Director of Strategy at Family Empowerment Media (FEM)

Family Empowerment Media (FEM) is an evidence-driven non-profit that enables informed contraceptive decisions through clear, compelling, and accurate radio-based communication. Enabling couples to access modern contraceptives is one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent maternal deaths. It also provides a host of other benefits. Numerous studies have demonstrated that radio-based social and behavioural change campaigns can empower women and men to use effective contraceptive methods to avoid unintended pregnancies. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director of Strategy

Location: Abuja (Remote)
Hours: Full time/Part time
Duration: Long term
Starting Date: 21st of April 2023

About the Role

• We seek a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with strong writing skills to lead our business development and planning efforts. We expect the Director of Strategy to spend about 25% of their time on strategy and analytics and 75% on planning and grant writing. 

Responsibilities
Take part in FEM’s strategic decision-making - 25%:

• Take part in Director meetings, where core decisions about the organisation’s work are made. 
• Compare the impact potential of scaling to new regions and cause areas by using a range of analytical methods. 

Manage FEM’s business development - 75%:

• Oversee FEM’s funding application processes by researching potential funding sources, managing writers, and reviewing funding proposals.
• Set realistic budgets and timelines for various impact opportunities and contact and work with stakeholders to map out risks and opportunities. 

Qualifications

• We’re looking for someone with strong analytical skills and the ability to create large-scale project plans and effectively communicate them.
• The successful candidate will work closely with the Executive Director to develop concrete plans to achieve our objective of improving maternal and child health.
• We seek candidates inspired by our mission and demonstrate a commitment to our core values of ambitious altruism, evidence-based decision-making, cultural sensitivity, humility, and transparency.

The Director of Strategy will also possess some or most of the following qualities:

• Excellent decision-maker: skilled at breaking down complex problems and, together with the senior management team, coming to decisions that best increase impact.
• Strong analytical skills: able to use quantitative methods to review projects and assess opportunities.
• Critical thinker: enjoys working collaboratively to identify risks and opportunities; asks difficult questions and points out where we can improve while remaining positive and growth-oriented, in line with our culture.
• Systematic and detail-oriented planner: able to dot the i’s and cross the t’s across budgets and written outputs, ensuring high quality throughout all our communication efforts. 
• Skilled written communicator: creates powerful, professional, and compelling written communications that concisely convey complex ideas.
• Skilled Manager: able to effectively communicate with others, set standards for work quality, and prioritise among competing concerns; the ability to adapt communication to different individuals and cultures in order to maintain good relationships and ensure things get done. 
• Strong generalist: learns fast and enjoys a challenge. Is able to progress on important projects throughout our organisation independently; can step in and manage other processes when needed. 
• Please apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria. We would love to see your application.

Benefits of Working at FEM

• High impact: Enabling our model's successful scaling can improve thousands of lives. Our intervention was chosen for its high cost-effectiveness and strong evidence base from 188 ideas evaluated by Charity Entrepreneurship [1].
• Community: You will have the opportunity to become a part of the Charity Entrepreneurship community and connect with experts in the field.
• Flexibility: You will experience a high level of freedom and autonomy as we offer both remote and office-based working environments.
• Personal growth: You are guaranteed to be challenged with a variety of tasks and receive rapid and implementable feedback.  
• Entrepreneurial experience: You will work with a scale-up and gain insight into the entrepreneurial process.

Application Closing Date
7th March, 2023.