Mission Description

As part of the Green and Digital Growth initiative, funded by the EU and implemented with RVO and UNCDF, Expertise France is looking to hire a project leader. This project aims to support Ghana's green and digital entrepreneurial ecosystem across three main pillars: access to financing, support for the entrepreneurship support ecosystem, and capacity strengthening of entrepreneurs. Under the direction of Expertise France's headquarters, the project leader will be responsible for the full-time leadership, overall coordination, and operational and financial implementation of Expertise France's activities within the project. Generally, the project leader is responsible for ensuring the achievement of contractual objectives set between Expertise France and the EU Delegation as well as with RVO, which ensures the overall coordination of the project. He/She oversees the implementation of activity plans and ensures their proper execution. He/She maintains constant contact with project partners and ensures their involvement. More specifically, his/her missions and responsibilities are as follows (non-exhaustive list): 

Strategic and Operational Project Management:

• Develop and successfully implement the strategic vision and directions of the project.
• Represent Expertise France locally to institutional and private partners, including the EU, RVO, UNCDF, the French Embassy, AFD, governmental entities, and private sector actors.
• Lead the technical and financial execution of the project, ensuring compliance with contractual agreements and working closely with project teams.
• Facilitate collaboration with partners for effective implementation of the project's strategic directions.
• Establish the activity program, prepare terms of reference for activities, and mobilize adequate expertise and resources.
• Ensure adherence to operational schedules and quality control of deliverables.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Track project performance indicators and provide regular reporting.
• Oversee the knowledge capitalization and best practices developed within the project.

Administrative and Financial Management:

• Monitor the overall administrative and financial tracking of the project, in collaboration with Expertise France's support services.
• Ensure compliance with Expertise France's procedures and funders' requirements.

Reporting and Relations with the Funder:

• Facilitate information feedback for close and high-quality technical monitoring.
• Prepare activity reports (narrative and financial) for Expertise France and funders.
• Contribute to internal reporting.

Team Management and Leadership:

• Recruit and coordinate the project team, organize workloads, and monitor performance.
• Mobilize ad-hoc expertise necessary to achieve project objectives.