Bolivia (Plurinational State of): Country Director – Bolivia
Organization: Marie Stopes International
Country: Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Closing date: 08 Oct 2017
About Us:
Marie Stopes International is a global organisation providing personalised contraception and reproductive health care services. Our local teams of professionals are passionate about the work they do in communities across 37 countries. The services they provide give a woman the power to choose when she has children so that she’s free pursue her plans and dreams for herself and her family.
The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: The Prevention of Unwanted Births and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to: children by choice, not chance.
The Role:
The Country Director – is responsible for delivering results for women and their families, driving programmatic excellence and implementing best practice at scale. They provide high quality services where they are needed the most, and their work directly contributes to preventing unnecessary deaths and making a sustainable impact on the lives of thousands of people every year.
The Country Director is a key leadership position responsible for the overall strategy, management (programmatic, financial, and administrative), and development of our national family planning and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes. They lead skilled, professional country teams to deliver life-saving services through clinical centres, mobile outreach teams, social franchising and social marketing. In addition they are responsible for preparing and executing annual budgets, marketing plans and work plans; developing new business opportunities; overseeing financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensuring adherence to MSI minimum standards; and assuring quality operations in line with annual and long-term strategic goals and objectives. The Country Director manages for results, valuing and rewarding high performance, accountability, speed and efficiency and innovation, while keeping the client at the heart of everything we do.
The Country Director is MSI’s senior representative in the country of assignment. They work closely with governments, donors and other key stakeholders to overcome barriers that prevent women and men from accessing safe, affordable, reliable family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services.
About you:
To be considered for the role you will have:
- Excellent communication, team working and people management skills, focused on individual development and creating high performance teams.
- Experience building and maintaining strong partnerships with government, donors/investors, health professionals, businesses, peer agencies and the community, coupled with an ability to represent your organisation at senior levels.
- Strategic and business planning skills: demonstrable experience in developing a strategic vision and defining/ achieving annual objectives.
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Experience managing client facing operations, delivering efficient services through multiple outlets to different target groups; you will have had responsibility for delivering high quality care and exceeding customer expectations s.
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Demonstrable interest, experience and ability in managing a business, where you will have had responsibility for the profit and loss and ensuring the business operated within its own income streams. In addition, you will have had experience in marketing and selling health care products and services in Bolivia at a senior level.
Fluent written and spoken Spanish and English are required for this role.
For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.
In order to be considered for this role you must be pro-choice on a woman’s right to safe abortion. You must also be eligible to work in Bolivia; ideally you are a Bolivian national or a resident, however we will consider other applications depending on the level of responses.
Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Closing date: Sunday 8th October 2017(midnight GMT).
Salary: Competitive/Negotiable.
Contract: This will be a local contract with Marie Stopes Bolivia, but reporting into MSI London.
How to apply:
Please follow this link to apply: http://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=am9icy4yMzc1Ny4zODMwQG1hcmllc3RvcGVzLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ
