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Company | Innovations f... |
Industry | NGO/IGO/INGO |
Category | Management/Ad... |
Location | Accra |
Job Status | Contract |
Salary | GH¢ |
Education | Master’... |
Experience | 4 years |
Job Expires | Jul 08, 2015 |
Contact | ... |
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Company Profile Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a United States-based non-profit organization dedicated to discovering, and promoting effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA designs, rigorously evaluate and refines these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor. Job Description
Summary Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA works with development partners and academic researchers to design and rigorously evaluate approaches to solving development problems, and to refine these solutions and their applications together with decision-makers to ensure that the evidence created is used to improve opportunities for the world’s poor. IPA works in a variety of fields, including education, agriculture, microfinance, and health. Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 350 leading academics to conduct over 450 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide. IPA has been active in Ghana since 2009 and has experienced a fast growth since then. It has 17 ongoing projects, 80 long term staff and over 400 short term staff. IPA seeks an Operations Manager to oversee operations and administration in its Ghana country office. Position Summary The Operations Manager (OM) will be responsible for managing country office operations that support both the general administrative needs of the Ghana office and project operations, and will be part of the IPA Ghana senior management team, along with the Country Director (CD), the Deputy Country Director (DCD), and the Finance and Accounts Manager. He/she will manage IPA Ghana administrative staff, oversee in-country Human Resources, IT, Safety & Security, as well as Procurement and Inventory Management Systems, and ensure the general compliance of the country office with relevant laws and regulations. He/she will also work closely with IPA Ghana’s Research Managers and various project heads to identify project support needs and ensure that projects receive adequate support. This position will be based in Accra, with monthly travel to IPA Ghana’s Tamale office (approximately 5 days a month) and possibly other field locations. The Operations Manager will report to the Country Director A two-year commitment for this position is required. Job Description The Operations Manager will: Operations systems management
Oversight of in-country Human Resources;
Capacity Building for members of IPA Ghana’s Operations team
Operations support to project teams
Required Skills or Experience It is required that candidates have;
It is preferred that candidates have;
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