United Nations Foundation (UNF) / Better World Fund (BWF)
Senior Director, Global Market Development and Program Quality, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Vacancy Announcement
Overview
About 3 billion people in 500 million homes use polluting, inefficient cookstoves that cause almost 2 million deaths per year and other health impacts, including pneumonia, glaucoma, lung cancer, pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease, and low birth weight. In addition, smoke from polluting cookstoves contributes to climate change and deforestation.
In September 2010, a broad set of international governments, companies, UN agencies, and nongovernmental organizations formally launched the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves at the Clinton Global Initiative. The Alliance, an innovative public-private partnership to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change, included 19 founding partners. Today we have a total of 240 partners. With an ambitious goal to foster the adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels in 100 million households by 2020, the initiative is working to establish a thriving global market for clean cooking solutions by addressing the market barriers that currently impede the production, deployment, and use of clean cookstoves in developing countries.
The Alliance is seeking to recruit a seasoned professional in the role of Senior Director for Global Market Development and Program Quality. The Senior Director will serve as a member of the senior Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) leadership team. S/he will be responsible for global cookstove market development and the building of the evidence base to nurture and support the market. This position is both strategic and operationally oriented with significant bottom line accountabilities.
Reporting Relationships/Scope
The Senior Director, Global Market Development and Program Quality serves as a member of the senior Alliance team reporting to the Executive Director, and works in conjunction with the other members of the Alliance staff. The Senior Director will also work closely with Alliance partners, multilateral institutions, venture and patient capitalists, multinational companies, social entrepreneurs and government authorities in-country to ensure alignment across all partners and activities in support of a strong market for clean cookstoves and fuels.
Responsibilities/Deliverables
Country Operations and Global Market Development (50%)
- Lead the development of market enabling strategies and implementation plans at the global level and for each Alliance target country. Develop tailored strategies that meet Alliance goals in each of the focus and active countries. Develop a broad strategy and menu of options that will be applicable for other “partner” countries.
- Develop and execute annual operating plans for each of these countries complete with intermediate milestones and deliverables, with a balance scorecard or indicators and metrics. Clearly define roles and engagement priorities for Alliance partners, local and national government actors and other critical stakeholders.
- Develop job descriptions and drive the hiring of the Country/Markets Director position and for the in-country/region market managers.
- The Senior Director is accountable for ensuring scale up globally, as well as all Alliance activities in each country.
- Represent the Alliance at high-level meetings and conferences with critical Alliance stakeholders;
- Directly supervise team of country professionals who will have contractual full or part time responsibilities.
Direct Alliance Programmatic and Technical Efforts (30%)
- Lead development and oversee implementation of strategies in each of the primary programmatic areas of health, climate, gender and economic development for each phase of the Alliance engagement.
- Develop goals, metrics and milestones associated with standards and testing. Facilitate the interim standards and protocols and actively drive efforts towards ISO certification.
- Oversee the alignment of Alliance partners’ efforts in priority program and Standards and Testing areas with those of the Alliance secretariat.
- Oversee the programmatic and country content that will “fuel” the knowledge hub for the sector.
- Oversee staff execution against operating plans and deliverables in each of these areas.
Contribute to Strategic Objective of the Alliance (20%)
- Contribute to overall Alliance strategic and business plan.
- Provide input on Alliance priorities and engagement at global levels.
- Provide strategic, budget, and tactical programming support to the Executive Director on Advisory Board relations and implementation of the Business Plan;
- Contribute in the strategic planning of the Biennial Forum and other Alliance partner related events.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a related field required.
- Ten to fifteen years of experience in related market development/social enterprise development/venture capital or investing in developing country markets.
- Demonstrated track record of consulting to or working directly on social impact and profit making enterprises or projects.
- Experience in research and analysis of Bottom of the Pyramid Markets
- Experience in strategy development and execution.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in international settings ranging from high-level diplomatic to corporate and grass-roots / field settings;
- Five years plus experience working in a developing country market preferred.
- Strong applied analytic skills required.
- Experience in one of the technical areas required – economic development, gender, climate or health.
- Leadership skills, including independent initiative, staff management and coordination, meeting facilitation, flexibility, ability to drive multiple aspects of initiatives and projects from inception to implementation within a limited time frame, and ability to develop and sustain effective working relationships with people of diverse backgrounds and levels of expertise.
- Superior oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including keen attention to detail and ability to express complex ideas clearly to a broad range of audiences.
- Advanced knowledge of and experience with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access).
- Personal commitment to UNF’s vision and the ability to articulate it to others in a manner that compels them to action.
- Ability to travel extensively—travel is expected to consist of about 60% of the Senior Director’s time.
Contact Details
- Contact:
- Nick Bacon
- Telephone:
- 703 638 3277
- Email:
- nbacon@unfoundation.org
Application Instructions
Please apply on-line at https://home2.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=2007802
All applicants must submit a cover letter - please save upload your resume and cover letter as one document - either .pdf or .doc.
Please contact Nick Bacon by email at nbacon@unfoundation.org with any questions.
UNF/BWF is an AA/EEO employer.
People of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
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