Regional Director – Africa

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🌐 Nigeria, Kenya, +2 more countries – Remote

🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 $120k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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International Youth Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1990

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

<International Youth Foundation> is a global nonprofit organization that designs and delivers job and life-skills programs to connect young people to economic opportunity. For 35 years it has partnered with employers, foundations, and local organizations to scale industry-validated technical training, career coaching, and awareness initiatives that reach millions of youth worldwide. IYF centers young people’s lived experiences to improve completion rates and employment outcomes, and focuses on workforce readiness, social inclusion, and measurable impact.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategic direction, growth, and leadership of IYF in Africa • Expand IYF’s business and partnership base across the continent • Serve as IYF’s senior programmatic representative and executive sponsor for the regional portfolio • Develop country leadership talent and staff skills • Explore and pursue strategic opportunities for growth • Build institutional relationships and mitigate operational and programmatic risks • Advance IYF’s reputation for excellence • Own senior funder relationships while Project Leads manage day-to-day delivery and funder contact • Lead the region to develop, promote, and deliver innovative, multi-sectoral programs consistent with IYF’s strategic plan and PPAF priorities • Define and own IYF’s growth strategy for Africa, including operating model, country presence, and portfolio mix • Build a net-new pipeline and go-to-market strategy across corporate, foundation, public, and social impact funders • Manage active opportunities through qualification, discovery, proposal, negotiation, and close • Act as proposal director or senior technical lead on strategic opportunities • Serve as primary regional lead for funder stewardship, ensuring donor satisfaction, renewals, extensions, and expansions • Develop funder relationships and build innovative funding models and cross-sector initiatives • Represent IYF in high-level negotiations with donors and partners • Forecast opportunities and maintain accurate pipeline data in Salesforce • Contribute to quarterly business reviews and cross-team learning • Set business development priorities and accountabilities for country and program teams • Serve as IYF’s senior programmatic face in the region and executive sponsor for the regional portfolio • Provide strategic direction for successful implementation of IYF programs in Africa • Ensure delivery achieves outputs and outcomes in compliance with donor expectations, award agreements, and budgets • Ensure country teams have rigorous systems and strong technical, financial, and managerial capacity • Drive regional learning, accountability, and risk management processes • Represent IYF at key events, conferences, and roundtables • Supervise program leads and country-level teams • Guide performance management systems integrating the PPAF framework • Contribute to institutional direction-setting as a member of the Senior Leadership Team • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in the design and management of youth development, employment, education, or skills programs, or equivalent senior experience in the technology, education, philanthropy or impact sectors, with significant work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa • Knowledge of / experience with programs that support youth employment and social services (e.g. education, health) is strongly preferred • Exceptional leadership, management, supervisory, analytic and representational skills; the ability to identify and establish priorities and attend to all details in a professional manner • Proven success taking opportunities from idea to signed agreement, including discovery, proposal design, negotiation, and relationship management, with multi-stakeholder funders in nonprofit or international settings • Experience working with institutional donors including multi-lateral, bilateral, corporate and foundation actors required • Significant experience developing new business from major institutional funders, as well as cross-sector partnerships to support programs, including through grant-making, technical assistance to grantees and engagement of multilateral and bilateral agencies, businesses and foundations • Demonstrated ability to build innovative funding models or cross-sector initiatives that blend social impact with business or policy outcomes • Skilled communicator with executive presence who can translate IYF’s mission and outcomes into compelling business cases and narratives across cultures • Technologically fluent and future-focused, using AI, CRM systems, and data tools to research, personalize outreach, and inform partnership strategy • A collegial management style that emphasizes both achieving results and working with a highly skilled, multi-cultural team of professional colleagues • Strong coaching, mentoring, and operational systems/process strengthening skills • Proven interpersonal skills and presentation skills • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English are required • Proficiency in French, Portuguese, or other regional languages is highly desirable • Deep personal commitment to social and economic development that recognizes youth as critical actors and beneficiaries • Excellent computer skills using MS Office products and other software platforms used by IYF • Ability to travel frequently within Africa and internationally as needed • A Master’s degree in Economics, Education, Social Sciences, Business, or a closely related field is strongly preferred; Bachelor’s degree plus commensurate experience is acceptable • Candidates must have the legal authority to work and reside in the country of hire; IYF will not provide work authorization

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