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Program Officer, 25 Leading Women’s Fellowship

• Support the development of actionable workplans towards the strategic implementation of the project
• As required, collaborate with management to ensure compliance to workplan and project objectives
• Work with the Membership team to call for and collate nominations of potential awardees and ensure a smooth and seamless nomination process
• Support the process of selection and orientation of the program judges.
• Coordinate communication and orientation of judges, support staff, vendors and more to support the award events.
• Support the communications team in developing and implementing a communications strategy designed to further project objectives
• Attend meetings with funders and provide timely updates
• Monitor and report on progress with project deliverables
• Stay up to date on progress of awardees post-award, monitor indicators of agribusiness scale up and make recommendations to funders regarding opportunities for continued support in the future
• Develop and maintain relationships with strategic partners that would help increase visibility for the organization and respond to media inquiries
• Support the planning of conferences, workshops, awardees speaking engagements and other promotional events to help increase awardees’ visibility and recognition on global platforms
• Regular outreach to press outlets, magazines, influencers and build strategic partnerships to improve awardee and organization brand recognition.
• Support the development of regular and timely reports on project outcomes/deliverables
• Research, identify and analyze opportunities for awardees and the organization.
• Foster peer-to-peer learning and mentoring-support through conference calls, newsletters, and facilitation of conferences/workshops.
• Establish and maintain regular communication with project partners and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with project managers to support business scale up of successful fellows
• Other duties as assigned by management

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Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruiting@afchub.org using the job title as the subject of the email.