Manager Scoping & Advisory Services at Living Goods

Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Identify and prioritize opportunities based on set criteria.
• Assess and determine if the opportunity meets LG's Minimum Viable Opportunity, Minimum Viable Product, and DESC (Digitally Enabled, Equipped, Supervised, Compensated) requirements for the digitized community health approach.
• Support the Director to develop recommendations, initial program design, and roadmaps for selected countries for presentation to Steering Committee and Board.

Management

• Oversee and Manage initial phases of the new country blueprint including management of consultants; engagement and coordination of in-country key stakeholders and overseeing the delivery of defined scope of work.
• Provide technical input to assess the enabling environment, country maturity as well as any local assessments.
• Support government engagement in scoping countries.
• Oversee advisory services in new country expansion.
• Recruit, manage and onboard consultants and ensure they are fully aligned with LG strategy.

Skills and Competencies:

• Government relations & engagement, Negotiation skills, knowledge of African governments operations & systems, Partnership management, Stakeholder engagement, strategic thinking, structured communication/ presentation, project management, and broad networking capacity.
• Good command of the French language is desirable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences/Public Health with 13 years of relevant experience.