Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, February 25 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Position Overview
Educate!, an award-winning non-profit social enterprise, is seeking a Managing Director to lead operational excellence across our programs and support functions in Uganda. This is a leadership role ideal for someone who loves managing people and projects to seamless execution and is driven to maximize impact through excellent management practices, processes, and attention to detail. The right person for this role will have a history of achieving results through teams and experience managing projects (including budgets and support functions).
You are the right fit for this role if you;
• Are a strategic thinker who can move deftly from vision to execution—perceiving emerging opportunities, building a goal-oriented strategy, aligning internal and external stakeholders around a shared vision, and driving implementation.
• Ability to thrive in dynamic and fast-changing environments, comfortable with uncertainty and change
• Have experience managing teams to execution and helping a team that is scaling or in the early stages of scale.
• Ability to manage goals, guide others through major changes, encourage teamwork, develop team capabilities, and motivate team leads to meet deadlines.
• Professional and interpersonal skills with the energy, vision and drive to succeed in a fast-paced, high-performance culture.
• Must be able to help the team set up systems, identify those needs, using and optimize those systems.
• Ability to deeply understand a complex strategy, ability to make choices that support that strategy.
• Demonstrated financial acumen, a good understanding of budgeting, and experience drafting proposals.

Performance Objectives
Strategic planning and Execution- 25%
• Collaborate with the Deputy Chief Operating Officer to create the Country Operations quarterly OKRS and Priorities in line with the Organisation goals and priorities.
• Build alignment around strategic plan and impact unit priorities so that teams speak the same language and manage towards the same priorities, challenges, successes, and long term vision.
• Collaborate with functional directors and strategists to ensure alignment between functional strategies(M&E, finance, Tech and talent) and country execution.
• Regularly communicate messages to teams that reinforce the organization's mission and impact goals. Set and communicate annual targets to them.
• Communicate in-country challenges and successes to Deputy Chief Operating Officer through bi-weekly leadership calls. Identifying challenges that are best solved through systems development and improvements.
• Oversee strategic management of key risks facing the organization.

Operations Oversight - 30%
• Oversee the operations team, including HR, finance, procurement, and administrative duties. Manage employment benefits and legalities( contracts, payroll, tax, health.)
• Manage department according to functional strategy management systems e.g. Quarterly Budget Versus Actual, management accounts, Risk Register, etc. Work with the team to ensure that all operations reports are submitted and reviewed in a timely fashion, with system improvements being made accordingly, and collaborate with the Chief Finance Officer to revise Uganda’s finance strategy as necessary.
• Financial constraints: Manage financial constraints strategically to optimize impact against cost and position Educate! to continue to accelerate growth year over year.
• Support department managers and directors launch new management systems with growth and program roll-out.
• Ensure relationships with banks, tax authority, government regulators, financial service vendors, auditors and other external players are strong and positive
• Oversee country recruitment efforts and ensure processes are followed to recruit and retain top talent that aligns to Educate’s culture and compensation philosophy.
• Ensure effectiveness of supply chain systems that support Educate! programs and enhance client (Programs) satisfaction, with the goals of high operational and programs collaboration and motivation, ease of and compliance with office and field systems and innovation for superior office to field delivery chains.

Program Strategy Implementation & Field Operations Oversight – 25%
• Manage the Director of Program Implementation, Head of Program Implementation and Director of Field Operations to their stage objectives
• Set and approve quarterly goals for Program Management, Field Operations and Country Operations teams. Approve Stage Objectives for Field Operations.
• Collaborate with strategists, Head of Program Implementation, Director of Program to ensure proposed program design is aligned to product stage, organization goals, informed by scale constraints and developed through experimentation.
• Work with the Director of Program Implementation and Director of Operations to prepare for programmatic growth to ensure programs are delivered as designed.
• on cost-effectiveness in relation to impact. Work to ensure that cost-saving strategies are constantly being created and implemented.

Team Leadership & Culture & Performance Management (20%)
• Create a culture of high performance through ensuring standards are set, communicated and reinforced across all teams. Ensure promotions, feedback, and firing is fair. conduct performance management of the team at all levels and fair and accurate performance reviews for the team.
• Maintain a pulse on team dynamics through formal and informal checks about team dynamics, areas of conflict, areas of team flow, and motivation levels. Involve official and non-official team leaders to build a healthy, high performing team.
• Models five cultural tenets and ensures rewards and promotions are earned and awarded to high performers who live Educate!’s culture.
• Lead workforce planning by creating a country org-chart, defining functions of roles, and approving JDs and proposing solutions for capacity gaps.
• Drive succession planning to ensure a strong pipeline of critical roles for the country’s operational health

Qualifications
• Dynamic experience highly preferred, with demonstrated ability to operate well in complex and fast-changing environments
• 8+ years of work experience, with 5+ years of management and/or leadership experience
• Experience managing medium to large-size teams and balancing multiple priorities
• Financial integrity and budget management experience
• Passion for Educate!’s mission is a must, but past work in education or youth development is not required. We value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from people with a variety of backgrounds.



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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