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Are you an experienced professional with a passion for economic development and looking to contribute to the prosperity of East Africa?

Gatsby Africa (GA) is recruiting a Senior Programme Manager (SPM) for Msingi, an industry development organisation funded by GA and DFID. Msingi’s ambitious vision is to build competitive industries for East Africa and drive transformational change across the region. The SPM will play a central role in Msingi reaching its potential, by ensuring that GA provides the right oversight and support.

The SPM will need to build strong relationships with GA, Msingi and DFID colleagues to be effective. The role is varied and will include: Oversight of the Board and ensuring effective governance; Managing annual reviews and evaluations; Managing the relationship with DFID and in due course other co-funders; Coordinating advisory support from GA to Msingi; Managing fund disbursements, and; Providing other ad hoc support to the GA Executive Director and Programme Director as needed.

The successful candidate will have at least 10 years’ relevant professional experience with at least 4 years’ experience in a similar role managing and overseeing development organisations or multi-year programmes. The role will require strong inter-personal and coaching skills, high levels of empathy and maturity, and the ability to manage complex stakeholder dynamics. It will need a mix of charm, assertiveness and diplomacy. It also requires strong project management experience and the ability to work within matrix environments to ensure challenging deadlines are met.

Location: London or Nairobi with up to 25% travel

Salary and benefits: Gatsby will pay a competitive salary based on skills and experience.

How to apply:

Please go to http://oxfordhr.co.uk/jobs/senior-programme-manager-msingi/ to download the Appointment Brief with instructions on how to apply. Applications are welcome until the deadline of 8th April 2018.

Candidates must have the existing right to work in the UK or Kenya (choice of location). Please specify your preferred location in your statement. Gatsby is an equal opportunities employer.

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Gatsby Charitable Foundation

In 1967 David Sainsbury set up the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and agreed its first grant – £50 to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

David Sainsbury (now Lord Sainsbury of Turville) has since given Gatsby more than £1 billion to distribute to charitable causes.Gatsby works in areas that David Sainsbury and the Trustees are particularly passionate about and where they believe charitable funding can make a real difference. Gatsby is currently active in:

We have also supported significant programmes in mental health - in particular through the founding of the Centre for Mental Health - although we are no longer focusing on this area. Across all areas, we aim to be more than a funder. We act as an enabler for projects, designing, developing, overseeing and, in some cases, delivering activities. We are proactive in putting together projects to achieve our aims. Rather than wait for third-party proposals, we identify areas of need, commission research and design interventions in partnership with sector and industry experts. We take a long-term view as we do not think much can be achieved by short, one-off projects. We build long relationships with the organisations we support, allowing both them and us to learn from successes and failures and to develop sustainable change. We are particularly enthusiastic about supporting innovation. David Sainsbury has long believed that private foundations have an important role to play in testing imaginative models and new ideas that governments may see as too risky for public funding, even when they have significant potential to benefit the public if they succeed. Gatsby can incubate such models, giving them the support they need to prove themselves and build the track-records that will encourage others to scale them up. We are always looking to increase the impact of our limited funds, and are therefore eager to form partnerships with others who share our goals. In Tanzania, Gatsby is partnering with the government to transform the country’s cotton sector, while our multi-million pound partnership with the Wellcome Trust to create the new Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour shows what can be achieved by working together.

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0 USD Nairobi CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Gatsby Charitable Foundation Are you an experienced professional with a passion for economic development and looking to contribute to the prosperity of East Africa?Gatsby Africa (GA) is recruiting a Senior Programme Manager (SPM) for Msingi, an industry development organisation funded by GA and DFID. Msingi’s ambitious vision is to build competitive industries for East Africa and drive transformational change across the region. The SPM will play a central role in Msingi reaching its potential, by ensuring that GA provides the right oversight and support.The SPM will need to build strong relationships with GA, Msingi and DFID colleagues to be effective. The role is varied and will include: Oversight of the Board and ensuring effective governance; Managing annual reviews and evaluations; Managing the relationship with DFID and in due course other co-funders; Coordinating advisory support from GA to Msingi; Managing fund disbursements, and; Providing other ad hoc support to the GA Executive Director and Programme Director as needed.The successful candidate will have at least 10 years’ relevant professional experience with at least 4 years’ experience in a similar role managing and overseeing development organisations or multi-year programmes. The role will require strong inter-personal and coaching skills, high levels of empathy and maturity, and the ability to manage complex stakeholder dynamics. It will need a mix of charm, assertiveness and diplomacy. It also requires strong project management experience and the ability to work within matrix environments to ensure challenging deadlines are met.Location: London or Nairobi with up to 25% travelSalary and benefits: Gatsby will pay a competitive salary based on skills and experience.How to apply:Please go to http://oxfordhr.co.uk/jobs/senior-programme-manager-msingi/ to download the Appointment Brief with instructions on how to apply. Applications are welcome until the deadline of 8th April 2018.Candidates must have the existing right to work in the UK or Kenya (choice of location). Please specify your preferred location in your statement. Gatsby is an equal opportunities employer. 2018-04-09

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