Board Members at Akili Dada

Akili Dada has a governance board whose key roles are;

• The protection of stakeholders interests by seeking to ensure that Akili Dada strategic direction provides value for its various stakeholders
• Establishing goals for management and monitoring the achievement of organizational goals;
• Appointing and/or replacing the Executive Director and other senior Staff
• Authorizing policies and overseeing the strategic implementation of these policies
• Seeking to ensure that Akili Dada’s internal control and reporting procedures are adequate, effective and ethical and that the organizations strategic direction provides value for its stakeholders.
• In addition to the standard roles and responsibilities of a board member, our Board members are active advocates and ambassadors for Akili Dada and are fully engaged in supporting the Organization to advance its mission.

We are seeking board members with the following attributes:-

• Respected East African women aged between 25 and 35 years.
• A passion for girls and young women
• Aligned in thinking with the Akili Dada’s vision and mission to nurture transformative leadership in girls and young women from underserved backgrounds to meet the urgent need for more African Women in Leadership
• With strong Advocacy experience or skills in either Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Institutional Capacity Building, Finance/Accounting/Investment, Public Relations and Communications, Resource Mobilisation.
• With experience that spans the development, public and private sectors.
• With strong relationship building skills.
• Well networked across the region and globally.
• With sufficient time to invest in the Board Member role utmost 10 days a year

The appointment will be effective from 1 December 2018 for a 3-year tenure renewed once upon the satisfactory performance as concluded from the annual Board performance reviews.

Terms and conditions will be discussed with the successful candidates.