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Non-Profit Organization Management
Description:
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is an independent philanthropic organisation headquartered in London with offices in Nairobi, New Delhi, and in Ethiopia. CIFF works with a wide range of partners seeking to transform and empower the lives of poor and vulnerable children in developing countries, with the ultimate goal of solving seemingly intractable challenges to ensure all children have the chance to survive and thrive. CIFF aims to play a catalytic role as a funder and influencer to deliver urgent and systemic change at scale. Areas of work include empowering girls and boys to control their sexual and reproductive health and to avoid unwanted pregnancies and HIV/AIDS; improving children and mothers’ health and nutrition; preventing low birthweight babies; eliminating deaths from severe acute malnutrition, nested within a more integrated approach to childhood development; and deworming efforts to break transmission for good. The organisation’s climate portfolio is driven by a vision of a climate-safe future for today’s children and future generations that also bear the benefits of cleaner air, energy security and sustainable jobs. CIFF’s child protection work focuses on ending child labour and sexual exploitation by enabling an environment that reduces vulnerability of communities and increases protection of children. CIFF places significant emphasis on quality data and evidence. For most of its grants, CIFF works with partners to measure and evaluate progress to achieve large scale and sustainable impact. The organisation is committed to sharing as much information as possible about what they and their partners are learning. Founded in 2002, CIFF employs approximately 100 professionals in England, Kenya, India, and Ethiopia. CIFF strives to couple business acumen and principles with development experience and best practices to transform the landscape for children. It seeks to be the gold standard in grant making and foundation operations.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
Africa Leadership and Institutional Leadership:
- Act as a senior member of the CIFF Africa Leadership Team, contributing to strategy, decision-making, and institutional effectiveness
- Advise the Executive Director Africa, Executive Team and Board on WASH-related strategy, policy, financing, and system reform
- Provide visible, values-based leadership that drives clarity, accountability, and performance
- Represent CIFF as a senior institutional leader and trusted partner, always acting as a corporate ambassador to strengthen the organization’s reputation and profile as a professional, visionary, and collaborative philanthropy
Strategy, Systems and Financing Leadership:
- Lead the development and execution of CIFF Africa’s WASH Mission
- Shape system-level interventions addressing governance, financing, service delivery, and sustainability
- Lead CIFF’s engagement with MDBs, Philanthropies, multilateral agencies and governments
- Oversee the design and champion innovative WASH financing mechanisms (e.g. blended finance, guarantees, results-based financing) with support from the Development finance team and CEO office
- Oversee the identification and structure co-financing opportunities that unlock significant public and private capital to address WASH in CIFF Africa priority countries
Programme Portfolio Leadership:
- Provide strategic, managerial and technical oversight of a large, complex WASH portfolio (circa $250 million)
- Ensure quality, performance, risk management, and learning across all investments
- Oversee design of large-scale, multi-country and multi-instrument programmes ensuring value for money, sustainability and scalability
- External Influence and Partnerships:
- Lead senior relationships with governments, MDBs, UN agencies, and philanthropic partners
- Represent CIFF at global and regional forums including UN Water and MDB Spring/Annual Meetings
- Position CIFF as a thought leader on WASH systems and financing
- Leadership of the Team:
- Lead, manage and develop a team of 3–4 senior WASH managers/directors
- Build a high-performing, inclusive and accountable team culture that models CIFF’s code of respect and leadership behaviors, which empowers and enables staff to deliver excellence
- Coach and mentor senior staff and emerging leaders
Requirements
Skills & Experience:
- 15+ years of senior leadership experience in WASH, infrastructure, development finance or related sectors
- Significant experience working in or influencing WASH systems in Africa
- Proven engagement with MDBs, philanthropies, bilateral agencies and large-scale public financing mechanisms
- Strong understanding of WASH financing and system reform
- Exceptional leadership, influencing and partnership-building skills
- Strong commitment to evidence, learning, and impact
- Willingness to travel regularly
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
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