Program Manager for Latin America and The Caribbean

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**Job Title**:Program Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean

**Department**:Programs, LAC

**Center Background**:The Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) is the global leader in using the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights. Headquartered in New York City, the non-profit, non-partisan organization has regional offices in Bogota, Geneva, Nairobi, and Washington, DC, and a staff of approximately 200 diverse professionals. The Center's compelling human rights mission and reputation for excellence and cutting-edge legal work has powered its exceptional growth trajectory to an operating budget of over $40 million and won the respect of the world's leading law firms, as reflected in the additional $29 million annually in donated legal services, representing the work last year of 820 lawyers in 46 countries.

The overarching goal of the Center's new Strategic Plan sets a high mark for impact: _By 2030, half of the world's population will be living under stronger protections for reproductive rights than they do today._ The Center has a track record of success to back up this ambitious goal. Since its founding in 1992, the Center's game-changing litigation and advocacy, combined with its unparalleled expertise in constitutional, comparative, and international human rights law, have transformed how reproductive rights are understood by courts, governments, and human rights bodies worldwide on issues including maternal health, contraception, abortion, and assisted reproduction. It has won groundbreaking cases before national courts, U.N. Committees, and regional human rights bodies, led the development of historic, proactive legislation advancing robust protections for reproductive rights, and has built the legal capacity of women's rights advocates in more than 60 countries and counting.

**The Role**:
The **Program** **Manager, LAC** will manage the full range of processes related to program and grant management including project cycle management, annual planning and budgeting, sub grant management and donor compliance, evaluations, and knowledge management. The role will work closely with other members of the LAC team and the global Programs team.

This role will also be key to supporting new fundraising efforts with restricted donors and will work closely with the LAC and Government Fundraising teams to set strategies, develop proposals, and jointly oversee the eventual implementation of restricted funding grants. The Program Manager will report to the Associate Director, Programs for LAC and will work closely with the Senior Regional Director, and other members of the LAC team, as well as the Programs team, Program Management Unit, Operations, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (SEAL team), Development (Fundraising), and Communications.

The position will be based in the Center's **Bogotá **office.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Assess, build, and manage the program function for the LAC region:

- Integrate and link program management components with ongoing implementation, including strategy and planning, grants and contracts, and development.
- Oversee tracking of program implementation and facilitate coordination within the program and across other regions and departments.
- In close collaboration with the Associate Director, Programs for LAC and Senior Regional Director for LAC maintain oversight of the LAC region's portfolio.
- Coordinate LAC region contributions to strategic and planning processes:

- Implement tailored approaches to enable positive and efficient strategy development and planning for the LAC region.
- Oversee annual planning and support periodic reporting and budget projections (internal and grants-based).
- Work with SEAL team to support development and implementation of new organizational systems for evaluation and learning with and for the LAC region.
- Play key role in new efforts to secure restricted, especially government, funding for the LAC region and to integrate related systems and processes into the region's operations:

- Oversee and support proposal development and writing processes.
- Draft of relevant concept notes.
- Oversee the implementation, management, and compliance of restricted grants.

Planning, Evaluation and Learning

Support the Associate Director, Programs for LAC with annual planning and evaluation processes: Specifically,
- Preparation and review of project plans and budgets
- With the Associate Director, Global Operations for LAC region, monitoring program budget and spending, assisting in budget reprojection process, and tracking grant-specific spending, reporting, work plan deadlines, grants deadlines and compliance.
- Assist project leads in tracking partner workplans.
- Support the Associate Director, Program for LAC in monitoring and evaluation processes including institutional monitoring and evaluation initiatives and information mana