Business, strategic management Jobs for Senior-level in Africa

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PATH

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Regional HUB & Country Director, West-Central Africa

Job details

Contract Type

Description

Required Qualifications and Experience

  • Advanced degree in public health, medicine, business or related fields preferred, relevant experience in lieu of degrees would be considered.

  • 15 years in a leadership role with progressive responsibility leading teams and regional programs in international development or humanitarian operations, including a minimum of 8 years in developing countries.

  • Demonstrated experience leading and empowering a diverse, cross-cultural senior management team with an emphasis on collaboration and accountability.

  • Demonstrated experience in establishing strategic partnerships and alliances and serving in a senior representation role.

  • Proven ability to support resource mobilization efforts in a competitive landscape and a track record of leading teams in strategy development and implementation, delivery of high-quality programs with demonstrated impact and results.

  • Ability to work under pressure, provide sound judgment, to inspire and lead people, enable teamwork, and collaborate, ensuring excellent team performance and sustained momentum.

  • Ability to successfully mentor global health professionals at different career stages.


Responsibilities
  • Establish priorities for focused development of the country portfolios in the HUB.

  • Ensure achievement and reporting on contributions to partners’ sustainable results, and external communication of achievements.

  • Oversee management of programs and ensure results and targets are achieved.

  • Oversee the development of country portfolios and leverage the technical expertise of program teams and the business development functions to ensure successful outcomes.

The Regional HUB & Country Director is responsible for business development and external relations for the Hubs including:

  • Providing support for the development of engagements with local partners.

  • Coaching and developing country teams in relation to identifying and developing opportunities in collaboration with local partners, as well as preparing and negotiating proposals.

  • Ensuring operationalization of PATH’s Strategic Plan through implementation of business development strategies and the improvement of operational capabilities.

  • Helping build PATH’s brand through showcasing capabilities and enhancing the understanding of PATH’s value-add.

  • Champion business development efforts, including donor mapping and fundraising strategies. Ensure alignment with programmatic needs and sustainable growth objectives.

  • Working with Business Development, ensure proposal design, development, planning, and budgeting by program staff to enable timely submission of grants and contract agreements.

The Regional HUB & Country Director is responsible for the delivery of HUB and country portfolios, ultimately ensuring quality, partner satisfaction, and financial sustainability. This includes:

  • Overseeing and enabling efficient and effective delivery of services and support to PATH partners in line with the strategy and within a risk management framework.

  • Ensuring coordinated and integrated approaches to the delivery of various country portfolios of projects and services.

  • Conducting recurrent reviews of country portfolios to ensure business development and delivery are reinforcing each other, and that correction is applied when needed.

The Regional HUB & Country Director is responsible for organizational, team, and people development. This includes:

  • Supporting PATH’s approach to organizational excellence by role-modeling quality and sustainable development improvements.

  • Planning, recruiting, managing, and developing flexible teams with the skills and competencies needed to ensure optimum performance, gender, and geographical diversity.

  • Promoting teamwork, collaboration, and diversity by providing clear direction, objectives, and guidance to enable teams to perform their duties responsibly, effectively, and efficiently in line with PATH values.

  • Encouraging contributions to the development of management policies, ensuring that requirements and potential solutions for new or improved policies, instructions, guidance, and tools are channeled to the relevant countries and programs.

The Regional HUB & Country Director is responsible for Operational Leadership that includes:

  • In collaboration with Regional Operations Director, ensure that country operations are consistent with PATH values and management policies and guidelines, and that functions are operated to guarantee timely and cost-effective execution.

  • Ensure strong financial stewardship, compliance, and cost-effective operations, lead risk management, safeguarding, and security to protect staff and assets and maintain fit-for-purpose systems and structures aligned with organizational growth

  • Lead change initiatives in collaboration with regional and country teams, promoting organizational agility and distributed leadership. Drive structural enhancements to optimize operational models.


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