Youth Impact’s mission is to connect youth to proven life-changing information. Our vision is to enable over 1 million youth to thrive through delivery of multiple evidence-based programs. We are at an inflection point in our growth: we have over 350 staff, three programs in health and education, have delivered over two million lessons to over 300,000 youth across 20+ countries. Our culture is unique: we are always learning, have a dynamic team, a fierce commitment to measurement and evidence, and work hand in hand with governments. On any given day our leaders will sing and dance, negotiate MOUs, and spend dedicated time with the field team in schools.

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Primary purpose​

The Program Manager will be a part of a trailblazing team of Youth Impact staffwho are committed to scaling up high impact education and health programming. Our health education program, Choices, is an intervention that informs students about the risks of older partners, including HIV, and empowers them with healthy relationship decision-making skills. This intervention has been proven to reduce teenage pregnancy, a proxy for unprotected sex and HIV, in rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCT) by 28%. In 2014, Youth Impact conducted a RCT reaching 343 schools in a third of Botswana. The results showed reductions in teenage pregnancy by 40% when delivered by peer educators. The Program Manager will be responsible for playing a key program leadership role to ensure its success. They will lead program management including strategy development, people management, coordination of operations, programmatic thought leadership, partnerships, budgeting and reporting. 

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Primary Duties & Responsibilities:​

• Lead programmatic strategy: Contribute to the execution of a scale strategy, work plans and milestones. 

• Team management: Manage a team of officers and senior officers and oversee field staffrecruitment and training. 

• Overseeing monitoring and evaluation: Overseeing M&E systems and programmatic reporting. 

• Partnership management: Liaise with and maintain healthy working relations with local and international programmatic stakeholders including government partners, CSOs, NGOs, academics, etc. 

• Grant applications and reporting: Key contributor to grant applications, funder milestone reports and program-related reporting. 

• Document and codify: Program-related decisions, procedures, best practices and protocols for implementation. 

• Lead discussions with departments to build consensus and buy-in: Build buy-in and act as a bridge between departments by supporting them and individuals to execute program activities with timeliness and quality. 

• Develop and manage field operations: Oversee detailed and high-quality execution of plans with field teams, including regular field visits, meetings with government partners, and regional teams, while also providing troubleshooting guidance when necessary. 

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Required qualifications​

• Extensive experience in health programs, partnerships and stakeholder management. 

• Proven ability to manage programs or projects, teams, and build and maintain relationships in a diverse environment. 

• An eye for detail and ensuring strategic plans are operationalized at quality in the field and at scale. 

• Ability to build systems and create structure from the ground up in addition to nurturing existing systems. 

• Self-starter who is proactive, organized and can propose effective solutions to complex problems and innovate. 

• Very strong people and communication skills. 

• Adaptive, positive, resilient and a person who can get tough things done with a positive attitude. 

• Willingness to learn, ability to balance having a strong set of skills and track record with an openness to feedback, learning, growth and collaboration among colleagues. 

• Embodies Youth Impact’s values and commitment to the youth, evidence and scale. 

 

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​Benefits include generous annual leave, sick leave, (including global health insurance provisions), various stipends, professional development opportunities, the ability to work remotely, access to our amazing global networks and much more.

 

Deadline to fill in the application is 30th April 2025 at 23:59 CAT.

Time Period: 3-year fixed contract, with potential for extension pending performance. 

Location: Gaborone, Botswana (10% travel expected). 

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