Key responsibilities will include:

• Strategy: As a member of our Africa Leadership Team, you will develop our Africa regional strategy with particular focus on the anglophone sub-region, with the aim of growing our impact and operations in the Anglophone Africa region, delivered through our fast-growing Nairobi office. This includes:
• Growing high-performing teams: working with our people team and local management teams to build high-performing teams, planning, and supervising the opening of new offices.
• Mapping out how and where we can scale most impact in Africa, in which countries, in which sectors, with which partners, and with which methods and services.
• Partnership development: Work with the Africa Partner to drive partnership development in Anglophone Africa, including developing and cultivating philanthropic relationships with key stakeholders and clients for high impact initiatives in the region, supervising and delivering high-impact engagements to clients.
• Delivery leadership: Providing strategic, technical and team leadership in our projects to deliver maximum social impact and exceed client expectations. Driving impact for our partners through leading on quality, innovation and excellent project delivery management.
• Thought leadership and brand positioning: Advancing thought-leadership, evolving our technical practices and communicating to our external audience. Working with our communications team to position Instiglio with relevant audiences for the sub-region, and increasing Instiglio’s presence, proximity and influence within the regional and relevant global ecosystems (donors, governments, think-tanks, foundations and other clients).
• Organizational development: In addition to being a steward of our culture, you will also oversee the performance, growth and overall health of specific organizational units or teams. This supervisory role aims to ensure high levels of team performance, team health and wellbeing, and appropriate growth strategies and operational support systems.

Who you are

An ideal candidate will have:

Minimum requirements

• Education: A relevant master’s degree focused on the development process of developing countries (public administration, public policy, development economics, governance and institutions).

Experience:

• At least 12 years of experience, including 8 years of relevant work experience in international development, in the public sector, management consulting and/or in development policy and innovation.
• Demonstrated experience in government institutional reforms and or/transformation.
• Demonstrated experience in evidence-based policy design, results-based financing, theories of change, delivery management, and/or performance management or related fields.
• Successful track record in sourcing and managing partnerships (multiple stakeholders in complex settings).
• Extensive experience growing and managing teams.