Innovation Strategy Lead
The Innovation Strategy
Lead will help Airbel teams develop strategies to take projects from ideas to
scale. The role will lead teams to define a vision, build a strategic roadmap,
and develop an operational plan. The Innovation Strategy Lead will also play an
essential role in developing quantitative modeling to drive critical decisions
across the Airbel team.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with Global Research
and Innovation Priorities (GRIPs) within Airbel to create and drive their
strategic roadmaps and operational plans.
- Drive strategy and strong execution for teams, in line with
their strategic roadmaps so that they can collectively make rapid progress
against an ambitious vision. Work in this area will entail deep analysis
of key challenges, quantitative problem sizing, client segmentation,
pathways to scale, and assessments/mitigation of key risks.
- Develop operational plans that include budget, hiring, and
timelines to structure the team’s activities by strategy.
- Develop effective and efficient processes to bring together
key decision-makers and stakeholders and align them towards driving
forward key actions and decisions.
- Guide teams on pivoting and adjusting strategy as needed;
work with team leads to continually assess the strategy against team
opportunities, constraints, challenges, and external environment.
- Articulate clear funding needs based on what is needed to
implement strategic roadmaps; draft fundraising proposals when relevant,
in collaboration with colleagues
Grow our team’s use of
data-driven, quantitative modeling to drive critical decisions at Airbel and
through the broader IRC.
- Develop a consistent, repeatable approach to quantitative
modeling to improve our ability to estimate the size of client needs
across countries and programming areas. Work in partnership with country
teams to project potential impact and scale for key interventions or
opportunity areas.
- Create an approach to visualizing data and insights from
quantitative models that allow teams to understand the implications of the
model developed and make effective and efficient decisions on pathways to
pursue.
- Lead the operationalization of this new vision for how we can
better leverage quantitative models to size client needs and respond
accordingly; this entails working with many stakeholders, iterating on
approach, and working rapidly to put feedback into action.
Provide strategy support
to projects designing, testing, and scaling innovations across Airbel.
- Support teams to effectively frame problems and possible
solutions, size, and segment markets, generate data-backed hypotheses,
create project plans to execute, and analyze data from prototypes and
pilots.
- This role is a great fit for someone who likes developing new
approaches to complex problems, who loves iterating ideas with colleagues,
and who can jump between high-level strategy and the details of
operationalizing.
Job Requirements
Education and Work
Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent
professional experience.
- 5-8 years of experience in conducting strategic planning,
leading qualitative and quantitative analysis to define strategic pathways
and operationalizing plans.
Demonstrated Skills and
Competencies:
- Demonstrated experience generating data-driven models to make
strategic decisions.
- Ability to solve complex problems, bring together
quantitative modeling and qualitative analysis and distill data into
actionable insights.
- Able to engage and align an interdisciplinary team,
communicate with senior leaders, and facilitate a group to make effective
decisions.
- Ability to work well in a distributed, multicultural,
fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative research
methodologies applied in medicine and social science.
- Experience in humanitarian settings or development contexts
and/or an international NGO.
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience driving strategy at either a top-tier strategy
consulting firm, in the strategy development function of a global
organization, or a strategy role at a startup.
- Fluency in French and/or Arabic.
Working Environment
- Standard work office environment
- Up to 25% travel possible
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