Uganda: Director of Strategic Partnerships

Living Goods is looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced manager to drive the strategy and growth of the Partnerships arm of our business. Living Goods is in the vanguard of revolutionizing community healthcare delivery worldwide. Through our partnerships unit, we help partners adapt the Living Goods sustainable community health model.

Partnerships lie at the heart of Living Goods’ path for impact at scale. As the Director of Strategic Partnerships, you will build and manage the Partnerships team and budget, drive strategy, support existing client engagements, and build a robust pipeline of new partnerships across the developing world. By collaborating with the world's leading international NGOs, businesses and governments to replicate our business model, you will have the opportunity to improve the health and livelihoods of millions of underserved customers. Our partners include The Clinton Foundation, BRAC, PSI, and Marie Stopes International.

The position is based in East Africa in our Kampala or Nairobi Office. You should expect to spend up to 25-30% of your time traveling to build our pipeline, expand our influence, and drive the success of our partnering organizations around the world.

Qualifications

· 8+ years with a top management consulting firm and/or global health organization; leading large engagements and delivering exceptional results for clients; experience serving clients in the social and/or government sector a plus;

· Experience winning and managing large, multi-year, multi-million dollar projects/programs from development aid programs like USAID;

· Experience working in emerging markets with culturally diverse teams, preferably in Sub-Saharan Africa;

· Experience hiring, managing and leading teams;

· Proven ability to communicate effectively and inspire leaders in large, complex organizations;

· Excellent quantitative, analytical, and problem solving skills;

· Language skills are a plus, particularly French or Portuguese;

· BA required; Masters degree in a relevant field preferred.

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance, vacation, and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for others.

What is Living Goods?

Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cookstoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of the poor.

Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist,and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.

Life at Living Goods

Living Goods is aiming to dramatically improve the lives of the poor. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods.

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To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply to 'Director of Strategic Partnerships' through our applicant tracking system. In lieu of a cover letter you will be asked to answer a few short questions that will help us learn a little bit more about you and your interest in working with Living Goods.