Vue d'ensemble
Position description
Executive Director
Organization
Happy smala, a consulting and survey agency, aims to develop its activities on the MENA area, in collaboration with the Moroccan Center of Innovation and Social Economics and their Dare Inc program. The organization’s mission is to provide pre sales services to entrepreneurs from MENA area. More information to get during interviews.
Position
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for the staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. S/he will initially develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans.
Responsibilities
Leadership & Management:
Ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals
Actively engage and energize the organizations’ staff, board members, event committees, alumni, partnering organizations, and funders
Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout
Lead, coach, develop, and retain staff high-performance senior management team Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents
Fundraising & Communications:
Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion while simultaneously retiring building debt
Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand
Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities
Planning & New Business:
Design the national and international expansion and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into new markets
Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site
Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional, national and international replication
Qualifications
All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:
Advanced degree, ideally an MBA, with at least 5 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
Fluent speaking and writing French, Arabic and English
Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
Strong knowledge of web services
Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed
How to Apply
Step 1: Submit you application
Send an email to [email protected] with « Executive Director - [Your Name] » in the subject line. Please attach the following documents to your email:
Your LinkedIn Profile or your CV (in English)
A document/Video that answers the following questions ( answers can be in any language):
Why are you interested in the Executive Director position?
What makes you a great fit for that role?
Why happy smala and social entrepreneurship ? Why do you want to devote a period of your life to working for happy smala?
What evidence can provide that you can successfully sustain and grow the happy smala activities, in Morocco and abroad?
Step 2: If you move on to the next round you will
Have an interview with the project team
Provide us with three references that know you well and can provide us with insight into your ability to do this job.