimum seven years of experience in Agriculture and Rural Development or related sector with a Master's degree (or Bachelor's plus ten years)
- Proven experience implementing and monitoring programs of similar size and budget
- Fluency in Filipino and English (oral and written)
- Experience working in the Philippines
- Ability to travel up to 80%
- Valid, unrestricted work authorization in the Philippines (no visa sponsorship provided)
- Experience supervising and managing field teams
- Strong capacity building skills, participatory facilitation, coaching, and mentoring
- Prior experience in Regions VIII, XI and XII
- Experience with coconut oil (CNO) supply chain programs
- Fluency in Cebuano and/or Tagalog
What We Do
TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that hardworking people can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With five decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives. Our success in creating business solutions to poverty is due in large part to our talented and highly committed team. TechnoServe employs more than 1,500 people, the vast majority of them host-country nationals working in the field. Our staff combine business expertise with local knowledge, relationships, and context to help hardworking men and women generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. In 2020, TechnoServe's work helped transform the lives of 1.3 million people in Puerto Rico as well as countries throughout Africa, Latin American, and Asia by targeting improvements in farms, businesses, and industries. Learn more about our impact at www.technoserve.org/impact
