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Helping Women Graduate from Extreme Poverty
The BOMA Project is a U.S. nonprofit and Kenyan NGO with a proven track record, measurable results and a transformative approach to alleviating poverty and building resiliency in the drylands of Africa.
Our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) replaces aid with sustainable income and helps women to gradua...
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JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE
The Chief Program Innovation Officer is a mission-focused, seasoned, and strategic functional leader for the REAP model design, innovation, development, and adaptation across BOMA enterprise. The Chief Program Innovation Officer will create and drive new thinking and ideas that deliver excellence in program quality, innovation, adaptation, and position BOMA to achieve program goals and desired growth.
The Chief Program Innovation Officer will provide strategic leadership to technical team, ensuring quality, innovation, and adaptation of BOMA programs and lead Monitoring and Reporting to measure impact and efficacy of BOMA programs. The Chief Program Innovation Officer will serve as a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), contribute to strategic plan and position BOMA for successful growth.
As part of this role, the Chief Program Innovation Officer will manage senior staff, and is expected to develop and manage a departmental budget.
BOMA is headquartered in the USA and Kenya, this is a global position that can be held remotely. Travel to the USA, Kenya and other countries will be required for meetings with partners, donors, senior staff, and the board of BOMA.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Program Design and Development - 40%:
- Establish strategic vision and guiding program philosophy for BOMA REAP program.
- Develop and improve suite of REAP graduation models and align program requirements to partnerships, contracts, grants, foundations, etc.
- Provide input on proposals to potential partners in collaboration with Chief Technology officer, contribute to pipeline development.
- Define offerings available to partners providing relevant examples.
- In collaboration with Chief Scaling Officer, identify product availability by market.
- Design program for specified contract or opportunity and collaborate with CF for implementation.
Technical Implementation - 20%:
- Lead Sector experts in partnership with Chief scaling officer, Chief Field Operations Officer and Chief Technology Officer, ensuring program expertise is applied, tracked, and managed through program life cycle.
- Oversee program management and continuous program quality improvement that increases key impact measurements.
- Identify and flag any emerging challenges and opportunities and provide feedback to program design.
- Ensure that all program activities operate consistently and ethically within BOMA’s mission and values.
- Support development of programmatic or operational guidelines to ensure the effectiveness of market program portfolio.
- Quality assure program outputs to ensure they meet donor and BOMA requirements.
Monitoring and Measurement - 20%
- Monitor progress, quality assurance of programs through measurement and evaluation (ME). Collect data and provide insights to support innovation in programming.
- Guide and oversee impact monitoring framework and strategies against BOMAs objectives at all levels including monitoring impact of policy changes, programs, and partnerships in collaboration with other BOMA functions.
- Oversee robust knowledge management and synthesis of program data, findings, conclusions, recommendations, and lessons learned from monitoring, research, and evidence for internal and external audiences.
- Utilize findings with view to improving BOMA enterprise work and informing policy recommendations.
Other duties - 5%
- Support the CEO and the board through the process of the development, adoption, operationalization, roll out and tracking of the new strategic plan.
- Support the CEO and the ELT through the process of organizational change-management as the strategic plan, new partnerships and new projects require BOMA’s people and systems to work in new ways.
- Represent BOMA at various public events as requested.
- Support the CEO, board and other team members in other mission critical needs as identified and prioritized by the CEO for the growth and the benefit of the organization.
Team Development – 10%
- Coach senior-level staff to manage and develop high-performance teams and develop and implement program strategies focused on impact and results.
- Assist senior program managers with information, tools, and resources to improve performance & reach objectives.
- Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback informally and formally via regular one on ones and performance reviews.
- Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where project and regional managers strive to achieve excellence.
As a member of the leadership team: - 5%
- Support organizational decision-making to reflect BOMA’s mission and values.
- Support BOMA’s strategic planning processes and regular performance assessments with a focus on programs.
- Drive BOMA’s effort to deliver on its annual program impact and milestone goals to support scaling.
Metrics:
Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s or equivalent in program management, social science, human resource management, international development, or another relevant field. Master’s degree preferred.
- 10-15+ years of demonstrated expertise in design, development and continued advancement of programs, staff, driving development of strategic goals. Experience with global development related topics a plus.
- Proven record Strategic leadership, transforming ideas and relationships into concrete high-impact outcomes and partnerships, preferably in a nonprofit setting.
- Season spokesperson and communicator with multilateral institutions, public and private stakeholders, INGOs, and government.
- Effective leader with proven record of coaching, mentoring, and building diverse, inclusive teams
- Passion for BOMAs mission and servant leadership with high EQ.
- Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meets deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members.
- Previous experience working in Africa is strongly preferred.
- Fluency in written and oral English is required.
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JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE
The Chief Technology Officer has complete ownership of and accountability for the delivery and operation of enterprise-wide systems and technology ensuring their alignment with BOMA’s business strategy. As a member of the Executive leadership team, the Chief Technology Officer participates in and contributes to the organization’s overall operations and strategy development, bringing current knowledge and future vision to leverage information technology in business model design, business processes re-engineering, and operational improvements that support the organization’s mission. The Chief Technology Officer, in a collaborative and structured fashion, helps set priorities and sequencing for organizational programs and projects. The position also launches new products, implements new systems, integrates new vendor solutions, and provides direction to cross-functional teams.
BOMA is headquartered in the USA and Kenya. This position may be based in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, or another African country.Up to 50% travel to Kenya will be required if the successful candidate is not located in Kenya.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and execute an IT strategy that aligns systems and technology to the organization’s growth plan and implements best in class digital transformation and process automation capabilities with an eye towards scalability.
- Participate in the guidance and direction of the organization as a member of the CEO’s team. Serve as a trusted advisor; build and maintain relationships with other executives to understand business needs; ensure cost-effective delivery of services to meet those needs and respond with agility to changing priorities.
- As the business scales, recruit, motivate and develop staff as required to meet business needs. Build and lead a world-class systems organization that has a high sense of urgency, is customer-oriented and exceptionally responsive and has the appropriate mix of business knowledge and technical skills required to achieve business objectives.
- Stay current on new technologies. Provide direction in the organization's innovation efforts and role in experimenting with new solutions to take advantage of those opportunities.
- Provides direction and oversight for the design, development, operation, and support of systems, including enterprise architecture management, application management, project management, security and risk management, as well as infrastructure and operations support.
- Directs the development of vendor sourcing; provides executive oversight for vendor partnership and management and directs the management of the administrative contracts for information services vendors.
- Directs the development and provide oversight and control of the IT annual operating and capital budgets for to ensure consistency with the strategic objectives and priorities of the plan.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree, Master’s preferred in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 10-15+ years of progressive information services/digital transformation experience.
- 10-15+ years of progressive IT management roles (prior CIO, CTO, preferred)
- Proven track record in developing and implementing Tech strategic plans and roadmaps in response to organizational plans, organization design, and development.
- Proven track record in managing distributed multi location or multi country systems and a corresponding distributed organization.
- Experience leading teams of software/technical engineers and guiding cross-cutting teams to buy-in to transformational technology programs.
- Proven track record in implementing project management methologies tools and techniques in support of organization wide cross functional projects and managing the cross functional project teams.
- Proven track record in establish and facilitating IT governance structures.
- Knowledge of how to leverage open-source technologies and graduate to longer-term, in-house solutions. Ability to build custom architecture and think big picture.
- Strong business acumen and experience with large scale & long-term projects and understand business processes.
- Ability to drive organizational change within IT and beyond into other aspects of the organization.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technology solutions to business leaders, Board members, and others.
- Direct experience building, designing, or engineering back-end systems.
- Experience in Salesforce, particularly implementation for multi-country programs, is a strong asset.
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JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE
The Chief of Field Operations will lead BOMA global operations across multiple countries, providing strategic and inspirational leadership to BOMA’s Africa employees to deliver measurable results in reaching 3 million people in the ASALs of Africa by 2027. The Chief of Field Operations will oversee the critical expansion of BOMA in Kenya as well as emerging countries in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Nigeria.
In partnership with the CEO and ELT, the Chief of Field Operations will implement BOMA’s global strategy implementing the REAP program throughout Africa through strategic partnerships and government adoption. The Chief of Field Operations will provide functional leadership scaling, standardization, and management across Country Directors and Training Development and Delivery.
The Chief of Field Operations will serve as a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), contribute to strategic plan, and build organizational capability of operational & impact excellence. As part of this role, the Chief of Field Operations will manage senior staff, and is expected to develop and manage a departmental budget.
BOMA is headquartered in the USA and Kenya, this is a global position based in Nairobi, Kenya. Travel to the USA, within Kenya and other countries will be required for meetings with partners, donors, senior staff, and the board of BOMA.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Global Operations – 60 %:
- Develop, execute, and drive overall strategy and impact for BOMA’s portfolio of country-level work in line with established BOMA vision
- Lead and manage country teams to ensure learning, coordination of strategies and activities, and decide on resource allocation in support of overall portfolio strategy
- Lead and manage Training & Development teams, ensuring excellence in instructional design, curriculum development, and tools.
- Guide and supervise continued development and implementation of country strategies by country teams, monitor progress against impact, ensuring high level of quality and operational excellence
- Monitor progress and ensure alignment, consistency, and coordination across portfolio of countries, expand best practices into regional and global strategies
- Develop guidelines for BOMAs in-country support related to technical assistance and evaluations in collaboration with relevant teams
- Ensure alignment with Chief Scaling Officer and Strategic Partnerships efforts
- Build and maintain operational systems that ensure proper administrative support for programs
Training and Capacity Development – 20 %:
- Adapt adult learning to each program, oversee curriculum and tool development for each BOMA program
- Ensure that BOMA delivers on all its contractual program obligations, ensuring program delivery hits all targets on budget and on time
- Ensure effective, transparent use of resources in compliance with BOMA and donor policies/procedures
- Identify and flag any emerging challenges and opportunities and provide feedback to program design
- Ensure that all program activities operate consistently and ethically within BOMA’s mission and values
Other duties - 5%
- Support the CEO and the board through the process of the development, adoption, operationalization, roll out and tracking of the new strategic plan
- Support the CEO and the ELT through the process of organizational change-management as the strategic plan, new partnerships and new projects require BOMA’s people and systems to work in new ways.
- Represent BOMA at various public events as requested
- Support the CEO, board and other team members in other mission critical needs as identified and prioritized by the CEO for the growth and the benefit of the organization
Team Development – 10%
- Coach senior-level staff to manage and develop high-performance teams and develop and implement program strategies focused on impact and results
- Assist senior program managers with information, tools, and resources to improve performance & reach objectives.
- Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback informally and formally via regular one on ones and performance reviews.
- Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where project and regional managers strive to achieve excellence.
As a member of the leadership team: - 5%
- Support organizational decision-making to reflect BOMA’s mission and values.
- Support BOMA’s strategic planning processes and regular performance assessments with a focus on programs.
- Drive BOMA’s effort to deliver on its annual program impact and milestone goals to support scaling.
Metrics:
- Delivery and implementation efficacy
- Resource management
Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business administration, program management, social science, human resource management, international development, or another relevant field. Master’s degree preferred.
- 10-15 years of strong general management experience, converting strategy into effective execution with demonstrated ability to scale program efforts. Experience with global program development related topics a plus.
- Proven record Strategic leadership, transforming ideas and relationships into concrete high-impact outcomes and partnerships, preferably in a nonprofit setting.
- Season spokesperson and communicator with multilateral institutions, public and private stakeholders, INGOs, and government.
- Effective leader with proven record of coaching, mentoring, and building diverse, inclusive teams
- Passion for BOMAs mission and servant leadership with high EQ
- Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meets deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members.
- Previous experience working in Africa is strongly preferred.
- Fluency in written and oral English is required.
Method of Application
How to Apply
If you wish to be considered for this position, please forward a copy of your CV in Microsoft Word format, along with any relevant documentation to CPIO-BOMA@sri-executive.com or before 08 April 2022. In addition, we encourage you to please attach a copy of the most recent English version of your CV.
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