CALA Programme Lead at African Management Institute (AMI)

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.