Job ID: 298259

Senior Programme Manager

Sachhi Saheli

Location: Greater Kailash, Delhi

Apply by: 02 Aug 2026

Relevant Sectors

Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy

Private Sector, Corporate Social Responsibility

Social, Gender, Education, Youth, Child

Please read the Job Description carefully before applying.
Please only apply if you have experience equal to or more than 5 years in programme management at a Non Profit Organisation.

Job Title: Senior Programme Manager
Location: Delhi NCR
Job type: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience Required: 5–8 years

How to Apply

Interested candidates may send their CV and a brief cover note to job.sachhisaheli@gmail.com with the subject line: Application – Senior Programme Manager

The cover note should briefly mention relevant programme management experience, donor/CSR project experience, team management experience, and availability to join.

About the Organisation

Sachhi Saheli is a development sector organisation working on menstrual health, adolescent health, gender, SRHR, mental health awareness, and life-skills education through structured school and community programs with government departments, CSR partners, and other stakeholders.
Website: www.sachhisaheli.org

Job Description
We are looking for a strong programme professional who can lead projects end-to-end, manage teams and field operations, coordinate with donors and government stakeholders, and ensure high-quality implementation, documentation, monitoring, and reporting.

Role Overview

The Senior Programme Manager / Projects Lead will be responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring, and reporting multiple CSR-funded and institutional projects across different geographies.

This is a hands-on leadership role that requires strong project management, team supervision, stakeholder coordination, donor communication, government liaison, documentation, and problem-solving skills. The person should be comfortable working across strategy and execution, from designing project plans and monitoring frameworks to coordinating field teams, preparing reports, conducting trainings, and managing partner expectations.

Key Responsibilities
1. Project Planning and Implementation

- Lead the planning and execution of multiple projects across themes such as menstrual health, adolescent health, gender, SRHR, mental health, school-based interventions, and community engagement.

- Prepare detailed project workplans, timelines, activity calendars, budgets, implementation trackers, and monitoring formats.

- Ensure timely and quality implementation of project activities across schools, communities, districts, and partner locations.

- Coordinate with field teams, trainers, consultants, volunteers, school authorities, government departments, and partner organisations for smooth execution.

- Identify implementation challenges early and take corrective action to ensure that project deliverables and timelines are met.

- Oversee Budget planning, expenditure and Invoicing with support of the Finance Team.

2. Team Management and Capacity Building

- Supervise, guide, and support project coordinators, field officers, trainers, interns, and volunteers.

- Conduct regular team meetings to review progress, troubleshoot challenges, and ensure alignment with project objectives.

- Build team capacity on session delivery, documentation, reporting, data collection, stakeholder management, and field protocols.

- Review field updates, session reports, attendance sheets, photographs, feedback forms, and other documentation for accuracy and quality.

- Ensure that teams are working with clarity, accountability, sensitivity, and professionalism.

3. Donor and CSR Partner Coordination

- Act as a key point of coordination for CSR partners, donors, and institutional stakeholders.

- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, annual, and completion reports as per donor requirements.

- Develop high-quality donor presentations, progress updates, review meeting notes, case studies, impact summaries, and other communication documents.

- Support renewal proposals, concept notes, budgets, and project expansion plans.

- Maintain strong, professional, and responsive communication with funding partners.

4. Government and Institutional Liaison

- Coordinate with government departments, education departments, school authorities, district officials, and other institutional stakeholders for permissions and smooth project implementation.

- Draft official letters, permission requests, meeting notes, and other formal communication as required.

- Represent the organisation in meetings, review discussions, trainings, events, and stakeholder consultations.

- Build and maintain positive working relationships with government and institutional partners.

5. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Documentation

- Design and manage monitoring systems for project tracking, including baseline and endline formats, pre-post assessments, feedback forms, school trackers, field visit formats, and reporting dashboards.

- Ensure regular collection, cleaning, analysis, and interpretation of project data.

- Conduct field visits, session observations, review meetings, FGDs, and quality checks.

- Document project outcomes, learnings, case stories, photographs, testimonials, challenges, and recommendations.

- Use evidence from the field to improve project design, implementation quality, and donor reporting.

6. Training and Content Support

- Support the design and delivery of trainings, workshops, mentor sessions, teacher trainings, adolescent sessions, and stakeholder orientations.

- Contribute to curriculum, modules, IEC material, training presentations, session plans, and activity formats.

7. Events and Campaigns

- Plan and manage project events such as launches, concluding ceremonies, awareness campaigns, rallies, school events, and community engagement activities.

- Coordinate logistics, permissions, vendors, branding, certificates, media material, documentation, and partner communication.

- Ensure that events are organised professionally and aligned with donor and organisational expectations.

8. Organisational Support

- Support the leadership team in developing project proposals, budgets, concept notes, pitch decks, renewal documents, and partnership materials.

- Contribute to organisational systems, reporting processes, HR coordination, internal documentation, and operational improvements as required.

- Support recruitment, onboarding, and orientation of project team members when needed.

Required Qualifications

Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Gender Studies, Development Studies, Education, Sociology, or a related field.

A minimum of 6–9 years of relevant experience in programme management, preferably in the development sector, NGO, CSR, education, public health, gender, adolescent health, or community-based programmes.

Experience managing CSR-funded or donor-funded projects will be strongly preferred.

Required Skills and Competencies

- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, timelines, teams, and deliverables simultaneously.

- Strong understanding of CSR compliances and budget management.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Hindi.

- Strong documentation and report-writing skills.

- Experience in donor reporting, proposal writing, stakeholder communication, and project presentations.

- Ability to manage field teams and work with schools, communities, government departments, and institutional partners.

- Strong understanding of monitoring and evaluation systems, data collection tools, and impact documentation.

- Comfort with Excel/Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Google Drive, reporting templates, and basic data tracking systems.

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to handle field-level complexity with maturity.

- Ability to work independently, take ownership, and follow through without constant supervision.

Preferred Experience

- Experience working with non profit organizations, government schools, education departments, CSR partners, and district-level stakeholders.

- Experience designing or delivering trainings for adolescents, teachers, mentors, frontline workers, or community members.

- Experience working on menstrual health, adolescent health, gender, SRHR, mental health, life skills, WASH, or school-based programmes.

- Experience managing multi-location or multi-state projects.

- Experience with baseline/endline assessments, feedback analysis, case studies, and impact reports.

Personal Attributes

We are looking for someone who is responsible, grounded, organised, emotionally mature, and able to balance empathy with execution.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in a fast-paced NGO environment where responsibilities are varied and priorities can shift. They should be able to communicate clearly, manage people respectfully, solve problems practically, and take full ownership of assigned projects.

Compensation

Salary will be commensurate with experience and sector standards.

Job Email ID:

job.sachhisaheli(at)gmail.com