Role purpose

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the senior executive for VillageReach, responsible for developing and championing the strategy, culture, leadership, and resource mobilization that allows VillageReach to achieve global impact. Reporting directly to the Global Board of Directors, the CEO develops and leads a team of senior executives responsible for quality execution of organizational strategy.

Roles and Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

External Relations & Fundraising

The CEO will serve as the ambassador for the organization and be responsible for connecting with partners, governments, funders, and other important stakeholders. In addition to directly raising money from institutional and individual donors, the CEO will partner with the Board to develop fundraising strategies and goals.

Strategic Planning & Delivery

The CEO will lead the implementation of the organization’s 2030 Strategic Plan in collaboration with the Board and VillageReach staff. The CEO will also partner with the Board and leadership to inform discussion on whether the Strategy needs to be updated or refined.

Lead and Develop Staff

The CEO is responsible for hiring, managing, and developing future leaders within the organization. The CEO will also promote and enhance VillageReach’s culture, uphold its values, and support alignment with its competencies.

Board Collaboration

The CEO will partner with the Board to support the implementation of existing goals and strategies, lead and organize Board meetings, support Board effectiveness, and collaborate on responsible financial stewardship of the organization.

Ensure Financial Quality and Accountability

The CEO will support sound financial decision-making in the organization, approve the annual budget, review and accept the external audit, monitor ongoing financial performance, ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and appraise the quality and effectiveness of the organization’s programs.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position directly supervises 5 direct reports including 3 Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, and an Executive Assistant. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; monitoring performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; and addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Education & Qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience in management with increasing responsibility within an organization, with at least five of those years at an executive level. Strong organizational leadership ability with demonstrated experience managing a complex portfolio of programs and initiatives. Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment.
• Experience with global health, global development, or a related field. Relevant experience in the private sector is considered if the candidate displays adequate understanding of the health and development sector.
• Prior experience partnering and collaborating with a Board of Directors.
• Demonstrated understanding of the challenges working in rural, underserved, and low-income contexts; experience living in and/or working in a low-income country a plus.
• Proven leadership skills with diverse, matrixed and global teams; demonstrated experience working in open cultures that empower staff; an ability to delegate responsibility effectively and develop future leaders.
• Deep experience in fundraising, partnership, and advocacy, particularly with foundations, governments, international organizations, and other important institutions. Experience building coalitions around key issues, mobilizing resources, and identifying and cultivating business relationships and partnerships that lead to additional financial opportunities.
• Fluency in English essential; fluency in French or Portuguese highly preferred.
• Commitment to diversity; established cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural and linguistically diverse groups.
• Advanced degree in relevant field (MBA, MPA, or other related disciplines) is preferred.

Organizational Competencies

As VillageReach, we are proud to introduce our organizational competencies, which are the foundational skills and behaviors that drive our mission and values. These competencies are categorized into three pillars: Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and Bringing Others with You.

Achieving Great Results

Risk Taking and Innovation

• Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.

Business Judgement

• Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.

Building Strong Teams

• Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.

Setting Direction

Compelling Communication

• Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.

Resilient Self Leadership

• Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.

Stewardship and Personal Alignment

• Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.

Bringing Others with You

Influencing Leadership

• Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.

Radical Partnership

• Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.

Cultivates a Growth Mindset

• Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.

Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion

• Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.

Environmental & Physical Demands

VillageReach employees typically work in a shared, open environment with task and conference rooms accessible to employees for privacy and meetings. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Due to the time zone differences across our USA, Kenya and Country Offices and location of other global staff, we have established core collaboration hours between 6am Pacific Time and 18:00 South Africa Time (GMT+1) Monday through Thursday. All staff, regardless of location are expected to be available between these hours.

Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion

VillageReach is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity. We believe that diverse, equitably weighted perspectives foster an organizational capacity to create novel solutions that improve health in the most under-reached and hard-to-reach areas. To align our values, innovations and impact, VillageReach is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse global workforce.

Safeguarding

VillageReach is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom it engages. We expect everyone working with us to share this commitment through our code of conduct. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which may include criminal records. VillageReach participates in the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, in line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Compensation & Benefits

VillageReach has an established compensation structure that is based on the relevant market and internally transparent. The range for this position is $217,500 – $275,200 USD.

We hire people into the established range based on one’s experience and education and considering internal equity. We do not inquire about salary history. Please refer to our Compensation Overview on our website for more information on employee benefits. There is also additional information on country specific benefits located here – Work for Us – VillageReach.

Role Location

This is a global search and VillageReach will consider candidates in various locations. However, there is a preference for candidates to operate from existing VillageReach offices in Nairobi, Kenya or Seattle, Washington. A relocation budget will be available.

The candidate must be able and willing to travel internationally as needed to support the role’s duties (estimated at 30%).

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please ensure you complete the Application Form provided below by 16 December 2024 (23:59 hrs, GMT -5). It is essential that you submit your CV in English, specifically in Microsoft Word format (.doc/.docx), not exceeding 10MB.

Applications in other languages or formats will not be considered.

Rest assured, all information will be handled with the utmost confidentiality.

SRI Executive is exclusively retained by VillageReach to undertake this assignment.