Key responsibilities as Country Director
• Lead the development and execution of a high-quality country strategic plan relevant to the local
context and reflecting the global priorities
• Oversee the recruitment, orientation, performance, and development of staff; demonstrating healthy
engagement, a culture of innovation, and effective talent management
• Provide leadership in the development or change management of transformative initiatives in the
country to enable continuous evolution of the projects and their delivery models
• Oversee programme quality in the country; ensuring quality execution of the programme
strategy, and timely and quality completion of all monitoring, evaluation, and reporting
processes

Optimise financial, human, and physical resource allocation, management, and quality standards to
ensure successful implementation of the country’s strategic plan and mission
• Coordinate and link with national and international partners, technical workgroups, donors, and
stakeholders; proactively seeking potential new collaborations
• Contribute to programme- and project development; actively promote generation of new project ideas, and generation of evidence through implementation research
• Initiates, leads, and oversees the grants acquisition and management effort in the country ensuring
long-term health of the portfolio and achievement of annual targets
• Budget control and safeguarding of the internal controlling system
• Ensure the delivery of timely, high-quality programme and project reports
Your profile
• Medical degree, Business Administration, or development specialist; ideally combined with a degree
and work experience in Public Health
• Experienced professional with at least 8 years working experience in a senior management position in international development and health programmes
• Extensive practical experience and contextual understanding of the eastern and southern Africa
landscape
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English
• Ability to pragmatically solve problems, plan a course of action using analytical, conceptual, strategic,
and forward-thinking skills to achieve an effective resolution
• Demonstrated experience in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development
and health programmes (including demonstrated experience with implementation research)
• Proven track record, and innovative approaches to, implementing organisational change management
• Robust and proven experience in management, administration, and specifically financial
administration
• Demonstrated high-level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills including the ability to build
collaborative relationships internally and externally with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, social, and
political issues
• Experience in effectively dealing with institutional donors and government officials
• Coalition building capabilities, external networking, and experience in developing strategic
partnerships
• Self-motivated, energetic, hard-working, entrepreneurial, and service-orientated
We offer
• An attractive benefit package, professional development opportunities and stimulating linkages with
competence networks
• Existing links with international research institutions, possibilities to participate in research, and
contribute to scientific publications