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    Program Manager- Intersection of Finance, Climate, and Equity - Johannesburg, South Africa - Open Society Foundations

    Open Society Foundations
    Open Society Foundations Johannesburg, South Africa

    1 week ago

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    Description

    Description

    This work will explore the intersection of several interrelated goals to ensure that Global South countries can shape important decisions around climate change, finance, and the global fiscal landscape. Areas of exploration will include loss and damage, climate finance, equitable debt reform, and global tax reform.

    Role Purpose

    The aim of opportunities is to dynamically organize staff, strategies, and budgets around the demands of each opportunity. It balances the need for sustained attention to complex problems and demands rigorous planning and evaluation, while also providing leaders with the autonomy to pursue radical ideas and approaches.

    The Program Manager will be responsible for day-to-day liaison and coordination with grantee and partner organisations. The Program Manager will play a critical role with implementing the opportunity, which may use a variety of OSF's strategic capabilities, including advocacy, impact investing, strategic litigation, in addition to grant making. The expectation is that the Program Manager is a subject matter expert in the specific opportunity.

    Key Responsibilities

    As Program Manager, you will:

  • Support the Director of Programs to deliver on the opportunity's outcomes with professionalism
  • Deliver on day-to-day liaison with grantees to ensure the opportunity is designed, launched, implemented, and exited according to the outcomes defined
  • Work collaboratively with other members within the opportunity team and with colleagues across OSF to ensure the opportunity is effectively leveraging OSF's capabilities to reach the agreed outcome
  • Effectively manage the grant-making process by communicating with grantees for proposal submission, assisting in grant record preparation, grants processing, payments, reporting, and other related processes
  • Build a strong understanding of the field and partnerships, in developing and designing the grant selection processes
  • Manage relationships with partners, in close coordination with Geographic Policy Groups as relevant, and work with them to achieve OSF's strategic objective through the opportunity
  • Work collaboratively in developing, assessing, and revising program strategies
  • Work with leadership to maintain grant-making practice aligned with OSF's approach to grant-making and in compliance with organizational and external standards and regulations
  • Assist in the construction, maintenance, and assessment of grant making portfolio(s), sharing responsibility for strategy design with manager
  • Contribute to larger opportunity strategy
  • Process and oversee progress of consultant contracts
  • Monitor progress implementation, project risks, and other relevant status updates and communicate to Director of Programs regularly

    • People Responsibilities (Total Team/DRs)

    No

    Key internal relationships

    Director, Programs; Managing Director Programs; Core Partners, Special Advisors, Grants Management, Operations

    Key external relationships

    External Partners

    Qualifications

    Essential :

  • University degree or equivalent experience

    • Desirable :

  • Post-graduate education relevant to the types of Opportunities that Open Society Foundations will invest in

    • Experience

    Essential :

  • Multiple years' experience (in one or multiple organisations) where proficiency in the specific field or subject area has been comprehensively developed
  • 5+ years of experience working with national governments, national development banks, and/or other development finance institutions.
  • Extensive expertise in the following topic areas related to the Opportunity described above: green industrial policy, tax and fiscal policy and public debt.
  • Fluent in local language where the role is based, as well as English

    • Competencies

    Functional Competencies:

  • Conceives, designs and manages cross-department, cross-program or similarly complex projects; expected to effectively manage time, budget and stakeholders and network-wide or similarly complex coordination
  • Able to generate, capture and organize information and knowledge to deliver prescribed outcomes
  • Ability to conduct research to drive decision making by management
  • Skilled in drawing out patterns
  • Experience in budgeting, strategic analysis and planning
  • Working well with a variety of public, private and NGO stakeholders
  • Building and maintaining networks of stakeholders
  • Promote strategic cooperation with governmental and other sectors
  • Knowledge of grant making best practices and the field of philanthropy
  • Ability to build synergies, strengthen movements, and identify and fill capacity gaps across fields
  • Demonstrate care and concern about partner organizations and the people who work in them

    • Personal Competencies:

  • Able to build consensus with diverse audiences/stakeholders
  • Possesses cultural sensitivity to work respectfully and effectively in different settings
  • Ability to work independently and being self-motivated
  • Demonstrates commitment to OSF's core values of humility, commitment, collaboration, respect, inclusivity and integrity
  • Proven experience in collaborating with multi-country stakeholders
  • Willingness to adjust working hours to include calls and discussions with colleagues and vendors located in various geographic regions
  • Commitment to continuous learning and growth in the areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism and social justice

    • Languages:

  • An excellent knowledge of English
  • Knowledge of other languages would be an asset

    • Subject to local laws, regular employment contracts may be converted to fixed-term contracts to align with the intended duration of the employment for the purposes of working on that opportunity; or alternatively the current permanent contract will be kept in place, with a side letter confirming the duration of the assignment to the time-limited project.

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