Programme Lead Ignite

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Programme Lead: Ignite will be responsible for end-to-end programme development strategy and management for the Ignite (Child and Youth Development) afterschool programme that develops well-rounded children and young people (aged 7-18 years) in grades 1 12 who are able to achieve their age-appropriate socio-emotional and academic milestones in a safe space. It offers young people a series of activities that unlocks learners potential through Afrika Tikkuns Cradle to Career incumbent will drive standardized execution of the programme across 5 centres and all outreach sites across the programme underwent strategic development and updating in 2024 and the Programme Lead is required to drive the coordinated delivery and enhanced performance of the Ignite Managers and facilitators at all Afrika Tikkun Centres.

Required Skills:

Strategic development:

Develop and mature the Ignite Programme strategy and operations.
Further strengthen referral networks and partner relationships with schools educational institutions integrated partnerships and other stakeholders in each community
Work with the Afrika Tikkun Outreach Movement team to ensure strategy to scale and operations

Programme Monitoring:

Research and facilitate implementation of innovative youth development ideas
Further develop policy and drive the practice and content of each of academic support and life skills as well as ensure a seamless integration of the Cradle to Career model
Communicate the progress and performance of the programme regularly through detailed activity reports
Work with the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manager and team to ensure the development of monitoring tools and instruments are in place
Develop SOPs SLAs MOUs and any other stakeholder related agreements

Coordination and Team Management:

Coordinate teams at a national level to ensure that the programme is implemented consistently across 6 centres and with outreach partners
Enhance the performance of the Ignite teamsby building cohesive and high-performing teams raising the standard and promoting the sharing of best practice
Identify the needs of Ignite teams anddetermine their training requirements

Internal Stakeholder Liaison:

Coordinate the Ignite teams and the Marketing department in promoting participation to the Ignite programme in each community and online

Academic Remediation and Support:

Deliver on grade specific outcomes for Gateway Subjects (ieNumeracy & Literacy)
Drive a strategy that achieves grade 1 - 12 age-appropriate academic outcomes

Evaluation Sharing and Learning:

Assist in building robust evidence to demonstrate both the need for the Ignite services and the outcomes of the programme
Coordinate the various assessments of individuals within the Ignite programme and the evaluations of the programme
Work with the MERL team to ensure the development of evaluation tools and instruments

Budget and Spend:

Build an annual budget and manage spend for Ignite across all sites

Team Leadership and performance management:

Responsible for managing 5 Programme Managers
Drive high performance and SMART execution of activities among Programme Managers and by extension the rest of the Ignite Team
Training developing and coaching the team on effectively and efficiently executing the departmental strategy
Performance assess Program Managers bi-annually and support them improve on areas of improvement