Program Manager- Intersection of Finance, Climate, and Equity

Found in: Talent ZA C2 - 2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Open Society Foundations Full time

Description

This work will explore the intersection of several interrelated goals to ensure that Global South countries can shape important decisions around climate change, finance, and the global fiscal landscape. Areas of exploration will include loss and damage, climate finance, equitable debt reform, and global tax reform.

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.

The Program Manager will be responsible for day-to-day liaison and coordination with grantee and partner organisations. The Program Manager will play a critical role with implementing the opportunity, which may use a variety of OSF’s strategic capabilities, including advocacy, impact investing, strategic litigation, in addition to grant making. The expectation is that the Program Manager is a subject matter expert in the specific opportunity.

Key Responsibilities  

As Program Manager, you will:  

Support the Director of Programs to deliver on the opportunity’s outcomes with professionalism 

Deliver on day-to-day 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 grant-making 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 grant-making practice aligned with OSF's approach to grant-making 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 of 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 

Qualifications  

Essential : 

University degree or equivalent experience

Desirable :

 Post-graduate education relevant to the types of Opportunities that Open Society Foundations will invest in 

Experience   

Essential :

Multiple years’ experience (in one or multiple organisations) where proficiency in the specific field or subject area has been comprehensively developed

5+ years of experience working with national governments, national development banks, and/or other development finance institutions.

Extensive expertise in the following topic areas related to the Opportunity described above: green industrial policy, tax and fiscal policy and public debt.

Fluent in local language where the role is based, as well as English

Competencies  

Functional Competencies:  

Conceives, designs and manages cross-department, cross-program or similarly complex projects; expected to effectively manage time, budget and stakeholders and network-wide 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 self-motivated 

Demonstrates commitment to OSF’s core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity and integrity 

Proven experience in collaborating with multi-country stakeholders

Willingness to adjust working hours to include calls and discussions with colleagues and vendors located in various geographic regions

Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism and social justice 

Languages:  

An excellent knowledge of English

Knowledge of other languages would be an asset 

Subject to local laws, regular employment contracts may be converted to fixed-term contracts to align with the intended duration of the employment for the purposes of working on that opportunity; or alternatively the current permanent contract will be kept in place, with a side letter confirming the duration of the assignment to the time-limited project.

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