About the role
- As Programme Associate, you
are the operational backbone of the country team. You will play a critical
role in ensuring the successful delivery of programmes by
coordinating logistics, managing data, supporting participants, and
overseeing the day-to-day operational details that keep everything running
smoothly. You will
- ensure that all moving parts come together effectively to achieve
programme objectives and deliver an exceptional participant
experience.
- This role is more than administration. You are curious, well-read
and connected. You follow what is happening in the startup and
entrepreneurship space in your country and across the continent. You know
how to find people, through research, networks and initiative, and
you apply that instinct to helping identify the right
- women entrepreneurs in communities that are easy to overlook. You
notice things and act on them without being asked.
- This is an early-career role with a real development pathway. You
will learn fast, be stretched and grow alongside a programme that is
doing important work across four countries.
Key responsibilities
- Provide logistical and administrative support for all country
programme activities, including event and workshop logistics, travel
and accommodation, venue booking, materials preparation and
participant communication.
- Support the identification and mapping of women entrepreneurs in
rural and peri-urban areas through active online research, network
engagement and a strong knowledge of what is happening in the
local ecosystem.
- Support participant outreach, registration and application
management for all programme cohorts incountry.
- Coordinate data collection from participants and field activities,
ensuring data is captured accurately and
- submitted on time in support of monitoring, evaluation and reporting
requirements.
- Act as the country safeguarding focal point for participant-facing
activities, referring concerns promptly to the designated
safeguarding lead in line with programme policy.
- Manage in-country petty cash, expense claims and activity retirement
documentation in coordination with the finance team.
- Maintain organised country activity files, participant databases and
partner contact records, ensuring
- information is always current and accessible.
- Support the Programme Lead in preparing country activity plans,
updates and reports, and step in to support the wider delivery team
during peak periods.
Qualifications
and requirements
- You have 2 to 4 years of experience in programme administration,
project coordination or operational support within an NGO,
development organisation or entrepreneurship programme.
- You hold a degree or diploma in Business Administration, Social
Sciences, Development Studies or a related field.
- You have strong organisational skills with a high level of attention
to detail and an ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
without things falling through the cracks.
- You are genuinely curious about the world around you. You read
sector publications, follow what is happening in the startup and
innovation space and you stay informed.
- You are a networker and relationship builder. You are comfortable
reaching out to new people and finding
- your way into new communities and spaces.
- You have strong online research skills. You know how to use what you
find to open doors and surface opportunities.
- You are comfortable with data collection tools, digital and
paper-based, and proficiency in Google
- Workspace or Microsoft Office. You learn new systems quickly.
- You have a proactive, self-starting attitude. You notice what needs
doing and you do it without waiting to be asked.
- You have empathy and interpersonal skills to engage respectfully
with diverse youth participants, including safeguarding
awareness.
- You are ready for pace. This programme moves fast and the team needs
someone who can keep up, stay
- sharp and deliver under pressure.
- You must be based in your country of application with valid right to
work documentation.
How to Apply
