The Program Lead is responsible for ensuring organizational effectiveness by providing leadership for all in country activities.
This position will be responsible for strategic and operational aspects of the organization’s curriculum delivered at their “Labs”, Mentoring Programs, Career Guidance, and all aspects of programming taking a young woman from initial induction, her educational pathway, work readiness and internships, preparing her for work. Experience working with gender equality is an added advantage.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure the consortium partners team members are CLEAR about their roles and responsibilities, CAPABLE of delivering according to set goals, and MOTIVATED to work as a member of a collaborative team.
- Provide guardian oversight of all policies which relate to the protection of the beneficiaries, team members, partners and volunteers involved in both interventions.
- Ensure budgeting and accounting activities are facilitated on time and on budget.
- Ensure database management activities are facilitated according to plan.
- Participate in weekly management meetings with the Chief of Programs and leadership.
- Coach the managers, assistant managers, and officers to achieve all set goals through weekly coaching sessions at the Lab Sites
- Provide inputs to strengthen the ‘Lab’: Curriculum: Agriculture & Agri-business + Entrepreneurship & Financial Literacy + Digital Skills & Coding + Leadership Skills & Communication Skills + Hair Design, Bead Work, Plumbing, Welding, Masonry, Mechanics, Carpentry, Electrical + How to leverage the government’s TVET programs & HELB schemes.
- Participate in bi-weekly meetings with ‘Lab’ implementation & site partners.
- Oversee the Facilitation Quarterly Conversations, with Fathers, Brothers, Male Relatives, Partners and Community Elders
- Oversee and Direct all Mentorship Programming, Career transitioning Programming, including Career Guidance, Internships, Scholarships, and all other economic empowerment and path to work programming.
Qualifications:
- University Degree in a relevant field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in program management and program implementation.
- Minimum 8-years of experience managing a remote implementation team of 10 or more.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience managing the implementation of a development program with a budget in excess of 5M annually.
- Minimum of 5 Years working with a consortium of partners, managing partner implementation and indirect reports.
- Minimum 5 years building capacity across multi-organization implementation team.
- Proven passion and experience with gender-based programming in rural communities.
- 5+ years in the Humanitarian or development environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in remote / virtual management.
- Demonstrated expertise in managing accounts and budgeting of a program.
- Demonstrated expertise overseeing database management activities.
- Demonstrated expertise in problem solving and finding innovative solutions.
- Strong written communication skills
- Fluent in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
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