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Position: Program Manager for Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE), Children and Youth Leadership (C&Y)

Reporting to: Program Director

Supervising: Program Coordinators, Senior Field Officers, Field Officers, Field Assistance

Job Description

This dual role is responsible for managing both the Women Empowerment Sector and Children and Youth Leadership of Raks Thai.  The Program Manager will work closely with the Program Director to ensure all Women, Children and Youth programs lead to impact and are in line with Raks Thai’s strategic development, as well as manage budgets and staff movement according to compliance standards. The Program Manager will explore new program funding opportunities with both private and institutional investors, grow a network of stakeholders to promote Raks Thai’s brand, and provide technical supports and advice to team members and partners.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic

• Provide inputs to WEE/ C&Y sectors’ strategic roadmap, KPI targets, and budget planning, translating Raks Thai’s goals into tangible actions using macro-economic data research and discussions with key stakeholders within the sector, as well as reviewing WEE/ C&Y teams’ objectives, key parameters/ constraints
• Identify growth opportunities and develop new programs and products to enable continued growth of the WEE/ C&Y sectors

Operations

• Assume full responsibility for driving key results and performance indicators of all WEE/ C&Y programs
• Oversee program planning and execution of all WEE/ C&Y programs, including networking events
• Ensure program activities are in line with budget; explore measures to reduce and control cost and implement such measures where possible
• Oversee approvals of WEE/ C&Y program budget requests, staff movement, leave requests according to Raks Thai’s financial standards
• Any ad hoc duties as directed by Program Director

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Develop Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning (MEAL) framework for all WEE/ C&Y programs according to CARE International and Raks Thai’s standards
• Provide actionable recommendations and to improve cost, productivity, efficiency, and reliability of the programs; review and monitor periodically with Program Director and stakeholders
• Ensure program data is effectively and completely reported in the Raks Thai database and CARE International database, including program and financial reports, proposals, grant contracts
• Collate best practices and lessons learned and create a success model for scaling up existing programs / integrate into other regions/programmatic areas 

Team Management

• Improve team’s technical capabilities through effective training and knowledge sharing to ensure product knowledge is maintained to the highest standard
• Run weekly team training and meetings as and when required
• Oversee the recruitment of new employees under the WEE/ C&Y sectors

Strategic Partnerships

• Attend all meetings/forums, donor/stakeholder liaison and be responsible for action in regard to donor’s feedback and experience to ensure the highest service standards are maintained
• Identify and develop new business opportunities with institutional investors
• Coordinate with Resource Development team on corporate business development and partnership; report on CSR programs’ progress; liaise with CSR donors as required
• Work with mentors, donors, government entities and other industry players to grow Raks Thai’s network and ecosystem (national and international)
• Establish and build links with community and media partners to expand Raks Thai brand and marketing outreach

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields; Masters or MBA degree preferred
• Excellent communication skills, ability to present and report to stakeholders
• Ability to lead a large team of project coordinators and filed officers who are based on different locations. Field visits can be expected on a regular basis
• Must be fluent in both English and Thai
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in WEE/ C&Y program development
• Proven track record of building C-level business relationships, negotiating complex agreements and executing partnerships
• Experience with complex large-scale projects or engagements with institutional investors
• Strategic thinking and confident of achieving high programmatic standards
• Experience with managing program budgets
• Can-do attitude, strategic thinker and self-motivated team leader
   

About Raks Thai

Raks Thai Foundation is a member of CARE International and a leading non-profit organization in Thailand. The fundamental principle of Raks Thai’s work is to engage and empower communities to build local capacity in responding to developmental or vulnerability issues that they are facing. Raks Thai has a track-record of pioneering and testing new paths of civil society engagement in the development sector, with all work custom-designed on a project-by-project basis through comprehensive situation and problem analyses, and the application of appropriate and innovative interventions.

Our work focuses on, 1) Health 2) Children and youth 3) Women’s economic empowerment in rural areas, promoting gender equality and fighting gender-based violence (GBV), 4) Environment/climate change adaptation, and 5) Emergency response/rehabilitation responding to floods, land/mud slides, tsunami, and droughts and recently, COVID-19 prevention and economic relief for poor and vulnerable populations both Thai and non-Thai.

Website: https://www.raksthai.org/en/

Benefit package:

- Social security - Life & Health Insurance (+Dental allowance)

- Provident Fund - 13th Month salary

- 11 days+ Annual Leave - Salary increment – performance based rate

- Learning & Development - Work: Mon-Fri from 8.00 – 17.00 or 9:00－18:00+ Flexi hour

- Etc.

We provide equal employment opportunities  to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to  religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran and etc.

Recruitment to all jobs at Raks Thai Foundation(CARE Thai) includes criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. We require all current and prospective staff to undertake a basic disclosure check. We participate in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. References will be requested in accordance with the scheme as our commitment to preventing sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse,child protection and its commitment to gender equality, diversity and inclusion, and anti corruption & fraud

If a different level of criminal record check is required, staff members will be informed individually.

Please send your CV to   hrrecruit@raksthai.org

Closing Date               :      19 April 2026 (11:59 PM, Bangkok Time)