Senior Manager

Main purpose of Post:

The Office of the Prime Minister seeks a Senior Manager to drive the implementation and monitoring of key government policies and priorities, ensuring alignment with national goals. This high-impact role involves providing strategic direction, coordinating efforts across various sectors, and ensuring that priority initiatives are effectively delivered.

Role Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership and Planning:
• Drive alignment with national priorities by setting strategic direction and ensuring robust planning processes.
• Facilitate collaboration with ministries for planning, coordination, monitoring, and reporting, leveraging performance management tools to ensure accountability.
• Oversee the development of delivery plans, including setting targets, establishing trajectories, and defining leading indicators for effective progress monitoring.

Delivery Support:

• Prepare and manage key government routines, producing analyses, briefs, and actionable recommendations.
• Provide senior leadership with accurate, data-driven insights to enable informed decision-making.
• Support ministries in delivering priority initiatives, identifying bottlenecks, and facilitating regular problem-solving sessions.

Project Oversight and Risk Management:

• Lead strategic project delivery, ensuring priority projects remain on track.
• Identify and mitigate potential delivery challenges by collaborating with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment between policy implementation, data tracking, and national priorities, providing leadership with regular progress updates.
• Coordination and Stakeholder Management:
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with ministries and implementing agencies to enhance alignment with national goals.
• Leadership and Management:

• Provide people-centered leadership to foster a motivated, high-performing, and collaborative team environment.
• Oversee staff performance, offering regular feedback, mentoring, and coaching to support professional growth.
• Ensure all deliverables meet the highest quality standards.

Required competencies, skills and attributes:

• Strong leadership skills to lead and manage high caliber teams, aligning their work with priorities and fostering a positive, results-oriented team culture.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically, anticipate challenges, and develop effective solutions in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to plan and set strategic direction and provide high-level leadership that aligns with government priorities and drives results across multiple sectors.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and navigate the organizational landscape with respect and tact, while inspiring confidence and trust.
• Strong project management skills with a focus on delivery, including the ability to proactively identify risks, resolve bottlenecks, and keep projects on track.
• Exceptional ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with senior leadership, ministries, and external partners, ensuring smooth collaboration and information-sharing.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for senior decision-makers, driving continuous improvement and performance management.

Knowledge of Monitoring and Evaluation practice

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver compelling presentations and articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Conversant with Government programmes and policies;
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French; knowledge of all is an advantage

Desired qualifications and work experience:

• Master's Degree in Economics, Public Policy Management, Law or Public Administration, Business Administration, Corporate Governance, Economics, Finance or related field with at least 7 years of working experience preferably with 5 years at senior leadership level.
• Demonstrated success in leading strategic planning and implementation processes for large-scale, mission-driven organizations, preferably in the public sector.
• Extensive experience in managing teams, fostering collaboration, mentoring, and driving performance within high-impact environments.
• Experience managing complex projects, particularly in an administrative or government setting, with the ability to build trust-based relationships across all levels.
• Proven ability to analyze data and provide constructive feedback, maintain a positive attitude, and manage multiple priorities under challenging timelines.