Manager, Adopt Programmes

Job Summary

The Accelerating Financial Resilience & Insurance for Young African Women in Agrifood Systems (AFIYA) program is a multi-country initiative that seeks to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable young women smallholder farmers and agri-preneurs across eight African countries. AFIYA complements and amplifies existing Mastercard Foundation country programs by embedding innovative insurance and financial inclusion solutions within established initiatives and trusted delivery channels. AFIYA’s core ambition is to enhance the financial security, climate resilience, and entrepreneurial capacity of young women in agriculture, enabling them to sustainably participate in and benefit from agrifood systems.

The Manager, Adopt will lead the design, coordination, and delivery of AFIYA’s education, skilling, advocacy, and community mobilisation interventions aimed at increasing the adoption of climate-smart agriculture, insurance, and financial tools among young women smallholder farmers (SHFs) and agri-preneurs. Ensuring capacity-building efforts are demand-driven, gender-responsive, and aligned with market needs to foster resilient and empowered farming communities. S/he will contribute to the implementation of the ADOPT programme by leading key activities, which include ensuring workplan execution; budget management; tracking achievement of project milestones and logframe indicators, providing technical supervision of consultants and quality control of outputs; and liaising with implementing partners to support effective delivery of projects.

Essential Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• At least 6 years of professional experience leading community-based programs with a focus on financial inclusion, climate resilience, or innovation, including deep engagement with local stakeholders across multiple countries and institutions in Africa.
• Excellent grasp of key principles of Project Cycle Management; proven track record of adaptive management.
• Demonstrated strong understanding of climate-smart agriculture and smallholder systems, financial literacy and insurance adoption, gender-intentional and norm-aware programming, and youth- and women-focused development approaches.
• Track record of managing relationships and influencing stakeholders in the financial sector in Africa; good influencing/ interpersonal skills
• Track record of effectively managing people, including the ability to motivate and coordinate teams.
• Ability to engage & influence convincingly at a senior management level.
• Ability to manage a project using digital platforms or tools to communicate; ability to manage data/ documentation electronically.
• Ability to manage a project portfolio with a middle-level budget

Desirable

• Proven experience working with NGOs, community organizations, and government partners in rural contexts.
• Experience working with donors, including knowledge of donor policies and procedures.
• Previous experience of working in FCDO-funded projects
• Knowledge and conceptual understanding of environmental risks (and associated topics) & application to international development / financial market systems development
• Languages: French, local African languages

Skills Required:

• Accounting / Finance
• Agricultural / Studies
• Economics / Statistics
• Social / Science / Project / Management / Development