Overview
Manage and coordinate the delivery of digital project activities within the country, aligning with Ghana’s digital transformation agenda and supporting government partners to build inclusive digital ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and revision of detailed implementation plans for digital projects, including product roadmaps and budgets.
- Oversee and coordinate project implementation to ensure high-quality outputs, timely delivery, and cost-effectiveness.
- Collaborate with programme colleagues to manage adaptive implementation cycles for designing, building, testing, and deploying digital solutions.
- Ensure the sustainability of digital solutions by leading discussions on technology choices, system architecture, hosting, licensing, intellectual property, data privacy, and capacity-building.
- Conduct technical reviews of project documents.
- Integrate a gender equality perspective and prioritize closing the digital divide in all project interventions.
- Oversee administrative activities related to project implementation, including preparing technical requirements, completing contracting processes, and managing financial arrangements.
- Build effective partnerships, identify and onboard implementing partners, and drive the adoption of a digital-first mindset.
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with implementing and development partners, government officials, businesses, NGOs, and stakeholders.
- Support resource mobilization efforts and develop collaboration opportunities.
- Ensure training, project workshops, and other relevant activities are organized and implemented in a consultative manner.
- Provide technical guidance for developing project baselines, indicators, and monitoring, evaluation, and results frameworks.
- Establish effective systems for data collection, verification, reporting, and information sharing.
- Utilize KPIs to identify challenges and deviations, implementing course corrections.
- Incorporate user feedback loops and conduct ethnographic research through field visits.
- Provide regular updates to UNDP management.
- Organize project review and evaluation meetings.
- Lead mid-term and annual reviews of digital initiatives.
- Monitor and manage project risks, including political, social, technology, and data-related risks.
- Ensure proper operational and financial closure of the project.
- Ensure timely and high-quality reporting by preparing donor and management reports.
- Capture results, lessons learned, and good practices in project reports.
- Provide ad hoc updates to stakeholders as required.
- Substantively contribute to project communications and visibility efforts.
- Actively participate in and contribute to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
- Facilitate innovative knowledge-sharing mechanisms and develop resources and products to disseminate insights.
Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible relevant experience at the national or international level in project management, digital transformation, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects with digital technology components, and/or leading and managing large scale ICT projects.
- Demonstrated knowledge of sustainable development issues, development trends in the field of ICT policy, and digital in a development context, particularly within Ghana or similar developing contexts.
- Proven knowledge of digital technologies, digital system architecture, digital public infrastructure, e-government and eCommerce principles and platforms.
- Superb project management skills and proven experience of successfully managing complex projects from inception to completion, including project planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Experience in working, liaising, and collaborating with UN agencies, governments, NGOs, civil society organizations, and public international organizations.
- Proficiency in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems.
- Excellent understanding of design thinking, inclusive digital transformation, and digital inclusion.
- Proven experience in the implementation of complex digital technology solutions or projects and change management.
- Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts, their application in public service delivery, associated governance frameworks, data privacy, and ethical considerations.
- Familiarity with AgTech solutions, climate-smart agriculture practices, and digital tools for agricultural value chains is an asset.
- Familiarity with open-source software and open data principles, and their application in government and public service delivery is an advantage.
- Proven ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner, coupled with exceptional problem-solving abilities.
- Experience in resource mobilization or partnership development with government, private sector, or development partners to support project sustainability.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field is required, OR A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Project Management Certification would be an advantage.
