The Senior Operations Manager is responsible for facilitating AgFinance business development, overseeing operational activities and process improvements, monitoring & evaluation, as well as managing reporting obligations for the AgFinance team.

RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Manage the funding pipeline of the AgFinance program.
Coordinate business development activities with business development teams.
Represent Opportunity in donor pre-and post-award meetings, communicate progress, and collaborate on project activities.
Disseminate program information to business development teams to enable ongoing fundraising.
Develop project work plans and budgets in response to donor bids and support on go/no-go evaluations.

OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

Oversee standardizing processes across the team, including recruiting, onboarding, procurement, contracting, and partner management.
Design and implement frameworks and tools that enable scale across the program.
Prepare and monitor team budgets and program expenditures by grant and department.
Support the implementation of the communications strategy, including driving content for the website and blog from various program areas.
Supervise the Program Administration Officer in coordinating team meetings, annual team conference, procurement and expense coding, and the annual FSP Partner Summit

PROJECT MANAGEMENT & REPORTING

Develop and oversee project management tools for internal projects and donor-funded grants and contracts across the program.
Serve as the point of contact for the Program Management teams in tracking donor commitments and managing reporting, including narrative, financial, client stories, and deliverables.
Track and monitor activities against project and/or grant expectations.
Review and obtain the Head of AgFinance's approval on all donor-facing outputs.

MONITORING & EVALUATION

Work closely with the Impact Measurement Specialist on the program's overall M&E strategy and learning agenda.
Manage the monitoring & evaluation associates collecting the data for the Impact Measurement strategy for the program.
Collaboratewith the Data & BI Analyst to produce data analysis tools for the teams to operationalize our M&E data & for use with business development.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

M&E Associates
Program Administrator

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, Master’s Degree preferred.
At least 8 years of relevant experience in operations, program management, agriculture finance, or economic development, including experience managing USAID activities, preferred.
Strong financial management experience includes developing, tracking, and monitoring budgets.
Experience in business development, cost proposal development, and institutional donor acquisition, with a strong preference for US Government Bid Management Experience
Proven ability to plan and manage operational processes for maximum efficiency and productivity
Excellent written communication skills and ability to produce high-quality outputs for dissemination and reporting purposes
Strong verbal communication and presentation skills
Passionate about Opportunity’s mission. Able to promote and communicate the organization’s goals and objectives to external and internal stakeholders

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Written and verbal fluency in English is required; fluency in French is an advantage.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to travel locally and internationally up to 10% of the time.

ABOUT OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL

Opportunity International is a global non-profit that has been empowering people to work their way out of poverty since 1971. Opportunity provides 18.7 million people with innovative financial resources, training, and support to grow their small businesses and send their children to school. In 2022, Opportunity International and its partners helped fund 5,600 schools that reached 1.6 million children, and they released more than $2.6 billion in capital across 30 countries. Discover more atopportunity.orgor join the conversation onFacebook,LinkedIn,Instagram, andTwitter.

ABOUT AGFINANCE

Opportunity’s AgFinance model is structured to bring scalable and high-impact loans and training to rural families living in poverty to build thriving rural communities. AgFinance accomplishes this by building relationships with financial institutions to support the provision of tailored agricultural credit products and services to smallholders and agribusinesses while providing technology-enabled training and services directly to farmers.

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