Company Overview

Our client is a social business headquartered in San Diego, CA USA that provides training and sustainable employment to vulnerable men, women, and children in order to create long-term livelihoods, sustain and support communities. Our vision is to see men, women and children equipped with employment, knowledge, and skills that they are able to leverage to create and navigate prosperous, joyful, futures. We turn our vision into reality by providing sustained market access for artisans that engage with our programs and trainings.

Currently, our client supports more than 4000 artisans throughout Africa who benefit from our sustainable employment opportunities. We are a business with a heart – we believe that business is the way forward to end poverty and remedy injustice.

Overview

This position will be leading and supporting all aspects of the country’s operations including staff leadership, program implementation, and product production. This position will require you to use strong and energetic leadership and management skills to create life-giving opportunities for impoverished men and women. This position will involve working with and developing an effective staff and shaping them into a cohesive team, creating goals, providing direction, utilizing creative thinking, and demonstrating good judgment and decision making.

This position will support the ongoing development of staff in collaboration with our San Diego headquarters, East African country directors, managers and coordinators. We have a collaborative and mutually supportive team – and this position will be expected to see the big picture and think long term in support of the poor and the marginalized.

Job Tasks/ Functions

• Lead, mentor and direct All Across Africa Ghana staff.
• Hire and manage an effective team to implement large scale programs that include basket production and other artisan crafts as directed by the US office.
• Lead and encourage all field staff and country staff to strive to do their job effectively and well
• Utilize All Across Africa’s logistics software (ERP) to optimize procedures.
• Prepare and submit monthly budget for Ghana.
• Manage budgets, oversee cost accounting and weekly reporting.
• Implement production teams and systems for new product designs and seasonal lines – scaling production up to produce thousands of handmade units per program weekly.
• Lead staff in working with cooperatives and village producers to create new sample products for US buyer meetings.
• Estimate production and delivery costs for each product.
• Manage quality controls and train staff in quality control for large market buys.
• Strengthen production and capacity of hand-crafted products and groups.
• Remove bottlenecks and create operational efficiencies for timely delivery of products
• Implement training programs to improve each producing group’s overall success.
• Negotiate pricing for raw goods, shipping, etc.
• Travel by bus, car or plane to various locations in the African region to find materials, meet suppliers and cooperatives, etc.
• Supervise the delivery of shipments to the airport and the port in Tema.

Requirement Qualifications, Skills and Competences

• A minimum of First Degree in Management or related field
• Must have Entrepreneurial/Business/Production/Manufacturing experience
• Track record of meeting production targets
• A minimum of 5 years working experience in a managerial position
• Must be willing to relocate, live and work in Bolgatanga

Reporting

• Send weekly report
• Lead once a week staff meeting (check in and follow up meeting)
• Location: This position will mostly be located in Bolgatanga