Job Purpose: Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for ANAW staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. He/She will develop deep knowledge of the field, core programs, operations, and business plans.

Position Summary: The Executive Director  is assigned the responsibility for direct supervision of the functional Directors, and coordination of leadership team activities, to ensure that staff across the organization are well managed, resources are optimally available and well spent, Operational risk is minimized, public image is optimized, and strategy is fully implemented with impact and quality.

Decision rights & Autonomy

Has Executive authority over the organization’s operations, and has overall accountability for organizational growth, resources, processes, programs, and image. Has the power to delegate authority to any members of the leadership team.

Duties

Leadership & Management:

• Lead, coach, develop, and retain ANAW’s high-performance Leadership team.
• Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.
• Ensure effective systems are in place to manage the organization, track progress, and regularly evaluate program components, to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

Fundraising & Communications

• Facilitate fundraising efforts locally and abroad
• Expand local revenue-generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion while retiring dependence.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations to create a stronger brand
• Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities

Strategic Planning & Growth

• Design the national, regional, and global expansion and complete the strategic planning process for the program expansion into new locations.
• Build partnerships in new locations, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site
• Build an external local and regional presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for national and regional replication.

Board Facilitation

Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each board committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the regional and global rollout

Networking & Collaboration

Actively engage and energize ANAW volunteers, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders.

Other

Any other tasks may be assigned from time to time by the Board or dictated by unforeseen operational and external realities.

Skills and Qualification

• Thorough commitment to ANAW’s Mission
• Track record of effectively leading regionally and/or nationally scaling up performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
• Ability to work with a board of Directors and build effective relationships with existing board members.
• Leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience; senior management experience and talent management.
• Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
• Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
• Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

Requirements

• Hold a Master of Business Administration or Related degree from a reputable University recognized in Kenya
• A Bachelor’s Degree from a university recognized in Kenya
• A minimum of ten years working experience, Eight (8) years of which at leadership/management level

Application deadline: 30th November 2024