Head, Strategy Delivery & Performance Improvement
2025-12-18T15:54:53+00:00
World Wide Fund For Nature
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CONTRACTOR
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Nonprofit, and NGO
Management,Business Operations,Social Services & Nonprofit
2026-01-11T17:00:00+00:00
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Major Duties and Responsibilities
Actioning Strategic Insights
- Collaborate with others to translate strategic, performance and risk management insights into opportunities for improvement and gaps in strategy execution.
- Work cross-functionally to determine the drivers and levers for improvement and articulate clear, implementable recommendations, solutions and/or action plans at the CO, regional or divisional/global level.
- Partner with Regional Operations Directors and Global teams to sequence delivery actions, assign roles, and support follow-through.
- Develop lightweight tools, checklists and guidance that help CO teams adopt improved practices without additional reporting burden.
Targeted Strategy Delivery and Enablement Projects
- Through actioning strategic insights (in above), identify priority strategic, performance or risk management initiatives at the global or regional level
- Lead selected time-bound improvement initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions.
- Support COs to plan and embed change management approaches to ensure adoption of improved delivery practices.
- Track delivery progress, troubleshoot risks, and ensure practical, tangible results.
Coordination Across Teams
- Align global, regional and country-level enablement and improvement work with regional delivery rhythms and COD operating guidance.
- Connects COs with enabling functions (finance, HR/talent, operations, legal/risk, PMEL/data, partnerships, resource mobilisation) to secure fit-for-purpose support at the right time.
- Support CO leadership and delivery teams to build execution discipline (workflow routines, decision cadence, follow-through).
- Supports CO leadership to navigate trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, and communications that sustain execution momentum.
- Work alongside the Head of Impact to ensure CO improvement efforts reinforce PMEL principles and use shared performance insights, without duplicating PMEL responsibilities.
Monitoring Uptake & Learning
- Capture emerging practices and replicable solutions from CO implementations and share across regions.
- Maintain a simple improvement log and progress view to inform leadership decision-making (no new governance cycles).
- Curate peer learning exchanges focused on delivery (distinct from PMEL learning communities)
PROFILES
Required Qualifications.
Education:Advanced degree or equivalent experience in management, international development, organisational development, or a related field.
Experience:Minimum 10 years enabling strategy execution, delivery enablement, or organisational effectiveness in complex, multi-country or matrixed organisations.
Consultant management:Experience managing consultants or short-term experts to deliver targeted outcomes.
Sector knowledge:Familiarity with conservation and/or international development and mission-driven networks is preferred.
Regional/global exposure:Experience working across diverse cultural contexts and geographies.
- Collaborate with others to translate strategic, performance and risk management insights into opportunities for improvement and gaps in strategy execution.
- Work cross-functionally to determine the drivers and levers for improvement and articulate clear, implementable recommendations, solutions and/or action plans at the CO, regional or divisional/global level.
- Partner with Regional Operations Directors and Global teams to sequence delivery actions, assign roles, and support follow-through.
- Develop lightweight tools, checklists and guidance that help CO teams adopt improved practices without additional reporting burden.
- Through actioning strategic insights (in above), identify priority strategic, performance or risk management initiatives at the global or regional level
- Lead selected time-bound improvement initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions.
- Support COs to plan and embed change management approaches to ensure adoption of improved delivery practices.
- Track delivery progress, troubleshoot risks, and ensure practical, tangible results.
- Align global, regional and country-level enablement and improvement work with regional delivery rhythms and COD operating guidance.
- Connects COs with enabling functions (finance, HR/talent, operations, legal/risk, PMEL/data, partnerships, resource mobilisation) to secure fit-for-purpose support at the right time.
- Support CO leadership and delivery teams to build execution discipline (workflow routines, decision cadence, follow-through).
- Supports CO leadership to navigate trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, and communications that sustain execution momentum.
- Work alongside the Head of Impact to ensure CO improvement efforts reinforce PMEL principles and use shared performance insights, without duplicating PMEL responsibilities.
- Capture emerging practices and replicable solutions from CO implementations and share across regions.
- Maintain a simple improvement log and progress view to inform leadership decision-making (no new governance cycles).
- Curate peer learning exchanges focused on delivery (distinct from PMEL learning communities)
- Advanced degree or equivalent experience in management, international development, organisational development, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years enabling strategy execution, delivery enablement, or organisational effectiveness in complex, multi-country or matrixed organisations.
- Experience managing consultants or short-term experts to deliver targeted outcomes.
- Familiarity with conservation and/or international development and mission-driven networks is preferred.
- Experience working across diverse cultural contexts and geographies.
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Vacancy title:
Head, Strategy Delivery & Performance Improvement
[Type: CONTRACTOR, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management,Business Operations,Social Services & Nonprofit]
Jobs at:
World Wide Fund For Nature
Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, January 11 2026
Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi
Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 18 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Major Duties and Responsibilities
Actioning Strategic Insights
- Collaborate with others to translate strategic, performance and risk management insights into opportunities for improvement and gaps in strategy execution.
- Work cross-functionally to determine the drivers and levers for improvement and articulate clear, implementable recommendations, solutions and/or action plans at the CO, regional or divisional/global level.
- Partner with Regional Operations Directors and Global teams to sequence delivery actions, assign roles, and support follow-through.
- Develop lightweight tools, checklists and guidance that help CO teams adopt improved practices without additional reporting burden.
Targeted Strategy Delivery and Enablement Projects
- Through actioning strategic insights (in above), identify priority strategic, performance or risk management initiatives at the global or regional level
- Lead selected time-bound improvement initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions.
- Support COs to plan and embed change management approaches to ensure adoption of improved delivery practices.
- Track delivery progress, troubleshoot risks, and ensure practical, tangible results.
Coordination Across Teams
- Align global, regional and country-level enablement and improvement work with regional delivery rhythms and COD operating guidance.
- Connects COs with enabling functions (finance, HR/talent, operations, legal/risk, PMEL/data, partnerships, resource mobilisation) to secure fit-for-purpose support at the right time.
- Support CO leadership and delivery teams to build execution discipline (workflow routines, decision cadence, follow-through).
- Supports CO leadership to navigate trade-offs, stakeholder alignment, and communications that sustain execution momentum.
- Work alongside the Head of Impact to ensure CO improvement efforts reinforce PMEL principles and use shared performance insights, without duplicating PMEL responsibilities.
Monitoring Uptake & Learning
- Capture emerging practices and replicable solutions from CO implementations and share across regions.
- Maintain a simple improvement log and progress view to inform leadership decision-making (no new governance cycles).
- Curate peer learning exchanges focused on delivery (distinct from PMEL learning communities)
PROFILES
Required Qualifications.
Education:Advanced degree or equivalent experience in management, international development, organisational development, or a related field.
Experience:Minimum 10 years enabling strategy execution, delivery enablement, or organisational effectiveness in complex, multi-country or matrixed organisations.
Consultant management:Experience managing consultants or short-term experts to deliver targeted outcomes.
Sector knowledge:Familiarity with conservation and/or international development and mission-driven networks is preferred.
Regional/global exposure:Experience working across diverse cultural contexts and geographies.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 120
Level of Education: postgraduate degree
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