Associate Executive Director at Leadership Initiative for Transformation and Empowerment (LITE-Africa)

The Associate Executive Director is responsible for all LITE-Africa’s program, ensuring high levels of accountability and program impact.

Objective of the position

Our ideal Associate Executive Director has multiple competences. S/he knows how to run a diverse team, knows his/her way around Human Resources, budget steering and facility management. S/he has an engaging personality, is politically savvy and has a profound network in Nigeria, and most especially the Niger Delta region. S/he also has an exceptional understanding of program development and how to efficiently and effectively execute quality programs. S/he has also proven experience in building and maintaining relationships with major donors.

Main tasks

• Provides strategic leadership and management of LITE-Africa’s program in country including all development, advocacy, and humanitarian programming to maximize our influence and impact, and leads the design, and implementation of LITE-Africa’s regional strategy efforts;
• Creates and supports an environment which results in strong partnerships, influence, knowledge sharing and innovation
• Accountable to the Founder and Board of Trustees for strategic oversight, program accountability and affiliation process where appropriate;
• Manages LITE-Africa’s Senior Management Team and line manages the work in the organization: staff, budget, funding and program;
• Ensures that HR Management in the organization is organized with best practices in consultation with the Founder and Board of Trustees;
• Takes the lead in representing LITE-Africa nationally and globally by building influential relationships and developing networks for impactful change and committed to maximizing our influencing capability;
• Accountable for all donor relations and contract management in country. Works with the Founder and Board of Trustees to create a strategy to maintain and seek new funding sources to support program implementation

Ideal Competencies

Our ideal candidate has the following:

• Senior management experience in leading the development and ensuring the delivery, of program strategy in challenging locations;
• Proven analytical skills and ability to think strategically, including the ability to think beyond the country program context and to act within a regional and global framework;
• Experience of fundraising from diverse institutions, both local and international;
• Demonstrates good judgment, willingness to take risk, based on analysis;
• Experience in leading and motivating multi-disciplinary teams; a high degree of self-awareness;
• Experience of managing complex change processes and relationships involving a wide range of both internal and external multi-cultural stakeholders across a variety of disciplines
• Experience in representing an organization with partners, government agencies, private sector organizations , and donors at senior level: locally, regionally and globally on Nigeria;
• An active commitment to promoting gender equity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of an organizations work;
• High level of financial management skills to steer the operational budget;
• Understanding of managing security and risk within an NGO context;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to motivate, influence, and negotiate.