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.
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