Senior Program Manager

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🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Outright International

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

🤝 Non-profit

Consulting • Legal • Non-profit

Outright International is an organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTIQ individuals globally. With a strong focus on advocacy and human rights, Outright International works with partners around the globe to document and address human rights violations against LGBTIQ people. The organization emphasizes collaboration with local groups across multiple regions, including Asia, the Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas, to foster acceptance and equality. Outright International also advocates at the United Nations, aiming to strengthen the global LGBTIQ movement through innovative programs and activism.

📋 Description

• Lead day-to-day management of a large, multi-country grant portfolio, ensuring activities align with donor requirements and organizational strategy • Coordinate across regional program staff to ensure coherent implementation in high-risk, conflict-affected, and restrictive operating environments • Oversee program inception, including finalization of Theory of Change, MEL plan, and capacity strengthening plans with in-country partners • Manage relationships with in-country partner organizations, including selection, risk assessment, and reassessment processes • Oversee co-design and rollout of individualized capacity strengthening plans with partners • Support flexible, partner-led financing mechanisms, including emergency, programmatic, and organizational development funding • Coordinate participatory MEL processes, including outcome mapping, baselines, and qualitative assessment tools • Track programmatic and contextual risk registers, escalating significant shifts and coordinating adaptive management responses • Liaise with external MEL consultants and support donor-led baseline and mid-term evaluation processes • Monitor political, security, and civic-space risks across program regions and adjust implementation accordingly • Ensure safeguarding standards, including SEAH prevention, are upheld across partner relationships • Coordinate risk-sharing arrangements and contingency planning with partners and internal compliance teams • Support partner engagement with regional and multilateral human rights mechanisms • Coordinate logistics and strategic input for partner participation in international convenings and advocacy weeks • Ensure advocacy priorities remain demand-driven and reflect partner-identified needs • Ensure adherence to donor financial and narrative reporting requirements • Coordinate with finance and grants teams on disbursement schedules, compliance checks, and sanctions screening • Prepare consolidated narrative and financial reports for donor submission

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience managing complex, multi-country grants in the human rights, LGBTIQ+ rights, or international development sector • Demonstrated experience working with civil society partners in restrictive, high-risk, or conflict-affected contexts • Strong understanding of grantmaking, localization principles, and partner-led program design • Experience with MEL frameworks, particularly outcome mapping or similar qualitative approaches • Familiarity with donor compliance requirements, including government or multilateral funding instruments • Cultural competency and sensitivity to SOGIESC dynamics and intersectional analysis • Willingness to travel to program regions as security conditions allow • English and Spanish are mandatory • Language skills relevant to program regions are considered an asset

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity/affirmative action employer • People of color, people who are transgender, intersex, or gender-variant, and individuals originally from the Global South are strongly encouraged to apply