African Management Institute
Senior Program Manager
Description
AMI is looking for a Senior Programme Manager to oversee the end-to-end quality project delivery of a new partner programme launching in Ghana in late 2024, with a focus on reaching SMEs with capacity building programmes at significant scale. This is a chance for an outstanding entrepreneurial leader to be part of Africa’s transformation, and to help shape, build and scale one of its most innovative social businesses.
The Senior Programme Manager will be part of the team implementing partner-based programmes under the AMI Impact unit. You will be a key player in a dynamic, global team focused obsessively on results. As this is our first Ghana-focused hire, it is a senior role with strong opportunity for growth and to demonstrate your potential to lead within AMI.
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. The ability to work independently and entrepreneurially, with limited support on the ground from more senior staff (who are predominantly Kenya-based), will be critical.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Program Manager with a robust background in SME Business Development Services (BDS) or SME financing/ other SME support in Ghana. An understanding of the agriculture sector is beneficial. The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of the MSME landscape, including NGOs, capacity building, marketing stakeholders, and investors. Furthermore, the candidate should have a solid track record in project management, and entrepreneurship support, with specific experience in complex programme plan development and implementation, stakeholder engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and capacity building initiatives.
Please note the contract signature is dependent on an imminent contract signature between AMI and the dunder of the relevant Ghana project.
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