Conservation Strategy Senior Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Project Leadership and Delivery

Lead the end-to-end design, delivery, and adaptive management of CI’s conservation strategies in Africa.

Define project scopes, develop workplans, manage timelines, and allocate resources across cross-functional teams.

Own delivery quality across regional initiatives, ensuring rigorous execution, learning, and iteration.

Translate high-level goals into operational workplans, KPIs, and reporting dashboards.

Performance Monitoring and Decision Support

Oversee regional delivery monitoring systems to track progress across CI’s Africa portfolio.

Identify cross-landscape trends and performance gaps requiring systems solutions.

Lead data integration and visualization initiatives (using tools like Power BI) to enable real-time strategic decision-making.

Provide analytical support for strategic initiatives, including financial modeling and investment planning.

Stakeholder Engagement

Facilitate multi-stakeholder workshops, landscape planning sessions, and strategy reviews with internal and external actors.

Anticipate Africa leadership needs and proactively provide insights and solutions.

Serve as a trusted thought partner to country and sub-regional leaders in aligning strategy with on-the-ground realities.

Communicate key strategy updates, risks, and recommendations through compelling presentations to executive leadership.

Team Management and Capacity Building

Directly supervise a Senior Coordinator for project delivery and evaluation; guide their growth and effectiveness.

Build and coordinate high-performing cross-functional teams or task forces, as needed.

Coach and mentor team members, promote feedback culture, and support professional development.

Foster collaboration across departments and countries to drive integrated results.

Systems, Process, and Organizational Effectiveness

Drive continuous improvement of internal systems, tools, and processes for strategy delivery and tracking.

Support financial planning tools to enable multi-year conservation investments and alignment with funding strategies.

Lead or contribute to organization-building initiatives, including recruitment, training, and team culture efforts.

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