Program Manager

• Financial inclusion: Driving increased access, usage, and quality of financial services for individuals, households, and MSMEs - including savings, payments, credit, insurance, and investment.
• Access to capital: Expanding access to and breadth of efficient long/short-term financing options for private businesses of all scales, and the public sector, including equity, bonds, working capital, etc.
• Climate finance: Mobilizing domestic and international capital to fund climate adaptation and mitigation projects and needs of government, businesses, and households, such as green bonds, carbon credits, and insurance.

• Provide strategic leadership to the PMO office in the implementation of NFIS II, aimed at enhancing the growth and inclusiveness of Ethiopia's financial sector.
• Lead the development of a work plan, activities, targets, budget, and standards for measuring progress and results. Determine the processes, tools, and methodologies to be used to ensure effective and efficient program implementation and operations.
• Execute and lead project management processes and activities to support effective and efficient project management practices.
• Lead the implementation of initiatives outlined in the strategy, incorporating new thinking across the field. Take into consideration emerging issues and engage with the international financial sector development community to bring global best practices and key innovations.
• Proactively engage with relevant stakeholders in the implementation of the NFIS strategy.
• Lead and provide support to key staff in the development of the PMO office's annual operations, ensuring that all activities are planned, budgeted, and aligned with the strategy.
• Review project process steps and adhere to project standards to mitigate issues and deliver according to the defined scope, schedule, and budget.
• Define, disseminate, and track project milestones and success criteria.

Leadership & Empowerment of the Team

• Lead and build a PMO office team that is fully engaged and committed to delivering the overall objectives of the office. Drive the development and execution of the overall people strategy and systems.
• Build an effective and coordinated team that is aligned with shared strategies and values. Troubleshoot any team working challenges, conflicts, or performance bottlenecks.
• Manage the team towards high-performance standards through clear roles and responsibilities and provision of appropriate support. Proactively address performance issues through timely constructive feedback, coaching, and appropriate corrective action.
• Ensure that staff are managed in accordance with good HR management practices and are provided with a safe and conducive working environment. This includes ensuring that all legal and statutory obligations are fulfilled.

Strategic Relationship Management

• Build relationships with key actors and ensure the development and implementation of influencing strategies and interventions.
• Build strong partnerships and collaborate with stakeholders to develop a comprehensive project scope and plan, ensuring technical feasibility, specifying required deliverables, identifying resource requirements, relevant participants, budgets, milestones, and timelines.
• Communicate accurate and timely reporting updates to stakeholders regarding projects, activities, and issues.
• Monitor and assess resource needs during project cycles, submit additional requests for approval, and make the appropriate adjustments as necessary.
• Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive advocacy and communications strategy that will result in transformative change.

Repots directly to:DFS lead, FSD Ethiopia

Reports indirectly to:NBE-TBD

Direct Reports to: Technical Leads

Person specifications

Qualifications and Education

• Masters degree from a recognized learning institution in Business, Banking and Finance, Development Studies, Economics, or any other relevant subject.
• Relevant further degrees or professional qualifications are an advantage.
• Fluent in written and spoken English

• Demonstrate high levels of integrity.
• Ability to operationalize short term plans, programs and budgets developed at the strategic and senior management level.
• Ability to implement plans, programs, SOPS, and coordination of workflows
• Interpersonal and leadership, people management skills
• Project management and implementation skills
• Formal presentation skills
• Ability to write complex reports and proposals
• Analytical skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated strategy skills and capacity to conceptualize, structure and supervise projects/programs.
• Ability to build personal and institutional relationships and networks.
• Fluency in both English and Amharic working languages is required.