Program Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Open Society Foundations Full time
Program Manager - Democratic Resilience in Africa

Johannesburg Posting Date:
05/24/2024.

Deadline:
06/14/2024

Grade Level

Level E, Grade 11

Contract Type

8 years

Reporting To

Director, Programs

Location

Nairobi, Johannesburg, Dakar

Program/Tool/ Department/Unit Name

Programs

Team Name

Democratic Resilience in Africa

Opportunity Description

This work will focus on supporting democracy and free and fair elections in Africa. Areas for exploration will include identifying the right national approaches and regional efforts to strengthen democracy across Africa. For this role, there will be a particular emphasis on Women's Economic Empowerment and Political Participation in Africa.

Role Purpose

The aim of opportunities is to dynamically organize staff, strategies, and budgets around the demands of each opportunity.

It balances the need for sustained attention to complex problems and demands rigorous planning and evaluation, while also providing leaders with the autonomy to pursue radical ideas and approaches.

Key Responsibilities

As Program Manager, you will:

  • Support the Director of Programs to deliver on the opportunity's outcomes with professionalism
  • Deliver on daytoday liaison with grantees to ensure the opportunity is designed, launched, implemented, and exited according to the outcomes defined
  • Work collaboratively with other members within the opportunity team and with colleagues across OSF to ensure the opportunity is effectively leveraging OSF's capabilities to reach the agreed outcome
  • Effectively manage the grantmaking process by communicating with grantees for proposal submission, assisting in grant record preparation, grants processing, payments, reporting, and other related processes
  • Build a strong understanding of the field and partnerships, in developing and designing the grant selection processes
  • Manage relationships with partners, in close coordination with Geographic Policy Groups as relevant, and work with them to achieve OSF's strategic objective through the opportunity
  • Work collaboratively in developing, assessing, and revising program strategies
  • Work with leadership to maintain grantmaking practice aligned with OSF's approach to grantmaking and in compliance with organizational and external standards and regulations
  • Assist in the construction, maintenance, and assessment of grant making portfolio(s), sharing responsibility for strategy design with manager
  • Contribute to larger opportunity strategy
  • Process and oversee progress of consultant contracts
  • Monitor progress implementation, project risks, and other relevant status updates and communicate to Director, Programs regularly
People Responsibilities (Total Team/DRs

No

Key internal relationships

Director, Programs; Managing Director Programs; Core Partners, Special Advisors, Grants Management, Operations

Key external relationships

External Partners

Person Specification

Qualifications:

Essential:

  • Educated to a degreelevel (or equivalent)

Desirable:

  • Postgraduate education relevant to the types of Opportunities that Open Society Foundations will invest in
Experience

Essential:

  • Demonstrable expertise in Women's Economic Empowerment and Political Participation in Africa
  • Extensive expertise in the specific topic area as set out in the "Opportunity Description" above
  • Prior working experience of operating within the nonprofit community (for example multilateral, NGO, foundation or ambassadorial working environments)
  • Fluent in local language where the role is based
  • Relevant expertise in topic area (thematic and/or geographic) specific to the opportunity

Functional Competencies:

  • Conceives, designs and manages crossdepartment, crossprogram or similarly complex projects; expected to effectively manage time, budget and stakeholders and networkwide or similarly complex coordination
  • Able to generate, capture and organize information and knowledge to deliver prescribed outcomes
  • Ability to conduct research to drive decision making by management
  • Skilled in drawing out patterns
  • Experience in budgeting, strategic analysis and planning
  • Working well with a variety of public, private and NGO stakeholders
  • Building and maintaining networks of stakeholders
  • Promote strategic cooperation with governmental and other sectors
  • Knowledge of grant making best practices and the field of philanthropy
  • Ability to build synergies, strengthen movements, and identify and fill capacity gaps across fields
  • Demonstrate care and concern about partner organizations and the people who work in them

Personal Competencies:

  • Able to build consensus with diverse audiences/stakeholders
  • Possesses cultural sensitivity to work respectfully and effectively in different settings
  • Ability to work independently and being selfmotivated
  • Demonstrates commitment to OSF's core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity and integrity
  • Proven experience

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