Mastercard Foundation recrute 01 Head, Education & Cross Cutting Enablers – WAEMU
Mastercard Foundation seeks a world where everyone has the opportunity to learn and prosper. Through its Young Africa Works strategy and Canadian EleV program, the Foundation works with partners to ensure that millions of young people, especially young women, access quality education, financial services, and dignified work. Mastercard Foundation was established in 2006 through the generosity of Mastercard when it became a public company. The Foundation is independent with its own Board of Directors and CEO.
The work at the foundation
We are currently in an exciting period at the Mastercard Foundation as we intensify the implementation of the Young Africa Works strategy, aiming to empower 30 million young people throughout Africa to access dignified and fulfilling employment.
To ensure the Foundation’s accessibility to our partners and program participants, we have established offices in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. These offices provide strong in-country support for the implementation of Young Africa Works. We collaborate with governments, the private sector, educators, and other funders to enhance the quality of education and vocational training, equip young individuals with the necessary skills for the workforce, expand access to financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses, and facilitate connections between job seekers and meaningful employment opportunities.
Our values serve as our guiding principles, transcending and surpassing all other considerations. We wholeheartedly encourage you to bring your bold ideas, curiosity, and expertise to your work.
If you are an experienced Education & Cross Cutting Enablers professional looking to increase your impact, read on!
The opportunity
Reporting to the Country Director, WAEMU, the Head of Education & Cross cutting Enablers will support the WAEMU Program and partners to advance towards the full realization of Young Africa Works Strategy. S/he will manage the development of the Education programs along with the streamlining initiatives as Youth Engagement, Gender & Inclusion, Safeguarding, Capacity Building, partnerships, strategic plans and annual workplans to ensure their alignment with critical aspects of Programs.
Ways you can contribute
- Identify opportunities to create impact through developing interventions in the education sector in alignment with the Young Africa Works strategy.
- Work with the Program Leads, the development of the Education, Gender, Youth Engagement, and capacity strategies.
- Create coherence with the Foundation’s Secondary Education in Africa Report.
- Identifies collaboration opportunities within existing partner network and potential new partnerships that are relevant to regional and country specific circumstances.
- Lead the integration of education initiatives with other programs including Scholars, Transitions, RDPs, and DDI and ensures alignment with Young Africa Works.
- Provide support to partners colleagues with implementation of education initiatives, including existing initiatives.
- Ensure safeguarding of the programs and interventions in education for scholars.
- Manage relationships with senior stakeholders at educational institutions and the broader scholars’ community.
- Manage relationships through Country Directors where appropriate and ensure coherence with country and regional programming.
- Coach and mentor, the staff of Education Unit and also manage workload of staff in Education.
- Drive and inspire technical excellence within the team and lead the team to deliver results in line with Foundation goals and KPIs.
Who you are
- Master’s degree (MBA) in a relevant field.
- Minimum of 15 years’ experience, with at least 5 years in senior management.
- Experience working in West Africa, Africa for a global or regional organization in international development and/or commercial banking, microfinance, or private equity.
- Working experience in the Francophone West Africa region, with deep knowledge of the policies, networks, business landscape.
- Native level of French and fluency in English are mandatory.
- Experience working in a start-up or ‘build’ environment and across sectors is preferred.
- Experience and ability to effectively influence, build relationships and leverage the formal and informal organizational structure.
- Excellent strategic planning skills with the ability to merge technical and operational demands of various delivery platforms into a cohesive structure.
- Proven ability to think in a strategic and transformative way and able to co-design initiatives/processes that will drive large scale change.
- Ability to communicate and engage effectively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Innovative and entrepreneurial individual
- Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
- Proven excellence in verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures and to distill complex information and data into accessible conversation and written pieces.
- Possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.
- You have a commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision.
Deadline for Applications is June 29, 2023.
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