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Overview: The Country Director (CD) will manage high-level relationships with the government, donors, and investors, with a large focus on growth and expansion.
You will be responsible for leading the Rwanda Distribution Centers (DC), information management; providing direction and feedback to employees, and the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of Zipline activities.
You should enjoy playing multiple roles including: documenting processes, refining the tools, training team members, communications with internal and external stakeholders, performing data analysis, leading meetings with senior personnel from the government and partners.
Responsibilities
Represent Zipline to senior government officials, international donors, and to press and media. Develop and foster effective working relationship with clients from national to grassroots level.
Manage all country office staff including oversight of country office finance, administration and human resources. Provide coaching and results-oriented leadership of the country staff. Stimulate individual staff performance and lead overall team development
Working with global staff to ensure effective reporting and developing continuous process improvements.
Deliver performance management objectives, agreed business plans, budget and targets and report on all major factors impacting on the business.
Establish strategic alliances to explore areas for collaboration and expanding and strengthening Zipline’s impact.
Qualifications
Minimum 6 years of experience in management role
Minimum 8 years working in logistics, supply chain, or healthcare
Excellent communication skills for day-to-day relations with public health officials and the local communities served by the Zipline system
Ability to navigate complex government processes with multiple influencers, and to negotiate and achieve consensus
Strong organizational, project management, and project execution skills
Demonstrated ability to work with organization leadership on strategic, operational, and organizational issues, as a strong yet collaborative team member
Experience conceiving, planning and executing complex programs or projects with verifiable results
Exceptional strategic thinking, problem-solving, team building and interpersonal skills
Ability to work independently to solve complex problems and work under tight deadlines
Ability to travel up to 60% of the time within Rwanda and internationally.
Advanced Qualifications
Experience in healthcare, transportation, logistics, or supply chain management
Familiarity with aviation, flight controls, or unmanned aerial vehicles
Experience with maintenance programs that combine software and hardware
Languages
Full professional proficiency in spoken and written English
Kinyarwanda and French proficiency preferred but not required
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