Deputy Country Director/Director Programs Delivery Job at Living Goods

Responsibilities:

• Guide, manage, coach and support career development of the Programs Delivery team members.
• Lead the operationalization of experiments and innovation for organizational Learning.
• Support country responsibilities including financial approvals and signatory to the Bank.
• Partner with the Country Director to shape Living Goods’ Kenya strategy and develop the geographic and operational growth plans for Kenya in line with Living Goods’ mission and values.
• Oversee the implementation of the growth strategy whilst meeting all our key health impact KPIs aligned to contextual government needs.
• Strengthen Living Goods Kenya operational excellence processes to build highly efficient and effective teams.
• Review performance against key indicators and take action to ensure on-going measurable improvements.
• Work with the Country Director and Chief Finance Officer (CFO) to budget and carefully monitor and control all costs and ensure all internal control procedures are followed.
• Support the Country Director and the Business Development team in developing relationships with donors and other implementing partners to deepen and expand Living Good’s current funding base and to identify other possible long term funding solutions.
• Partner with the Government Relations team to develop strong county and sub county government relationships at all levels.
• Deputises the Country Director in all fronts e.g. represent the organization at key internal and external meetings and events.
• Work closely with Global & Regional teams to share learnings and continually seek improvements to our processes and ways of working.
• Partner with the Country Director and Senior Management in building a culture of high performance at Living Goods.
• Recruit and provide line management, coaching, mentorship and support to the team
• Development/oversight/approval/review of budgets, expense reports and disbursements
• Enforces policies to improve the overall compliance environment

Requirements:

Academic Qualifications;

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Public Health or a related field from a recognised university;
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Health or a related field;

Work Experience Required;

• Over twelve (12) years of relevant experience with over five (5) years at Senior management level.
• Private sector commercial leadership experience strongly desired
• Demonstrated experience in leading big teams with highly complex operational completes

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