Program Manager

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🕒 October 1

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

📋 Program Manager

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Social Impact

Plastics For Change is a social enterprise that collects discarded plastic from the environment and converts it into fair-trade verified recycled materials, connecting waste collectors (wastepickers) with global brands to replace virgin, fossil-fuel based plastic. The organization focuses on creating dignified livelihoods for ultra-poor communities, preventing plastic pollution (including ocean plastic), and providing supply chain transparency and accountability. It partners with brands like The Body Shop and L'Oréal to integrate ethically sourced recycled plastic into products and to run authentic cause-marketing. Plastics For Change also provides expertise on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), plastics waste management, sustainable packaging, and circular fashion, leveraging technology and small-scale infrastructure to improve quality of recycled plastic and shared-value supply chains.

📋 Description

• Lead the planning, execution and monitoring of Health, Education and Livelihood programs. • Develop annual, quarterly and monthly implementation plans aligned with social impact objectives. • Ensure projects are implemented according to approved designs, budgets and timelines. • Oversee multiple projects and achievement of deliverables and outcomes. • Identify implementation gaps, operational challenges and risks, and develop corrective action plans. • Coordinate with internal departments, partners and external stakeholders. • Develop and strengthen standard operating procedures for program delivery. • Collaborate on program design for community skilling, livelihood, education and health initiatives. • Mentor field teams and monitor program metrics and outcomes. • Undertake regular field visits, with approximately 70% of the role involving field engagement. • Engage with waste pickers, families, community leaders and local institutions. • Promote community participation, ownership and accountability. • Build relationships with community-based organisations and local institutions. • Lead, supervise and mentor project teams; define roles, KRAs, work plans and performance expectations. • Conduct performance reviews, provide feedback and identify training needs. • Establish indicators and oversee collection, verification and analysis of program data. • Maintain program records, MIS and project documentation. • Prepare progress reports, donor reports, management updates, presentations, blogs and impact materials. • Track budgets, expenditure and resource utilisation. • Coordinate impact assessments, field studies, surveys and program evaluations. • Document success stories, case studies, community impact stories and best practices. • Ensure compliance with organisational policies, procedures, SOPs and protocols. • Maintain confidentiality and appropriate handling of organisational and community data. • Travel frequently across project locations and undertake other relevant responsibilities as required.

🎯 Requirements

• Postgraduate degree in Social Work, Rural Development, Rural Management, Development Studies, Social Sciences or a related discipline. • Minimum 7+ years of experience in program/project management within the social development or NGO sector. • Demonstrated experience in managing and overseeing community development projects. • Experience in Health, Education and/or Livelihood development. • Experience managing field teams and coordinating multiple projects. • Experience engaging with government departments, NGOs and institutional stakeholders. • Knowledge of social and environmental development concepts. • Experience in project budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and donor reporting. • Fluency in English, Tamil and Hindi. • Strong program and project management capabilities. • Excellent team leadership and people management skills. • Strong community engagement and stakeholder management abilities. • Budget management and resource planning. • Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment. • Data management, MIS and documentation skills. • Excellent communication, presentation and reporting skills. • Proficiency in MS Office and CRM/data management tools. • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. • Frequent travel across project locations, sometimes at short notice.

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