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GiveDirectlyAfrica-accessible opportunity

Chief of Staff · Emergency Cash

Remote · GiveDirectly operating countriesFull time · RemoteOperations
ExperienceLeadership
Employer-listed compensationKenya target total compensation: USD 87,808+
LocationRemote · GiveDirectly operating countries
EmploymentFull time · Remote

Job description

About the role

GiveDirectly’s Emergency Cash team is hiring a senior chief of staff to strengthen strategy, performance management and organisational effectiveness. The role builds the systems and operating rhythms that help emergency programmes move faster and communicates the team’s value to important partners.

Location eligibility: Advertised for Africa, EMEA or eligible African locations. Confirm your country and working arrangement in the original listing.

Responsibilities

What you will do

  • Own performance dashboards, goal monitoring and strategic-planning processes.
  • Improve operating rhythms, decision-making structures, playbooks and institutional knowledge.
  • Develop strategic messaging and core materials for Emergency Cash programmes.
  • Coordinate mobile-network-operator relationships, milestones, risks and follow-through.
  • Lead high-priority cross-functional initiatives and advise leadership on emerging opportunities and risks.

Requirements

What you will bring

  • At least six years in strategy, operations, consulting, organisational effectiveness, product strategy or a related field.
  • Evidence of building systems and processes that improve team performance and accountability.
  • Strong strategic thinking, analysis, project management and executive communication.
  • Ability to influence varied stakeholders without direct authority and deliver through ambiguity.
  • Experience developing messaging, positioning or stakeholder-engagement strategies.

Benefits

What the role offers

RemoteFlexible paid time offHealth benefitsDesk setup allowanceLearning and development allowance