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MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all. Today, our organisation has ...
About the Role
As Country Director, you will be responsible for delivering results for Nigerian women and their families, driving programmatic excellence, and implementing best practice a scale. By providing high quality services where they are needed the most, your work will directly contribute to preventing unnecessary deaths and make a sustainable impact on the lives of thousands of people every year.
The Country Director is a key leadership position responsible for the overall strategy, management (programmatic, financial, and administrative), and development of MSI’s national family planning and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes.
As Country Director for MSION, you will lead a skilled and professional country team which delivers life-saving services through 6 clinical centres, 4 clinical pharma hub sites, 23 mobile outreach teams, a social marketing team promoting family planning commodities and through vital partnerships with 150 private sector franchise enterprises, with over 500 individual entrepreneurial providers (“Marie Stopes Ladies”) and with the staff in 2600 public sector health post sites.
As a Country Director, you will lead your team to deliver on a 2030 strategy, by preparing each year appropriate business plans with annual budgets, marketing plans and work plans. You will be responsible with support from MSI to develop new business opportunities and to manage and fill a funding pipeline; you will lead on external relations with government, civil society and donor agencies; you will oversee financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensure adherence to MSI minimum standards and donor compliance and ensure good governance; you will be accountable for MSI’s duty of care to clients and staff; and you will assure quality operations in line with annual and long-term strategic goals and objectives. You will be a role model for leading and continuing to build a strong organisational culture embodying MSI’s values. As Country Director, 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.
The Country Director is MSI’s senior representative in the country of assignment. You will work 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.
About You
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.
To succeed in this role, you must have:
Skills:
Personal Attributes:
We seek exceptional individuals who are aligned to MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You must be a strong communicator, self-motivated and solutions-seeking, committed to driving social change in an environment that measures sustainable results and impact at an individual and global level. You must be able to work effectively with and across diverse teams and be comfortable with ambiguity.
For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.
Location: Nigeria, Abuja
Full-time: 40 hours per week
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Country Programme Salary Range + Bonus + Benefits
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