Senior Market Engagement Manager – Africa (Gender Equality) at GSM Association (GSMA)

• You will work as part of the WiDEF teams to support the scale up of evidence-based solutions to effectively close the gender digital divide in Africa.

Key Roles And Responsibilities Include The Following

• Supporting the management and implementation of rounds to support for potential partners interested in driving equitable digital inclusion.
• Supporting a portfolio of partners across Africa interested in driving digital inclusion for women and addressing the gender digital divide. This will include managing and delivering technical assistance and advisory support to organisations being supported by the programme to help drive impactful in-country actions. This includes:
  • Ensuring effective contracting and management of packages of technical assistance and provisioning strategic advisory support.
  • Providing thought leadership, analysing market opportunities, inputting to the design and delivery of propositions, creating and delivering strategy workshops for partners, and tracking both commercial and social outcomes.
• Generating and sharing key insights which drive increased awareness and action among stakeholders as well as supporting knowledge exchange between partners. This includes documenting insights and learnings and sharing your findings with the industry ecosystem through presentations, case studies, toolkits, blogs, events and meetings with relevant stakeholders.
• Engaging and managing relevant stakeholders in Africa, helping to drive action.

About You
We welcome applications from professionals with the following demonstrated qualifications:

• Very strong commercial experience is a must have. This may be gained through working as a management consultant or within corporate strategy, business planning or marketing functions, ideally within (or for) private sector in the digital sector.
• Strategic and analytical capabilities in understanding and assessing new business models, including experience identifying commercial opportunities and their potential impact when successfully scaled.
• Familiarity with reaching underserved populations, including women, in low- and middle-income countries is a must have. Ideally this would be through experience in digital and/or working with in emerging markets
• Strong and compelling written and oral communication skills in the English language are essential, with the ability to express complex or commercial issues articulately, concisely and persuasively.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship-building and public speaking skills, in order to develop constructive relationships with diverse stakeholders with an emphasis on mobile network operators. Ideally candidates would have solid experience of C-suite level interactions.
• Experience working with a team across cultures and globally dispersed.
• Strong project management skills, ability to work independently, self-motivated, entrepreneurial and organised to deliver high impact outputs. Conscientious and creative with a can-do attitude.
• Existing authorisation to work in Kenya
• This is a Fixed Term Contract until March 2028