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Assistant Project Operations Manager
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London, UK
Posted 6+ months ago
Location: London
Contract type: FTC until March 2027
About the GSMA
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting nearly 750 operators with more than 450 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem. Our mission is to further the strategic, commercial, technological, developing world and advocacy interests of our members. The GSMA produces industry-leading events such as Mobile World Congress, Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Mobile World Congress Americas and the Mobile 360 Series conferences.
About the Team
The Mobile for Development team drives innovation in digital technology to reduce inequalities in our world. Singularly positioned at the intersection of the mobile ecosystem and the development sector, we stimulate digital innovation to deliver both sustainable business and large-scale socio-economic impact for the underserved.
The Women in the Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF) is a five-year $60 million initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The Women in the Digital Economy Fund aims to identify, directly fund, and accelerate investment in proven solutions to improve women’s livelihoods, economic security, and resilience.
About the Role
The Assistant Operations Manager role will be an exciting opportunity for an individual with a passion for women’s digital inclusion as a key to economic growth. You will be working as a part of the team supporting solutions for women’s equitable and affordable access to digital technology.
The WiDEF programme is being delivered as a multi-organizational Consortium. You will support the Senior Operations Manager as well as the broader WiDEF team in ensuring smooth programme delivery by liaising with the Consortium, subject matter experts, compliance/finance, legal, HR, and marketing. Specifically, you will be responsible for the following:
- Assist the Senior Operations Manager with tracking and reporting programme deliverables and KPIs
- Assist the Senior Operations Manager with internal and external reporting;
- Track and maintain programme travel logs, ensuring the team is aware of the required process and budget available;
- Track team expenses against available budget and ensure team members submit expenses on time;
- Maintain timesheet schedule and support team with timely and accurate submissions;
- Support procurement, contracting, and supplier management through designing Requests for Quotes, selecting suppliers, raising Purchase Orders, invoices and service contracts;
- Support the team with event planning and logistics;
- Maintain shared folder filling system
About You
The ideal candidate will display the following skills and qualifications:
Hard skills
- Demonstrable operations and project management experience with donor-funded projects, innovation funds, or an interest in operationalizing nonprofits. Experience working on USAID-funded projects preferred.
- Demonstrable experience in managing programmes within a complex compliance environment
- Proven experience in managing procurement processes
- Proven experience in managing project level activities focused on achieving results
- Strong escalation management skills, to ensure that issues receive attention and mitigation support from senior stakeholders
- Ability to absorb complex information and communicate effectively at all levels to both expert and non-expert audiences
- Proficiency using Office (i.e. Excel and PowerPoint), MS teams, Workday, Monday.com, Fluxx, ActivityInfo, and other project and grant management software is required
Soft skills
- Demonstrable emotional intelligence skills and influencing skills
- Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management, including managing upwards
- Good presentation and speaking skills desirable
- Strong ability to drive collaboration through identifying a common objective
- Ability to manage overlapping activities and prioritise
- Experience working internationally and in cross-cultural environments
- Demonstrable structured and methodical thinking
- Can-do attitude, willingness to learn and apply new skills
Contract type
Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)Worker type
EmployeeWhat We Offer
Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We are one of the most diverse companies you will ever come across, we care deeply about equality and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important so if you prefer to work flexi-time or a day from home, just ask. We’re keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The success of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
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