Spark Microgrants

Operations

• Establish a streamlined, proactive calendar system that prioritizes the CEO’s time toward highest-impact relationships and decisions.
• Manage executive and organizational calendars, ensuring internal and external meetings, travel, and events are synchronized and aligned with priorities across regions.
• Build a seamless, reliable process for travel that supports global movement, prioritizes security, and ensures the CEO and leadership team is able to use time effectively and efficiently.
• Coordinate check-ins with team leads to gather program updates and lessons learned for external reporting.
• Create consistent, timely, and well-managed communication workflows that strengthen relationships with funders and partners.
• Strengthen operational systems and organization to improve efficiency, visibility, and day-to-day effectiveness.

Development Operations Associate

Manager

• Lead new program design processes from inception to program launch for assigned initiatives, ensuring alignment with Spark’s model, standards, and program design procedures
• Manage cross-functional working groups, including developing budgets and workplans, coordinating inputs, and driving progress toward design deliverables
• Plan and facilitate workshops and collaborative sessions to guide internal stakeholders, partners, and government counterparts toward defined design objectives
• Lead the coordination of internal inputs and reviews to ensure all design outputs are consistent with decisions, polished, and responsive to identified objectives
• Author concept notes, implementation guides, or other required documentations that accompany new program designs
• Develop and maintain program design documentation, including templates, tools, examples, and standard operating procedures to support consistent and high-quality design processes
• Lead the development, validation, and updating of assigned "Design Standards" outlining minimum standards and guidance on core elements of the FCAP model
• Build organizational understanding of program design processes through onboarding, coaching, and ongoing technical support to country and functional teams
• Identify quality and capacity gaps in program design processes and recommend strategies to address them through systems improvements, tools, or training
• Participate in Program Development functional group by sharing lessons and supporting national scale design efforts across Spark’s countries of focus
• Lead program development contributions to internal working groups focused on cross-portfolio exchange
• Develop external-facing materials that communicate program designs to donors, partners, and other stakeholders
• Maintain organized and accessible knowledge management systems for program design materials, including implementation guides, concept notes, budgets, subawards, and curricula
• Provide technical guidance on key program areas (e.g. CDD and designing for national scale) and operational areas (e.g. working with World Bank systems or operations)
• Oversee technical specialists or consultants to provide needed technical expertise or support
• Manage cross-departmental collaboration to deliver high-quality program design outputs

Program Development Manager – Global

Director

• Provide strategic leadership, oversight, and support to Spark’s Country Directors
• Lead national-scale programs via policy adoption, financing, and program roll-out across Rwanda, Malawi, Ghana, Uganda, and potentially other countries
• Maintain and cultivate top-level national government relationships
• Establish in-country financing via the Government, the World Bank, bilateral partners, and co-financing
• Develop and implement programmatic strategy in alignment with Spark MicroGrants’ mission and goals
• Oversee the design and execution of all programmatic activities
• Provide strategic direction and support to Country Directors
• Direct line management of Country Directors, the Partnership and Systems Manager, and additional senior staff
• Recruit, mentor, and support senior program staff
• Manage program budgets to ensure consistency with strategic priorities

Development Operations Associate

Program Development Manager – Global

Senior Global Programs Director