Executive Director

Governance and Accountability

• Serve as the primary interface between the Global Fiduciary Board and hub management, ensuring clarity of expectations, accountability, and performance.
  

• Promote appropriate harmony between governance and management to ensure the Board remains strategic rather than engaged in day-to-day, operational decisions. Uphold fiduciary, statutory, and ethical responsibilities associated with leading a Company Limited by Guarantee.
  

• Participate in the global fiduciary board in an ex officio capacity.
  

• Co-chair the Leadership Strategy Committee.
  

External Leadership, Positioning, and Advocacy

• Act as the principal representative and spokesperson for NEST360 with governments, donors, alliance partners, and global stakeholders.
  

• Build and manage high-level relationships with Ministries of Health, regional bodies, multilateral agencies, and private partners, moving forward the sustainability of NEST360’s interventions through integration in national and regional policy agendas.
  

• Build NEST360’s visibility, credibility, and influence as an Africa-led organisation on newborn health.
  

• Represent NEST360 at international forums and champion its interventions to be integrated into the standard of care in African countries and hospitals.
  

Resource Mobilisation and Financial Stewardship

• Lead fundraising strategy and execution to secure sustainable, multi-year funding.
  

• Maintain oversight of budgets, ensuring transparency, compliance, and effective risk management in coordination with the Chief Operating Officer and Finance Department.
  

• Cultivate relationships with philanthropic foundations, bilateral donors,corporations, and individual contributors and strengthen relationships with current and future donors.
  

• Partner closely with the leadership strategy committee and the board to set strategic fundraising priorities and develop compelling cases for support. Alliance and Stakeholder Management.
  

• Navigate complex multi-partner and multi-country alliance dynamics, aligning diverse partners with differing systems and operating models to ensure program success across NEST360 countries in alignment with set strategic objectives, plans, and timelines.
  

• Build trust, manage tensions, and resolve conflicts across partners with skilful diplomacy and emotional intelligence.
  

• Ensure effective coordination and value add from the NEST360 hub without duplicating country-level implementation roles.
  

Organisational Leadership, Operations, and Culture

• Recruit, lead, and develop a high-performing senior leadership team.
  

• Build fit-for-purpose systems, processes, and culture appropriate for a growing, distributed organisation operating in multiple African countries.
  

• Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, learning, collaboration, ethics and integrity.
  

Operating Environment

• Operates within a politically nuanced, multi-country public health environment.
  

• Works across a broad alliance of academic institutions, NGOs, governments, and donors.
  

• For the hub, impact is achieved primarily through technical assistance, coordination, fundraising, and strategic leadership rather than direct program implementation.
  

• Decisions often involve ambiguity, competing priorities, and long-term consequences for reputation and sustainability.
  

• Funding is donor-dependent and, therefore, can be unpredictable and change quickly at times.