Job Title: Program Manager
Hiring Organization: Open Society
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 05/27/2024
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, Programs regularly
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
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 non-profit community (for example
multi-lateral, 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 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 and preferably a good working knowledge of
French
Knowledge
of other languages would be an asset