Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Leadership Program Manager

Communications Manager at Maliasili
Maliasili is a dynamic and innovative organization that is taking a different approach to drive conservation impact in Africa. We find the best local African conservation organizations and make them better by building their capacity and improving their performance so that they can grow their impact. Our partner portfolio includes some of the leading organizations in East and Southern Africa and Madagascar, working at the forefront of conservation. Our partners’ impacts extend well beyond biodiversity conservation, driving conservation approaches that are grounded in community and indigenous land rights, and unlocking the economic value of natural resources.

Since its founding in 2011, Maliasili has built a portfolio of roughly 30 partners working across over 25 million hectares of critical landscapes and ecosystems in four countries. We have helped our partners generate or leverage more than $10 million in funding for their work; developed a growing set of tools to help improve their organizational performance, and supported many of our partners to grow their impacts in the field. In 2016, Maliasili launched a program aimed to build more dynamic, effective, and creative leaders that can grow strong organizations and drive collaborations that can achieve large-scale change. To date, Maliasili has trained 82 African conservation leaders from 41 local organizations across 12 countries in East and Southern Africa. Our program works to strengthen and develop a rising generation of African conservation leaders and their organizations.

Maliasili is looking for a full-time Leadership Program Manager based ideally in either East or Southern Africa to join our team. In this role, you will be part of a growing leadership program team where you will provide important program design and facilitation support.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Program Design & Implementation
• Support the design and implementation of Maliasili leadership development programs, including scouting and screening potential participants.
• Co-lead development and adaptation of leadership program curriculum, specifically leading on the coordination of Maliasili’s proposed new “Emerging Leaders” program focused on cultivating leadership capability in middle managers.
• Co-lead facilitation of Maliasili leadership programs, with a focus on team dynamics and utilizing personality type tools to improve individual leadership and team interactions.
• Research and develop African content for the leadership program
• Contribute new resources and creative ideas to strengthen Maliasili’s existing leadership work and programs.
• Manage and collate resources and products of the leadership program including keeping the team’s section of Maliasili’s Google Drive updated and organised.

Network Development & Management
• Lead the development and implementation of a program to provide ongoing support and engagement to our community of leadership program alumni.
• Identify, design, and implement ways to effectively engage past leadership participants, so they can continue their learning journey and the strength of the overall network.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to leadership program participants, and support them to identify and solve their challenges to help them become stronger leaders.
• Develop and nurture relationships with leadership program participants, helping to invigorate and ignite their engagement and activate peer learning.

What we’re looking for:
Requirements
• Considerable experience and comfort in designing and facilitating dynamic and engaging group processes with strong skills in engagement and activation of participants.
• High EQ with a track record of developing strong networks and relationships.
• A passion for creativity and innovation, especially around engagement.
• Familiarity with NGOs, with knowledge of the conservation field being ideal.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English.
• A team player who can work independently but also enjoys working with a fun team.
• Someone who is driven to achieve, while also eager to learn.
• Outstanding ability to manage multiple processes in a dynamic environment, prioritize, multi-task, and deal with problems adaptively and with a sense of humor.

Preferred Skills & Experience
• Knowledge and experience in leadership development, preferably with a working knowledge of leadership theory, e.g. foundations of leadership.
• Experience and knowledge in curriculum development for adult education.
• Experience in executive or leadership coaching.
• Past experience in coordinating or engaging in networks of professionals.
• History of engagement in the community conservation or natural resource management field.
• Familiarity with Canvas, Zoom, Slack, and Asana.
• Fluency in French or Portuguese.

Compensation & Benefits
• Competitive salary. The actual salary will be commensurate to experience.
• Maliasili offers monthly home office and health insurance stipends
• This is a remote, work from home position that will require occasional travel.

Location:
Full-time, work from home, flexible location in East or Southern Africa. Maliasili does not have the capacity to support work or residence permits for this position, so all applicants must be legally eligible to work and reside in their country of residence.

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Candidates should send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@maliasili.org  with the subject line -Leadership Manager no later than Dec 8th, 2021. Maliasili is an equal opportunity employer and has a strong organizational commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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