Manager Scoping & Advisory Services at Living Goods

Your Charge 

This position is leading the scoping efforts to identify country opportunities in line with LG's new country blueprint, Minimum Viable Opportunity (MVO), and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as well as advisory efforts in the initial stage of expansion.

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.

Minimum Qualifications 

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

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 digitized community health approach.
• Support the Director to develop recommendations, initial program design, and roadmaps for selected countries for presentation at 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 oversee 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.