Director, Anglophone Africa at Instiglio

How you will make an impact

• Impact strategy. As a member of our Africa Leadership Team, you will develop our regional strategy with a focus on the Anglophone sub-region, mapping where and how we can scale impact, in which countries, sectors, and with which partners, and working with local teams to grow high-performing teams and new offices.
• Public-sector reform. Empower senior officials through complex reform processes, helping them diagnose root causes, align incentives, and navigate political and institutional realities.
• Partnership development. Drive partnership development across Anglophone Africa, leveraging your strong existing network. You will build and nurture relationships with government, donor, philanthropic, and practitioner stakeholders, and lead compelling, high-impact engagements.
• Delivery leadership. Provide strategic, technical, and team leadership across our projects, driving quality, innovation, and excellent delivery to exceed client expectations.
• Thought leadership and positioning. Advance our thought leadership, evolve our technical practice, and work with our communications team to strengthen Instiglio’s positioning and influence across regional and global ecosystems.
• Organisational development. As a steward of our culture, oversee the performance, growth, and health of your teams, ensuring strong performance, wellbeing, and the systems to support sustainable growth.

Requirements & qualifications

An ideal candidate will have the following:

Education:

• A relevant postgraduate degree focused on international development (public administration, public policy, development economics, governance and institutions).

Experience:

• At least 12 years’ experience, including relevant work in social impact or government advisory, international development, the public sector, management consulting, and/or development policy and innovation. Combinations of the above are ideal.
• Demonstrated experience in government institutional reforms and or/transformation, advising or operating in senior government official roles on public-sector reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Demonstrated experience in evidence-based policy design, results-based financing, theories of change, delivery management, and/or performance management or related fields.
• Successful track record in sourcing and managing partnerships (multiple stakeholders in complex settings), with at least 2 years of Government, multi/bilateral donors and philanthropy.
• Extensive experience growing and managing multicultural teams.

Skills: 

• Exceptional strategic, innovative, and structured thinking, with strong problem-solving skills
• Strong organisational oversight, continually looking to add value
• Proven experience managing relationships with public-sector leaders and international funding agencies; the ideal candidate will bring their own relationships in the region
• Excellent project management, able to lead multiple teams on complex tasks
• Exceptional written and oral communication in English, with proven success presenting ideas persuasively
• Leadership and empathy, with the ability to influence people positively
• Impact-driven, resilient, results-oriented, with strong commercial acumen

We also welcome:

• Work experience in management consulting.
• Strong operational and financial management experience.
• Knowledge of Results-Based Financing mechanisms and/or experience related to the field (such as theories of change, log frames and results frameworks).