Country Director - Uganda

About MSI

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

Reporting to the Senior Director Africa, the Country Director is responsible for delivering results for women and their families, driving programmatic excellence, and implementing best practice at scale.  He /she provides high quality services where they are needed the most, and his / her work directly contributes to preventing unnecessary deaths and making a sustainable impact on the lives of thousands of people every year.

The Country Director is a key leadership position responsible for the overall strategy, management (programmatic, financial, and administrative), and development of our national family planning and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes. He / she leads skilled, professional country teams to deliver life-saving services through clinical centres, mobile outreach teams, social franchising, and social business.

In addition, he /she is 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. The Country Director is MSI’s senior representative in the country of assignment. He / she works closely with governments, donors, and other key stakeholders to overcome barriers that prevent women and men from accessing safe, affordable, reliable family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services.

About You

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following experience:

• At least 7 yrs experience at executive leadership/management level
• Proven experience of change management, including identifying required change, leading the change, and ensuring it is embedded and sustained.
• Experience in strategic and annual business planning.
• Experience setting up and running commercial operations; Making investment decisions, understanding P&L, Marketing, business risk management.
• Experience of resource mobilisation, business development and donor engagement
• Experience providing financial oversight, including internal controls and accountability, audit, credit control.
• Proven experience of building lasting relationships with key external stakeholders, e.g., government or donors and other stakeholders
• Board Management experience
• Public speaking, fluent in both written and spoken English.
• International work experience is an added advantage.

Qualifications and training – essential/desirable

• The applicant must hold a relevant post-graduate qualification e.g. MPH, MBA, MSc, MA (Essential)
• Project Management and leadership training (Prince 2 desirable)

Personal Attributes:

We seek exceptional individuals who are aligned to MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You must be a strong communicator, self-motivated and solutions-seeking, committed to driving social change in an environment that measures sustainable results and impact at an individual and global level. You must be able to work effectively with and across diverse teams and be comfortable with ambiguity. 

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is/has:

Initiative

Thinking ahead and taking action to make the most of opportunities by finding the optimum solution

Innovative

Thinking creatively and outside of the box so that ideas generated create a positive outcome

Effective Communication

Communicating through active listening and good questioning techniques, using appropriate body language, ensuring information is clear and concise.

Responsive

Being responsive to changing priorities and demands

Working Efficiently

Planning, prioritising, and organising work to ensure work is accurate and deadlines are met

Sharing Information

Sharing information and knowledge whilst maintaining confidentiality

Focus on Learning.

Taking responsibility for keeping knowledge and skills updated and for seeking opportunities to develop further

Commitment

Awareness and understanding of goals, vision and values and how your role impacts on this and going the extra mile to meet role requirements

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Location: Kampala, Uganda

Full-time

Contract type: 3 year fixed term appointment.

Salary: Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits

Salary band: BG 11

Closing date: 30th August 2024 (midnight BST). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the salary will be banded within the national context. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.