Job Vacancy For Programme Manager, TBI-AGRA Partnership
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
- Accra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide strategic and technical support to advisors under the programme, as well as to country heads, ensuring the implementation of the workplan
- Provide support on fixing bottlenecks and serve as the main communication channel between advisors and AGRA Headquarters
- Based on regular inputs from country teams, prepare and manage a comprehensive overview of partnership implementation and impact including quarterly reports, annual reports, weekly check-in calls, etc
- MEL: work with advisors to monitor and analyse data, discuss findings in regular meetings, and collate into regular reporting
- Participate in quarterly reflection and learning sessions of each country team to incorporate learnings from monitoring data into programme adaptation and theory of change
- Manage the programme budget and operations, working with AGRA grants team as well as with TBI support functions
- Ensure compliance with AGRA frameworks and regulations including but not limited to invoices, expenses, flights, contracts and timesheet management
- Ensure programmatic coherence at all levels
- Design and successfully roll out TBI's strategy with AGRA and key partners (eg. USAID Bureau of Resilience and Food Security) in the next two years
- Ensure regular reporting to AGRA, including quarterly and annual project implementation reports, and ad-hoc reporting requests
- Work with AGRA and TBI's fundraising team to mobilise resources for the partnership, furthering discussions on extension and expansion of the grant
- Produce funding proposals with TBI's fundraising team and AGRA, as well as additional documents as required by partners
- Use the thought leadership products to further conversations with partners and position AGRA and TBI as trusted actors in this space
- Provide advisory support to AGRA's Policy and State Capability Department, supporting AGRA in its new strategy
- Ensure a healthy working relationship and provision of results to key partners, particularly USAID
- Manage the wider relationship with AGRA, including with the partnerships team, the President, Vice Presidents, and other relevant stakeholders, to ensure extension, expansion and deepening of the partnership
- Support TBI country teams to liaise with AGRA country teams
- Minimum of 8 years' of experience in an international fast paced environment:
o Experience working with an agriculture or market systems development partner-funded program
o Strong understanding of market systems and the role of government in markets
o Experience in MEL and adaptive monitoring approaches (e.g. outcome harvesting) would be an asset
o Experience in institutional capacity development, private sector development, communications, economics, value chain analysis, consultancy, investment promotion is desirable
- Exceptional listening, oral and written communication skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail needed. Experience of identifying and resolving project implementation bottlenecks
- Excellent strategic relationship skills
- Ability to work under pressure and to lead and coordinate across various people based in different countries:
o Ability to build and manage effective relationships with other organisations and key stakeholders on behalf of TBI
o Hands on approach to work, with the ability to deliver on deadlines in a fast-paced and fast-changing environment, with minimal or no supervision
o Ability to use own initiative and actively look for opportunities to have an impact rather than simply be reactive
o Language skills in Portuguese would be an advantage
- Excellent administrative and organization skills, commitment, attention to detail and strong forward planning skills
- High degree of professionalism to handle sensitive and confidential information and absolute discretion and adherence to confidentiality
- Strong MS Office skills and ability to produce documents to a good presentational level e.g. reports
- An understanding of the needs of senior officials both while office based and travelling
- Willingness to travel, sometimes at short notice
- Experience working in Africa is preferred
- Strong sense of ethics, discretion and perseverance required
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