Head of SRHR Market Growth at Childrens Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Role purpose

• Support effective management of existing investments to engage and empower youth in making informed choices and increase demand for SRH products, services and behaviours.
• Provide technical support and leadership to the broader SRHR team in the area of product marketing and introduction, demand generation, consumer insights, digital and telehealth, go-to-market strategies and other areas within the purview of Market Growth
• Programme manage (in whole or in part), existing and future investments that are focused on building markets for new products, categories or behaviours.
• Provide support in building a pipeline of new investment opportunities, with an emphasis on empowered consumers, user-controlled choice and leveraging technological innovations to deepen engagement and facilitate access and uptake
• Provide administrative and knowledge management support to the team, including ensuring compliance with contracts, keeping grant management systems up-to-date, and supporting the team in developing presentations, reports and other content for internal and external communication.

Management dimensions

• The role will support a portfolio that contributes to a number of SRHR strategies including SRH Choices, SRH Self-care and SRH Safe Abortion. As such he/she will provide programme management support for investments under the accountability of their respective Directors. The role will however ultimately report to the Director, SRHR – Health Systems & Safe Abortion.

Principal responsibilities

Lead sector strategies in unlocking consumer demand for user-controlled products, services and access to information:

• Set the strategic direction for, and define new CIFF investments that support user engagement, access to information, support, products and services that are aligned with and contribute to the sector’s self-care and demedicalisation ambitions
• Identify points of integration for new and existing user-controlled products across the portfolio and consolidate them to respond better to consumer needs.
• Drive the thinking and ambition for consumer facing investments that enable consumers to access products, services and information “on-demand”, including supportive behavior change
• Institutionalise new KPIs and dashboards to benchmark Market Growth performance across the portfolio.

Strategy and planning

• Support in collating or conducting analysis and research on projects, innovations, emerging and best practices, as inputs into strategic priorities and planning.
• Support the team in the organisation, coordination, documentation and professional presentation of outputs from the strategy and planning process.

Programme development, delivery & performance

• Manage a portfolio of existing programmes and an active pipeline of potential investments
• Consistently fulfill CIFF’s grant management processes as well as planning and reporting requirements
• Support the development of new proposals, including scoping research, preparing board briefings or investment memos, reviewing grantee budgets and coordinating internal and external stakeholders to deliver on time
• Manage risk by upholding and applying relevant due diligence and risk management practices across the portfolio and at every stage, to ensure the interests and reputation of the Foundation are protected.
• Work with the Evidence, Measurement & Evaluation team, to identify and embed appropriate monitoring and evaluation processes to all proposals and programmes, to contract evaluations and to analyse programme data on a regular basis.
• In collaboration with partners, conduct regular reviews of the progress and performance of programmes under delivery to identify problems and delays, and implement effective solutions.
• Lead the end-to-end administration of the grants management process (from concept formation through to final payment), including liaising with Legal and Finance on contract drafting and payment forecasting.
• Take on progressively greater responsibility in leading the end-to-end development of new investment proposals.

Sector knowledge, partner management and profile-building

• Continually build and share knowledge and expertise in key Market Growth domains, keeping abreast of and contributing to development of the field.
• Develop mutually beneficial, peer-level relationships with partners (governments, co-funders, implementers)
• Actively maintain CIFF’s reputation as a valued partner for achieving transformational and sustainable change in the sexual and reproductive health sector.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of professional experience in one of more of the following: social marketing, commercial marketing, SBCC, telehealth
• Experience leading teams
• Candidates will bring deep knowledge and understanding of the social dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, having studied, lived or worked in the region.
• Ability to write and present articulately, and to distil complex information and data into compelling non-technical arguments.
• Strong project management skills (due diligence, planning and execution), and experience relevant for investment design, including presentation of complex information to a variety of audiences.
• A track record in shaping, negotiating and delivering effective partnerships.
• Working knowledge of impact measurement and tools to monitor and evaluate performance.
• Business development experience (e.g. proposal development for institutional funders).
• A Masters-level degree in a relevant specialism would be an advantage.

Personal attributes

• Passionate about how philanthropy can be used to catalyse market transitions that support women and girls’ access to comprehensive sexual health & rights.
• A creative mindset used to problem solving and leading innovations.
• Ability to pull together teams and seek ways to maximise the contribution of others.
• Transparent communicator, results focused.
• Resilient – anticipating potential setbacks with the ability and pace to change course.
• Aware of the challenges that stigmatised groups and young people might face when trying to access services, notably the barriers associated to sexual health.
• High degree of comfort with progressive sexual rights – notably that contraception and safe abortion care should be available to all who need it.
• Strongly supportive of diversity in the workplace.
• Willingness to travel: every 4-6 weeks.

Benefits

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package here at CIFF that includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Annual leave – 25 days per annum. Increasing by 1 day after each year of service, to a maximum of 30 days.
• Bonus – CIFF currently operates a discretionary bonus scheme.
• Pension
• Training allowance
• Wellbeing allowance
• Life insurance
• Health insurance