Program Manager - Strategic Public Finance

About the role

A Program Manager owns the day-to-day operationalisation of Strategic Public Finance projects - driving execution, data management, analysis, stakeholder coordination, and internal tracking on the ground. They translate project plans into action, ensure meticulous data handling, drive insightful analysis, and maintain consistent momentum across deliverables and timelines.

What you'll do

• Drives day-to-day execution of project plans, ensuring tasks are operationalised on the ground and progress is tracked against milestones set
• Manages the team's research efforts by delegating tasks, reviewing outputs, and ensuring the quality and rigor of outputs
• Identifies execution-level risks as they emerge (e.g. data delays, stakeholder unavailability, on-ground bottlenecks) and resolves or escalates them properly
• Tracks team bandwidth and resourcing needs to keep project execution on schedule
• Operationalises project launches and conceptualisation on the ground, in line with SPF primary objectives

What you need

• 5–8 yrs of experience
• Statistics
• R
• Python
• Audit
• Compliance
• M.Sc

Good to have

• Budgeting