Head of Africa Region

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🌐 Senegal, Kenya – Remote

🇸🇳 Senegal – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

💵 F CFA49M - F CFA59M / year

⏰ Full Time

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Global Fishing Watch is an organization dedicated to enhancing transparency in the world's oceans through advanced technological solutions. By utilizing satellite imagery, vessel GPS data, and machine learning, they provide detailed analyses of human activity at sea. The organization aims to facilitate the sustainable use of marine resources and protect ocean ecosystems. Their tools, like the Marine Manager and Vessel Viewer, offer real-time data on ocean conditions and help manage and monitor marine protected areas. Partnerships with scientific institutions foster the creation of open-source datasets, contributing to global ocean policy and conservation efforts.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and regularly evaluate the Africa regional strategy and work plans • Develop and deliver political strategies to secure public commitments for fishing vessel tracking and vessel registry data sharing • Adapt data tools to the needs of partner governments and NGOs • Build and maintain a prioritized continental stakeholder and partnership pipeline • Oversee Africa regional grant deliverables, compliance, execution, and reporting • Coordinate complex sub-grants to local and regional partner organizations • Formulate and track the regional budget with the COO and Business Finance Director • Supervise, mentor, and inspire a distributed regional team • Establish OKRs, manage day-to-day performance, and review progress • Ensure safe, secure, compliant, and welcoming operations across multiple African jurisdictions • Share cross-regional insights and identify joint initiatives with other regional heads and project staff • Contribute to organizational initiatives and working groups • Identify and secure funding streams for the Africa portfolio • Represent Global Fishing Watch with governments, fisheries bodies, civil society, and funders at regional and international forums

🎯 Requirements

• Progressive management experience leading large-scale, multi-country programs in Africa, ideally within an international NGO, intergovernmental agency, or ocean conservation space • Proven track record of managing large, complex, multi-donor grants, including robust financial oversight, sub-grantee management, and rigorous KPI reporting • Demonstrated success navigating high-level governmental relationships, ministerial networks, or regional bodies such as the SRFC/CSRP or African Union • Experience working with matrixed internal operations teams to implement standard operating procedures, project management frameworks, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning structures • Professional fluency in both English and French • Candidates must be legally authorized and based in Senegal or Kenya • Visa sponsorship is not supported • Candidates must be independently authorized to work without visa sponsorship for at least two years after the start date, or for the entire contract duration • Student visa holders must be eligible for full-time employment and have valid work authorization for the required period • Candidates relying on a spouse’s visa for work authorization are not eligible

🏖️ Benefits

• Pension/retirement benefits • Health and other benefits commensurate with similar level GFW employees in the country of employment • Remote work arrangement • Inclusive and accessible recruitment process • Accommodations or adjustments during recruitment, if needed

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