Job Vacancies at Ubongo February 2023

UBONGO is Africa’s main producer of kids’ edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform academic content material that helps children learn, and leverage their mastering to trade their lives. Ubongo reaches over 31 million children throughout Africa via on hand applied sciences like TV, radio, and cellular phones. Our suggests Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me presently air in 23 international locations throughout Africa in 9 languages and counting.

Responsibilities:

External:

Leading undertaking and price range management, work plan, reporting, and compliance for a full multi-year USAID sub-contract
Managing Ubongo’s relationship and coordination with consortium companions for initiative delivery, and performing as the key factor of contact for all Jifunze Uelewe associated issues.
Representing Ubongo in all partnership conferences below the JU consortium

Internal: Overseeing and coordinating all elements of Ubongo’s participation in the Jifunze Uelewe initiative. Such as:

Managing the budget
Managing inner coordination and check-in meetings
Keeping tune and making all conscious of timelines and deadlines
Helping to mitigate any delays/obstacles that arise
Coordinating throughout the whole Ubongo group to supply on the commitments for the sub-contract

Administrative and Compliance in line with USAID and provide unique requirements:

Ensuring all timesheets are submitted on time and non-stop auditing of the time tracking
Managing all procurement budgeted in the project
Work intently with our Grants Manager on compliance, price range management, reporting, and administration.
Ensuring that all Ubongoers are up to date on initiative status, and contributing throughout!

Experience:

Already managed a former lengthy time period USAID funded undertaking or contract
Have journey working in consortiums for improvement projects
Ready and in a position to take on all the challenges listed above (and many more, down the line) as we scale!
This likely capacity you’ll have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree and at least 6 years of trip in NGO task management. But we’re greater fascinated in your potential to get the job executed than your qualifications.
Extremely geared up and system oriented.
Excellent analytical and numerical skills, consisting of price range administration and excel skills
Able to GET THINGS DONE. You will be a crew of one reporting to the head of the department, regularly hassle fixing for problems we’ve in no way confronted before, and coordinating massive companies of disparate groups and companions to get matters done!
A sturdy written and verbal communicator.
A self-motivated and impartial employee who can work remotely and also coordinate between far flung groups in disparate places.
Comfortable the usage of and managing technological know-how and cloud based totally software program to coordinate between far off teams.
A brilliant troubleshooter!
Good at dealing with ambiguity and capable to discern matters out for yourself.
Willing to communicate up for what’s right, when you see wrong, or when you suppose there would possibly be a higher way.
Someone who loves kids. They’re why we do what we do. They’re going for walks round our workplace all the time. Our kids’ song and movies will end up phase of your lifestyles (and continuously caught in your head).

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