Country Director, Uganda

About This Role

The Country Director will lead the Uganda country office in its entirety. They will build, fundraise, develop, and execute the Uganda Country Strategy. They will also lead the program teams, fundraising, and external relations to achieve short-term goals (i.e., funding targets and annual KPIs) and drive long-term growth. This role will ultimately be accountable to recipients and donors for delivering a gold-standard product.

Level: Director

Travel Requirement: Must be able to travel about once a month across the country and internationally 1-2 times per year
What You’ll Do
Program Management - 30-40%
Team Management - 5-15%

• Motivate, coach, and hold to high standards a large team, including direct management of the country management team.
• Build the capacity of managers at all levels by ensuring they have clearly defined expectations for success, regular feedback on progress, and understanding of any growth opportunities that match strengths to organizational needs
• Promulgate practices and norms that animate GD’s core values, in partnership with HRM
• Lead workforce planning, including thoughtful hiring and succession planning, while ensuring the team remains appropriately lean and efficient.
• Take reasonable steps to ensure the safety and security of the GD team
  Country Operations - 5-15%

Lead coordination between the country office and GD’s global risk management verticals, including internal audit, compliance, external relations, and safeguarding, in order to ensure business continuity.

• Oversee country operations as a whole, including balancing the roles and responsibilities across the country management team, managing directly the HR Manager, the Office and Procurement Manager, and dotted line management of the Finance Manager, IA-Manager, and Safeguarding Manager.
• Work with relevant country office management to ensure country compliance with global standards and flesh out country protocols to put in practice global policies in ways that are clear and relevant to the Ugandan country context.
• As necessary, provide leadership and oversight of investigations of alleged misconduct, ensuring zero tolerance for fraud and upholding safeguarding standards, and disciplinary matters
  What You’ll Bring

10+ years of relevant experience - e.g., in non-profit country management, organizational leadership, partnership development, program management, social entrepreneurship, or consulting - with a track record of demonstrated excellence and increasing responsibility.

• Experience leading government and external stakeholder partnerships
• Proven track records of securing significant funding from major institutional donors (e.g. US Government, FCDO, World Bank, or EU)
• Ability to lead and set strategic vision at a national level.
• Enthusiasm for a fast-paced environment that lacks pre-defined playbooks
• Team management experience, including hiring and building teams.
• Outstanding relationship management abilities, including ability to represent GiveDirectly at the highest levels
• Exceptional communication skills: written and verbal, including with diverse audiences from senior officials to institutional and High Net Work funders to field teams
• 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.
• 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.
• Language Requirement: English, other Ugandan languages a bonus
• Authorization to work in Uganda or ability to obtain such authorization within a fixed time frame
  
  

Desired Skills And Experiences

Experience working in Uganda and understanding of the Uganda context is very highly desired.

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, as well as candidates from underrepresented genders, ethnicities, and other groups. You can read more about our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts here.