About You
You
are a people person that understands the importance and power of building
strong relationships to drive a common and ambitious goal. You inspire cross
cultural teams that are either direct or indirect reports, or partners, towards
a common mission and goal, driving them to deliver impactful results.
You
are strategic and innovative and you are able to connect dots and communicate
clearly with a diverse range of audiences. You are a problem solver, looking at
each challenge as an opportunity to find innovation in the way of doing things.
You are highly organised and have great attention to detail. You are committed
to achieving stellar results and success, and can delegate responsibility to an
empowered team. However, you not afraid to get your hands dirty and get
involved when needed.
Stakeholder
and partner engagement and management are skill sets that you pride yourself
in. You thrive under pressure, can prioritise, are resilient and have a high
level of EQ. You are a great communicator and a leader that can inspire your
team. You are confident, and can communicate directions and solutions clearly
to both technical and non-technical staff. You’re a team player, who’s
pragmatic and driven, and ultimately has a passion to deliver impact!
Principal Responsibilities
Leadership
- Provide strategic leadership to the
programme, acrticulating a clear vision, and fostering
- confidence and team spirit among
programme staff and partners.
- Actively participate in and/or lead
the programme’s governance structures, including the
- Steering Committee and the Programme
Implementation Team (PIT), ensuring effective
- decision-making and implementation.
- Actively participate in ICD’s
Senior Management Team (SMT), and adhere to the duties enshrined therein.
- Steward strategic partnerships and
relationships.
Programme Management
- Oversee and manage the design,
development, and timely programme execution, including setting annual
budgets, goals and targets
- Provide quality assurance and
technical oversight to the implementing teams to foster continuous
improvement in quality, programmatic and financial performance.
- Ensure programme operational tools
such as programme charter, M&E frameworks, budgets, and work plans are
in place for effective implementation.
- Embed data-driven, adaptive
implementation approaches to sustain relevance and facilitate continuous
improvement and timely course correction.
- Ensure programme alignment with the
funder and Amref’s corporate strategies, policies, operational guidelines,
and protocols, as applicable.
Talent Management
- Foster the development of the
programme team, line manage direct reports, and build a culture of high
performance and resilience in line with Amref’s values of ubuntu,
integrity and quality.
- Identify staff development needs
and provide coaching and mentorship, as well as link to training and
development opportunities, to spur performance.
- Support the building of
cross-country and cross-entity effectiveness and efficiencies, making
strong operational and strategic linkages for the programme in the
organisation.
Evidence and Learning
- Drive the programme’s learning
agenda, including documentation of promising practices.
- Provide oversight for all donor
reports, evaluation reports, and other reports emanating from the
programme to ensure timeliness and quality.
- Effectively manage the generation
and dissemination of strategic information to staff, partners and
stakeholders.
- Establish a conducive environment
for learning across the programme’s implementing countries and entities.
- Provide thought leadership to
advance the health and livelihoods agenda in the region and beyond.
Partnership Management, Advocacy
and Networking
- Provide leadership in identifying
relevant policy issues and support policy advocacy actions and processes.
- Contribute to and facilitate team
participation in relevant external technical working groups and committees
to inform the health and livelihoods agenda in the region
- Manage internal and external
relations with public and private sector players, including funding
partners, implementing partners, and collaborators that are stakeholders
in the programme.
Business Development:
- Cultivate, maintain and deepen
relationships with the funding partner, and partner entities to facilitate
programme growth
- Work closely with the corporate and
ICD’s business development team to identify, pursue and secure funding
opportunities for leverage and extension of the programme.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Masters and professional
qualification in relevant areas such as business administration, public
health, international development.
- Bachelor’s degree required
Skills and Competencies:
- 8+ years’ experience implementing
complex multi-country programmes, preferably in the health and/or
international development sector, with 3+ years in a senior leadership
role.
- Demonstrable strategic thinking
skills with the ability to rally people and teams behind ambitious goals
- Strong proven partnership building
and networking skills
- Ability to inspire, motivate and
guide a diverse and geographically dispersed team of technical and
non-technical people who are direct or indirect reports.
- Experience using data and evidence
to drive programme performance and sustainable impact.
- Demonstrable success in creating
clear and compelling programme strategies that internal nd external
stakeholders
- Solid track record and achievement
in overseeing large scale multi-year, multi-country grants.
- Excellent communication and public
speaking skills
- Candidates with both English and
French language capabilities will have an added advantage.
How To Apply
