Overview
Sierra Leone Programme Manager – Africell Impact Foundation Jobs in Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone at Africell Group
Title: Sierra Leone Programme Manager – Africell Impact Foundation
Company: Africell Group
Location: Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a Programme Manager for the Africell Impact Foundation in Sierra Leone.
About Africell Group
Africell is a pan-African mobile network operator.
With American ownership and headquarters in London, Africell currently serves almost twenty million customers in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, The Gambia and Angola. Since first launching in The Gambia in 2000, Africell has grown into one of Africa’s most popular and respected telecommunications brands.
Africell’s products and services – which includes traditional voice and SMS, high-speed data, mobile money, corporate services, and more – are all about creating connection and opportunity. This means that Africell, and everyone who works here, is part of one of the most important and exciting stories of our time: the digital revolution sweeping through the continent with the world’s youngest, fastest growing and most ambitious population.
About the Africell Impact Foundation
The Africell Impact Foundation is the home of Africell Group’s wide-ranging cultural and community-focused work. This has included:
- Producing original films, podcasts and books which shine a global spotlight on Africell’s operating markets
- Supporting artists, musicians and other creatives through prizes, residencies, galleries, workshops, studio space, exhibitions, concerts and films
- Encouraging grassroots innovation and entrepreneurship with seed funding, accelerator schemes, training and mentorship, and better access to digital tools
- Offering accessible education to thousands of young people through a proprietary Africell tech platform, partnerships with top universities, and scholarships and internships directed at underprivileged groups
- Funding and promoting iconic local sports teams and hosting mass-participation sports, health and wellbeing events
- Building a world-class corporate collection of contemporary African art
The Africell Impact Foundation connects the Africell brand to its customers on an emotional level, ensuring that – in addition to providing the fast and reliable mobile services that constitute our core business – we are recognised as a company that takes culture seriously and whose operations have positive, powerful and lasting impact at all levels of society.
Role overview
The ‘Sierra Leone Programme Manager – Africell Impact Foundation’ is responsible for managing the activities, projects and investments of the Africell Impact Foundation in Sierra Leone.
Working with the local leadership and commercial teams and reporting directly to Africell’s London-based Africell Impact Foundation committee, you will oversee a consistent, fast-paced and high-quality pipeline of social impact activities in the Africell Impact Foundation’s core focus area of ‘Arts and Culture’ and ‘Education and Entrepreneurship’.
The ‘Sierra Leone Programme Manager – Africell Impact Foundation’ will be responsible for all Africell Impact Foundation-branded activities in Sierra Leone, which will include sourcing project opportunities, establishing partnerships, running Africell Impact Foundation events, and measuring and reporting on results. You will also be the primary local spokesperson and editorial director for the Africell Impact Foundation, representing it to the media and government stakeholders and producing a regular news flow of relevant articles and stories.
The role is based full-time in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The ideal candidate:
You will speak fluent English, fluent Krio and ideally be competent in another local Sierra Leonean language. You will have a high-scoring bachelor’s degree from a well-ranked university or college. You will have experience working in an international company or organisation. You will have professional experience in the social impact, cultural, education, entrepreneurship or media sectors (e.g. working for a charity, foundation, non-profit, newspaper, university, start-up incubator or cultural institution).
You will also have the following skills, attributes, strengths and characteristics:
- Presentation skills: you will be able to speak, write and present exceptionally well in English and at least one local language
- Creative mindset: you will be able to generate, pitch and follow through on unconventional but impactful ideas
- International perspective: you will be able to visualize and activate potential linkages between the local market and other countries
- Editorial rigour: you will be able to maintain accuracy, variety and high literary standards in all Africell Impact Foundation-related communications
- Project management: you will be able to manage workstreams, budgets and diverse stakeholders including colleagues, suppliers, partners and project beneficiaries
- Resourcefulness: you will be able to work independently and autonomously with relevant support and oversight
- Professional standards: you will be able to model high professional standards in the workplace, e.g. with good email etiquette, strong interpersonal relationships and reliable timekeeping.
- Business acumen: you will be able to integrate commercial considerations into the planning and execution of Africell Impact Foundation activities – e.g. by keeping costs down, negotiating skilfully, sourcing good suppliers, reporting expenditure, and ensuring that agreements with partners are favourable to Africell.
What will the role involve?
- You will plan, execute and follow up on Africell Impact Foundation-branded projects in Sierra Leone, collaborating with teams including local leadership, commercial and HR.
- You will report to Africell Group’s London head office through a schedule of weekly calls, quarterly reports, annual presentations.
- You will cultivate a network of contacts within Sierra Leone’s social impact and civil society community (including NGOs, academia and cultural institutions).
- You will scout for new opportunities for Africell Impact Foundation activity in Sierra Leone, negotiating terms that are favourable to Africell and pitching ideas to group-level Africell Impact Foundation management and local leadership.
- You will monitor and understand local political, social and cultural trends, and give feedback on the positioning and impact of Africell Impact Foundation activities in the context of these dynamics.
- You will maintain a regular Africell Impact Foundation news flow by providing regular text, photo and video content for africell.com and social media. You will work with the local head of marketing/media and Africell’s group communications team to maximise press coverage of Africell Impact Foundation activities.
- You will build a network of journalists contacts across Sierra Leone print media, TV, radio, online and social media, and will act as the principal local spokesperson for the Africell Impact Foundation.
- Under the supervision of Africell Group’s London-based arts expert, you will assume local responsibility for Africell Impact Foundation fine arts programming, including identifying and recommending local or regional artists for Africell Impact Foundation support and overseeing the installation and running of periodic art exhibitions.
- Where it doesn’t yet exist, you will project manage the establishment of a local Africell Impact Foundation centre; or, where it does exist, you will manage the upkeep and programme of activities in the centre.
- You will plan and organise Africell Impact Foundation-related events in Sierra Leone in collaboration with the commercial team and Africell Group’s events team.
- You will manage the budget allocated for Africell Impact Foundation activities in Sierra Leone, reporting expenditure promptly to the local finance team and to the group-level Africell Impact Foundation committee.
- You will manage relationships with local suppliers and ensure the efficient processing of documentation such as proposals, agreements, contracts and invoices relating to Africell Impact Foundation activities. This involves working with the local legal counsel to compose agreements and contracts that meet Africell’s legal and commercial standards.
What makes Africell different?
- Purpose-driven work: Every call connected, every byte of data delivered and every mobile money transaction completed brings someone closer to opportunity, education or a loved one. Your work truly matters.
- Growth opportunities: We invest in our people through training, mentorship, and career mobility, including travel opportunities and partnerships with some of the world’s top educational institutions.
- Inclusive culture: We promote and empower local talent and maintain an environment in which diverse perspectives are encouraged.
- Innovation at heart: We understand our African operating markets deeply, and we tailor our technology, services and branding to meet their specific needs, challenges and values.
- Community impact: We support the communities we operate in, not just through mobile services, but through jobs, partnerships and development initiatives.
Your next chapter starts here
If you want to operate at the forefront of mobile telecommunications, make a real difference in Africa and grow your career, then Africell welcomes your application. Come build Africa’s digital future with us.
