(Offre en anglais) Spark recrute un(e) ” Programme Manager Northern Africa – Tunis or Tripoli” Retour vers les opportunités

About SPARK

SPARK develops higher education and entrepreneurship to empower young, ambitious people to lead their fragile and conflict-affected societies into prosperity. SPARK is a dynamic and growing, international not-for-profit development organisation with 80+ staff members, in more than 14 offices around the world. SPARK supports refugees in the Middle-East by providing them with scholarships in universities and higher education institutions in the region. SPARK also supports young entrepreneurs in fragile states, to start or grow their own businesses.

In anticipation of potential new programme funding, SPARK is opening a call for a entrepreneurs support programming, with a focus on scaling existing SMEs, and (more limited in scope) support to start-ups.

The Programme Manager can be based in SPARK’s Tunis office; frequent travel throughout the region is required. This vacancy is subject to approval of a new programme in 2019.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

The responsibilities and tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the overall management, reporting and implementation of the programme in collaboration with local partners, in-house experts, external experts and advisors;
• A key role in logistic, financial and administrative management of the programme implemented by SPARK and its local partners;
• Supervise financial and administrative management of the programme, among timely submission of reports to institutional donors according their and SPARKs requirements;
• Providing technical advice and support to staff and partner organisations;
• Represent SPARK in lobbying, advocacy activities on entrepreneurship for youth;
• Networking with relevant donors, government institutions and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with and manage the partner organisations on the start-up of the programme and implementation of the activities
• Other tasks as required

SPARK Offers

• Full-time contract for 12 months (2 months’ probation period), with the possibility for extension.
• Training opportunities;
• A challenging and exciting position in an international environment;
• A gross monthly salary based on professional experience and based on a fulltime appointment of 40 hours.