Program Operations & Partnerships Manager job at Caribou
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Posted date: 2025-Sep-24
Location: kampala, Kampala, Uganda
Program Operations & Partnerships Manager 2025-09-23T20:34:23+00:00 Caribou https://cdn.ugashare.com/jsjobsdata/data/employer/comp_5762/logo/Caribou%20Digital.jpeg https://www.cariboudigital.net/ FULL_TIME kampala Kampala 00256 Uganda Consulting Management 2025-09-29T17:00:00+00:00 Uganda 8 Role Overview Caribou is seeking a Program Operations & Partnerships Manager to act as the connective tissue across our programs and business development, and internal leadership. This role blends project coordination, business development support, knowledge management, and process improvement to ensure Caribou delivers high-quality work and scales smoothly as a global, fully remote organisation. The ideal candidate is a digital-first operator who thrives on coordination, process execution, and problem-solving, while being comfortable rolling up their sleeves to provide hands-on support. Highly organised and detail-oriented, they excel at managing multiple priorities, combining structured delivery with practical execution to ensure outcomes are consistently achieved to a high standard. Key Responsibilities Business Development - Systematise opportunity scanning: Identify the RFP boards, platforms, and channels Caribou should consistently monitor. Develop and manage a structured process, and oversee development of digital tools (including AI systems currently in build) to automate this work.
- Maintain and update the BD toolkit: Keep CVs, skills inventories, templates, and compliance documentation up to date, ensuring a searchable staff/associate database for bids.
- Coordinate proposal processes: Coordinate inputs from the technical team and draft generic sections by tailoring pre-existing content. Take full ownership of all non-technical requirements, including the organisational due diligence and compliance documentation. Ensure all administrative details are completed accurately, and assemble polished, compliant final submissions.
- Maintain the BD database: in Notion, ensuring all opportunities and bids are tracked.
- Manage the BD events calendar: including researching and tracking relevant conferences, securing speaking opportunities, and supporting staff with preparation and follow-up (e.g. speaking notes, LinkedIn posts, trip debriefs, contact capture).
- Maintain the client outreach tracker: monitor engagement and conduct bi-annual reviews.
Programs Coordination - Coordinate a portfolio of short-term, expert-led projects: track timelines, deliverables, and budgets; support operational needs (e.g. vendor SOWs, contracting, invoicing); and report on performance to the CPO.
- Support resource planning: use timesheet data, pipeline inputs, and program lead feedback to maintain an up-to-date view of utilisation, capacity gaps, and bottlenecks.
- Maintain programs data: keep the central programs database in Notion current and share updates across teams.
- Facilitate programs reporting: prepare monthly BD/program update decks and facilitate quarterly program calls, working with Finance and program leads to ensure timely completion.
- Streamline delivery: build and maintain repositories of templates, tools, and best practices to reduce duplication and improve consistency.
- Oversee vendor management: support program teams to recruit, contract, onboard, and offboard vendors and suppliers.
Internal Communications & Knowledge Management - Coordinate the cadence of internal comms touchpoints and schedule central Caribou meetings (ELT, SLT, all-staff updates, retreats, Brown Bags).
- Support ELT with OKRs and annual planning processes, coordinating team inputs into pre-defined processes.
- Own and maintain Caribou’s internal knowledge management system (Notion), ensuring it is user-centric and intuitive, and that staff can easily access up-to-date information on core processes and policies.
Continuous Improvement Continuously improve BD, program, and knowledge management systems by identifying opportunities for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Ideally this would include embedding digital tools and workflows. - Improve Caribou’s opportunity-scanning systems, for instance by working with external partners to develop and refine an AI scraper that aggregates RFPs into one repository. Ensure these systems remain current, reliable, and efficient.
- Develop automation: Work with the IT Manager and external partners to implement automation (e.g. AI-based RFP scanning, Notion workflows).
- Support tool selection: Coordinate requirements gathering, demos, evaluation, and contracting for new digital tools (e.g. for data collection, AP management, expenses).
- Drive adoption: Act as an advocate for smarter, more automated ways of working, ensuring teams are trained and supported in new systems.
Candidate Profile Essential Skills & Experience - 7+ years of experience in program management, operations, or business development support, ideally in a consulting or client-oriented environment.
- Proven ability to support complex, multi-stakeholder projects from end-to-end.
- Strong writing and synthesis skills.
- Demonstrated ability to design and improve processes in growing organisations.
- Confident communicator, comfortable working across diverse geographies and cultures.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Experience managing or improving digital knowledge management systems (e.g. Notion, Confluence, SharePoint).
Desirable Skills & Experience - Experience championing digital-first processes
- Experience in business development pipelines and proposal coordination.
- Ability to introduce and embed new digital tools across teams, ideally in a remote-first or globally distributed setting.
Personal Attributes - Confident operator able to execute details with precision.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented, and able to anticipate needs.
- Collaborative and empathetic, skilled at bringing people together.
- Commitment to Caribou’s mission of building inclusive and sustainable digital economies.
Business Development Systematise opportunity scanning: Identify the RFP boards, platforms, and channels Caribou should consistently monitor. Develop and manage a structured process, and oversee development of digital tools (including AI systems currently in build) to automate this work. Maintain and update the BD toolkit: Keep CVs, skills inventories, templates, and compliance documentation up to date, ensuring a searchable staff/associate database for bids. Coordinate proposal processes: Coordinate inputs from the technical team and draft generic sections by tailoring pre-existing content. Take full ownership of all non-technical requirements, including the organisational due diligence and compliance documentation. Ensure all administrative details are completed accurately, and assemble polished, compliant final submissions. Maintain the BD database: in Notion, ensuring all opportunities and bids are tracked. Manage the BD events calendar: including researching and tracking relevant conferences, securing speaking opportunities, and supporting staff with preparation and follow-up (e.g. speaking notes, LinkedIn posts, trip debriefs, contact capture). Maintain the client outreach tracker: monitor engagement and conduct bi-annual reviews. Programs Coordination Coordinate a portfolio of short-term, expert-led projects: track timelines, deliverables, and budgets; support operational needs (e.g. vendor SOWs, contracting, invoicing); and report on performance to the CPO. Support resource planning: use timesheet data, pipeline inputs, and program lead feedback to maintain an up-to-date view of utilisation, capacity gaps, and bottlenecks. Maintain programs data: keep the central programs database in Notion current and share updates across teams. Facilitate programs reporting: prepare monthly BD/program update decks and facilitate quarterly program calls, working with Finance and program leads to ensure timely completion. Streamline delivery: build and maintain repositories of templates, tools, and best practices to reduce duplication and improve consistency. Oversee vendor management: support program teams to recruit, contract, onboard, and offboard vendors and suppliers. Internal Communications & Knowledge Management Coordinate the cadence of internal comms touchpoints and schedule central Caribou meetings (ELT, SLT, all-staff updates, retreats, Brown Bags). Support ELT with OKRs and annual planning processes, coordinating team inputs into pre-defined processes. Own and maintain Caribou’s internal knowledge management system (Notion), ensuring it is user-centric and intuitive, and that staff can easily access up-to-date information on core processes and policies. Continuous Improvement Continuously improve BD, program, and knowledge management systems by identifying opportunities for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Ideally this would include embedding digital tools and workflows. Improve Caribou’s opportunity-scanning systems, for instance by working with external partners to develop and refine an AI scraper that aggregates RFPs into one repository. Ensure these systems remain current, reliable, and efficient. Develop automation: Work with the IT Manager and external partners to implement automation (e.g. AI-based RFP scanning, Notion workflows). Support tool selection: Coordinate requirements gathering, demos, evaluation, and contracting for new digital tools (e.g. for data collection, AP management, expenses). Drive adoption: Act as an advocate for smarter, more automated ways of working, ensuring teams are trained and supported in new systems. 7+ years of experience in program management, operations, or business development support, ideally in a consulting or client-oriented environment. Proven ability to support complex, multi-stakeholder projects from end-to-end. Strong writing and synthesis skills. Demonstrated ability to design and improve processes in growing organisations. Confident communicator, comfortable working across diverse geographies and cultures. Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. Experience managing or improving digital knowledge management systems (e.g. Notion, Confluence, SharePoint). JOB-68d3044fe321f Vacancy title:
Program Operations & Partnerships Manager Jobs at:
Caribou Deadline of this Job:
Monday, September 29 2025 Duty Station:
kampala | Kampala | Uganda Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed JOB DETAILS: Role Overview Caribou is seeking a Program Operations & Partnerships Manager to act as the connective tissue across our programs and business development, and internal leadership. This role blends project coordination, business development support, knowledge management, and process improvement to ensure Caribou delivers high-quality work and scales smoothly as a global, fully remote organisation. The ideal candidate is a digital-first operator who thrives on coordination, process execution, and problem-solving, while being comfortable rolling up their sleeves to provide hands-on support. Highly organised and detail-oriented, they excel at managing multiple priorities, combining structured delivery with practical execution to ensure outcomes are consistently achieved to a high standard. Key Responsibilities Business Development - Systematise opportunity scanning: Identify the RFP boards, platforms, and channels Caribou should consistently monitor. Develop and manage a structured process, and oversee development of digital tools (including AI systems currently in build) to automate this work.
- Maintain and update the BD toolkit: Keep CVs, skills inventories, templates, and compliance documentation up to date, ensuring a searchable staff/associate database for bids.
- Coordinate proposal processes: Coordinate inputs from the technical team and draft generic sections by tailoring pre-existing content. Take full ownership of all non-technical requirements, including the organisational due diligence and compliance documentation. Ensure all administrative details are completed accurately, and assemble polished, compliant final submissions.
- Maintain the BD database: in Notion, ensuring all opportunities and bids are tracked.
- Manage the BD events calendar: including researching and tracking relevant conferences, securing speaking opportunities, and supporting staff with preparation and follow-up (e.g. speaking notes, LinkedIn posts, trip debriefs, contact capture).
- Maintain the client outreach tracker: monitor engagement and conduct bi-annual reviews.
Programs Coordination - Coordinate a portfolio of short-term, expert-led projects: track timelines, deliverables, and budgets; support operational needs (e.g. vendor SOWs, contracting, invoicing); and report on performance to the CPO.
- Support resource planning: use timesheet data, pipeline inputs, and program lead feedback to maintain an up-to-date view of utilisation, capacity gaps, and bottlenecks.
- Maintain programs data: keep the central programs database in Notion current and share updates across teams.
- Facilitate programs reporting: prepare monthly BD/program update decks and facilitate quarterly program calls, working with Finance and program leads to ensure timely completion.
- Streamline delivery: build and maintain repositories of templates, tools, and best practices to reduce duplication and improve consistency.
- Oversee vendor management: support program teams to recruit, contract, onboard, and offboard vendors and suppliers.
Internal Communications & Knowledge Management - Coordinate the cadence of internal comms touchpoints and schedule central Caribou meetings (ELT, SLT, all-staff updates, retreats, Brown Bags).
- Support ELT with OKRs and annual planning processes, coordinating team inputs into pre-defined processes.
- Own and maintain Caribou’s internal knowledge management system (Notion), ensuring it is user-centric and intuitive, and that staff can easily access up-to-date information on core processes and policies.
Continuous Improvement Continuously improve BD, program, and knowledge management systems by identifying opportunities for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Ideally this would include embedding digital tools and workflows. - Improve Caribou’s opportunity-scanning systems, for instance by working with external partners to develop and refine an AI scraper that aggregates RFPs into one repository. Ensure these systems remain current, reliable, and efficient.
- Develop automation: Work with the IT Manager and external partners to implement automation (e.g. AI-based RFP scanning, Notion workflows).
- Support tool selection: Coordinate requirements gathering, demos, evaluation, and contracting for new digital tools (e.g. for data collection, AP management, expenses).
- Drive adoption: Act as an advocate for smarter, more automated ways of working, ensuring teams are trained and supported in new systems.
Candidate Profile Essential Skills & Experience - 7+ years of experience in program management, operations, or business development support, ideally in a consulting or client-oriented environment.
- Proven ability to support complex, multi-stakeholder projects from end-to-end.
- Strong writing and synthesis skills.
- Demonstrated ability to design and improve processes in growing organisations.
- Confident communicator, comfortable working across diverse geographies and cultures.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Experience managing or improving digital knowledge management systems (e.g. Notion, Confluence, SharePoint).
Desirable Skills & Experience - Experience championing digital-first processes
- Experience in business development pipelines and proposal coordination.
- Ability to introduce and embed new digital tools across teams, ideally in a remote-first or globally distributed setting.
Personal Attributes - Confident operator able to execute details with precision.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented, and able to anticipate needs.
- Collaborative and empathetic, skilled at bringing people together.
- Commitment to Caribou’s mission of building inclusive and sustainable digital economies.
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