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Job Title:   Executive Director

Organisation: The Water Trust (TWT)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

The Water Trust empowers the poorest rural communities to provide their children safe water and a healthy, clean environment to develop to their potential. Since 2008, The Water Trust has partnered with more than 800 communities in Masindi and Kiryandongo, benefitting more than 300,000 people. In 2017, The Water Trust developed an innovative savings group-based approach to increase the sustainability of rural water and the impact of hygiene and sanitation promotion. The organization is currently scaling this novel program across more than 400 communities a year in western Uganda across Ugandan and refugee communities. Over the next three years, The Water Trust aims to scale up its programs through direct implementation and technical assistance partnerships, while continuing to partner with researchers to find new ways to raise the bar for impact and sustainability.

Job Summary:  Looking forward, the Water Trust seeks an entrepreneurial, creative leader who can lead the scaleup of its flagship program across Uganda and beyond, while pioneering innovations that unlock new opportunities for transformative impact on community health and well-being. The Executive Director position, until now based in the US, will be based in Kampala to localize leadership and help the organization reach its potential. Ugandan and East African candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for The Water Trust’s staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. She or he will initially develop deep knowledge of the field, core programs, operations, and business plans, and lead the organization’s strategic planning, execution, and resource mobilization. The ideal candidate will bring a strong track record in management, fundraising, and program leadership, and will be excited to lead a Ugandan-led organization on its next chapter of growth, while continuously raising the bar for program impact and organizational performance.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Leadership & Management:

• Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.
• Actively engage and energize board members, funders, and partnering organizations.
• Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors.
• Lead, coach, develop, and retain a high-performance senior management team, fostering their professional growth and honing their managerial capabilities to drive organizational excellence.
• Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents.
• Promote a positive and ethical work environment centered on collaboration, problem-solving, and mutual support.

Fundraising & Communications:

• Expand revenue-generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and expansion in Uganda and beyond.
• Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand.
• Represent the organization externally at national and international conferences and develop relationships to garner new opportunities and insights.

Planning & New Business:

• Lead strategic planning and expansion planning into new markets.
• Build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders.
• Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and national replication.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The ED will be thoroughly committed to our mission of empowering rural communities to provide their children clean water and healthy, hygienic homes. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Specific requirements include:

• Advanced degree, ideally an MBA or master’s degree related to development, with at least 10 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth.
• Strong understanding of rural development challenges and experience identifying and scaling evidence-driven solutions.
• Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation.
• Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget.
• Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships.
• Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills.
• Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning.
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people.
• Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed.

How to Apply:

All candidates should apply online at the link below.

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NB:

• The Water Trust does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process nor request any information related to bank accounts.
• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity, or expression. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace.
• We strive for a gender-balanced workforce. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Deadline: 25^th May 2024 by 5:00pm

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