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At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of 'Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortif...
Job description
Reports to: CEO
Location: Nairobi, Kenya; or Kampala, Uganda
Direct reports: Country Directors, Community Health Strengthening, Supply Chain, and Strategic Growth Initiatives
Travel: Up to 30 percent
Organizational Growth
Living Goods is growing! We’ve grown 30 percent every year for the past 5 years. We now have a staff of 400 and 8,200 community health workers spread across four countries. Our budget is $20 million this year and we will double that in 2019, thanks to a recent $35 million challenge grant from the TEDx Audacious Ideas project.
We’re growing because we have a winning model and mission: to ensure that every family has high quality health care in their community. No matter how dense the neighbourhood or how remote the village.
Our growth is anchored in three S’s: scaling, strengthening and spreading. To scale we aim to increase the number of people served within our two operational countries, Kenya and Uganda, and to launch operations in three new countries by 2021. To strengthen, we will broaden and deepen our impact with new programs and products and make big leaps in our operating effectiveness. Finally, we will spread our impact in current and new countries by influencing community health policy.
The Opportunity
Organizational growth can be dizzying for the faint-hearted but exciting for thrill seekers. To manage both growth and our thrill seekers, we know we need the steady hand of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) who will serve as a Deputy to our CEO.
Your Background
Country management experience: You’ve led country or field operations for an NGO or for-profit company. You can coach country directors on challenges and solutions associated with start-up and country management because you’ve walked a mile in their moccasins.
Thrive under pressure: This role isn’t for the meek. We want excitement, not reluctance when a big decision needs to be made, or you’re asked to speak in front of a hundred people.
Gets our model: Living Goods is a hybrid model. We’re a nonprofit organization with a business minded approach. We use business practices to achieve social goals. Candidates with for-profit and nonprofit experience preferred.
Lives our values: You can thrive in our culture – you can demonstrate inclusion, integrity, innovation, quick footedness, collaboration, and accountability.
Compensation
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Perrett Laver will conduct an executive search process for the role. To apply, please upload a full curriculum vitae (detailing the nature, scope and scale of responsibilities held) alongside a covering letter of application detailing relevant skills and experience to https://candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/ quoting reference 3858.
The closing date for applications is: 12pm EAT on Monday 29th April 2019.
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