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Program Manager, Management and Performance

**TechnoServe:** At TechnoServe, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better life. For more than 50 years, we have equipped smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs with the skills, connections, and confidence to move out of poverty. We harness the power of markets and the private sector to create sustainable economic growth that benefits people and the planet. Our unique combination of business-based solutions, deep understanding of local contexts, and data-driven approach enables us to fight poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. TechnoServe staff are primarily local: 95% come from the countries where we work. We deeply value collaboration, entrepreneurship, and integrity, and focus on achieving sustainable impact for the communities we serve. **Program Overview:** The Business Strengthening and Accompaniment Project aims to contribute to the sustainable economic development of communities around Challhuahuacho by strengthening the business, technical, and organizational capacities of local and community-based enterprises, enabling them to competitively and sustainably access business opportunities with large companies over a 36-month intervention period. **Position Summary:** Lead the project’s comprehensive implementation in terms of time, budget, and scope, ensuring achievement of strategic goals to improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (community-based and non-community-based). This role is critical to facilitating these enterprises’ integration into the mining sector’s supply chain and strengthening the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. **Key Functions and Responsibilities:** * Design and lead implementation of the project’s operational, financial, and procurement plans. * Supervise the monitoring unit and external consultants. * Ensure timely and effective delivery of advisory services, workshops, and other project activities. * Monitor project progress against the annual work plan. * Lead the project’s strategy and propose technical improvements. * Coordinate budget execution and ensure alignment with objectives. * Build relationships with strategic stakeholders and promote partnerships. * Advance empowerment of actors within the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. * Conduct field visits to intervention areas for follow-up, validation, and support. * Review team timesheets and progress reports monthly. * Prepare and present executive performance reports—both programmatic and financial. * **Basic Qualifications (Required):** Academic background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Law, Engineering, Social Sciences, or related fields. * **Work Experience:** + Bachelor’s degree with minimum of 7 years of professional experience, or Master’s degree with minimum of 5 years of professional experience. + Minimum of 6 years of specific experience leading multi-stakeholder projects with a territorial focus in mining-affected areas. + Proven experience engaging with markets and managing business operations. + More than 5 years of experience in local economic development, SME strengthening, or community-based enterprise development. * **Residency:** Cusco, preferably. **Required Languages:** Spanish and intermediate or advanced Quechua (spoken and written). **Travel:** To Challhuahuacho on an atypical 14x7 schedule. * **Technical Knowledge and Specific Skills** Project Management: Proficiency across the full project cycle (design, planning, implementation, monitoring, and closure) using methodologies such as PMI, Logical Framework, or Agile. * Strategic and Operational Planning: Ability to design and assess territorial-intervention strategies, as well as develop operational, financial, and procurement plans. * Financial Management: Budget programming, control, and analysis of budget execution based on cost/benefit criteria. * Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Ability to define management, impact, and sustainability indicators, and to design information collection processes and validate programmatic reports. * Community Relations and Regulatory Frameworks: Knowledge of participatory, intercultural, and gender-sensitive approaches; familiarity with public procurement regulations and territorial development policies is desirable. * Digital Tools: Proficiency in office software (intermediate Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and online monitoring or document management platforms. * Academic Training: Postgraduate studies in project management, community relations, conflict resolution, or related fields. * Understanding of the project area’s sociopolitical and productive context. Familiarity with Las Bambas mining company’s business dynamics. **Personal and Professional (Soft) Skills (Desirable)** * Strategic Relationship Building and Coordination: Exceptional ability to coordinate with local governments, the private sector, and community organizations to establish lasting strategic partnerships. * Negotiation and Conflict Resolution: Strong community dialogue skills and capacity to manage conflicts in complex social settings. * Leadership and Critical Thinking: Ability to make data- and financial/technical-analysis-driven decisions to propose project improvements. * Effective Communication: High proficiency in drafting technical documents, impact reports, and delivering executive presentations to stakeholders. * Territorial Sensitivity: Prior knowledge of and lived experience in the intervention area, including local networks and understanding of the territory’s social dynamics. * Team Management: Ability to supervise and motivate multidisciplinary teams and external consultants toward goal achievement. **Supervisory Responsibilities:** Business advisors and specialized consultants **Commitment:** Full-time employment under an atypical work regime.

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