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Position Title:East Africa Regional Director
Duty Station: Kenya, Uganda
Organization:Village Enterprise
Employment Type:Full Time Permanent
Regions: Sub-Saharan Africa
Application Deadline:15 Jan 2015
About the organization:
Village Enterprise is a microenterprise development organization working in
East Africa. Its mission is to equip people living in extreme poverty with
resources to create sustainable businesses. It provides business training, seed
capital/start-up funds, and on-going mentoring to new entrepreneurs to start
businesses.
About the Job:
Village Enterprise is seeking an East Africa Regional Director. S/he will
be responsible for overseeing the management, delivering, and monitoring and
evaluation of organization's microenterprise development program for FY 2015.
This will involve starting up to 3,000 microenterprises and identifying,
training, and supporting more than 9,000 new clients.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
·
Manage and lead all facets of
organization's current field operations (70% of the position):
·
Oversee the delivery and
monitoring of organization's field programs;
·
Hire, train, and manage the
programs and operations team, which currently consists of the US based director
of Africa operations, Uganda-based program director, Kenya and Uganda country
directors and assistant country directors, M&E director, associated field
operations staff, more than 70 community-based business mentors, and field
coordinators, a SMART consultant, and three-four East Africa-based fellows;
·
Prepare annual field
operations budget, and manage that budget;
·
Manage partnerships with
other key community based organizations (examples include USAID/FHI360, Budongo
Conservation Field Service (BCFS), and Elevate Africa).
·
Define and implement forward
looking strategic plans for East Africa (5%);
·
Oversee and manage our extensive
monitoring and evaluation programs and team (5%);
·
Lead the development and delivery
of new, innovative pilot projects, and programs to increase organization's
impact and scalability (10%);
·
Support the US development team
in creating workable proposals and donor materials (10%).
Qualifications:
·
Education: BA/BS required.
MA/MS/MBA desired;
·
More than 2 years of leadership
and management experience;
·
More than 2 years demonstrated
success in a leadership role managing a staff and directing an organization, a
program, or an enterprise, in either the for-profit or not-for-profit sector;
·
About 5-7 years of related work
experience required;
·
Experience working in a
developing country or emerging economy required. Experience in Africa required,
experience in rural East Africa preferred;
·
Experience in the international
development field required, experience in the poverty reduction,
microenterprise, and/or microfinance fields preferred;
·
Experience developing and
analyzing business and program effectiveness data, budgets, and financial
models is required;
·
Experience communicating with and
managing cross-cultural teams is required;
·
Proven ability to manage programs
and people, and to mentor staff;
·
Demonstrated success in a start
up environment. Experience creating and managing a business, a non-profit, a
new program, or a large project;
·
Strong writing and communication
skills required, as this role will involve preparing reports and presentations;
·
Must be a very strong critical
thinker with the ability to both analyze organizational dynamics and contextual
threats, changes, and opportunities, and to develop and apply performance
metrics;
·
Fluency in English is required.
Working knowledge of Swahili is helpful.
Mode of application:
Interested candidates can send their resume and cover letter to
AnneO@VillageEnterprise.org
Please mention "Village Enterprise EARD Application" in the
subject line.
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