🌍 REMOTE JOB ALERT – Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) - Programs and Community Support Manager | CareerPlug NG

About this opportunity

Applications are invited from qualified candidates for the Programs and Community Support Manager position at Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO). This remote role offers hands-on experience in climate justice within a globally recognized NGO.

What you need

BA/BSC/HND or MBA/MSC/MA degree
Provide strategic leadership for coordination, implementation support, quality assurance, learning, and community-facing dimensions of AYCF’s program portfolio.
Ensure AYCF-funded initiatives are programmatically coherent, technically supported, youth-centered, and capable of generating meaningful evidence, learning, and impact.
Support grantees from post-award onboarding through implementation, learning, reporting, and program reflection.
Champion a grantee-centered approach and cultivate strong relationships with grantees.
Facilitate peer learning, collaboration, strengthen institutional capacities, and promote adaptive program management.
Lead the development of systems and approaches that strengthen program quality, monitor implementation progress, capture evidence of impact, and generate learning.
Lead strategic management and oversight of AYCF’s program portfolio.
Support the design and refinement of AYCF’s program windows.
Coordinate program onboarding for new grantees.
Develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with grantees throughout the grant lifecycle.
Monitor program implementation against approved work plans, milestones, and grant agreements.
Coordinate regular portfolio review meetings to assess progress and address challenges.
Support grantees in navigating implementation challenges by facilitating access to technical expertise, mentoring, and relevant resources.
Ensure timely identification and escalation of program risks.
Promote adaptive program management for grantees.
Design and implement AYCF’s grantee support strategy.
Strengthen AYCF’s wider community support approach by creating spaces for youth-led organizations.
Conduct organizational capacity assessments to identify strengths, gaps, and priority areas.
Develop and coordinate capacity-strengthening initiatives across organizational leadership, project management, financial management, governance, safeguarding, monitoring and evaluation, communications, resource mobilization, and sustainability.
Facilitate coaching, mentoring, and technical assistance to strengthen grantee performance and long-term organizational resilience.
Coordinate peer learning initiatives, exchange visits, webinars, and communities of practice.
Promote inclusive participation and youth leadership.
Support grantees in identifying opportunities for growth, partnership, and long-term sustainability.
Develop and implement program quality standards, tools, and guidance.
Conduct periodic program reviews to assess progress, quality, relevance, and effectiveness.
Work closely with grantees to strengthen program design, implementation approaches, and results delivery through adaptive management.
Ensure safeguarding, gender equality, inclusion, youth protection, do-no-harm principles, ethical community engagement, and environmental and social safeguards are effectively integrated.
Coordinate program improvement plans where implementation challenges or capacity gaps are identified.
Document and disseminate program innovations and successful approaches.
Lead the implementation of AYCF’s monitoring, evaluation, learning, and knowledge management framework.
Monitor program performance using agreed indicators, results frameworks, and learning objectives.
Coordinate the collection, analysis, and synthesis of program data.
Prepare high-quality program reports, portfolio analyses, and impact summaries.
Capture and document lessons learned, promising practices, innovations, and case studies.
Facilitate regular learning and reflection sessions with grantees and internal teams.
Work with the Communications and Youth Engagement Officer to translate program evidence into accessible knowledge and communications products.
Strengthen knowledge management systems for effective documentation and utilization of evidence.
Build and maintain relationships with technical partners, youth networks, research institutions, mentors, incubators, learning partners, and ecosystem actors.
Coordinate technical and learning collaborations that expand opportunities for mentoring, capacity strengthening, peer learning, research support, visibility, innovation, and community-building.
Represent AYCF in program-related meetings, learning events, conferences, technical working groups, and partner engagements.

What's included

Active mentorship
Collaboration within a vast pan-African network
Chance to contribute directly to sustainable energy, adaptation, and zero-waste solutions