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Position Title: Director of Strategic Partnerships,Uganda Jobs 2014,
Department: Strategic Partnerships
Organisation: Living Goods,Jobs Vacancy in Uganda,
Primary Location: Kampala,Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya
Education Level: Bachelor’s degree
Minimum Experience : 8 (Years)
Job Type : Full-time Employment
Brief Company Profile:
Living Goods aims to improve the
lives of tens of millions of underserved customers in the developing world.
Partnerships lie at the heart of Living Goods strategy for impact at scale. By
collaborating with the world's leading international NGOs, businesses and
governments, we seek to leverage our impact by sharing our model and expertise
and enabling these visionary organizations to adapt and scale similarly
powerful, impactful models. Partners to date include The Clinton Foundation,
BRAC, PSI, and Marie Stopes International.
As the Director of Strategic Partnerships, you will build and manage the
partnerships team, drive strategy, lead client engagements, and bring in new
business. The position is based in East Africa in our regional offices in
Kampala, Uganda or Nairobi, Kenya. You should also expect to spend 30-50% of
your time traveling to drive the success of our partnering organizations around
the world.
Qualifications
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8+ years with a top consulting
firm leading engagements and delivering exceptional results for clients;
experience serving clients in the social, government sector a plus;
·
Or, 8+ years experience with an
exceptional track record in strategic partnerships or business development for
a top corporation, international NGO or development contractor;
·
Demonstrated success generating
new business;
·
Experience hiring, managing and
leading teams;
·
Entrepreneurial, with
demonstrated success building and leading new ventures; proven ability to
communicate effectively and inspire leaders in large, complex organizations;
·
Excellent quantitative, analytic,
and problem solving skills;
·
Experience working in emerging
markets with culturally diverse teams, preferably in Sub-Saharan Africa;
·
Language skills are a plus,
particularly French or Portuguese;
·
BA required; Masters degree in a
relevant field preferred.
Compensation
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience
including health insurance, vacation, and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making
lives better for others.
What is Living Goods?
Living Goodssupports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go
door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while
selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods,
water filters, clean cookstoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing
less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world,
through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’
brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at
accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best
practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health,
Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and
wealth, of the poor.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The
Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our
press page.
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving
the lives of the poor. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living
Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your
teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a
dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself
and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet
challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at
Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.
Mode of Application:
If you are qualified and interested in
please submit your resume in confidence
by visiting the e-recruitment website HERE.
