Building the Next Generation of Skills, Entrepreneurship & Impact in Namibia
Windhoek, Namibia | Full-Time Positions
The Namibia Investment & Finance Academy (NIFA) is rapidly scaling as a national engine for skills acceleration, MSME empowerment, financial education, and youth development. We work with ecosystem partners, regional leadership, financial institutions, and development partners—to deliver high-impact programs across all 14 regions.
We are seeking mission-driven, disciplined, and people-centered professionals who love teaching, love training, and love working with SMEs.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the full implementation of all NIFA programs: MSME training, youth development initiatives, donor-funded projects, and regional activations.
- Create operational structure, systems, and discipline across the organisation.
- Develop annual, quarterly, and monthly program calendars.
- Supervise Program Coordinators, Interns, facilitators, and support teams.
- Manage end-to-end fulfilment including logistics, quality control, and delivery standards.
- Build and manage NIFA’s Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) system and impact dashboard.
- Collect, consolidate, analyse, and report data for all partners
- Draft high-level reports, briefs, proposals, and communication for leadership.
- Represent NIFA professionally in partner meetings, presentations, and events.
Qualifications and Personal Attributes
- Minimum undergraduate qualification in economics, accounting, finance or project management
- Demonstrated experience (5–7 years) in program management, project leadership, or development-sector implementation.
- Exceptionally well-organised, structured, and reliable.
- Strong communicator (written + verbal).
- Loves training, capacity building, and working with SMEs.
- Emotionally mature, calm under pressure, and solutions-driven.
- Low ego, high integrity, and proactive leadership style.
- Strong data literacy and comfort with dashboards, reporting tools, and M&E framework