About this role
The Executive Director will report to the President and oversee all day-to-day operations of the organization, including management of our 900+ team members, a $200M+ annual budget, and the strategy, operations, program development, and revenue generation functions. As someone passionate about shifting the status quo in the aid space, you’ll define the roadmap and vision for maximizing the cash we raise to deliver to recipients. We believe elevating recipient choice is critical, as is demonstrably committing to transparency around metrics and evidence. We are looking for applicants who are deeply aligned with these objectives, and energized by the prospect of leading our organization through continued growth and improvement.
Reports to: President
Level: Executive
What you’ll do:
- Manage and act as a strategic partner to a team of high-performing senior leaders, overseeing all core functions of the organization, including Finance, People, Program Operations, Revenue, and Research and directing organizational strategy in alignment with GiveDirectly's mission and vision
- Oversee day-to-day activities and organization operations, translating strategy to annual operating plans, and establishing systems to track progress and ensure accountability across the organization
- Cultivating an organizational culture in alignment with GiveDirectly’s values, and one that attracts, retains and motivates a high-performing, diverse team
- Represent GiveDirectly externally with funders, government officials, and other stakeholders
What you’ll bring:
- Alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
- Proven leadership ability and experience managing large (900+ people), fast growing, diverse, globally distributed teams at an executive level
- Analytical problem solver: Looks at problems w/ analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization
- Ability to build trusting, inclusive, high performing teams
- Exceptional relationship management: you’re excited to build a movement to achieve our mission, both via establishing new relationships for GD and strengthening existing ones
- Strong, succinct communications: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders
- A belief that people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives
- Significant experience in low income countries globally. Preferred: Experience in Africa
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Role Overview:
You will be responsible for managing all aspects of the GiveDirectly Nigeria country office. Your role will involve building the processes, team, and partnerships that both enable the achievement of short-term goals (i.e. funding targets, annual KPIs) and create the conditions for long-term growth. You will be able to draw on resources from the partnerships, data & tech, finance and operations verticals, but will ultimately be accountable to both recipients and donors for delivering a gold-standard product. We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated success driving growth of programs, as measured by dollars raised.. This will be an important part of performance evaluation for this role.
This role is being offered as a 12-month contract with extension based on performance against key metrics.
Responsibilities:
Fundraising and Partnership Development
- Own revenue targets: drive fundraising opportunities, build and manage high quality relationships with donors
- Develop and leverage an in-country network of funders and partners
- Identify strategic partnership opportunities and build a robust pipeline of projects to enable growth
- Design ambitious work-plans and accompanying budgets
Program Management
- Ensure operational excellence across all programs
- Backstop, manage, and guide an operations team in overcoming challenges, staying on schedule, and delivering quality results
- Be accountable for annual KPIs associated with recipients paid, recipient experience, and operational efficiency
Internal Audit
- Collaborate and coordinate with GiveDirectly’s Recipient Advocacy team to prevent misconduct, including designing appropriate controls
- If necessary, provide leadership and oversight of investigations of alleged misconduct, ensuring best in class safeguarding and zero tolerance of fraud
Relationship Management
- Work with national and local government officials to secure permissions for maintenance and expansion of programs
- Communicate about GD to donors, media, and other partners
Team Management
- Motivate and coach a team, including direct management of the country management team
- Build capacity of managers at all levels by ensuring that they have clearly defined metrics for success and regular feedback on progress
- Promulgate practices and norms that animate GD’s core values
- Take reasonable steps to ensure the safety and security of the GD team
- Identify key areas in need of hiring / redundancy planning and buffering to reduce the impact of unanticipated operational roadblocks
Strategic Planning
- Lead strategic planning for GiveDirectly in Nigeria
- Set and manage towards country goals, that create a roadmap for our success in Nigeria
Required Skills and Experiences
- 8+ years of relevant experience - e.g. in program management, consulting, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, partnership development, or country office management - with a track record of demonstrated excellence and increasing responsibility
- Enthusiasm for fast-paced, innovative environments lacking pre-defined playbooks
- Experience in partnerships and business development.
- Team management experience, including hiring and building teams
- Strong relationship management abilities
- Exceptional communications skills: written and verbal, including with senior audiences
- Strong organizational and/or project management skills
- A high degree of autonomy and resilience
- Problem solver: you look at problems with an analytical and iterative mindset, with a strong framework for prioritization. You can run robust analyses to inform management and programming decisions
- Experience working in Nigeria
- Fluent in English; fluency in another principal language of Nigeria preferred
- Alignment with GiveDirectly Values, including the ambition to pursue industry-changing success
- Active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity.
Desired Skills and Experiences
- Experience working in disaster and conflict
Why work at GiveDirectly?
At GiveDirectly, we work to ensure that you have everything you need to excel in your role and on your team, including:
- A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement
- A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
- A competitive salary
- A monthly benefits allowance that covers Health, Dental, and Vision monthly premiums
- Unlimited PTO (that we encourage staff to take!)
- Desk allowance and flexible work location
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