Country Director Senegal Advert

The Organization 
Since 1944, Heifer International has helped more than 36 million families lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Our goal is to help families achieve living incomes, which will allow them tofeed their families daily, educate all their children; and have proper housing, water, hygiene, and other essential resource. When many families gain this new sustainable income, it brings new opportunities for building schools, creating agricultural cooperatives, forming community savings, and funding small businesses.

Heifer Senegal’s contribution to the Global 10 million households target is to help 200,000 of Heifer Africa’s 6.745 million households achieve sustainable living income by 2030. Heifer Senegal envisions a country where people are self-reliant and live in harmony within a healthy natural environment enabling them to earn a living income, and to enhance nutrition through integrated pro-poor wealth creating value chains. Heifer Senegal is shifting from traditional production, linking production to markets and for nutrition. In the next ten years, the country program seeks to build it market focus, strengthen production for nutrition, reinforced social capital and improve partnership.

The Role 
Reporting Directly to the Africa Senior Vice President, the position will be responsible for shaping and leading the execution of the country strategy, fostering meaningful long term sustainable business development partnerships & growth, while embodying and leading with our Heifer Africa Values/Value Based Holistic Community Development (VBHCD) approach. The role will also ensure Country Operational Excellence, and Culture change to deliver Sustainable Locally Led Development (SLLD) in Senegal’s Signature Programming,  

The role will provide effective leadership and drive team spirit to build a high performing country team that delivers sustainable, permanent, scalable impact and results through long term partnership in a diverse environment .
 
The Person 
The position holder will be a visionary servant leader, highly self-aware leader of leaders with a proven track record of leading people and organizations through evolutionary change. He/she will possess a master’s degree with 15 years senior leadership experience, ten (10) of which will have demonstrable diverse and multicultural team development in the development sector, inspiring teams to action with sustainable locally led development (SLLD) and impact. The successful candidate will preferably have professional experience in agribusiness and/or community development. To meet the diverse needs of this role, s/he will have solid experience in markets systems development approach, strong business acumen/Entrepreneural leadership relationship building and possess high standards of integrity and accountability.