Ubulu Africa is a digital innovation hub committed to driving impactful digital innovation across Africa. With a focus on venture building and ecosystem building, Ubulu Africa endeavours to catalyze economic empowerment and sustainable development by fostering collaboration between innovators, startups, corporate organisations, academic institutions, and gov...
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A senior delivery role at the heart of Ubulu Africa's programme function.
You will plan, manage, and deliver innovation programmes from inception to close - owning scope, schedule, budget, stakeholders, and risk across government, development agency, corporate, and startup ecosystem engagements.
You report to the Programme Director.
What you will do
Lead the full programme management lifecycle across all active Ubulu Africa programmes: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and close
Develop and maintain comprehensive programme plans, schedules, resource allocations, and budgets that reflect the full complexity of each engagement
Manage relationships with senior stakeholders across government, development agencies, corporate partners, and startup communities, communicating with clarity and confidence at every level
Produce high-quality programme documentation, including plans, progress reports, risk registers, stakeholder briefs, and close-out reports, to the standards that institutional engagements require
Lead the development of programme proposals and bids, bringing rigour to scoping, costing, methodology, and delivery planning
Coordinate internal teams and external partners to ensure delivery milestones are met, risks are managed, and accountability is clear throughout
Apply structured programme management methodologies and contribute to building the delivery standards and practices that allow Ubulu Africa to scale.
What you bring
7 or more years of programme management experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder programmes across innovation ecosystem, development sector, government, or corporate environments
Familiarity with programme management frameworks and methodologies such as PMBOK or PRINCE2, applied with rigour in practice - formal certification is an advantage but demonstrated competence and experience carry equal weight
The ability to operate at both the strategic and executional level: you can architect a programme and you can chase down a deliverable
Excellent written communication: your programme plans, reports, proposals, and stakeholder updates are structured, precise, and professionally produced
Strong verbal and stakeholder management skills - equally comfortable presenting to a government director and running an internal team debrief
Demonstrated experience developing proposals and bids for institutional clients, with proven competence in planning, scheduling, resourcing, and budget management across concurrent programmes
A track record of adapting delivery approaches across diverse programme contexts without losing discipline, with experience in or with the African innovation ecosystem as a strong advantage.
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