Country Director - Madagascar

Job posted by: Marie Stopes International - UK - Tue, 18 Nov 2014

Job Details:

Organisation: Marie Stopes International - UK

Deadline Mon, 1 Dec 2014

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

Based in Antananarivo, the Country Director will be MSI's senior representative for Madagascar, 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.

Established in 1992, our large Madagascar programme now has 15 clinics, 17 outreach teams and 150 Social Franchises under our BlueStar Network. In addition, this innovative programme has been a pioneer of our MSI Ladies model, now overseeing 75 trained midwives visiting women in Madagascar's remote communities.

As the Country Director, you will lead and inspire a highly skilled professional country team to deliver life-saving services through clinical centres, mobile outreach teams, social franchising and social marketing. 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.

The successful candidate will be bi-lingual in French/English.

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.

For more information about this exciting role, please view the attached job framework.


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