Senior Project Execution Manager

Summary

Join Pula, a leading Insuretech firm, as a Senior Project Execution Manager. You will lead a team in managing complex projects, overseeing financial reporting, and building strong relationships with stakeholders. This role requires extensive experience in project management within social enterprises or similar organizations. You will be responsible for the successful delivery of grant-funded projects, ensuring timely reporting and compliance. Pula offers a competitive salary, commission, employee share options, and significant growth potential within a fast-paced, impactful environment. The company values a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• At least 7-10 years’ experience managing complex, projects in social enterprise, NGO, UN or similar organization
• Strong financial reporting, quantitative and data analytics skills, as well as report writing and presentation skills
• Skills and experience in working with diverse set of stakeholders and building strong relationships with philanthropic partners
• Strong collaborative skills, ability to work with multi cultural and multi disciplinary teams to deliver to our clients
• You have the ability to translate complex and challenging concepts into detailed action plans
• Ability to prioritize work, meet inflexible deadlines and produce timely, high quality results
• Exceptional work ethic and integrity: the ability to self-manage assigned tasks/deliverables
• Bachelor’s degree with an outstanding academic record
• You are comfortable with GSuite applications (Google Sheets, Google Docs, G-Slides, etc.) and are able to adapt to new systems easily (e.g., ClickUp, Slack, Jira, Metabase, CommCare)
• You are comfortable and willing to travel (20% of the time) to customer sites across Africa, Asia and Latin America

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to manage stakeholder relations, including donors and private/public sector partners
• Guide the team to plan and hold regular meetings with donors and other stakeholders to discuss progress
• Lead the team to identify and manage project risks, issues and remediation and ensure these are communicated and coordinated with the donors
• Hire and manage external consultants as needed to execute to specific project deliverables
• Lead the team to ensuring timely monitoring and report on progress to external stakeholders (donors, partners)
• Review, author or contribute to project reports (evaluations, assessments, mapping exercises)
• Assure quality and compliance in deliverables by editing/proofreading
• Create and/or share project documentation with team leads and staff
• Provide information/training to your team and staff on grant deliverables and reporting requirements
• Oversee invoicing, accounting, financial reporting, paperwork, grant records and other administrative functions to ensure successful execution of the grant process
• Any other duties required to support the delivery of grant-funded projects, including preparation of funding proposals
• Lead the team in planning, scheduling and implementation of Pula’s grant-funded projects
• Lead the team to define project scope, goals, deliverables, tasks and resource requirements
• Guide the team to develop full-scale project plans, including task sequences and interdependencies
• Work with internal Pula team leads and management to ensure sufficient project resource allocation
• Lead the team in tracking project deliverables and performance of teams using appropriate tools e.g. Gantt charts, task lists, workflow management software
• Guide direct reports to ensure internal Pula staff is informed about upcoming deadlines, milestones and deliverables
• Guide and ensure the team holds project meetings and drive task completion to meet delivery timelines with project teams (Tech, Sales, Actuarial, Operations), including progress tracking, risk management, initiating changes to the original scope of work and reviewing checkpoints or milestones
• Guide and coach your direct reports to deliver on the projects assigned to them in terms of project execution, reporting and financial management
• For selected projects you will take the lead on execution and project and financial management of selected those projects
• Coordinate with other departments to gather data and support them in producing analysis that may need to be part of the progress, interim or end line reports
• Work with external consultants and agencies who may be contracted to work on research initiatives and ensure there is a clear scope of work, research questions, etc
• Work with our communications team to organize presentations, webinars and other events to communicate the insights externally
• Work with Pula department heads and team leads to ensure that projects align with and contribute to the company’s strategy and goals
• Work with different departments to understand their priorities and find ways to leverage projects to achieve them
• Proactively work with your team to discuss project prioritization, business drivers, and potential or actual risks with the Partnerships team and senior management
• Proactively work with your team to offer recommendations for changing prioritization, required escalations, and suggestions for new project initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

Fluency in French and/or Portuguese is a plus

Benefits

• Growth potential: With an untapped market of 1.5 billion smallholders worldwide, on track to doubling the number of farmers insured in 2023 and Pula’s global leadership in Agriculture Insurance, the Senior Project Execution Manager has a tremendous upside growth potential
• Join the Global Market Leader: Not only is the opportunity massive, but Pula is by far the market leader in its category with 15m farmers insured as at the end of 2022
• Personal Development: We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your line manager, and receive regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career
• Impact and creation: This is a high-impact role, reporting to the Head of Partnerships and Consulting, that offers a unique opportunity to bring the company to the next level, whilst developing new strategies, approaches and ideas
• Remuneration: Competitive base salary accordingly with seniority and experience, commission on closed partnerships and an employee share option plan that offers an attractive equity upside