Country Director - Marie Stopes Ghana

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

Job Description

• Location: Accra, Ghana.
• Full-time: 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
• Contract type: 3-year fixed term contract.
• Salary: Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits
• Salary band: BG 12C
• Closing date: 24th September (midnight BST). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

The Country Programme

Since 2007, MSI Ghana (MSIG) has been delivering high-quality, accessible sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for all people across Ghana to support its vision of a world in which every birth is wanted and a mission of children by choice, not chance. MSG’s flagship work in the private sector includes the BlueStar network of social franchises (SF), private healthcare facilities which receive MSG’s support in improving their delivery of safe, inclusive, and voluntary SRH services. MSG also has an established public sector strengthening model with training, quality assessment and certification to provide high quality, voluntary LAPMs. MSG has clinics it owns and runs, in addition to social marketing work all to support access to SRH information and services.

MSIG’s service delivery channels are adapted to fit the different contexts of each region to maximise opportunities for building sustainable platforms that can provide lasting impact on the health outcomes of Ghanaians. In 2024, over 285,000 clients were reached through MSG’s service delivery points spread across the country, and over 381,000 people were using a family planning (FP) method provided by MSG

About The Role

The Country Director, Ghana is responsible for delivering results for women and their families, driving programmatic excellence, and implementing best practice at scale in Ghana. They provide high quality services where they are needed the most, and their work directly contributes to preventing maternal deaths and making a sustainable impact on the lives of thousands of people every year. The CD is also responsible for ensuring Ghana’s social business model has a strong footing on both the social and business side.

The Country Director, Ghana is a key leadership position, responsible responsible for the overall strategy, management (programmatic, financial, and administrative), and implementation of MSI’s priorities in Ghana. They lead skilled, professional country teams to deliver life-saving services through  centres, social marketing and the public sector

In addition, they are responsible for preparing and executing annual budgets, marketing plans and work plans; developing new business opportunities; overseeing financial, administrative, and logistical resources; ensuring adherence to MSI minimum standards; and assuring quality operations in line with annual and long-term strategic goals and objectives. The Country Director manages for results, valuing and rewarding high performance, accountability, speed and efficiency and innovation, while keeping the client at the heart of everything we do.

The Country Director is MSI’s most senior representative in the country of assignment. Reporting to the Senior Director for Africa.  MSI Ghana is an implementing partner of the MoH, and donors, The Country Director works closely with government to overcome barriers that prevent women and men from accessing safe, affordable, reproductive health services, while delivering donor commitments

About You

For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.

This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.

Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.

We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.

We seek exceptional communicators who are self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.

Required Skills or Experience

To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:

• A financially astute manager
• Proven experience of driving impact, quality and sustainability in programmes and improving operational standards
• Effective interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead, motivate and guide Country Programmes. Proven ability to effectively communicate ideas, proposals, issues and implications at senior level.
• Excellent project management skills related to organisational development projects and international, cross- functional teams with a proven history of delivering results
• Highly developed problem solving, diplomatic, networking and negotiation skills
• Demonstration of ‘making things happen’, operating at pace and delivering effectively through others

To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:

• Experience of developing and successfully implementing business plans and growth strategies, with a track record of aligning resources with key priorities, keeping management teams focused on critical milestones and consistently achieving results
• Experience of communicating a range of complex issues with the ability to convey an inspiring vision and purpose both within operations and where appropriate across other business functions.
• An understanding of major policies/ issues of large bilateral/multilateral donors strong working knowledge of business practices
• An international mind-set, with an understanding of, and empathy for, the development sector, together with an appreciation for cultural differences
• Experience in leading a social business preferably in a developing country.
• Experience of formulating and controlling budgets to ensure effective monitoring takes place.
• Understanding of the issues surrounding provision of reproductive health care services internationally
• A reputation for ‘making things happen’, operating at pace and delivering effectively through others

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