Job Title: Senior Executive &/or Manager, Program & Partner Development

Location: No 2-3, Jalan PJU 5/11, Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, Selangor

Terms    : Full-Time

About Us

Junior Achievement Malaysia (JA Malaysia) is a non-profit organisation that conducts educational programs for school/college/university students throughout Malaysia. Our aim is to provide youth with business acumen and inspire entrepreneurship spirits. The exciting programs will expose them to skills that will enhance their employability and career success in the corporate world. JA Malaysia is a member of JA Worldwide, the world’s top and largest organization dedicated to educating students about work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.

Job Overview:

This role plays a pivotal role in managing the full lifecycle of JA Malaysia’s education and entrepreneurship programs—from ideation to execution—while cultivating and sustaining meaningful partnerships. This role is responsible for overseeing end-to-end project management, developing new program opportunities, managing internal teams, supporting cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring smooth administrative and operational implementation. The individual must be a proactive, people-oriented leader with strong organizational and stakeholder management skills.

Main Role:

• Lead the full lifecycle of program delivery from concept design, proposal writing, implementation, monitoring, and impact evaluation.
• Collaborate with the Executive Director and Program Coordinator to identify strategic focus areas and develop new program frameworks aligned with JA Malaysia’s mission.
• Manage multiple simultaneous projects with clear project plans, deliverables, and resource allocation. 
• Ensure all programs meet quality standards, timelines, budgets, and impact metrics in line with strategic objectives. 
• To engage and develop a sound working relationship with various stakeholders’ (students, teachers, schools, sponsors, authorities, and JA Team) to promote and deliver fun and exciting JA Programs.
• To ensure the compilation of qualitative and quantitative feedback and reports, and to identify and implement improvements.
• Supervise and support a small team of project coordinators, interns, or volunteers.
• The ideal candidate must demonstrate a real interest in engaging with students and the ability to bring experiential learning to supplement formal curriculum.
• The ability to motivate and energize all stakeholders in the JA Programs is essential.

Supplementary Role:

• Provide coaching, feedback, and performance management to ensure a collaborative and productive team culture.
• Well-versed or IT inclined on software such as and not limited to: Learning Management System (LMS), Woo-Commerce, Website design (Wix), Mobile Apps, Design Tools (Adobe Photoshop, Canva), Video Creation and Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), etc. will be an added advantage.
• To develop program and teaching content to develop the Digital Skills/STEM/Entrepreneurship of Malaysian youth.
• Provide information management input into the planning and data/information management process; on data gathering and analysis, quality assurance, performance monitoring, information dissemination and management.
• Ensure timely documentation, record-keeping, and compliance with reporting requirements for each program.

Qualifications & Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Education, Development Studies, Psychology, Project Management, or related fields.
• Candidates with a Diploma with good practical skills are welcomed to apply.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in program/project management, partnerships, or related roles, preferably in the non-profit or education sector.
• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, team leadership, and managing cross-functional projects.
• Strong planning, coordination, and project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English & Bahasa Malaysia. 
• Vibrant and engaging personality.
• Ability to work with and support a team.
• Demonstrates initiative and good at multi-tasking and work independently to achieve project targets/outcomes.

Added Advantage:

1. Have a car for travel to workshop locations – highly desired.
2. Able to communicate and/or understand Mandarin and/or Tamil will be a strong added advantage.

Key Working Relationships:

• Internal: Executive Director, Program Director, Finance Team, Communications Team, Project Coordinators
• External: Corporate and Foundation Partners, Government Agencies, Schools and Educational Institutions, Vendors, Volunteers

Please email your application to:  

Ms Shanthi Kanthaswamy, Executive Director of JA Malaysia

[email protected] by 30 June 2025