East Africa/Ethiopia
Contract
Full time
Employer: Village Enterprise
Industry: Nonprofit/International Development/Social Entrepreneurship
Job Title: Senior Director of Innovation and Program Design
Position Type: Full Time
Reports to: Chief Program Officer
Location: Flexible - Candidates within East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda) are eligible for hire. This job will require travel to program sites in sub-Saharan Africa.
Direct Reports: Product and Service Managers/Leads
About Village Enterprise:
Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship, innovation, and collective action. By empowering women, refugees, and youth to launch small businesses and savings groups, our cost-effective model provides dignified and sustainable pathways for people to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty—for good. To date, Village Enterprise has trained 287,000 first-time entrepreneurs, launched 87,000 businesses, and impacted more than 1.8 million lives across Africa. Village Enterprise has operations in four countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda—and works with partners in other sub-Saharan countries. As Village Enterprise continues to scale, our aim is to lift 20 million people out of extreme poverty by 2030.
About the Job:
Village Enterprise is seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior Director of Program Design and Innovation to lead the development of cutting-edge Innovations aimed at increasing the impact and cost effectiveness of our poverty alleviation solutions and collective action to develop new solutions to address systemic problems and drive greater results and sustainability. This senior leadership role will drive the creation and continuous improvement of our Innovation’s pipeline, ensuring programmatic innovations are impactful, scalable, and sustainable. This role involves strategic visioning, creative problem solving, rigorous design of innovative solutions, executing lean tests and pilots to refine and improve solutions, and collaborating with the research team to rigorously test new change theories as needed, to address complex challenges. The Senior Director will collaborate with internal teams, external partners and stakeholders to conceptualize, design and validate new initiatives that enhance program impact and effectiveness.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership:
Innovations and Scalability
Program Adaptation and Iterations
Research and Learning
Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Development
Safeguarding
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
Strategic Leadership
Innovation and Management
Stakeholder and Partnership Development
Requirements
Education and Qualifications
Interested and qualified candidates who meet the set criteria are invited to submit their resume, a cover letter detailing their experience online.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Please do not contact Village Enterprise to enquire about the status of your application, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Village Enterprise is an equal opportunity employer
Benefits