About this role
Job Description: ------------------ - Ignite funds startups and innovative projects that utilize fourth industrial wave tech to solve local problems and to target global opportunities in health, energy, agriculture, telecom, finance and other verticals. - GM SEED will be responsible for planning and executing solicited and unsolicited innovation projects in different verticals. - Developing Proposal solicitation and evaluation strategies. - Provide the services of research, prospect identification, proposal design, evaluation and solicitation strategies. - Design a conceptual framework to help evaluators assess the extent to which the project generally supports the broad policy objectives. - Identification of theme and project definition. - Identify, develop and maintain themes and project definitions for consideration by the Board. Define projects corresponding to theme. Monitoring review process: ------------------------------ - Research, review, evaluate and edit proposals developed by principal investigators. - Create an external review panel for external evaluation of proposals, depending on the funding activity in progress. Coordinating with other departments: ------------------------------------------ - Work closely with other departments to ensure timely involvement of research bodies and principal investigators, disbursement of funds, effective monitoring, publishing of results and beneficial commercialization. Approval on technical proposals: ------------------------------------ - Analyze evaluation results synthesized by evaluation managers. Assess their implications for R&D Fund program performance. - Ensuring adherence to policies and procedures. - Monitor the day-to-day operations to ensure that the department is meeting goals and objectives, is following policies and procedures and is adhering to deadlines, takes corrective action as appropriate. Education: ------------ - Master’s degree in Telecom/Electronics/Electrical/Computer Systems Engineering or Computer Sciences / Information Technology from a reputable University recognized by HEC. Experience: ------------- - Ten years progressive work experience in the similar position preferably with a donor agency or a nonprofit organization. Work requires communications, analytical and organizational skills.