Senior Account Manager

Position Overview :

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Senior Programs Manager to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and overseeing the execution of various projects within the Africa, Middle East and Türkiye (AMET) region for META. This role involves coordinating day-to-day operations, serving as the single point of contact (POC) for Meta, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects in alignment with client expectations. This position requires exceptional proficiency in language, very high eye for detail, and proficiency in Google sheets, Google docs and slides. The candidate needs to be highly skilled in spoken and written communication including email etiquette, drafting proposals, documents, proof reading of documents. Role involves supervising programs, managing program partners

Key Responsibilities :

1. Project Management : Managing innovation programs for Meta in the region

• Work with the teams at Meta in planning and roll-out of the Innovation Programs - symposiums, hackathons and summits.
• Maintain trackers, co-ordinate with stakeholders and keep track of the milestones on a day to day basis.
• Nudge internal and external stakeholders to ensure project milestones are on track.
• Key stakeholders in this case will be Meta Policy team, external technical program partners, on-ground event partners for various countries and lastly internal creative teams at Think WhyNot.
• Lead the project, identify potential red flags, alert teams at Meta and ensure projects stay on track.
• Travel to locations (countries within the AMET region) to keep ground control on the event and work with various partners to roll out the program smoothly
• In countries where ground partnerships don't exist, identify and empanel them for long term roll-outs.
• Ground partnerships will be with translators, event agencies, filming crews and production partners.

2. Client Coordination on Creative Campaigns :

4. Documentation and Reporting :

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Equal Opportunity Employer :

Think WhyNot is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.