Manager: Industry Planning Programme Coordination at IDC

Synopsis

• To lead programme coordination, portfolio reporting, governance support and implementation tracking across the Industry Planning Unit, ensuring that approved industry plans, priority initiatives, PMOs and strategic interventions are implemented in a structured and disciplined manner and monitored effectively.
• The role provides senior decision-support to the Head: Industry Planning by strengthening portfolio visibility, stakeholder alignment, governance readiness, knowledge management, reviews, benchmarking and continuous improvement across the Unit.
• The role also supports the Head in shaping and advancing the strategic direction of the Unit by providing structured analysis, portfolio insights, coordination support and implementation follow-through.

Job Description

Financial / Shareholder Returns

• Coordinate budget inputs, monitor expenditure trends and provide management reporting for IPU-led programmes, PMOs and priority initiatives to support financial discipline and informed decision-making.

Coordination, Reporting and Portfolio Management

• Lead portfolio-level tracking across approved industry plans, priority initiatives and strategic workstreams, including milestones, progress, decisions, action items, risks, dependencies, lessons learned and follow-up requirements.
• Monitor and analyse implementation progress, risks, dependencies and bottlenecks, and recommend corrective actions or escalation where management decisions are required.
• Drive follow-through on agreed actions, decisions and commitments across planners, contributors and stakeholder groups, ensuring that responsibilities are allocated, tracked and concluded.
• Monitor and report on IPU-led memoranda of understanding, partnership commitments and strategic implementation arrangements.
• Prepare management reports, dashboards, briefing notes, presentations and governance updates for the Head: Industry Planning and relevant IDC governance structures.
• Strengthen governance readiness of IPU outputs by ensuring that reports, submissions and presentations are clear, evidence-based, consistent and aligned to IDC strategic priorities.
• Consolidate inputs from Industry Development Planners and other contributors in response to ad hoc requests, executive priorities and strategic assignments.
• Lead internal liaison activities that improve awareness of IPU priorities, planned outputs and areas where input is required from other business units.

Programme Management and Strategic Initiative Delivery

• Establish Programme Management Offices (PMOs), as required, for selected IPU and Divisional priority initiatives, including inter-governmental initiatives and cross-functional strategic programmes.
• Lead the establishment and operationalisation of programme governance arrangements, workplans, reporting routines, decision logs and implementation tracking mechanisms.
• Support the translation of approved industry plans and strategic priorities into actionable workplans, delivery routines and implementation tracking mechanisms.
• Oversee implementation tracking for selected IPU and Divisional priority initiatives where IPU has a coordinating or sponsoring role.
• Facilitate senior-level workshops, conferences, stakeholder engagements and working sessions required to advance priority industry planning initiatives.
• Identify delivery risks, process gaps, coordination constraints and implementation bottlenecks, and propose practical actions to improve execution.

Qualification and Experience

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: relevant degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, Development Studies, Public Policy, Commerce, Project Management, Industrial Development, Organisational Development or a related field.
• Honours degree will be an advantage.

Knowledge & experience

• Minimum 8 -10  years’ experience in the energy, industrial development, consulting or engineering sectors.
• Experience in a development finance institution is required.
• Proven experience in programme or portfolio governance in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Significant experience in implementation tracking, risk and issue management, stakeholder engagement and management reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate delivery across functions without direct reporting authority.
• Experience preparing executive-level reports, governance submissions, presentations and strategic decision-support material.
• Understanding of industry planning, industrial development, development finance, public sector processes or strategic economic development would be an advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication and coordination capability.

Roles and Responsibilities

Behavioural competencies

• Strategic thinking and business judgement
• Influencing without direct authority
• Senior stakeholder engagement
• Change leadership and continuous improvement
• Learning agility
• Structured problem solving
• Clear communication and presentation skills
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Initiative, self-management and attention to detail
• Delivery accountability
• Professional judgement and discretion

Technical/functional competencies

• Programme and project management
• Portfolio reporting and performance tracking
• Strategic implementation planning
• Governance and executive decision-support
• Process optimisation and continuous improvement
• Methodologies, tools, templates and standard operating practices
• Facilitation of multi-stakeholder engagements
• Executive reporting and presentation development
• Report writing and quality assurance
• Knowledge management
• Risk, issue and dependency tracking
• Strategic and systems thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Planning, prioritisation and delivery coordination
• Advanced Microsoft Office capability

Posting End Date

7 Sept 2026