Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
The Ford Foundation is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Regional Director.
The independent, nonprofit grantmaking organisation works towards strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting international cooperation, and advancing human achievement
Responsibilities
- Assess local, political, social, cultural and economic developments and help shape the foundation’s strategy in the region, and guide its programming and grant-making priorities in alignment with the foundation’s mission and values and the goals of the international Gender Racial and Ethnic Justice (GREJ) and Natural Resources and Climate Change (NRCC) programme
- Provide intellectual leadership inside and outside the foundation
- Represent the foundation externally and initiate/foster strategic partnerships, collaborating broadly with international scholars and practitioners, government agencies, non-governmental organisations, the private sector and other donors on issues of common programme concern
- Lead/conduct annual reviews of strategy and propose changes to ensure greatest impact
- Oversee and manage, mentor and coach a small team of professional, administrative and support staff including directing development of grantmaking plans by programme officers, establishing annual performance delivery goals for the team and direct reports, and planning and implementing talent management strategies
- Prepare and manage the West Africa office annual grant and administrative budget
- Incorporate a rights-based, gender focus in the work and advance initiatives focused on youth and people with disabilities
- Establish learning goals for the West Africa team, including working with Ford strategy and learning colleagues to build a monitoring framework to assess impact and synthesise learning
- Communicate with the team, senior foundation leadership and external partners clearly and consistently in a transparent, timely and respectful manner, and enabling them to be strategic and achieve impact
Requirements
- Postgraduate degree in a relevant field of study or bachelor’s degree and equivalent experience
- Ten years, minimum, of experience leading strategies, people and teams
- Ability to travel extensively on behalf of the foundation
- Creativity, energy and non-traditional thinking capacity
- Written and oral fluency in English
To apply and for more information, click here.
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