Project Management

• Responsible for planning, organization, and direction of the organization’s operations and programs.
• Develops and implements consistent inventory and cost accounting policies, procedures, and operational reporting/metrics.
• Oversees and reports on the organization’s results to the board of directors.
• Supervises the development of operations-based financial modeling.
• Coordinates and leads annual budget reviews, monthly and quarterly reviews, and periodic planning and forecast updates for effective program implementation.
• Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals
• Maintain and support in building a strong Board of Directors; build board involvement with strategic direction of ongoing programs
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain CFA high-performance performance.
• Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents.
• Develop appropriate community partnerships and collaborations, and provide feedback to the Board related to the operationalization of those partnerships and collaborations.
• Manage and develop CFA Path Program and Mentorship Program with Youth and Community Development Manager to build on leadership, personal and professional skills for PATH students

People Management

• Provides leadership to and manage the efforts of program teams to ensure appropriate support of all departments.
• Retains a diverse, highly qualified staffs and volunteers by providing career coaching, growth, and personal development for workers.
• Manage a motivated and passionate team that embody CFA Core Values
• Ensure effective staff management by adopting efficient performance management models to maximize output.

Fundraising & Communications:

• Expand local income generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion.
• Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities.
• Prepares accurate and timely analyses that capture and communicate fundraising results, variances, and performance trends.
• Ensures that services and funding relationships are robust enough to meet or exceed strategic goals and objectives.
• Design the national fund raising strategy to intensify in-country fundraising.
• Build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders for the growth of the organization.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
• Intensify local and international presence and communicate program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local programs to up the organization in a better position for resource mobilization.
• Seek and apply for new grant and funding opportunities

Qualification

• Preferred applicant must have a minimum of a Master’s Degree in Development Management, Project Management, MBA or other relating fields with 7 or more years’ experience in senior management of non-profit organization.

Experience Required

• Successful resource development, fundraising and philanthropy experience High level communication skills, including experience of communicating effectively across cultures and with diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing
• A solid knowledge of accounting, budgeting, financial management and fundraising.
• Extensive experience in leading the process of ongoing strategic planning.
• Extensive experience in public speaking/public relations.
• Ability to appreciate gender, cultural and ethnic diversity
• Sensitive to context, local dynamics that drive conflict and division, and power imbalances

 Skills

• Demonstrated leadership and management skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Takes initiative
• Works independently
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Dynamic
• Flexible
• Organize
• Good team player

Apply through this email: terence@pagusafrica.org