Catering Services Manager leading catering team to meet customer expectations and deliver successful events. Managing all aspects of catering solutions and ensuring quality standards in hospitality.
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
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