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  • Posted: Feb 4, 2025
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    Africa’s greatest need is ethical, entrepreneurial, and transformative leadership. By 2050, the demand for jobs, dignified livelihoods, functional infrastructure, meaningful healthcare, and reliable agriculture will soar for approximately one billion Africans. Meeting these needs and achieving system-wide transformations will necessitate a signific...
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    Program Manager – AL for Governance

    Position Responsibilities

    • Stakeholder Management: Recruit, build and sustain partnerships with existing and new employers, program partners, technical partners, and potential funders (internally and externally).
    • Manage a portfolio of programs for emerging and existing talent in the public service domain, ensuring adequate resource allocation across the team
    • Grow the sector network by implementing the network engagement strategy that will enable diverse stakeholders to connect and collaborate consistently to innovate and improve public service in Africa.
    • External Communications: Manage all external communications in line with required branding guidelines and required protocols.
    • Budget management and reporting: Manage the sector budget and all grant reporting
    • Get stuck in: Participate in program design and delivery, providing coaching, program facilitation and other engagement as necessary for program success and as a means of engaging network members.
    • Manage a team: You will support and supervise a senior associate, associate, and interns to deliver on the program work, providing them with opportunities for growth and professional development when needed.

    Profile of the ideal candidate

    • Demonstrate leadership: you identify, evaluate, and execute high-impact opportunities using entrepreneurial thinking.
    • Program Implementation Skills: Ability to organise and implement events and programs that will contribute to, and build, the creative network.
    • Highly organized: Ability to plan and deliver on projects timeously. Good planning, priority, and organisational skills, especially when under tight deadlines
    • You have a strong existing network in the governance sector and are passionate about building and sustaining relationships and networks.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience with public speaking and publishing written work, and/or developing communication strategies and plans.
    • Communication and Marketing skills: Must have effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing. In practicality, this translates into report writing skills, grant applications, marketing blurbs, social media posts, formal letter writing and newsletter writing.
    • Professional development skills: Ability to coach young, highly skilled, ambitious talent (potentially in their first job) with a strong growth trajectory and provide career guidance as needed.
    • Data Management and Analysis skills: CRM Data management, generating analytics that can be used for reporting. (Salesforce knowledge is an added advantage.)

    Desired Experience

    • Master’s degree in public administration, international relations, or related discipline
    • 6+ years of experience working in civil society, government, or governance focused organizations. Supervisory experience is a requirement.
    • Public Service knowledge and a broad understanding and knowledge of the development challenges and opportunities facing the African continent.
    • An awareness of career opportunities in this sector through the lens of leadership development and be passionate and eager to engage in continuous learning and networking in these fields.
    • Dedicated to shaping the future of the Governance sector in Africa.
    • Budget management and report writing is a requirement.

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