Senior Programs Manager

Overview

The Senior Programs Manager for the entrepreneurship programs will play a crucial role in overseeing the implementation of various acceleration programs, covering startups from the idea stage to scale-ups.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your key responsibilities and accountabilities will include:

Program Design and Implementation

• Design and oversee the implementation of acceleration support strategy, objectives, and timelines.
• Ensure the seamless execution of entrepreneurial, business, and technical support initiatives for startups at various stages of development.
• Identify areas for improvement within startup businesses and propose guided mentorship.
• Lead new projects focusing on program design and activities in coordination with the management team.
• Work with Berytech leadership team to identify ways to incorporate the acceleration programs into other business lines.

Startup Support

• Oversee guidance, mentorship, and resources to participating startups.
• Review and evaluate startup pitch decks, advising on investment recommendations.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with internal teams, including program managers, mentors, and support staff, to ensure cohesive and coordinated program delivery.
• Engage with external stakeholders, such as industry partners, mentors, and investors, to enhance program outcomes and opportunities for startups.

Financial Management and Reporting

• Develop and maintain the annual budget for the department and program activities.
• Manage KPIs related to business development, reporting progress to management and recommending adjustments.
• Prepare regular and ad-hoc reports for management and donor representatives, ensuring visibility on progress, budget, and timelines.
• Manage grant programs associated with acceleration, ensuring compliance with regulations and guidelines.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to streamline the grant application, approval, and disbursement processes.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Develop and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) for acceleration programs.
• Collaborate with the M&E department to enhance monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Overseeing the implementation of the different programs, building on learning and ensuring clear implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning mechanism.
• Collaborate on building a robust monitoring and evaluation system to assess the impact and effectiveness of the programs.

Communication and Outreach

• Lead the design of effective outreach strategies to recruit entrepreneurs.
• Coordinate with the Communications & Outreach Department for effective information sharing.

Supervisory 

• Hire, onboard, and train team.
• Set expectations and key performance metrics as well as provide feedback and conduct evaluations for direct reports.
• Provide a roadmap for employee development and career planning.

Requires Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Education: Master’s degree in Management, MBA, Economics, or relevant experience.
• Experience: 8-10 years of work experience in related fields, with previous experience in entrepreneurship or donor-funded programs being advantageous.
• Language: Fluent in Arabic and English, French is a plus.

Additional Skills:

• Strong organizational: Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills: Demonstrates excellent skills in communication, and diplomatic with excellent abilities to motivate people.
• Attention to detail: Highly meticulous, organized, pragmatic, curious, motivated, and positive.
• Program management: Demonstrated facilitation and project management capabilities with strong problem-solving skills and comfort with numbers.
• Stakeholder management: Ability to present complex ideas in simple terms and obtain buy-in from stakeholders.
• Work ethic and Initiative: Results-driven, initiative-taker, proactive, and resilient.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Interested applicants meeting all the above requirements are to submit their applications below.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.