Hybrid Portfolio Manager – Africa

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About the role

  • Strategic Portfolio Manager providing leadership for Hivos’ project portfolio in African countries. Ensuring coherence, quality, and impact in project design and implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure strategic coherence and alignment across the project portfolio.
  • Project design ensuring thematically solid propositions in line with Hivos’ strategy
  • Generate interesting ideas for proposal development in line with Hivos’s strategy.
  • Provide strategic advice for developing new programs and projects.
  • Analyze and provide strategic recommendations on the political, social, and economic context of countries in the assigned project portfolio.
  • Contribute to overseeing the implementation of improvement processes resulting from audits of the assigned project portfolio and provide support for consolidating good practices.
  • Responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating advocacy strategies.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and manage or co-manage relevant and impactful advocacy activities and events.
  • Draft project reports and presentations, summarizing progress and insights.
  • Develop workstream and project plans aligned with frameworks.
  • Support risk, issue, and dependency tracking and mitigation.
  • Coordinate stakeholder engagement activities.
  • Supervise closeout processes of the assigned project portfolio.
  • Support the development of funding proposals.
  • Analyze project data and prepare insights reports.
  • Support process improvement initiatives and horizon scanning.
  • Supervise local and regional project managers, allocate work, and contribute to appraisals.
  • Identify and report noncompliance with organizational policies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
  • 1–3 years of experience in project/program management/coordination in the development sector
  • Experience supervising people or processes is an advantage
  • Experience in grant making and donor-funded projects
  • Project planning, reporting, and prioritization
  • Experience in developing effective advocacy strategies
  • Strategic thinking and ability to create, identify and make use of advocacy opportunities
  • Data analysis and insight generation
  • Stakeholder engagement and expectation management
  • Tech-savvy with modern project tools
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills are important.
  • Fluent in English. French is an asset.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development

Job title

Portfolio Manager – Africa

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridAfrica

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