District Program Implementation Manager

The District Program Implementation Manager leads program implementation in Nias Selatan, ensuring effective delivery, quality, compliance, and achievement of program targets across all intervention packages. The role involves leadership in program planning, monitoring, stakeholder engagement, and performance management, reporting to the Head of Program and collaborating with the Regional Manager.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and review of all district-level program activities.
• Ensure timely achievement of project outputs, outcomes, milestones, and deliverables.
• Translate project strategies into actionable district implementation plans.
• Ensure implementation remains responsive to contextual changes and emerging needs.
• Coordinate implementation across all intervention packages to maximize impact and efficiency.
• Monitor implementation progress and take corrective actions where necessary.
• Provide leadership, supervision, coaching, and mentoring to district-based program staff.
• Establish clear objectives, workplans, and performance expectations.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and support staff development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen team capacity to deliver high-quality interventions.
• Ensure interventions are implemented in accordance with approved technical approaches, standards, and methodologies.
• Monitor implementation quality through regular field visits, reviews, and coaching.
• Work closely with technical specialists to strengthen program quality.
• Ensure learning and evidence are used to improve implementation practices.
• Promote integration and coherence across all technical components.
• Serve as KREASI’s primary program representative at district level.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local government, education offices, schools, communities, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate stakeholder participation and ownership of project activities.
• Represent KREASI in district coordination forums and technical working groups.
• Support sustainability and institutionalization of project interventions.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality collection and reporting of program data.
• Oversee implementation of monitoring, evaluation, research, assessment, and learning activities.
• Use program data to inform decision-making and adaptive management.
• Ensure timely submission of quality narrative reports and implementation updates.
• Facilitate documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and success stories.
• Monitor program expenditure against approved budgets and implementation plans.
• Review spending trends and identify risks related to under- or over-utilization.
• Collaborate with Finance and Operations teams to ensure timely availability of resources.
• Ensure program activities comply with donor requirements, organizational policies, and approved procedures.
• Support audit processes and follow-up actions where required.
• Identify and manage programmatic, operational, safeguarding, and reputational risks.
• Ensure compliance with child safeguarding, protection, inclusion, and PSEA policies.
• Promote safe, ethical, and inclusive implementation practices.
• Ensure safeguarding concerns are appropriately reported and managed.
• Foster a culture of accountability and risk awareness across the district team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, Social Sciences, Public Policy, International Development, Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in development programs, with at least 3 years in a management or leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-component education or community development programs.
• Experience working with government stakeholders at district and provincial levels.
• Experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong project management, planning, budgeting, and reporting skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and partnership management skills.
• Strong communication skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

Skills

• Programme Management
• Education Program Management
• Community Development
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Partnership Management
• Project Planning
• Budget Management
• Program Reporting
• Team Leadership
• Interdisciplinary Team Management

Languages

Bahasa Indonesia, English