East Africa Director

Position Title: East Africa Director

Location: Nairobi Kenya preferred; Kampala Uganda or Dar es Salaam Tanzania may be considered.

Type: Fully remote with travel to inperson meetings and events

Reports to: President

Hours per week (average): 40 (full time)

Our Vision and Mission WomenLift Health envisions a world where diverse accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes. To realize that vision we seek to expand the power and influence of talented midcareer women in health and engage with senior institutional and societal leaders to catalyze systemic change in health leadership. We work in 20 countries across East Africa Southern Africa North America and in India and Nigeria and continue to explore outreach to other regions.

Our Work Established in 2019 we work to advance equality in health leadership through a range of actions at the individual institutional and societal levels. This includes a portfolio of leadership development programs which equip midcareer women with tools along with peer mentor and coach support to successfully use their voice expertise and leadership for impact. It includes engaging in partnerships with senior leaders in health institutions and supporting/convening global regional and national conversations about the importance of womens leadership amplifying the voices of health leaders.

Our Culture and Values

We are an entrepreneurial team of people who bring diverse cultural and technical perspectives and experiences. We welcome resultsoriented problemsolvers of any nationality race gender sexual orientation age and disability. We are a growing organization that is committed to achieving impact in global health and gender equality by:

• Being trustworthy compassionate and accountable to ourselves our partners and the women we serve.
• Fostering a spirit of learning to grow individually and collectively by creating space for curiosity and failing forward.
• Investing in a diverse and collaborative culture that celebrates boldness inclusion and respect.
• Pioneering evidencebased action that is locally grounded and globally shared.

Position Summary

WomenLift Health is seeking an experienced strategic innovative and dynamic Director to design lead grow and implement the WomenLift Health strategy in the East Africa region serving Kenya Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania Uganda and expanding to serve Ethiopia. The East Africa Director will be responsible for leading the strategy to elevate the voice and influence of women leaders in health in the East Africa region to influence systemic change in organizations and to contribute to advancing women leaders in the health sector to improve health outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Management and Leadership

• Provide strategic leadership for the East Africa Regional Hub including establishing and growing WomenLift Healths presence and partnerships in East Africa and developing and implementing the East Africa strategy including overseeing the budget and operations.
• Working in a matrix structure lead an inspired high performing inclusive and diverse team of 57 people and contribute to sustaining the WomenLift Health culture.
• actively participate in global management decisions regarding the growth strategy and priorities of WomenLift Health and provide guidance to the President and other senior leaders on strategic opportunities.
• In alignment with the WomenLift Health Monitoring Evaluation and Learning strategy oversee monitoring and evaluation in East Africa ensuring accurate data for purposes of reporting program improvement and donor accountability.
• Serve as the WomenLift Healths representative for East Africa and other regions as appropriate in interviews panels events and other forums.
• Work collaboratively with other hubs and regions to ensure alignment of strategic goals and activities.

Strategy Development and Implementation: Programs Partners and Brand

• Lead the East Africa regional team to refine implement and monitor the contextualized WomenLift Health strategy and program implementation plan.
  • The program strategy will both align with and contribute to global and crossregional plans.
• Contribute to societal acceptance of womens leadership and gender equality.
• Develop partnerships with key leaders and regional national and subnational organizations in East Africa to advance womens leadership and gender equality in health.
• With support from the Communications and Engagement Director oversee the development and implementation of a strategic communication plan that will promote key messaging on womens leadership in health in the region.
• Design and implement platforms to raise the visibility of women leaders and male allies and establish the WomenLift Health brand.
• Partner with fellow regional Directors and functional teams to design new programs and projects share learning engage and manage implementing partners and build shared capacity.

Education Experience Knowledge Skills and Ability

• Minimum 15 years work experience in the health or development sector or leadership field including 10 years of regional or global experience leading the development of strategy for and of projects of comparable size/complexity.
• Masters degree required. Candidates with a Bachelors degree and 17 years of progressively responsible experience will also be considered.
• Minimum of 10 years leading and managing a team.
• Experience working across multiple countries in the East Africa region.
• Demonstrated impact designing and implementing a complex regional strategy.
• Established network of personal and institutional relationships in health in East Africa.
• Strong influencing negotiating and relationship management (diplomatic) skills including successfully engaging and influencing highlevel leaders and partners.
• Proven ability to grow manage leverage and sustain a diverse and multicultural team.
• Proven ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment that requires initiative flexibility ingenuity and resilience.
• Outstanding communications skills including the ability to work across cultures and geographies at all levels and for all audiences.

Valued and NonEssential Education Experience Knowledge Skills and Ability

• Additional language especially French.

How to Apply

To apply submit resume and cover letter to the career page. Please also include 3 professional references and desired annual salary in USD.

Hiring Statement

WomenLift Health is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF) a 501(c)3 public charity that incubates new and innovative publicinterest projects and grantmaking programs. NVF is committed to attracting developing and retaining exceptional people and to creating a work environment that is dynamic rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. NVFs work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners respecting the full spectrum of race color religious creed sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin political affiliation ancestry age disability genetic information veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.

WomenLift Health intends to hire the selected candidate employment via a PEO (Professional Employer Organization)/host partner in Kenya or other East African country. The candidate must live and be authorized to work in the countries specified.