Strategy & Impact Officer at Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa

Key Responsibilities 

• As Officer of Strategy and Impact, you will:   
• Support with development, implementation, and monitoring of day-to-day tasks that ensure that Strategy & Impact helps catalyze and maintain the operating model with strong strategies for Opportunities that are based on impact and promising ideas on the frontiers of systems change 
• Support the provision of services and guidance to the network that allows OSF to unleash potential and action the new vision to ensure the most competitive ideas succeed 
• Provide individual support for Opportunity development; it will also provide support for all other programs, and embedded functions. 
• Promote and support adherence to standards, criteria, and guidelines, including on MEL 
• Be conversant in dashboards and other analytic products that the Strategy and Impact unit use to show cohesion, saturation, and innovation for the enterprise 
• Work as a trusted partner to all parts of the network to ensure fidelity to the model, rigorous assessment of strategies, consistent support to teams that need strategy and impact support, and that OSF is flexible and capable of adapting and shifting—including based on effective learning-derived information 

Key internal relationships 

• Directors, Officers, Program Managers, Operations  

Key external relationships 

• Strategy and impact leaders outside of OSF, including on foresight, MEL, complexity, systems change, consultants, etc., inside and outside of philanthropy    

Qualifications 

Essential: 

• Prefer experience in lieu of qualifications 
• University degree   

Desirable: 

• Post graduate degree in a field related to open societies (human rights, democracy, development, economics etc.) 

Experience  

Essential:   

• Substantial experience leading strategy development and execution, preferably in complex settings; and/ or leading design and execution of monitoring evaluation and learning frameworks preferably in complex settings; and/or experience applying/ integrating strategic foresight methodologies in complex settings.  
• Experience with data analytics, both qualitative and quantitative
• Meeting/workshop and process facilitation