Country Director - Senegal

Job posted by: Marie Stopes International - UK - Fri, 22 Aug 2014

Job Details:

Organisation: Marie Stopes International - UK

Deadline Sun, 14 Sep 2014

Job type: Permanent

Location: Senegal

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Country Director - Senegal.

Based in: Dakar

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 skilled, professional country teams 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 plan; and develop new business opportunities; oversee financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensures adherence to MSI minimum standards; and assure quality operations 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 we do.

About You

Working as a Country Director at MSI you will have a passion for our mission and the work that we do. You will though have proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments. Have 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 have experience of building lasting relationships with key external stakeholders, in order to deliver tangible results for the organisation and with the ability to manage change successfully.

We also require a French speaker for this role.

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. We are in 37 countries, with 9,000 team members, 3,190 social franchises, 52,000 outreach locations and 600+ clinics.

One of MSI's smaller programes, Senegal was established in 2011. It is however our fastest growing programme, employing c.40 staff. It is one of few the organisations in the country specialising in sexual and reproductive healthcare. We provide highly subsidised services and our fully equipped clinical outreach teams provide services to our clients in geographically and culturally diverse population areas.

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

The successful candidate will be pro choice.

The plan start date for this role is early 2015.


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