Manager, Strategy (Africa Region)

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• Support the finalisation, roll-out, and execution of the Africa Region’s new strategy — translating strategic priorities into detailed work plans, milestones, and owners across the nine-country Region. • Coordinate the Region’s annual and multi-year planning cycles, including priority-setting workshops, OKR development, and progress reviews, under the direction of the Chief of Staff. • Track execution of the strategic plan and OKRs across countries and functions, flagging slippage, risks, and bottlenecks to the Chief of Staff for escalation. • Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis to support strategic decision-making, including options analysis and trade-off assessments requested by the Chief of Staff or EVP. • Draft briefing notes, discussion papers, and strategy documents that the Chief of Staff and EVP use in Senior Regional Leadership and Board-level discussions. • Provide day-to-day project management on assigned cross-cutting special projects (for example, workstreams linked to the Dispensers for Safe Water scale-down or the Deworm the World transition), reporting progress and issues to the Chief of Staff. • Support new country entry work by conducting feasibility and scoping research, tracking legal and registration milestones, and coordinating administrative set-up tasks, in an advisory and coordinating capacity. • Support programme teams with data-driven analysis on programme transitions, sustainability roadmaps, and scale-up or exit models, in collaboration with Country Directors and Associate Directors. • Maintain and refresh regional risk-management templates and escalation protocols, and consolidate country-level risk registers for review by the Chief of Staff. • Provide flexible capacity stop-gap support to other teams or departments across the region, filling operational gaps as they arise and as directed by the Chief of Staff. • Build and maintain the Region’s performance dashboards, consolidating data from country and departmental work plans, quarterly reports, and financial reports. • Ensure timely, high-quality, and complete submission of work plans and quarterly/annual reports from country and departmental leads, following up directly with contributors. • Produce the quarterly performance pack circulated ahead of the Africa Regional Leadership (ARL) meeting, under the Chief of Staff’s direction. • Track progress against the strategic plan and other organisational indicators, and maintain a single source of truth for regional performance data. • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Public Administration, Public Policy, International Development, or a related field.