Associate Director at Surge Africa Organisation

Role Overview:

• The Associate Director will be responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing Surge Africa’s operations and programmatic systems to ensure organisational sustainability. Read more here. This role is fully remote.

Responsibilities

• The Associate Director design, implement, and oversee effective management and growth of systems, operations and programs within the organization, overseeing finances and HR, regulatory compliance and organisational sustainability.
• Work closely with the Director to promote the growth and healthy development of the organisation including strategic planning, annual goal setting, and day-to-day operations.
• Lead in building and implementing SAO’s strategic roadmaps, ensure the improvement of quality delivery of programs.
• Facilitate grant writing activities and see to fundraising.
• Assist in management and oversight of budget, fundraising, and project reporting.
• Expand our network of partners and manage stakeholder engagement
• Manage staff officers in specific work streams
• Coordinate hiring of staff.

Qualifications

• 8 + years relevant experience in a senior managerial role (With explicit experience in the Climate).
• A strong sense of teamwork and ability to both manage multiple teams, and execute multiple programs concurrently
• Strong relationship management skills with experience engaging with broad array of networks, partners and funders
• An extremely proactive and determined attitude.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal and time management skills.
• Ability to multitask and good hold of strong organisational skills,
• Polite, clear and compelling communication skills.
• Experience in human resources policies and procedures and/or with compensation and benefits
• An excellent understanding of climate change and its landscape.