Country Director - Madagascar

Job posted by: Marie Stopes International - UK - Thu, 10 Jul 2014

Job Details:

Organisation: Marie Stopes International - UK

Deadline Fri, 7 Aug 2015

Job type: Permanent

Location: Madagascar

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Country Director -Madagascar

Based in: - Antananarivo, Madagascar

Salary: Competitive salary and relocation package

About the role

As the Country Director you will be MSI's senior representative in the country, working 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.

The Country Director is a key leadership position responsible for the overall strategy, management and development of our national family planning and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes. You will lead a skilled professional country team to deliver life-saving services through clinical centres, mobile outreach teams, social franchising and social marketing.

As the Country Director you will prepare and execute the annual budgets, marketing plans and work plans; and develop new business opportunities; oversee financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensure adherence to MSI minimum standards; and ensure that quality operations are in line with annual and long-term strategic goals and objectives. You will manage for results, valuing and rewarding high performance, accountability, speed and efficiency and innovation, while keeping the client at the heart of everything you do.

About You

Working as a Country Director at MSI you will have a passion for the work that we do. You will also have proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments with experience of empowering and managing a high performing team. You will have experience designing and delivering strategic and annual business plans and generating income through donor fund raising, and/or commercial activities. You will have financial and reporting management experience, including 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 have experience of building lasting relationships with key external stakeholders, in order to deliver tangible results for the organisation; you will have the ability to manage change successfully.

About Us

Marie Stopes International is one of the largest international family planning organisations in the world. Millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality family planning and reproductive healthcare. Since 1992 our programme in Madagascar has been providing a full range of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to clients across the country, working with national governmental and non-governmental entities to improve the scope and quality of family planning services.

The Madagascar programme has 15 clinics offering a full range of SRH and family planning services. 17 outreach teams, 75 MSI Ladies who are trained midwives visiting women in remote communities and over 150 social franchisees who are members of our BlueStar network. We also work with public health facilities in our CSB Star network, providing training to improve standards for family planning services in the public sector.

For more information about this exciting role, please view the attached job framework. Please note the position closes on 11th August 2014.


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