Deputy Chief Programme Officer - Programmes

About Tiko

Tiko inspires futures where girls and young women take charge of their sexual and reproductive choices, with the freedom to shape their lives. Founded in 2014, Tiko is an African nonprofit organisation that enhances the potential and fosters the resilience of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Sub-Saharan Africa by addressing the critical “Triple Threat”: early pregnancy, HIV, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Tiko has developed its own unique girl-centric technology platform to unite an ecosystem of existing, established partners to provide an environment enabling girls to choose when, where and how they meet their health and wellbeing needs. Leveraging this technology-enabled, community-driven approach, Tiko collaborates with local and national health systems to drive sustainable, transformative change. Tiko operates in seven countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +240 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here. 

For this position we are happy to accept applicants based in our operational countries.

The Job
The Deputy CPO - Programmes oversees all on ground Operations at Tiko. You ensure that Tiko meets its ambitious targets in a sustainable manner in all our operating countries. You lead the Country Directors and ensure cross country implementation of (new) services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the operational strategy across markets
• Ensure strategic and effective government and other stakeholder partnerships across markets and internationally
• Ensure new markets are developed and existing markets are scaled according to plan
• Ensure that service delivery is on target and that ecosystems are designed in a sustainable manner
• Ensure service offerings are of high quality and effective in fighting the triple threat
• Ensure reliable forecasting of service impact and delivery
• Lead and develop Country Directors and other direct reports

About You
You have a large (government) stakeholder network at national level in at least one of our operating markets. You are a strategist that can operationalise and make sure that our operations are implemented in a sustainable way. You are an expert on the triple threat and are able to translate this effectively into impact. You are hands on, a great people manager, an excellent networker and a good communicator.

Requirements:

• Master level education in a relevant field
• Minimum of 5-10 years experience leading a similar department at minimal Director level, with a strong preference for VP level
• Proven experience and results in strategic government relationship management at national and preferably international management
• A relevant personal network within the national government in at least one of our operating markets.
• Proven experience and results implementing SRH, SGBV and HIV operations directly in a role similar to that of Country Director at Tiko at a large scale (substantial market) in Sub Saharan Africa.  
• Proven experience directly managing larger operational teams.
• Full comprehension of and proven results implementing the Tiko approach and ways of working
• Multi market operational experience across Sub Saharan Africa.
• Role to be based in one of Tiko’s operational markets. 

The rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The gross monthly salary bracket for this position is R109,641 - R164,462 in South Africa, Ksh886,114 - Ksh1,329,171 in Kenya, €6,703 - €10,055 in Ethiopia, CFA2,425,155 - CFA3,637,732 in Burkina Faso, and UGX27,037,151 - UGX40,555,727 in Uganda, plus benefits. We will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues. 

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Good secondary benefits 
• A personal development budget
• Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team you’re good to go
• Growth opportunities
• A product to help shape as we grow, to leave your mark on how we do things
• A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations

The details

Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

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Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

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