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Job Description

The Programme Lead will be responsible for the implementation of an Agri-focused leadership development programme for leaders implementing agriculture flagship and priority programmmes in different African countries. You will be a key player in a dynamic, international results-focused team At AMI, we work hard, innovate constantly, and have fun in the process. This is a chance for someone with a passion for learning, technology, leadership training, and business growth to be part of Africa’s transformation. We are particularly interested in hearing from people with experience in managing innovative and client-facing projects, business consulting, agribusiness environments, and leadership capacity building.

The Programme Lead must be a driven, organized, tech-savvy professional with great people and project-managing skills and the ability to lead complex programmes with senior management participants.

The successful candidate will play key roles in joining the dots between our world-class content and clients on the ground:

• S/he will manage stakeholders and participants in complex programmes and ensure that programme deliverables are met within stringent timelines while identifying stakeholders' and participants' pain points and proactively communicating resolutions.
• S/he will work with senior government officials and other senior managers from Agri-sector companies who are participants of the AMI programme to ensure that they participate in the programme and the programme has impact.
• S/he will plan and deliver engaging learning programs end-to-end: Be the lead on client learning programs, build implementation plans, and manage core logistics and programming for both online and face-to-face components of AMI’s blended learning programmes.
• Ensure programmes have impact and are valued by clients: Evaluate core learning outcomes and metrics within learning programmes and adapt design and delivery to resolve issues in real-time.
• Work with the Learning Designer to manage programme facilitators.
• Oversee an external logistics consultant who will organize workshop and travel logistics for programme participants.
• Hold the responsibility of managing programme budget and reporting on the programme's financials.
• ​Oversee programme reporting to client and impact evaluation, together with Senior M&E Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Programme Management 

• Lead project implementation end to end, from planning, budgeting, monitoring programme outcomes, and reporting.
• Take lead to develop, customize & implement detailed engagement to ensure that the participants and stakeholders feel supported.
• In collaboration with the M&E team, capture project outcomes/impact and lessons learned and share with internal and external programme stakeholders
• Maintain accurate programme data and analyse programme data and feedback to ensure core programme metrics and targets are being met (adapt as necessary)
• Identify programme risks at the start of the programme, and ensure programme risks are effectively managed.
• Liaise with clients throughout learning programs to ensure programs run smoothly and issues are dealt with in a timely manner
• With support of the finance team, prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual project budgets and align project budget with stakeholders.

Stakeholder management 

• Lead in project activity delivery and ensure relevant stakeholders are updated and notified of all project activities.
• Manage external consultants who provide specific expertise on various programme components to support programme delivery.

Facilitator Network Management 

• Work with the Learning Designer to manage and provide ongoing support and assessment for existing facilitators.

Team management 

• Manage, mentor, and motivate a growing team of Learner Success Managers who support the delivery of the programmes

Logistical management 

• Liaise with technology providers to support virtual workshops
• Liaise with external travel resource agents to plan workshop logistics for participants
• Arrange project team meetings with different programme stakeholders
• Plan and prepare for project workshop sessions, supporting partners' activities

Requirements

Qualifications and Skills

• A degree in Commerce/ Business Administration/ Agribusiness Management/ Agricultural Economics/ or any other relevant qualification from a recognized university. Preferably Masters level.
• Knowledge and practical experience in Africa's agriculture value chains and capacity development.
• Experience working with government institutions or leaders is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of the agribusiness sector in Africa
• Capacity building of organizations and blended training methodologies
• Ability to understand AMI’s participants and implement learning experiences that enable the learner to achieve the desired learning outcome in a human-centered and goal-oriented way
• Extensive project management experience.
• Willingness to participate in field activities and travel.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and computer Skills.

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Job Description

The Senior Programme Manager will be a part of the Client Success team to implement partner-based programmes under the AMI Impact unit. You will be a key player in a dynamic, global team focused obsessively on results.

At AMI, we work hard, innovate constantly, and have fun in the process. This is a chance for someone with a passion for learning, leadership, and business growth to be part of Africa’s transformation. We are particularly interested in hearing from people with past experience managing grant-funded programmes, including report-writing related work.

The Senior Programme Manager must be a driven, organized, detail-oriented leader with great people and project-management skills and ability to manage complex programmes.

Responsibilities:

• Managing stakeholders in multiple AMI partner programmes, including customized/ more complex programmes, ensuring that programme deliverables are met within stringent timelines, client expectations are managed, while identifying stakeholder pain points, risks and proactively resolving them.
• Evaluating core learning outcomes and metrics within partner programmes, support the adaptation of design and delivery and ensure programme impact is realized.
• Arranging and leading regular internal project team meetings with internal stakeholders as a space to track key deliverables, problem-solve, address bottlenecks and update internal stakeholders on progress.
• Execute on agreed best practices for AMI client project management - including documented project plans, clear agendas for client and internal meetings, leading client kick offs including clarifying and documenting scope, high quality, insightful and accurate reporting in agreed templates, and strong management of client relationships.
• Supporting the Learner Success team by co-facilitating programme kick off sessions and being present for graduations.
• Developing and managing detailed project plans and monitoring the project scope throughout the life of the programme.
• Managing the budget after the internal kick-off by tracking and identifying shortfalls ahead of time, tracking the time element of the budget through time writing on AMI’s ERP system, managing external expenses such as facilitators, marketing, logistics for in person events etc., and liaising with Accounting once an invoice is ready for you to send to the client. (It's acknowledged that all this would dependent on the timewriting set up on ERP and the budget read outs)
• Collaborating with AMI’s Impact team in capturing project outcomes, impact, lessons learned and regularly updating internal and external programme stakeholders.
• Manage all programme documentation, ensuring that programme data is organized, formatted and stored in an orderly manner.
• Maintaining accurate programme data, analyzing programme data and feedback to ensure core programme metrics and targets are being met 
• Managing all client reporting requirements by creating and developing the reports, ensuring that the internal project team i.e; the Partnerships Manager, Learner Success Manager (s), and the Impact Manager, have reviewed the reports and shared their feedback if any, before submitting the reports to the client.
• Share learnings and insights during the Client Success collaboration sessions to inform future best team practices

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in business consulting, company training, enterprise development or management education (essential)
• Proven programme management skills and experience (essential) especially with grant-funded programmes
• Experience working in entrepreneurial or high-growth environment (essential)
• Postgraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Facilitation experience (preferred)

Skills & attributes

• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Extensive project management experience
• Strong report-writing skills
• Ability to understand AMI’s participants and implement learning experiences that enable the learner to achieve the desired learning outcome in a human centered and goal-oriented way
• Excellent analytical and negotiation skills
• A commitment to AMI’s values of excellence, innovation and accountability
• Self-motivated, and able to take full ownership of own deliverables
• Solid time management skills ie. able to manage competing priorities and outputs
• Excellent project management skills
• Willing to learn and collaborate with peers and internal stakeholders at AMI
• Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Absolutely rock-solid integrity
• Willingness to participate in field activities and travel

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Job Description

AMI is looking for an ambitious  Partnerships Associate  to join our Global Partnerships Team, which secures and manages our most critical partner relationships. We aim to hire a high-achieving and passionate individual to participate in transforming the impact of business support services to SMEs in Africa. S/he will report to the Lead: Impact Partnerships, while also working closely to support the central Partnerships team. 

The successful candidate will play an instrumental role in a dynamic, international team focused on results. This is a chance for candidates with a passion for entrepreneurship and/or workplace learning to play a part in Africa’s transformation. S/he must be able to communicate fluently in both written and spoken English (French a plus).

The Partnerships Associate must be a driven, organized, tech-savvy professional with great people and project-management skills and strong attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

Partnership Relationship Building

• Support the team by monitoring partnerships opportunities, scanning the market (e.g. platforms like Devex, SAM.gov, Grants.gov, eTendering) and identifying business opportunities, key relationship-building opportunities and Requests for Proposal windows across the continent. The objective of this is to help AMI build relationships with major pan-African development and intermediary partners, to position AMI as a partner of choice for the delivery of skills and enterprise development programs.

Proposal Development

• Support the overall proposal development process from scoping to formalization
• Coordinate internally to gather all the necessary documents to submit the proposal and meet the eligibility criteria, particularly compliance documents
• Conduct research on specific sectors to identify key data and reports that will strengthen AMI’s proposal
• Conduct proposal administrative tasks e.g. formatting team CVs to meet partner submission requirements
• On occasion, lead on proposals of your own, with scope to develop in this area based on performance

  Internal Project Management

• Once the program is signed with the client, coordinate internally with the other teams to launch the project and hand it over to the other teams (Implementation, Learning, Marketing)
• Work with the Finance team to keep track of the necessary documents for project reporting (invoices, timesheets)

  Overall Partnerships Team support

• Work with the Partnerships Team to prepare presentations to potential funders, find relevant information to share, etc.
• Administrate event co-ordination for partner events
• Work closely with other AMI departments (Client Success, Learner Success, Learning Design, Product, Marketing, Finance) to coordinate projects and events to raise awareness on AMI and how we collaborate with partners
• Take minutes in key meetings as requested and circulated.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with strong academic background. 
• At least 3 years of experience in project or partnership management.
• Experience collaborating with diverse teams within an entrepreneurial or high-growth environment.
• Evidence of leadership/ community development experience (e.g. in community or academic environment).

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills, in English are essential (French a plus).
• Outstanding attention to detail. 
• Excellent proposal writing and report writing skills and ability to work with a team. 
• Creative thinker with a "get things done" mindset, who can quickly adapt to new ideas
• Strong Excel and Power Point skills
• Project Management Skills
• Willing to learn and collaborate with peers and internal stakeholders at AMI
• Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Absolutely rock-solid integrity