Your Role
- As Project Manager – Strategic Programmes, you will support the Head of Programme Management in overseeing KOKO’s 75+ technology initiatives. This role emphasises strategic enablement—driving governance discipline, preparing executive-ready insights, and strengthening cross-functional alignment.
- The ideal candidate brings honesty, integrity, diligence, and meticulous attention to detail, ensuring leadership has clear visibility and confidence in delivery. You will focus on execution discipline, portfolio visibility, business-priority alignment, and sustainability-linked programmes, while also contributing to organisation-wide initiatives such as Monthly Tech All Hands and Monthly Demonstrations.
What You Will Do
- Support programme governance forums, reviews, and cadences with accountability and follow-through.
- Track risks, dependencies, and milestones, escalating issues in a timely manner.
- Maintain dashboards, KPIs, and RAID logs for portfolio visibility.Prepare executive-ready reports and presentations.
- Align programme outcomes with business priorities across Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Operations.
- Support governance for sustainability-linked and compliance initiatives.
- Enable smooth execution of Monthly Tech All Hands and Demonstrations.
- Curate lessons learned, strengthen frameworks, and drive continuous improvement
What You Will Bring to KOKO
- 3–5 years of project or programme management experience in technology-led organisations.
- Strong governance, reporting, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to prepare materials for senior executives and boards.
- Solid understanding of Agile-at-Scale, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery.
- Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and MS Office/Google Workspace; dashboarding experience a plus.
- An MBA from a premier institute is preferred
Top Skills
What We Do
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed technology company operating in East Africa and India. We build and deploy dense networks of cloud-connected "KOKOpoints" inside local corner stores, which serve as consumer access points for goods and services delivered in partnership with major suppliers. Our first consumer solution is a liquid ethanol cooking fuel, which delivers significant cost savings and quality of life improvements in the multi-billion dollar market for urban cooking fuel. This fuels solution is delivered through a Kenyan operating partnership with Vivo Energy, the company which owns and operates Shell-branded fuels distribution infrastructure across Africa.
