Country Director - South Africa

Job posted by: Marie Stopes International - UK - Wed, 25 Mar 2015

Job Details:

Organisation: Marie Stopes International - UK

Deadline Sun, 5 Apr 2015

Job type: Permanent

Location: South Africa

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About the role

Marie Stopes International (MSI) are recruiting a Country Director for our South Africa Programme. Based in Cape Town, the Country Director will be MSI's senior representative, working closely with governments, donors and other key stakeholders to deliver essential family planning and reproductive health care services, empowering women when to have their children.

The programme in South Africa was set up in 1993, and has become one of the largest non-profit provider of sexual and reproductive health services in South Africa. The core service delivery channel are our static centres with our seven micro-centres take service delivery into informal settlements to increase accessibility to marginalised and most-at-risk groups. Through increased income-generation and increased donor funding, we will be able to expand our service delivery model to include social marketing, social franchising and partnerships with other organisations.

As the Country Director you will lead a skilled, professional country team, valuing and rewarding high performance, accountability, speed and efficiency and innovation, while keeping the client at the heart of everything you do. In addition you will develop new business opportunities; overseefinancial, 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.

About You

You do not need to have Family Planning or SRH experience to apply for this role; working as a Country Director at MSI, what you do need is a passion for our mission and the work that we do. In addition you will be a hands-on, commercially-minded manager who is drawn by the challenge of both programme expansion and building long-term relationships with key stakeholders.

You will have proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments as well as experience designing and delivering strategic and annual business plans and income generation through donor funding, and/or commercial activities. You will have financial and reporting management experience, to include managing and improving the bottom line and the ability to generate, track and analyse management information and client data to inform management decision-making. In addition you will be motivated to deliver tangible results for the organisation and have the ability to manage change successfully.

The successful candidate will be pro-choice.

For more information about this opportunity, please view the job framework on our website.


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