About the Role
Supporting the strategizing, planning, and execution of Fab-lab programs in various locations covering a diverse scope while maintaining innovations, diversity, and high delivery standards. Support in managing team members, allocating assignments and roles, ensuring resource optimization, and maximizing impact and reach. To support in setting objectives and overall plans and ensure the timely execution and delivery of all activities and plans. Assisting in the development of the overall innovation framework, team, and workflow, and contributing to the establishment of relevant tools to ensure effective program performance. Helped identify funding opportunities and managed donor relations while ensuring programs aligned with and achieved their objectives and requirements and were compliant with the company vision.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Demonstrate the company's core values and ethics.
- Assist in developing and implementing operational policies and strategic plans, including the creation and execution of viable innovation initiatives that align with the Foundation’s objectives.
- Assist in identifying and securing funding opportunities to support the program’s objectives
- Support FabLab operations in multiple locations by ensuring resources and technical expertise are readily available.
- Support in the planning and management of activities, budgets, SOPs, processes, monitoring and evaluation, audits, and reporting.
- Contribute to the preparation of timely and quality reports for donors, ensuring compliance with donor requirements for relevant FabLab activities.
- Constantly review offerings, programs, user experience, work models, and SOPs to ensure quality of delivery, flexibility, and innovation.
- Assist in developing and managing a monitoring and evaluation framework for innovation programs, continuously improving KPIs.
- Help maintain and update a database of all initiative partners, beneficiaries, and stakeholders, including organizations and individuals.
- Maintain updated records of MoUs and agreements and ensure their activation through an efficient execution of the scope.
- Assist in managing relationships with strategic stakeholders, engaging them in program challenges and successes
- Ensure innovation programs align with donor requirements and support the creation of relevant reports by coordinating with the relevant responsible departments in the company and adhering to specific program/initiative reporting policies.
- Help conduct full lifecycle activities, including requirements analysis, design, and performance monitoring, to identify improvements.
- Support compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, ensuring all documents are filed appropriately.
- Assist in building alliances and partnerships with other organizations.
- Support the day-to-day operations of the lab.
- Support the communication of the organization’s mission to ensure clarity among employees and staff.
- Lead on engagement (frequent) activities with industry, youth, and target audience
- Ensure the database is updated and upgraded to help identify, capture, and highlight success stories in addition to identifying other opportunities from database analysis
- Other tasks as assigned.
Communication
Within the Company Outside the Company
- Coordinating with all department heads for program execution.
- Communicate with donors/potential donors and partners, among other stakeholders.
- Communicate with beneficiaries as needed.
Qualifications
B.A. in Industrial, Mechanical, or Mechatronics Engineering, or a related field. A minimum of 10 years experience in program development and management.
Required Skills
Knowledge of NGO’s work of grants, programs, and funds is a must.
