69 Leadership jobs in Kenya
Graduate Leadership Trainee
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Operations Director - Remote Leadership
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Responsibilities:
- Oversee daily operations and ensure efficient execution of business processes.
- Develop and implement strategic operational plans to achieve company goals.
- Drive process improvements and optimize workflows for enhanced productivity.
- Manage budgets and control operational expenditures effectively.
- Lead, mentor, and develop remote operational teams to foster high performance.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for operational efficiency.
- Identify and mitigate operational risks, ensuring business continuity.
- Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align operational strategies with business objectives.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the operations team.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and company policies.
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in operations management and leadership.
- Proven experience leading and managing remote teams effectively.
- Demonstrated expertise in process optimization, lean methodologies, and performance management.
- Strong strategic planning and decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent financial acumen and budget management skills.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills for remote collaboration.
- Ability to drive change and foster a culture of accountability.
- Proficiency in operational management software and tools.
Remote Executive Leadership Coach
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Key Responsibilities:
- Conducting in-depth assessments to understand executive clients' strengths, weaknesses, and development needs.
- Designing and delivering personalized coaching programs utilizing virtual communication tools.
- Facilitating goal setting, action planning, and accountability for executive clients.
- Providing constructive feedback and support to foster leadership growth and behavioral change.
- Leveraging a variety of coaching methodologies and psychological frameworks to address client challenges.
- Maintaining strict confidentiality and ethical standards in all client interactions.
- Collaborating with HR and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
- Staying current with industry trends and best practices in executive coaching and leadership development.
- Documenting client progress and session outcomes meticulously.
- Promoting a culture of continuous learning and development within client organizations.
Required Qualifications:
- Certified Executive Coach with a recognized accreditation (e.g., ICF, EMCC).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in executive coaching, with a strong portfolio of successful client engagements.
- Demonstrated expertise in leadership development, organizational behavior, and change management.
- Excellent active listening, questioning, and feedback skills, adapted for remote interactions.
- Proficiency with virtual collaboration platforms (e.g., Zoom, Teams, Slack) and coaching software.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to build rapport and trust with senior-level executives.
- A deep understanding of diverse business environments and challenges.
- High degree of professionalism, integrity, and discretion.
- A Bachelor's degree in a related field (Psychology, Business, Human Resources); Master's degree preferred.
This remote opportunity offers the flexibility to work from anywhere while making a significant impact on leadership effectiveness. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to fostering leadership excellence through remote coaching.
Operations Director - Remote Leadership
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Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and executing comprehensive operational strategies and plans to achieve organizational goals.
- Overseeing all operational aspects of the business, including process optimization, resource allocation, and performance management.
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a high-performing remote operations team.
- Establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and monitoring operational performance against targets.
- Identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality.
- Managing budgets and financial performance for operational departments.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and industry standards.
- Driving a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the operations function.
- Collaborating with other senior leaders to align operational strategies with overall business objectives.
- Implementing and managing technology solutions to support operational efficiency.
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external.
The successful candidate will possess a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field. A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in operations management, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, is required. Proven experience in managing remote teams and operations is essential. Exceptional strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills are a must. Strong financial acumen and budget management experience are critical. Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills are necessary to effectively lead and influence across a distributed organization. Demonstrated ability to drive change and implement process improvements is highly valued. Experience with various operational software and tools is beneficial. This role requires a proactive and adaptable leader who can thrive in a remote-first environment, contributing to the success of operations impacting the **Mlolongo, Machakos, KE** region, but managed entirely from a distance.
Local Humanitarian Leadership Lead
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Oxfam Kenya is an independent prospective Affiliate of Oxfam International. The birth of Oxfam Kenya is a response to Oxfam International’s decision to evolve and build the confederation as a globally balanced and diversified affiliate network. As an autonomous member of the confederation, Oxfam Kenya's affiliation is expected to promote social change in Kenya, bring Kenya's voice to the wider confederation, and amplify the East African and Pan African voices.
Oxfam is a worldwide development organization that mobilizes people's power against poverty. It is a confederation of 22 organizations (‘affiliates’) working together with partners and local communities in over 79 countries.
ORGANISATION’S PURPOSE
A transformed Kenyan Society that challenges poverty and inequality to claim their rights. Oxfam Kenya will work to foster systemic change and strengthen systems across areas we work in with more localized leadership in the development and humanitarian spaces. This will be realized through a One Oxfam Programme approach by implementing four key programmatic focus areas with specific goals that will contribute to the vision. These are: -
Governance and Accountability: Civil society maximizes civil society space and ensures more equitable raising and spending of financial resources at the county and national levels.
Natural Resources: Poor and marginalized communities get a fair share of natural resources and their benefits.
Gender Justice and Women’s Rights: Women gain power over their lives to participate in, and contribute to, public life.
Humanitarian Systems Strengthening: The severity of future humanitarian crises in Kenya is reduced.
JOB PURPOSE
Oxfam has secured a multiyear, multi-country and multi-partner grant from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. This project “Humanitarian System Transformation through Local Humanitarian Leadership (HST-LHL)” aims to influence the humanitarian system to be more equal, risk-informed, and better funded locally led system through three mutually reinforcing outcomes:
A more equitable and locally led humanitarian system – including through strengthening local networked responses, increasing visibility and representation, and reinforcing country-specific localization accountability mechanism.
A more risk-informed and safe humanitarian system – including through multistakeholder collaboration in identifying and managing risks
Increased quality and quantity of humanitarian funding – including exploring through innovative financing mechanisms
This is a knowledge and learning project contributing to influencing at national and global levels to transform the humanitarian system through local humanitarian leadership. The project is being implemented in Colombia, DR Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, South Sudan and Yemen from July 2024 to December 2027.
The Local Humanitarian Leadership (LHL) Influencing Lead will provide overall leadership and technical oversight to the project and play anchoring role in bringing all the different stakeholders together for collaborative knowledge, learning and research processes envisioned in the different outcome areas of the project. S/he will coordinate all the project activities with different partners, ensure there is cross-learning and collaboration among the partners, establish and maintain regular coordination and information exchange with the project management unit which coordinates with all the participating countries.
The role will be responsible for ensuring in-depth understanding, practical application and periodic monitoring of Oxfam’s partnership principles and ways of working, including Oxfam’s commitments to the Charter for Change, the Grand Bargain, Pledge for Change, and the Humanitarian Principles of Partnership. The role will also support institutional strengthening of civil society organisations through capacity sharing and exchanges as well as connecting them to the relevant technical focal points of humanitarian aid delivery, peacebuilding, development, durable solutions, nexus programming, CSO networking and alliance building, as per the needs of the respective local actors.
The role will be responsible for effective communications, visibility of partners’ work on LHL and partnerships, coordination with all stakeholders involved, coordination of capacity strengthening and exchange processes in the country.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Management (HST-LHL project): Coordination and Convening
Develop, implement and monitor the influencing strategy for this project in close coordination with the PMU influencing lead and the line manager.
Lead in bringing all the different stakeholders together for collaborative knowledge, learning and research processes envisioned in the different outcome areas of the project.
Establish and maintain regular coordination and information exchange with the project management unit which coordinates with all the participating countries.
Coordinate with partner organizations to ensure that all reports are submitted in a timely manner and in accordance with donor and Oxfam requirements, collaborating early to identify potential delays, challenges or capacity gaps and coordinating with colleagues to address and rectify.
Represent the country team in partnership and localization focused coordination meetings (such as Kenya C4C working group, AHN processes and as advised by the line manager) and Oxfam internal planning processes.
Support on partner-led advocacy, influencing and communications activities, in collaboration with the policy and communications/media leads.
Work closely with the partners at country level as well as at PMU and global level to ensure strategic influencing at national, regional and global levels, including supporting policy and advocacy colleagues to work with programme colleagues to deliver their products to the highest standards.
Contribute to identifying gaps and needs regarding humanitarian finance, humanitarian system reform, local humanitarian leadership policy and contribute to policy development with the relevant teams and partners at country, PMU and confederation level.
Strengthen external networks and engagement, in close collaboration with the Director Humanitarian Systems, to increase impact of the influencing agenda and to support partners’ visibility and leadership.
In close collaboration with Kenya C4C working group and the ASAL Humanitarian Network (AHN), facilitate and contribute to the development of the localization accountability tool for Kenya, and facilitate/support annual reporting on the same.
Encourage and support civil society organizations, AHN members, WROs etc. to take part in formal coordination structures and activities that will amplify voices of Kenyan local actors.
Partnership Management
Ensure and support partnership-centric ways of working throughout the different projects and program management cycles in close collaboration with the programme managers and technical coordinators.
Working with the MEAL Advisor, ensure that partners are equal stakeholders in project management, reporting, and CAMSA, and that the way that we engage with partners in these areas are empowering, principled and fully aligned with the Oxfam LHL & partnership strategy.
Support Senior Management Team (SMT) and MEAL team in conducting annual partnership learning and review meetings and see through the implementation of agreed action points.
Capacity sharing and exchanges
Support in the identification of capacity strengthening needs, the development and the delivery of capacity sharing strategies and activities, in collaboration with the programme managers, and technical teams.
Ensure programme managers and country teams are familiar with Oxfam’s principles of partnership, including the commitments to the localization agenda, Pledge for Change, Charter for Change, Grand Bargain, etc.
Other
Required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights.
Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles.
Person specification
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam needs to be able to:
Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here).
Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct).
Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity."
Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.
Technical skills, experience and knowledge
Skills
Education (master’s degree level) preferably in social sciences, international law, or related humanities field.
Good understanding of Kenyan, African and International policy context on key themes related to Localization, Local Humanitarian Leadership, Charter for Change, the Grand Bargain, Pledge for Change, Principles of Partnership.
Strong soft and hard people and project management skills, with experience working in diverse alliances.
Strong interpersonal skills that include experience with mediation and consensus building.
Good organizational skills including accuracy, consistency, attention to detail, tenacity, and the ability to work under pressure.
Ability to lead projects and programmes in a clear and constructive way that inspires people to deliver.
Ability to manage budgets and processes for results and impact.
Ability to work independently and with diverse multi-cultural and virtual teams.
Ability to liaise with a wide range of people, both internally and externally and at many levels, with credibility, tact, and diplomacy.
Knowledge
Good knowledge of and experience in developing learning, advocacy and campaign strategies and plans and successfully achieving external impact and change.
Excellent understanding of, and experience with, brokering, developing and managing (humanitarian) partnerships with and among CSOs, INGOs, government, private sector, federations, networks and platforms, academia and research institutions etc.
Strong knowledge and understanding of development and humanitarian architechture including the political environment, sensitivity to working with CSOs within Kenya and the East African region.
Knowledge of and demonstrated commitment to Oxfam's values, mission and work including feminist approach to humanitarian responses and Oxfam’s partnership principles.
Strong programme management and quality knowledge, with the ability to ensure consistent quality against standards and to implement effective monitoring and evaluation systems to assess and adjust performance.
Commitment to and good knowledge of working with networks, coalitions, and a partnership approach across the spectrum of Oxfam’s work, including innovative approaches to capacity strengthening.
Fluency in English with knowledge of Swahili an added advantage.
Experience
At least ten years of relevant experience in development and humanitarian work.
Demonstrated competencies in partnership development and management, particularly in humanitarian partnerships and promoting local humanitarian leadership.
Excellent and demonstrable people, collaboration, and networking skills.
Effective communication internally and externally towards government and NGOs, donors, and internally towards management, program managers, technical experts and business support specialists.
Strategic planning skills with ability to contribute to overall programme strategies.
Good assessment, analytical and planning skills, incl. project management experience.
A proven capacity for mentoring, facilitation, training, capacity sharing and coaching.
Essential
Self-Awareness: Ability to develop a high degree of self-awareness around own strengths and weaknesses and impact on others.
Agility, complexity and ambiguity: Ability to scan the environment, anticipate changes, are comfortable with lack of clarity and deal with a large number of elements interacting in diverse and unpredictable ways.
Mutual accountability: Ability to explain our decisions and how we have taken them based on our organizational values.
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Operations Manager - Remote Team Leadership
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Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute strategic operational plans to achieve company goals and objectives.
- Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring efficiency and productivity across all departments.
- Implement and refine operational processes and procedures to enhance workflow and reduce costs.
- Manage and lead remote teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for operational effectiveness.
- Identify operational bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve performance.
- Manage resource allocation, including personnel, budget, and technology.
- Ensure compliance with relevant industry regulations and company policies.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives throughout the organization.
- Prepare regular operational reports for senior management, highlighting key metrics and insights.
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among remote team members.
- Oversee vendor relationships and contract negotiations as needed.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations Management, or a related field. An MBA is a plus.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in operations management, with a significant portion in a remote or distributed environment.
- Proven track record of successfully managing complex operations and driving efficiency improvements.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience in motivating and developing remote teams.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Proficiency in operational planning, process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma), and project management.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Experience with various business management software and collaboration tools.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated experience in budget management and resource allocation.
Senior Operations Manager, Remote Leadership
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Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in operations management, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role.
- Proven experience managing and leading remote teams.
- Expertise in process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
- Strong financial acumen and experience with budget management.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in project management software and collaboration tools.
- Demonstrated ability to drive change and achieve measurable results in a remote setting.
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Operations Manager - Remote Team Leadership
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Operations Manager - Remote Team Leadership
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Responsibilities:
- Oversee daily operational activities and ensure smooth workflow.
- Develop and implement operational policies and procedures to enhance efficiency.
- Manage and optimize resource allocation for various projects and tasks.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and implement strategies for improvement.
- Foster a collaborative and productive remote work environment.
- Lead and mentor operational teams, providing guidance and support.
- Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks and challenges.
- Implement best practices in process management and quality assurance.
- Manage vendor relationships and service level agreements.
- Prepare operational reports and present findings to senior management.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in operations management, with a focus on remote teams.
- Proven experience in process improvement and operational efficiency.
- Strong leadership, team management, and motivational skills.
- Proficiency with project management software and operational tools.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Strong understanding of performance metrics and KPI development.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to work autonomously and effectively manage workload in a remote setting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Senior Operations Manager - Remote Leadership
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Primary responsibilities include:
- Developing, implementing, and refining operational strategies and procedures to maximize efficiency and productivity.
- Leading, mentoring, and motivating cross-functional teams to achieve departmental and organizational goals.
- Analyzing operational data to identify areas for improvement and implementing data-driven solutions.
- Managing budgets, resources, and project timelines effectively to ensure profitable outcomes.
- Establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) and monitoring operational performance against these metrics.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives using methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant industry regulations and company policies.
- Fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment, even in a remote setting.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, partners, and clients.
- Overseeing risk management and developing contingency plans for operational disruptions.
- Reporting on operational performance, challenges, and opportunities to executive leadership.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in operations management or a similar leadership role.
- Proven track record of successfully managing and improving operational performance in complex environments.
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, process optimization, and change management.
- Expertise in financial management, budgeting, and resource allocation.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in project management tools and operational analytics software.
- Ability to lead and inspire remote teams effectively.
- Strong understanding of quality management systems and regulatory compliance.