Country Director, Malawi

Malawi

This vacancy is now closed

Description

About Us:

At MSI Reproductive Choices we are unapologetically pro-choice. We believe that every woman has the right to make choices about her own body and her own future. As one of the world’s leading providers of contraception and safe abortion care, we give women the means to do so. Across 37 countries, we provide high quality, safe services, and work with advocacy to create an enabling environment, so every client has safe access to services when and where they are needed. Because when a woman can determine her own future, she can contribute to creating a better, more sustainable future for everyone.

MSI Reproductive Choices is committed to creating an inclusive environment with a workforce which is representative of the communities we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and give equal consideration to all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age. We are committed to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of all team members and clients, with a focus on vulnerable groups. 

The role

The Country Director, Banja La Mtsogolo is responsible for delivering results for women and their families, driving programmatic excellence, and implementing best practice at scale in Malawi. They provide high quality services where they are needed the most, and their work directly contributes to preventing maternal deaths and making a sustainable impact on the lives of thousands of people every year. The CD is also responsible for ensuring BLM’s social business model has a strong footing on both the social and business side.

The Country Director, BLM is a key leadership position of a large and complex programme in one of MSI’s largest programmes. The CD represents the organisation in Malawi and is responsible for the overall strategy, management (programmatic, financial, and administrative), and development of BLM’s national family planning and SRH programmes. They lead skilled, professional country teams to deliver life-saving services through clinical centres, mobile outreach teams, social franchising, and social marketing.

In addition, they are responsible for preparing and executing annual budgets, marketing plans and work plans; developing new business opportunities; overseeing financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensuring adherence to MSI minimum standards; and assuring quality operations in line with annual and long-term strategic goals and objectives. The Country Director manages for results, valuing and rewarding high performance, accountability, speed and efficiency and innovation, while keeping the client at the heart of everything we do.

About you

We want individuals who support our mission of eliminating unsafe abortion by 2030 and who work with us to build an enabling environment to increase access to safe services everywhere. We expect all team members to share our vision and commitment to achieving our mission whilst promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of all clients and colleagues.

To succeed in this role, you must have:

  • International work experience, having successfully worked in a senior management role as an Executive Team in Malawi or a different country preferably in Africa.
  • Board Management experience.
  • Proven experience of growing a business in terms of financials and social impact.
  • Proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments (to include staff recruitment, training, and supervision of teams).
  • Designed and delivered strategic and annual business plans.
  • Experience of income generation through donor funding and/or commercial activities and in delivering proven results by making informed decisions with the use of management information.
  • Demonstrable experience of generating, tracking and analysing management information and client data to inform management decision-making.
  • Proven experience of building lasting relationships with key external stakeholders, e.g. government or donor stakeholders to deliver tangible results for the organisation (for example, previous fundraising success).
  • Proven experience of change management, including identifying required change, leading the change programme, and ensuring change is embedded and sustained.
  • Financial management experience, including internal controls and accountability: Ideally the individual will have managed a social business; however, they must have experience managing and improving the bottom-line impact of an organisation.
  • Previous experience identifying and sharing best practice and encouraging innovation within dispersed teams.
  • Experience of business development including developing and writing compelling tender proposals.
  • Experience of building a brand into a brand of choice (including experience in FMCG or another private sector experience).

Qualifications:

  • Personal Educated to degree level
  • Relevant post-graduate qualification e.g. MBA, MSc, MA (desirable)
  • Project Management (Prince 2 desirable).

Personal Attributes:

  • Committed to the protection of team members and clients, with a focus on vulnerable groups.
  • Able to role-model inclusive and culturally sensitive attitudes and behaviours.
  • Strong emotional intelligence, holding yourself to account in decisions you make and behaviours you demonstrate.
  • Energy, drive, and unwavering commitment for MSI Reproductive Choice’s mission.
  • Showing courage, integrity, and authenticity in challenging the status quo to achieve improved impact in line with the mission.
  • Passionate about our clients and strives to consistently meet and exceed expectations, putting the clients at the centre of everything, and ensuring we deliver high quality, high impact services that meet their individual needs.
  • Works as part of a team, providing support and flexibility to colleagues, demonstrating fairness, understanding and respect for all people and cultures.
  • Focuses on results, ensuring long term sustainability and increased impact.
  • Courageous: pushes the boundaries, make tough decisions and challenge others in line with our mission.
  • Market focussed using an understanding of the opportunities for profitability.
  • Continuously learning and developing to be aware of the emerging developments within our sector, with the ability to focus and articulate a vision of the future which inspires and excites others, while understanding the detail and looking for the evidence.
  • Actively seeks out feedback on their performance (both results and behaviours) with a view to continuously learning and growing as a leader.
  • Strong networker and communicator building and maintaining effective long-term working relationships with all stakeholders as BLM’s ambassador.

For more information about the role, please view the job description and person specification on our website.

Location: Malawi, Africa

Full-time: 42.5 hours a week

Contract type: Fixed-term contract, up to 3 years (2024)

Salary: Country Programme Salary Range

Closing date: Tuesday 9th March 2021 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

For internal staff applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.

 


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