Regional External Relations Director job at International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
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Vacancy title:
Regional External Relations Director

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Management ]

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International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, May 09 2023 

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi, East Africa

Summary
Date Posted:Tuesday, May 09 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Role Deliverables:
1. Develop and implement a progressive regional plan to deliver on IPPF Strategy2028, ensuring it complements global and regional plans.
2. Ensure a strategic eye across business development and strategic engagements along with regional colleagues to support regional and country level fundraising. Responsible for ensuring the team is able and willing to prioritize business development. Ensures two way sharing of information across the regional office, and with the global and national teams.
3. Build an evolving network of stakeholders, influencers, and partners, as well as knowledge managements on trends and opposition monitoring to inform/strengthen/prioritize action.
4. Measure and track key result areas, impacts and change to adapt/respond with agility.
5. Distil IPPF’s identity and voice to speak to key stakeholders; develops a position/key messages on strategic/emerging themes.
6. Gather intelligence and commissions research, leveraged through the global External Relations team, to deepen understanding and strengthen positioning/influencing/delivery.
7. Prioritise and focus on engagement with key strategic bodies to maintain presence and influence that will deliver tangible benefits.
8. Create an environment that nurtures and leverages disruptive partnerships and strategic community networks
9. Prioritise, connect and amplify campaigns, placing MA and local voices at the forefront to advocate for the Federation .
10. Oversee the framing, activation and 2obilization of high impact media and social media activity that builds on the work of Mas and acts with youth. Ensuring stories/impacts are captured and narrated in engaging andimpactful ways.
11. Lead on crisis management for the Region, connecting and escalating with Global Comms, Voice and Media as required.
12. Create an environment where people perform at their best, leading and developing a team with the skills, drive, diversity and expertise to deliver. Acting as a role model for safeguarding, anti-racism and IPPF’s Code of Conduct.
13. Support and enable a safe environment, adhering to the safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements of this role.

Key Skills/Expertise:
1. Track record in political influencing, inter-governmental negotiations and measurable change in SRHR related work internationally, with an emphasis on regional engagement.
2. Track record of speaking out on sensitive issues, ensuring voice and agency. Evidence of inspiring and delivering cultural change; setting the tone of voice, ensuing values and integrity on SRHR inform decision making and setting the pace for a high performing team that can meaningfully connect with national and global partners.
3. Demonstrable record in resource mobilization and maintaining donor relations in the Africa region.
4. Has led policy/legislative change, campaigns and communication strategies at a regional level across multiple stakeholders and coalitions, including marginalised groups.
5. Strong understanding of and experience in gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice.
6. Evidence of the ability to flex style in a diverse and multi-cultural environment to build positive relationships, combining drive with diplomacy.
7. Exceptional communication and presentation skills
8. Fluency in French and English is essential, good command of Portuguese is an asset
9. Evidence of being open to and enabling new and leading-edge ideas to build engagement and impact.
10. Excellent team manager, leader and developer with strong planning, organizing and knowledge sharing skills.
11. Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
12. Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.

Education Requirement:No Requirements

Job Experience:No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Interested individuals should submit an application form in the IPPFARO CV form and a 1-page cover letter to: hroffice@ippfaro.org  with the job position you are applying for as the subject of the email by 9 May 2023. Please note that IPPFAR will not consider applications that are not done in the requested format.


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Job Info
Job Category: Administrative jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: May 9, 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 20-04-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 20-04-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 26-04-2023
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