# (Associate) Program Manager, Education Sector

The (Associate) Program Manager is a critical part of IPA's Education Sector team and will largely focus on supporting the SCALE project, a multi-country initiative, delivered with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and implementing partners, that scales effective education interventions. The (Associate) Program Manager manages assigned SCALE projects, coordinating principal investigators, IPA country offices, other IPA teams, implementing partners, and government stakeholders to carry out research and policy activities. The role also contributes to research design, oversight, and outputs, and works with the Education Program Director on sector agenda setting, partnership development, outreach and communications, and fundraising for new education projects and initiatives. Job Summary Employer: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Job Type: Full-time Location: Lilongwe, Malawi Category: Program Management Closing Date: 2026-11-30 Key Responsibilities Contribute to research design, research oversight, data analysis, and the writing of policy briefs, slide decks, and other research outputs as needed for the SCALE project. Coordinate all project stakehold

- **Id**: 3969779
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/innovations-for-poverty-action-ipa-associate-program-manager-education-sector>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Lilongwe, Malawi
- **Countries**: MW
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T08:51:39Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T08:51:39Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4665
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Education

## Company

- **Id**: 4528768
- **Name**: Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
- **Domain**: innovationsfcu.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/innovations-for-poverty-action-ipa-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: ADP

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Malawi** — Iso: MW; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T15:39:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: seen:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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