Company Profile
Lively Minds, an award-winning charity, is hiring to support our ambitious and exciting Early Childhood Development programme in Ghana and Uganda.
Job Description
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Project Management & Coordination
- Support the organisation by providing leadership and guidance on project management best practices, tools, and lessons learned.
- Lead on specific projects assigned by the CEO and Operations Director, ensuring effective planning, execution, and risk management.
- Maintain a strategic view across all projects, identifying interdependencies, risks, and bottlenecks.
- Collate, analyse, and present data on project progress, risks, and impact to senior management and external stakeholders.
- Facilitate cross-team coordination and problem-solving discussions to ensure alignment and efficiency.
Project Governance
- Ensure risk management is embedded across projects, proactively identifying and mitigating risks in consultation with relevant teams.
- Support continuous learning and improvement by capturing best practices and facilitating retrospectives across projects.
- Ensure the right tools and mechanisms are used to maintain up-to-date documentation.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Adapt communication style to engage effectively with different stakeholders, from field teams to senior leadership and external partners.
- Present project updates, risks, and key insights to senior management and external stakeholders.
- Facilitate meetings and workshops to drive project success and cross-team collaboration.
- Ensure information flow across teams, supporting clarity on priorities and expectations.
Other
- May be asked to deputise for the Operations Director, Country Director (Ghana), or other Senior Management Team members at external events.
- Contribute flexibly to the wider team’s work, leveraging skills and experience to support Lively Minds’ mission.
Website: www.livelyminds.org/jobs
Required Skills or Experience
To succeed in this role, you:
- Are an excellent communicator who can clearly set expectations, challenge others constructively, and ensure accountability.
- Have strong risk management skills and can embed a proactive approach to risk identification and mitigation.
- Are proactive in identifying opportunities to improve systems and processes.
- Are a strong leader, able to influence and support others in embedding best practice.
- Are adaptable, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders across different cultural and operational contexts.
- Are comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Technical Abilities
Essential:
- Minimum of 4 years of project management experience.
- Experience developing user-friendly project management tools and processes.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in collating and presenting data to senior leadership.
- Ability to coordinate multiple projects, identify interdependencies, and manage risks effectively.
- Data-driven, with the ability to collate, analyse, and present meaningful insights that inform decision-making
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365, including PowerPoint and advanced Excel skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including field teams and Senior Management.
- Experience facilitating meetings and workshops to drive project success.
Desirable
- Professional Project Management certification or equivalent (e.g., Prince 2, Six Sigma).
- Flexible style for internal/ external stakeholders management – this means to be able to adapt your approach to get the best out of people.
- Experience in change management.
- Experience supporting complex, long-term projects.
- Experience developing high-level communications, such as briefing papers and strategic presentations.
- Experience using data analytics tools.
- Experience working in the global south.
- The postholder must be open to adapting to new cultural contexts and ways of working.
How To Apply
Due to resource constraints, we apologise, but we will only respond to shortlisted candidates.Lively Minds operates a strict Child & Vulnerable Adult Protection Policy, and we therefore check the suitability of successful candidates through background checks consisting of references
and police checks.
Lively Minds is fully committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We want this to be reflected in the diversity of the people who work for us and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and identities.
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