- Duties and Responsibilities:
The Project Manager will inter alia, be responsible for the following:
- General Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitor and participation at GRIPE and AGI events, identify non-members and follows up with these participants. (Re- invitation, site visits, follow-up). Prepare and implement a follow-up work-plan for each month. Prepare monthly report on these activities.
- Provide inputs and assist in preparation of the AGI Policy reports/speeches and short reports for AGI Newsflash.
- Establish and maintain very cordial relationship with the Policy Unit and other departments.
- Specific Duties and Responsibilities
i) Manage GRIPE’s Plastic Waste Management Projects
- Corresponding with project partners to ensure delivery on milestones and providing feedback to GRIPE Steering Committee. Managing project budgets and identifying opportunities for cost reduction and further expansion of project size and scope, including effective utilization of funds.
- Researching other existing recycling projects in the country and engaging project implementers for possible leverage for GRIPE or support for scale up.
- Participation in key plastic industry meetings with other sustainability related organizations, plastic waste management platforms, and attendance of plastic and sustainability related conferences and events.
- Engagement with the media on GRIPE and plastic waste management related issues.
- Promote end of life application to generate value for post-consumer plastics.
ii) Drive Membership & Funding
- Grow GRIPE through leveraging partnerships and engagement.
- Develop GRIPE stakeholder engagement strategy.
- Identify, develop and write proposals for grants on behalf of the GRIPE.
iii) Communications and Reporting
- Provide monthly and annual reports of GRIPE’s activities and project status updates to the Steering Committee and key stakeholders.
- Gather empirical data to support plastic waste management system.
- Manage GRIPE’s social media channels via Digital
- marketing agency.
- Ensure GRIPE’S key messages are visible to target audiences.
- Recruit and oversee interns and volunteers, as needed
- Any other duties assigned by the AGI CEO.