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Regional Director of Partnerships-Africa
Organization Overview
Legado is a women-led, global nonprofit that works alongside Indigenous and local communities in places important for biodiversity (Kenya, Mozambique, Peru, and growing). We support communities to design and implement solutions of their choosing, benefiting people and landscapes alike—an outcome we call Thriving Futures.
We are a social change non-profit with a team of individuals driven to create a paradigm shift toward holistic climate justice, or what we call 360° Community-Led Change. Please visit our website to learn more.
Position Overview
We are looking for a person who believes that sustainable solutions to climate change and development challenges start locally, and that the communities most impacted often have the best solutions at hand.
Legado’s model is in demand by community based organizations, development actors, and conservation actors. Over the past ten years, we’ve systematically designed our model to be scaled through two partnership pathways: (1) direct service delivery and (2) train the trainers. To strategically meet the demand we’re facing, Legado seeks to hire a Regional Director of Partnerships-Africa to support the current delivery of Legado’s Thriving Futures approach alongside it’s evolution, adoption, and scaling to grassroots, local, regional, national, and international nongovernmental organization partners within Africa.
The ultimate goal of this role is to support Legado’s strategic growth in Africa: you will direct Legado’s effort to deliver on its annual program impact and milestone goals by overseeing the work of our teams and supporting the facilitation of the Thriving Futures program to our partners. You will additionally contribute to the development of strategic partnerships including technical, funding, and implementing partners.
The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit, be a self-starter, and bring a wealth of experience in strategic leadership and management gained from the development and/or conservation sectors. You will have a deep understanding of global development priorities as they relate to locally led adaptation and conservation. With strong communication and interpersonal and relationship-building skills, you will have a high level of emotional intelligence and the ability to listen and engage with a wide range of collaborators and partners both internally and externally, as well as to be a compelling ambassador for Legado to achieve its ambitions for impact.
The role can be based remotely within Africa. It will require significant travel and communication across global time zones.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Management
- Coordinate the work of our facilitation teams at a detailed level to ensure success against deliverables.
- Conduct regular meetings to support/coach team members for success and help them transform their challenges into opportunities to fulfill strategic priorities.
- Utilize relevant tools to manage work streams and collaborate internally (e.g., Slack, Monday, Google Suite, etc).
- Align geographically dispersed teams with global strategy.
- Communicate progress and challenges clearly and concisely to the rest of the global leadership team.
Facilitation
- Remote management of Legado’s teams who facilitate these trainings
- In-person training and support of these teams
- Leading facilitation directly as needed
Partnerships
- Right to Work: This position must be filled with someone who has the right to work in the country in which they reside.
- Work Hours: Full time, flexible schedule with the ability to join global team meetings which may fall outside of regular business hours.
- Travel Requirement: Approximately 30-40% time to program sites and meetings
- Reports to: Executive Vice President
- Coordinates with: Various staff as necessary, particularly Director of Strategy and Integration, Chief Partnerships and Programs Officer, Deputy Director of Programs, and in-country teams.
- Supervises: A growing team currently comprising of 8 people in Kenya and Mozambique
- Location: Remote within Africa
Annual Salary: $55,000-$70,000 USD commensurate with experience
Position Details
- Build a robust pipeline of potential scale and replication partners across Africa, including with multi-sectoral partners interested in leveraging Thriving Futures as part of their programming efforts. This includes identifying and engaging potential new partners, as well as overseeing and measuring success of existing partnerships.
- Represent Legado at global, regional, and local events to enhance learning and build relevant learning and funding partnerships.
- Represent Legado in meetings with local and national governments
Qualifications
- Partnership management - You have 5-10 years of experience identifying, engaging, and managing partnerships
- Project management - You have 5-10 years of project management experience, with the ability to create, execute on, and oversee project timelines and plans.
- Team coordination - You have 5-10 years of experience managing geographically dispersed teams across time zones and cultural contexts, coordinating them along shared strategic goals and KPIs, and supporting them to innovate as per local context. You can transition from directive to facilitative management, depending on capacity.
- External Representation - You have significant experience in publicly facing roles, representing employers in various settings as well as engaging potential new partners.
- Attention to detail - You understand that supporting work on the ground requires excellent attention to detail. You are also able to zoom out and see the bigger picture.
- Thriving in a fast-paced, emergent environment - You can process a great deal of information from multiple sources while remaining strategic, flexible, organized and eager to learn.
- Ability to work effectively in a virtual environment - You can build authentic relationships while working remotely and are an expert in utilizing a variety of software and technologies to succeed.
- Education background - You have a Bachelor’s degree and, ideally, a Master’s in a relevant field as well. (Note, at Legado we know that lived experience is as valuable as educational credentialing, thus even if you feel you don't have the precise qualifications listed we encourage you to apply).
- Language - You are fluent in English. Swahili, Portuguese, and Spanish proficiency are highly desired.