Impact Creation Lead - Kitale Office (Kenya) at Village Enterprise

Job Location: East Africa (Soroti Office (Uganda), Gulu Office (Uganda), or Kitale Office (Kenya)

Reports to: Vice President, Impact

The Impact Creation Lead guides organizational impact creation efforts. This position leads Village Enterprise staff in use of innovation to drive impact for business owners across Sub-Saharan Africa. Primary job duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Impact Creation Design
• Support Vice-President, Impact in design of strategic direction of impact creation programming
• Support Vice-President, Impact in design of process to ensure ideas from staff of all levels are considered for the Impact Creation pipeline
• Support Vice-President, Impact in finalization and documentation of Impact Creation Pipeline standard operating procedures

Impact Creation Process

• Manage pipeline of program activities and pilots designed to increase impact across the Village Enterprise Graduation program
• Guide Impact Creation Unit adherence to standard operating procedures for impact creation programming
• Advice Impact Creation Units on best practices, including but not limited to application of Human Centered Design and Lean Impact, necessary for successful impact creation programming
• Inspire active Impact Creation Unit participation throughout an entire Design Challenge
• Drive quality of Impact Creation programming throughout an entire Design Challenge
• Coordinate with Africa field operation and cross-functional teams to ensure necessary support for impact creation programming
• Supervise and build capacity of Impact Creation (IC) team to support Impact Creation Units, as relevant
• Assist Impact Creation Unit presentation of Design Challenge results to decision makers
• Facilitate successful handover of Impact Creation programming that is ready for scale
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with external stakeholders as needed to drive forward Impact Creation programming

Organizational Capacity Building

• Train Business Mentors on Human Centered Design and Lean Impact
• Offer periodic training (virtual and/or in-person) to staff on Human Centered Design and Lean Impact
• Maintain Human Centered Design and Lean Impact training materials
• Build institutional capacity to learn from Design Challenges, maximizing the utilization of resulting data

Communications & Fundraising

• Create Impact Creation reports as needed for Village Enterprise’s communications efforts
• Support Impact Creation Unit creation of Impact Creation reports
• Represent Village Enterprise in partnership/fundraising/communication meetings and events when appropriate
• Identify conferences and journals for submission of research papers, white papers, posters, or presentations to advance organizational dissemination of Impact Creation efforts and learning

Other

• Field office finance and support pertaining to Impact Creation activities
• Support for Innovation Summit as needed
• Other tasks as needed

The Impact Creation Lead will

• Hold a degree in International Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Economics, International Development, or a related field; preference will be given to candidates with a Master’s degree (completed)
• Have at least 7 years of experience working in international social impact programming
• Have at least 2 years of experience working at leadership level in international social impact programming
• Have at least 2 years experience conducting monitoring, evaluation, and research for social impact programming
• Demonstrated understanding of Human Centered Design, or demonstrated aptitude to learn Human Centered Design
• Demonstrated understanding of Lean Impact, or demonstrated aptitude to learn Lean Impact
• Experience collaborating digitally across staff and teams
• Willingness to travel extensively throughout east Africa and beyond as requested
• Strong interpersonal adaptive leadership skills
• Ability to successfully lead Impact Creation Units comprised of diverse staff from all geographies and all levels of the organization
• Ability to coordinate with Africa field operation and cross-functional teams to ensure quality of impact creation programming