Regional Disaster Resilience Program Manager

HorizonOne Recruitment; Canberra; On-site; AUD 257,887,000 - 315,195,000; Full time

Job summary

HorizonOne Recruitment is assisting a large federal government department in Canberra. The Program Manager will lead day-to-day delivery of a regional disaster resilience program, ensuring governance, budget, risk management and strong partner engagement across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.

The role involves coordinating with Commonwealth agencies, UN bodies, NGOs and financial institutions, maturing governance frameworks for MEL, GEDSI, and communications, and advancing anticipatory action and

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing and coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder programs, including work planning, budgeting, contract management, risk management, monitoring and reporting.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with government, multilateral, NGO, private sector, research and regional partners across complex, cross-cultural environments.
• Solid knowledge of international development and humanitarian programming principles.

Responsibilities

• Leading day-to-day program management alongside the department’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness team, keeping delivery on time, on budget and aligned to agreed objectives
• Coordinating governance meetings, annual work planning, budgeting, risk management and performance reporting
• Managing implementing partners, technical advisers and service providers, including scopes of work, deliverables, timelines and contract performance
• Developing and applying program governance frameworks across monitoring and evaluation, climate, GEDSI and communications, and mobilising technical support panels and mechanisms
• Engaging regional mechanisms, international finance institutions, disaster risk financing actors and insurers to strengthen pre-arranged financing for anticipatory action
• Representing the program in governance, coordination and regional policy forums, and identifying communications and public diplomacy opportunities
• Embedding GEDSI, First Nations perspectives, locally led development, safeguarding and climate integration across delivery, monitoring and reporting

Skills

Multi-stakeholder program management

Governance & reporting

Budget management

Risk management

Stakeholder relationship building

International development knowledge

Disaster risk reduction

Communications

Job description

HorizonOne Recruitment is assisting a large federal government department in Canberra. The Program Manager will lead day-to-day delivery of a regional disaster resilience program, ensuring governance, budget, risk management and strong partner engagement across the Pacific and Timor-Leste.

The role involves coordinating with Commonwealth agencies, UN bodies, NGOs and financial institutions, maturing governance frameworks for MEL, GEDSI, and communications, and advancing anticipatory action and