Mozambique: Country Director, Mozambique

Overview/Responsibilities

Ipas is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortion. Through local, national and global partnerships, Ipas works to ensure that women and girls can enhance their sexual and reproductive health via affordable, safe, respectful and comprehensive abortion and contraceptive care. We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of: Country Director, Mozambique, to be located in Maputo, Mozambique.

The Country Director (CD) as the leader setting the vision for the Ipas Mozambique portfolio is responsible for the overall strategy, management (programmatic, financial, and administrative), and development of Ipas’s nascent Mozambique program. The CD will build, develop and lead a skilled, professional team to further women’s reproductive health and rights in line with the mission of Ipas in Mozambique. The CD will develop strategies; prepare and execute annual operational plans; generate new funding opportunities and secure program expansion; oversee financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensure adherence to minimum standards; and assure quality of operations in line with Ipas’s long-term strategic goals and objectives. The CD will manage for results, valuing high performance, accountability, efficiency, responsiveness, and innovation, while keeping the beneficiaries at the heart of everything we do.

The CD will function as a primary organizational representative in Mozambique. The CD will build and manage partnerships ensuring strong collaboration with local government, international donors and sponsors, and partners, both at national and regional levels.

Key responsibilities

Business planning

• Position Ipas as a sector leader across Mozambique by contributing to, establishing and strengthening national strategies and goals

• Design, deliver and lead Ipas’s Mozambique strategic plans and lead country rollout of nested plans as needed, in line with Ipas’s global vision, mission and strategic objectives

• Review and ensure adequate support for the country annual operational plans

• Work closely with the North Carolina (NC) global office to ensure growth plans for the country are integrated and adequately supported throughout the organization

• Develop and deliver a robust and cost-effective business model ensuring the ongoing growth of healthy and sustainable income streams

External relations and resource mobilization

• Build and nurture strong partnerships with government, health professionals and institutions, organizations, businesses, media, policymakers, peer agencies, and communities

• Oversee the development and implementation of new program development and resource mobilization strategy

• Foster relationships with traditional and non-traditional donor representatives

• Represent Ipas and Ipas’s mission at the country level, advocating for women’s reproductive health and rights

• Ensure a strong partnership and effective working relationships with the NC global office to leverage support

  Program execution

• Ensure robust systems and processes are in place to support operations, drive productivity and deliver results, including the effective use of state-of-the-art program management processes and systems

• Ensure full donor contractual compliance at every stage of the project cycle

• Promote evidence-based decision making and support research to better understand women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and barriers to accessing sexual reproductive health (SRH) services

• Lead in the adoption of innovative solutions to improve effectiveness and efficiency of intervention models

• Ensure quality is maintained at all times; support quality and monitoring process for continuous quality assurance

Finance and governance

• Improve the bottom line through revenue growth and increased efficiency

• Base strategic and annual operational plans on sound financial and statistical performance data

• Ensure strong financial management aligned with Ipas’s financial compliance requirements

• Regularly monitor financial performance and share results through regular reviews with the NC global office for follow-up action

• Ensure robust internal controls are in place

• Meet governance requirements of the country program entity

• Ensure program adheres to local statutory obligations

• Ensure program adheres to donor contractual obligations

Lead the team

• Build, lead and support the development of the Mozambique program team

• Develop and build the local organization by strengthening programmatic and operational capacity of staff

• Ensure human resource (HR) systems and processes are aligned with best practices and local law

• Ensure accountability is built within HR management processes and systems

• Embed Ipas’s culture and values across the Ipas Mozambique country program

• Foster and embed a positive management culture and learning organization approach across the team

• Contribute to building a culture of South-to-South collaboration with other country programs across Africa and Asia and broader partnership, encouraging cooperation and supporting learning across countries

Applied Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent and demonstrated public relations, fundraising experience, advocacy and policy implementation, program representation, and diplomacy skills required

• Strong consultative and negotiation skills

• Strong leadership skills; ability to motivate, influence and collaborate with others

• Ability to build positive local working relationships with local communities, district/state/national government officials, UN and other multilateral bodies and donor representatives

• Comprehensive knowledge of theories, concepts, and practices in project management, process development and program execution

• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills to strategize, plan, and manage resources for successful completion of projects

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Ability to work independently

Requirements

Experience

• Must be legally eligible to work in Mozambique

• A minimum of 10 years with project/portfolio/country management experience and previous experience as a country director or manager for an international NGO; experience in setting up or growing new country programs highly valued

• A strong understanding of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mozambique

• Demonstrated experience in fundraising and maintaining relationships with donors

• Demonstrated experience in successfully overseeing sector-specific or multi-sector program management and implementation, ideally in Mozambique

• Demonstrated strategic planning, staff development and capacity building experience

• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing complex programs that are strategic in nature and national/international in scope

• Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent Portuguese and English, including extensive experience in using Portuguese and English in a professional context

• Experience operating in challenging environments

Qualifications

Education
Advanced Degree - Master’s Degree or higher (or its International Equivalent) in Knowledge/Information Services, Communications, Education, Environment, Health, Behavioral, Life/Social Sciences International Development, Human Development or Related Field

Certifications Preferred
Certification in project management, Qualification Project Cycle Management and/or Monitoring & Evaluation

Travel & Physical Requirements

Travel Requirements: Up to 40%

Typical Physical Demands: Typical office environment. Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; ability to lift 5-50 lbs.

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