Kerja Sepenuh Masa, Senior Program Manager di Asia School Of Business Federal Territory - Maukerja

Position Overview

The Center for Sustainable Small-owners (CSS) was launched in 2019 to deliver on its Ambition 2030 goals through the smallholders initiative. CSS aims to empower and improve the livelihoods of smallholders for oil palm through certification, compliance, training, and the implementation of sustainable and good agricultural practices.

Senior Program Manager is to lead and drive the implementation of CSS initiatives aimed at improving smallholder sustainability and impact. The Program Manager will be responsible for overseeing program planning, execution, stakeholder engagement, and performance tracking to ensure successful delivery of CSS objectives.

What You’ll Do

• Understanding different CSS initiatives, their linkage and overlaps by managing deliverables,
• timelines, managing budget and common resources across
• On time delivery of quarterly milestones, deliverables and invoices for the program within the
• assigned and approved budget by sponsor
• Coordinate with CSS Initiative Manager(s) and report weekly on program status to the Director
• Developing and implementing strategy for the project team by understanding, highlighting and
• communicating risks and preparing mitigation plan
• Develop operational plans for the program that can be tweaked with time and changing customer
• expectations
• Responsible for developing, coordinating and preparing of the quarterly report and presentation
• Support business development opportunities and draft proposals for funding and sponsorship
• opportunities.
• Project manage strategic cross-initiative projects within CSS
• Provide guidance on project management best practises to initiatives managers to deliver better
• outcomes
• Ensure CSS internal proposals and payment requests comply with the ASB’s procurement policy
• Responsible for CSS outreach, marketing activities and developing of marketing materials with the
• support of team
• Support digitalization and management of Information and Data for ongoing activities for various
• CSS initiatives
• Facilitate the design for a systematic collection and maintenance of all CSS data for operation and
• continuous improvement
• Interface with other CSS partners. Communicate, follow up and close CSS expectations in terms of
• any service and legal agreements including MoA, MoU, NDA etc.
• Interface with other departments within ASB to manage incoming and outgoing requests.
• Identifying opportunities continuous improvement
• Coordinating and running events and workshops

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree is a plus

• Overall more than 10 years of working experience with minimum 5 years of project management

experience

• Experience using any software/tool for PM activities

• Experience with Data Management

• Exposure to IT and worked with Software Development Teams directly or indirectly

• Technical Writing for reports and papers to the board

• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills in English. Similar skills in Bahasa

Malaysia is an added plus.

What we are looking for:

• Project Management Software and Tool

• Advance level of usage and data analysis using Excel

• Be able to write and run queries from Databases

• Working experience with NGOs, small farmers, or SMEs

• Conflict management and facilitating large and small group meetings