Associate Director of Programs
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Associate Director of Programs managing structured educational programs for vulnerable children in Ethiopia. Collaborating across teams and strengthening proposal development for government implementations.
Responsibilities:
- Develop high-quality slide decks and briefing materials for donor check-ins, presenting program data and learning agenda updates in compelling, accessible formats.
- Prepare presentation materials for a range of audiences and purposes, including internal staff meetings, review meetings with government partners, workshops with language and curriculum experts, and ad hoc requests from the Communications team.
- Draft and edit program updates, memos, and synthesis documents as needed, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency with Luminos’ voice and standards.
- Support the Development team and Director of Programs with proposal development, ensuring program narrative, scale plans, and budget assumptions are accurate, well-evidenced, and internally consistent.
- Build and maintain scenario-based scale plans and cost models, translating programmatic assumptions — including class numbers, regions, supervisor ratios, and cost-per-child calculations — into clear budget frameworks for different funding levels and scale trajectories.
- Respond to Development team requests for program data, evidence, and technical content in a timely and organized way, and participate in proposal review and refinement cycles as needed.
- Collaborate with the team to maintain up-to-date program documentation, including reach figures, model descriptions, and implementation timelines, that can be used quickly for proposal and reporting purposes.
- Own and continuously improve project management infrastructure, including maintaining a RASCI matrix, project workplans, and milestone trackers.
- Establish and maintain lightweight but effective systems for tracking action items, decisions, and follow-up across teams.
- Collaborate with the team to maintain the project’s SharePoint environment, ensuring files, templates, and reference documents are logically structured, consistently named, up-to-date, and accessible to the right people.
- Proactively identify coordination gaps or process inefficiencies and propose practical solutions.
Requirements:
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Amharic required.
- Exceptional writing skills, with the ability to communicate complex program information clearly and compellingly for diverse audiences, from donors to government partners.
- Strong quantitative fluency: the successful candidate will be able to build scenario-based budget models and cost-per-child calculations, and interpret and synthesize program dashboard data.
- Proficiency in PowerPoint for producing polished, professional presentations; experience with data visualization tools is a plus.
- Proven ability to design and manage project management systems, including workplans, RASCI matrices, and milestone tracking tools.
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously, with minimal supervision.
- Experience working within or alongside government education systems in Ethiopia strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with structured pedagogy, accelerated education, or foundational literacy programs is an advantage.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Regular travel within Ethiopia to program regions
- Occasional international travel to Luminos offices and donor engagements
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