Regional Chapter Head, East Africa at Aspen Group

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Membership: Strengthen engagement with existing members, understand their needs and connect them to each other. Lead recruitment of new members to the network. Establishing and facilitating connections and collaboration among ANDE members in the region and globally.
• Development: In collaboration with senior leadership, contributing to and executing a business strategy aligned with ANDE’s global and regional strategies, maintaining and building strong relationships with a wide range of donors and partners, and developing and delivering upon a robust pipeline of new programmatic and resource development opportunities.
• Program: Coaching and supervising program teams for the successful delivery of results; ensuring timely submission of high-quality internal and donor reports and the use of program management tools and supervision of program staff to complete grant funded deliverables.
• Representation: Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, including government ministries, private sector companies, business associations, and civil society organizations, and developing relevant partnerships; representing ANDE to a wide array of audiences; providing thought leadership to the small and growing business sector within the region.
• Finance: Preparing, reviewing, and approving expenditures to ensure compliance with regional and donor financial requirements, and ANDE procurement/finance policies.
• Governance: The East Africa Advisory Committee provides strategic advice to the regional chapter. In collaboration with the Regional Director, lead the East Africa Steering Committee by recruiting, managing, and engaging with members drawn from the ANDE Network.
• Communications and advocacy: Overseeing and contributing to regional communications and advocacy strategies and campaigns, including engaging with senior-level decision-makers in government and among other key stakeholders.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO THRIVE

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Proven ability to fundraise and work with donor organizations and professionally manage and represent an organization.
• 2-3 years of management experience relating to the development and implementation of donor-funded projects.
• Entrepreneurial and inspirational mindset, with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain high-performing teams in stressful contexts.
• Experience working in small business entrepreneurship, impact investing, and/or international development is required.
• A deep sense of mission in wanting to help support small businesses across the region through engaging with an ecosystem of intermediaries.
• Ability to represent ANDE in the region to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior-level government officials and donors.
• Experience working with international donor funding is highly preferred, with prior budget development and management experience required.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
• Excellent communicator with prior public speaking experience preferred.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required, French language skills a plus.