Senior Program Manager for The Central Highlands in Vietnam

Key responsibilities:
- Personnel Management: Giving direction and manage the ISLA/Coffee Central Highlands team for their daily works, both in the Central Highlands and at the national level
- Stakeholder management: Create awareness and drive the adoption of more sustainable practices in the particular industry and institutionalization of sector wide cooperation by convening key stakeholders (international and local); get strong buy in and trust from partners especially private partners in different value chain, national and local governments and etc.
- Program management: Lead development and implementation of the ISLA/coffee programs in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, supported by the global and local team. Manage a yearly workplan and budget, identify and contract implementing partners.
- Fundraising: Keep abreast of current regional and/or local fundraising trends, so as to identify opportunities at an early stage, with the aim of securing funding for the programs, including the exploration of carbon financing scheme.
Reporting:
- Report to IDH Vietnam country director and under technical guidance of Asia Landscape Regional Director
Other responsibilities:
- Learning: Bring best practices to the project from previous experience; facilitate the dissemination of knowledge in Vietnam and globally; identify and document the lessons learned based on local reality on the ground.
- Other tasks as required
- Communication: Giving guidance to Vietnam and global team to develop communication and other materials (e.g. proposals). Keeping relevant stakeholders informed on plans and progress.
- Monitoring & evaluation: Lead the monitoring and evaluation of project activities and finance in conjunction with the implementing partners and private sector players, as well as monitoring of implementers, organizations or any third party needed to deliver project objectives, best via the deployment of online reporting tool and MRV system of SourceUp and its targets.
You are an experienced program manager preferably in the donor funded projects/programs. You have worked with the private sector, government agencies, NGOs and farmer groups, and have developed capacity managing multi-stakeholder processes. You have an understanding of the (environmental) sustainability issues in business, agriculture, environment, natural resource management, or a comparable field of knowledge.
Who you are

What you bring
- Excellent convening, facilitation, and negotiation skills
- Experience in supply chain sustainability issues
- Experience in developing joint agendas with different stakeholders (e.g. Vietnamese Government, Private Companies, NGO) and in implementing multi-stakeholder programs
- Experience in fundraising
- Team management and inspiration.
- Holding a master degree, preferably in business, agriculture, environment, natural resource management, or a comparable field of knowledge
- At least 10 years of working experience in program development and implementation in the area of sustainable agriculture management and/or in natural resources management. Preference given to cross-sectoral and landscape technical expertise, including deforestation, water management, agroforestry, agrochemical management, business case development and etc.
- Willingness to travel extensively, mainly within Vietnam
- Fluency in spoken and written English, fluency in Vietnamese
- Proactive, entrepreneurial.
We offer you
- an open environment where you can grow and develop yourself;
- 40 hours work week;
- 26 annual leave and Vietnam national holidays as regulation
- all the work supplies you need to excellence in your role;
- A challenging, pivotal role within an impacting, international organization
Who we are
IDH’s work is made possible thanks to the funding and trust of a variety of public and private donors, among which the Governments of Netherlands, Denmark, and other government donors and private foundations.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, IDH has around 300 employees globally, operating in 20 landscapes and 12 commodities and sourcing regions with over 1000 public and private partners. In 13 years of operation, IDH has generated over 390 M in private sector investment and support for new business models that create better jobs, better incomes, a better environment, and gender equity for all.
To catalyse change at scale, IDH innovates, convenes, and invests in inclusive and sustainable solutions that enable businesses to create value for people and planet, while improving their own performance. To create the greatest impact in the shortest amount of time, IDH focuses on empowering people within corporations, the global financial sector and governments that have the most influence over value chains.
IDH puts people, planet, and progress at the heart of trade by leveraging the power of markets to create better jobs, better incomes, a better environment, and gender equity for all.
Interested?
Would you like to apply? Just send us your motivation and resume in English.
We encourage applicants to respond as soon as possible, latest by 30th October 2022.
At IDH sustainable trade initiative, we&039;re committed to equal employment opportunity, and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We strive to be a more equal opportunity workplace every day

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