Vacancy title:
Flex Senior Manager, Africa
Jobs at:
GiveDirectlyDeadline of this Job:
Monday, February 03 2025
Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, December 14 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Location: This role is remote but candidates must be based in Goma, Monrovia, Kampala, Nairobi or potentially another location within or near the Central Africa time zone
Role Overview:
GiveDirectly is looking to hire a Flex Senior Manager to lead programming across countries in which we operate. In this role, you will be crucial in designing, launching, and managing new and existing programs. This is an opportunity to drive impact and innovation in the cash sector when cash is receiving unprecedented attention and interest in the public eye.
This role may focus more on work in fragile and conflict affected settings, such as DR Congo, advancing innovation in both development and humanitarian programs.
Travel: You will be expected to travel to any of GiveDirectly’s countries of operation, sometimes on short notice (e.g. a month) and sometimes spending extended periods of time there (multiple months).
Reports to: Regional Director
Level: Senior Manager
Responsibilities:
Program management
• Own a rich project management plan and coordinate with stakeholders to ensure successful end-to-end execution
• Design operational models for new programs, including assessing trade-offs of different design decisions (e.g., targeting, eligibility, payments, follow-up)
• Define, track, and report programmatic and budgetary KPIs
• Dynamically identify risks (e.g. fraud, misconduct, brand risk etc) and mitigation plans
• Directly supervise multi-layered teams whose responsibilities include field team management, programs protocol definition and quality assurance, and maintaining high standards of service to last mile recipients
• Maintain high-quality relationships with donors and program partners
• Drive communication and alignment across a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including GD senior management, donors, operational partners, researchers, and payment providers
• Cultivate, enable, and grow exceptional talent, reinforce a strong team culture rooted in GD’s values
• Consolidate best practices across projects and country contexts and generate tools or guidance so our programs can continuously improve and evolve
• Other coordination and contribution to the overall success of programs e.g. coordination with other departments, driving recruitment, conducting quality spot checks
Required Skills and Experiences:
• 4-7+ years of work experience in a relevant role (implementing programs, management consulting, providing technical advisory services)
• Exceptional ability to work analytically through complex implementation questions & run robust analyses to inform decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with a diverse, multicultural, and widely geographically distributed team
• Comfort in dynamic environments, which may lack a pre-defined playbook for success and involve significant “learning by doing” and versatility
• Ability to approach tasks with resourcefulness and to work in a highly self-directed and autonomous manner
• Experience living and working in fragile and conflict-affected contexts, including comfort traveling to high risk settings and responsibly adhering to security protocols.
• Aptitude and curiosity to learn more technical aspects of cash transfer program design and related areas of social protection and humanitarian and development assistance
• Comfort navigating multiple software systems
• Good data analysis skills or willingness and aptitude to learn
• Professional working proficiency in French
• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
Desired Skills and Experiences
• Experience living and working Central Africa
• Experience working in fragile and conflict-affected settings and/or in humanitarian programs
• Experience overseeing field teams and call centers
Compensation
At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to ensure that staff’s total compensation package (base compensation + bonus) falls within the 75th percentile of similar roles, at similar organizations. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.
• The Kenya base salary for this role is $77,500
This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.
Why work at GiveDirectly?
At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:
• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement
• A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
• A competitive salary
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off
• Desk allowance
Education Requirement: No Requirements
Job Experience: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
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