Vacancies at Mastercard Foundation

Mastercard Foundation is a global foundation based across four hubs in Kigali, Rwanda, Nairobi, Kenya, Accra, Ghana and Toronto, Canada. Our programs promote financial inclusion and advance education and learning in Africa, primarily for young people, and in Canada for Indigenous youth. The Foundation was established in 2006 through the generosity of Mastercard when it became a public company. From inception, the Foundation was designed to be a separate entity and independent from Mastercard. Our policies, operations, and funding decisions are made by our President and Board of Directors.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) Initiatives

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time

The Opportunity

• Reporting to the Director, Secondary Education, the Head, Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) Initiatives will oversee developing and effectively managing country, multi-country, and Pan-African Technical and Vocational Skills Development initiatives.

Ways You Can Contribute

• Collaborate with the heads of Secondary Education units (Girls’ Education, Access, and Success) as part of the Secondary Education Leadership team to shape and evolve program strategy.
• Oversee the design and implementation of Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) programs across the continent, ensuring high-quality delivery and progress tracking.
• Set portfolio goals and work with the Impact Team to monitor and achieve program objectives.
• Coordinate with Mastercard Foundation Country Program teams on local Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and skills development initiatives.
• Oversee learning organizations providing technical support on Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) at the continental level.
• Develop and manage consultancies.
• Share learning and collaborate with counterparts across the Education and Transitions team.
• Provide guidance and technical assistance to the Secondary Education team on TVSD.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration in program partnerships with a focus on impact.
• Promote thought leadership on secondary-level TVSD in partnership with Program Communications and Policy teams.
• Ensure data and learning are captured, reported, and integrated into program design and implementation.
• Build relationships with ecosystem actors and education stakeholders, representing the Foundation at workshops, conferences, and education forums.
• Track team operations expenses and support budget forecasting with Program Finance teams.
• Facilitate exchange and learning across the TVSD partner network, including organizing convenings and virtual meetings.
• Recruit talent, lead colleagues effectively, and ensure alignment with Foundation values while fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.

Who You Are

• A Master’s Degree in Education, Economic Development, or a related Social Sciences field is required, along with relevant professional qualifications in program management (an added advantage).
• Minimum of twelve (12) years of experience, including at least five (5) years in a supervisory role, with a proven track record of building and managing high-performing teams in fast-paced, multi-cultural environments.
• Membership in relevant professional bodies and networks is advantageous.
• Strong experience in education, particularly in technical and vocational skills development, secondary and/or higher education, and managing portfolios across multiple countries.
• Extensive experience engaging with senior leadership in development partners, education organizations, high-level government representatives, and the private sector.
• Excellent leadership and supervisory skills, especially in managing multi-location and virtual teams.
• Experience working across cultures and geographies, with a requirement of living and working in Africa.
• Strong communication and analytical skills, with the ability to articulate information across diverse cultures and think strategically to contribute to the Foundation’s development.
• Proficiency in English is required; French is a significant asset.
• Deep knowledge of key issues, trends, and challenges in skills development in Africa.
• Willingness and ability to travel.
• Demonstrate commitment to the Mastercard Foundation values.

Application Closing Date
21st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors Business Development

Job ID: R-244283
Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full time

Job Description

• Senior Managing Consultant role responsible for driving revenue for Anglophone West Africa business.
• Partner with large team who works with Mastercard account teams and clients, and who helps ensure effective delivery of all engagements across the markets.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing and delivering our in-region sales strategy and directing all business development for with direct revenue responsibility
• Deliver against aggressive sales goals
• Act as a Player-Coach with expectation to travel extensively to help selling process and coach team
• Be capable of developing and maintaining relationships with customers at the most senior levels
• Strong communication and influencing skills, should be a compelling presenter to senior client audiences and able to influence large deals
• Excellent problem solving and analytics skills and should be able to go head-to-head and influence internal stakeholders and customers alike with fact-based thinking
• Will serve as the face of Mastercard Services to senior level client stakeholders, including c-suite
• Will partner with leadership to develop a plan for Services to support their strategic imperatives
• Facilitate the implementation of strategies and action plans which, in turn, will act as a link between customer needs and Mastercard resources
• Build, recruit, manage, develop, and coach a team responsible for each different customer’s business opportunities to increase revenue, share and volume
• Partner closely with all product teams to ensure customer needs and product innovations align with development road maps
• Partner closely with Advisors & Consulting Services and Finance teams to drive and actively track delivery and revenue
• Translate objectives into key hypotheses and structure work for large/complex projects or ill-defined problems

Requirements

• Deep understanding of the suite of Mastercard Advisors value propositions with a thoughtful approach to executing against a defined territory
• Strong commercial drive with ability to build and monetize senior client relationships based on empathy, thought leadership and subject matter expertise
• Preferably strong consulting and / or data driven solution selling background
• Strong networker across relevant stakeholder base with the ability to listen, build common ground and influence to effectively advance business opportunities and generate revenues
• Proven track record of progressively complex sales and strategic account management experience within the financial services sector; payments industry experience is preferred
• Demonstrated successful account management experience
• Revenue management and P&L experience
• Successful conflict resolution experience
• Goal-setting abilities, along with strategic planning and succession planning experience
• Top-level sales skills (internally and externally) combined with strong negotiation capabilities required for large deals

Corporate Security Responsibility:

• All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2025

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Investment Officer, Africa Catalytic Impact Facility (ACIF)

Location: Nigeria

The Work at the Foundation

• We are currently in an exciting period at the Mastercard Foundation as we intensify the implementation of the Young Africa Works strategy, aiming to empower 30 million young people throughout Africa to access dignified and fulfilling employment.
• To ensure the Foundation’s accessibility to our partners and program participants, we have established offices in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. These offices provide strong in-country support for the implementation of Young Africa Works.
• We collaborate with governments, the private sector, educators, and other funders to enhance the quality of education and vocational training, equip young individuals with the necessary skills for the workforce, expand access to financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses, and facilitate connections between job seekers and meaningful employment opportunities.
• Our values serve as our guiding principles, transcending and surpassing all other considerations. We wholeheartedly encourage you to bring your bold ideas, curiosity, and expertise to your work.

The Opportunity

• Over the last decades, targeted investment has become a key driver of economic development, societal change, and job creation. To accelerate the Mastercard Foundation’s mission towards Young Africa works – 30 million young Africans – particularly women – have dignified and fulfilling work – and towards an ecosystem in Africa that sustainably creates enables jobs, the Foundation has established the Africa Catalytic Investment Fund (ACIF).
• This exciting initiative will invest in mid to large African enterprises, with a view to building African champions who can support the Continent’s next wave of growth.
• ACIF will invest directly by taking significant minority stakes in established, growth-oriented businesses as well as commit to Africa-focused private equity and private credit funds operating on the Continent.

Ways You Can Contribute

• We are seeking Investment Officers to join our team and play a pivotal role in the build out of ACIF and its early investments.
• The position offers the opportunity make, manage and eventually exit direct investments in African champions.
• Investment Officers will also have the opportunity to work on intermediated investments, including fund commitments, co-investments and creative investment products to catalyze third party capital.
• As a core team member, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of ACIF, the clients and companies, and the African youth we serve. More specific responsibilities include:
• Evaluating and executing direct investments in African firms positioned to deliver on ACIF and the Foundation’s objectives.
• Analyzing investment opportunities, including developing and testing assumptions, building financial models, assessing historical performance and developing and drafting investment memorandums.
• Developing valuations, investment structures and key terms of investments, in collaboration with the ACIF team.
• Deep analysis to test and refine investment cases, and defend assumptions, forecasts and investment theses to the broader ACIF team and Investment Committee.
• Working with financial, legal, tax, and impact advisors to undertake due diligence of investment opportunities.
• Supporting the execution of transaction processes, including legal documentation, required transaction structures, overseeing meeting of conditions precedent, and closing.
• Working with management teams to develop and align on forecasts – both financial and impact.
• Supporting the creation of innovative investment structures to achieve ACIF’s objectives, particularly of sustainable job creation.
• Supporting management teams to sustainably grow operations and create dignified employment opportunities as well as to deliver on growth and expansion objectives, M&A, product or services growth, etc.
• Ensuring appropriate reporting and performance against investment theses of the portfolio.

Requirements
Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or an associated field from a recognized master’s degree or CFA preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years’ work experience, with at least 3 years’ experience in private equity or private credit investing, with a strong preference for investments in Africa.
• Understanding of investment fundamentals, key drivers of major African markets, and risks of operating in complex markets.

Skills:

• Excellent quantitative analytical skills (financial modeling, financial analysis, etc) and strong written communication and presentation skills (including power point, memo writing, etc).
• Demonstrated ability to effectively research and assess investment opportunities in emerging markets.
• Demonstrated analytical skills to interpret complex financial data.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty.

Values:

• Professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values
• A partnership approach to working with management teams, co-workers, co-investors and other counterparties
• Demonstrate a commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision

Application Closing Date
21st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Investment Manager, Africa Catalytic Impact Facility (ACIF)

Location: Nigeria

The Work at the Foundation

• We are currently in an exciting period at the Mastercard Foundation as we intensify the implementation of the Young Africa Works strategy, aiming to empower 30 million young people throughout Africa to access dignified and fulfilling employment.
• To ensure the Foundation’s accessibility to our partners and program participants, we have established offices in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. These offices provide strong in-country support for the implementation of Young Africa Works.
• We collaborate with governments, the private sector, educators, and other funders to enhance the quality of education and vocational training, equip young individuals with the necessary skills for the workforce, expand access to financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses, and facilitate connections between job seekers and meaningful employment opportunities.
• Our values serve as our guiding principles, transcending and surpassing all other considerations. We wholeheartedly encourage you to bring your bold ideas, curiosity, and expertise to your work.

The Opportunity

• Over the last decades, targeted investment has become a key driver of economic development, societal change, and job creation. To accelerate the Mastercard Foundation’s mission towards Young Africa works – 30 million young Africans – particularly women – have dignified and fulfilling work – and towards an ecosystem in Africa that sustainably creates enables jobs, the Foundation has established the Africa Catalytic Investment Fund (ACIF).
• This exciting initiative will invest in mid to large African enterprises, with a view to building African champions who can support the Continent’s next wave of growth.
• ACIF will invest directly by taking significant minority stakes in established, growth-oriented businesses as well as commit to Africa-focused private equity and private credit funds operating on the Continent.

Way You Can Contribute

• We are seeking Investment Managers to join our team and play a pivotal role in the build out of ACIF and its early investments.
• The position offers the opportunity to  make, manage and eventually exit direct investments in African champions. Investment Managers will also have the opportunity to work on intermediated investments, including fund commitments, co-investments and creative investment products to catalyze third party capital.
• As a core team member, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of ACIF, the clients and companies, and the African youth we serve. More specific responsibilities include:
• Evaluating, structuring and executing direct investments in African firms positioned to deliver on ACIF and the Foundation’s objectives.
• Leading the analysis of investment opportunities, including developing and testing assumptions, building and refining financial models, assessing historical performance and developing and drafting investment memorandums.
• Leading the development of valuations, investment structures and key terms of investments, in collaboration with the ACIF team.
• Deep analysis to test and refine investment cases, and defend assumptions, forecasts and investment theses to the broader ACIF team and Investment Committee.
• Managing the entire transaction process, including third party due diligence, legal documentation, transaction structuring, overseeing meeting of conditions precedent, and closing.
• Originating and identifying investment opportunities for ACIF and advocating opportunities to the ACIF team.
• Supporting the creation of innovative investment structures to achieve ACIF’s objectives, particularly of sustainable job creation.
• Supporting management teams to sustainably grow operations and create dignified employment opportunities as well as to deliver on growth and expansion objectives, M&A, product or services growth, etc.
• Ensuring appropriate reporting and performance against investment theses of the portfolio.
• Mentoring and upskilling more junior team members.

Requirements
Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or an associated field from a recognized master’s degree or CFA strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years’ work experience, with at least 5 years’ experience in private equity or private credit investing, with a strong preference for investments in Africa.
• Understanding of investment fundamentals, key drivers of major African markets, and risks of operating in complex markets.

Skills:

• Excellent quantitative analytical skills (financial modeling, financial analysis, etc) and strong written communication and presentation skills (including power point, memo writing, etc).
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage individuals from different cultures and work with complex management teams.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively research and assess investment opportunities in emerging markets.
• Demonstrated analytical skills to interpret complex financial data.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty.

Values:

• Professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.
• A partnership approach to working with management teams, co-workers, co-investors and other counterparties.
• Demonstrate a commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision.

Application Closing Date
21st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel, Africa Catalytic Impact Fund (ACIF)

Location: Nigeria

The Work at the Foundation

• We are currently in an exciting period at the Mastercard Foundation as we intensify the implementation of the Young Africa Works strategy, aiming to empower 30 million young people throughout Africa to access dignified and fulfilling employment.
• To ensure the Foundation’s accessibility to our partners and program participants, we have established offices in Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. These offices provide strong in-country support for the implementation of Young Africa Works.
• We collaborate with governments, the private sector, educators, and other funders to enhance the quality of education and vocational training, equip young individuals with the necessary skills for the workforce, expand access to financial services for entrepreneurs and small businesses, and facilitate connections between job seekers and meaningful employment opportunities.
• Our values serve as our guiding principles, transcending and surpassing all other considerations. We wholeheartedly encourage you to bring your bold ideas, curiosity, and expertise to your work.

The Opportunity

• Over the last decades, targeted investment has become a key driver of economic development, societal change, and job creation. To accelerate the Mastercard Foundation’s mission towards Young Africa works – 30 million young Africans – particularly women – have dignified and fulfilling work – and towards an ecosystem in Africa that sustainably creates enables jobs, the Foundation has established the Africa Catalytic Investment Fund (ACIF).
• This exciting initiative will invest in mid to large African enterprises, with a view to building African champions who can support the Continent’s next wave of growth. ACIF will invest directly by taking significant minority stakes in established, growth-oriented businesses as well as commit to Africa-focused private equity and private credit funds operating on the Continent.

The Investment Objectives
Create a large cohort of African champions (mid to larger size enterprises):

• Identify and build African champions in critical sectors, which will generate access to dignified and fulfilling work and entrepreneurship opportunities for young people, especially women.
• Invest directly in growing African champions or indirectly through fund managers and financial intermediaries to scale their growth and impact, accepting disproportionate risk or concessionary return on ACIF investments.
• Provide on-demand technical assistance to these investees, with deal structuring and investment readiness, and post-investment to help their enterprises grow in an inclusive and sustainable way (e.g., on how they maximize access to jobs, particularly for disadvantaged youth and enabling intentionality in sustainable growth).

Catalyze significant projects that will spur equitable and sustainable economic activity and create access to entrepreneurship and work opportunities in key sectors:

• Identify high potential opportunities in key sectors where ACIF’s participation would de-risk investment and draw in other major investors. This would multiply each ACIF investment by at least 5-fold, amplifying the impact of each investment.
• The Foundation ensures sustainability through intentionality in ensuring that the impact of the Foundation’s investments does not compromise the human, social, economic, and environmental resources for future generations of young people; and the durability of interventions well into the future (linked to the depth of change).

Way You Can Contribute

• We are seeking a Senior Counsel to join our team and play a pivotal role in the build out of ACIF. The position offers the opportunity to shape, monitor and add value to direct investments in African champions and to support intermediated investments, including fund commitments, and co-investments.
• The Senior Counsel will also work with the broader ACIF team to develop creative investment products and structures to catalyze external capital in furtherance of our impact objectives.
• As a core team member, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of ACIF, the clients and companies, and the African youth we serve.

More Specific Responsibilities
Structuring investments and due diligence:

• Working with the deal teams to assess investment opportunities, both direct and intermediated, from a legal perspective
• Working with the deal teams to develop term sheets for direct and intermediated investments that align with the Foundation legal requirements and Canadian charity regulations
• Leading and overseeing third party legal due diligence and structuring of direct investments; identifying and mitigating key legal risks associated with these investments; ensuring all relevant legal issues are captured and addressed appropriately; and working with external counsel, deal team members and counterparties to ensure efficient closure of investments
• Leading legal due diligence and structuring of fund commitments, including assessment of fund structures; reviewing, assessing and negotiating LPAs and side letters; ensuring Foundation legal requirements are met and incorporated
• Reviewing co-investment opportunities and in particular, assessing and amending structures to comply with Foundation requirements; working with GP partners on legal due diligence and documentation of co-investments with the support of external counsel
• Working with deal teams on value creation plans, management incentive plans, and technical assistance plans from a legal perspective as part of investment theses for prospective investments
• Work seamlessly with deal teams to evaluate and execute investment opportunities

Instrument and structure development:

• Working with internal legal and fund operations colleagues on appropriate structures for ACIF investments, within the context of its unique regulatory issues
• Working with the ACIF team to create new investment structures in furtherance of the Foundation mandate and ACIF strategy
• Liaising with internal legal colleagues and the Mastercard Foundation Asset Management company to keep abreast of legal and regulatory matters relevant to ACIF

Investment Monitoring and exits:

• Ensuring full compliance of ACIF’s investments with Foundation legal requirements and regulatory conditions
• Supporting portfolio companies or fund managers on occasion as appropriate
• Supporting deal teams in executing value creation initiatives for portfolio companies, from a legal perspective
• Working with deal teams and portfolio companies on negotiating and executing exits of portfolio companies, including evaluating company exit readiness and developing mitigation plans; evaluating vendor legal due diligence providers; contracting advisors; evaluating non-binding offers; negotiating transaction documentation and working with advisors on completion

Requirements
Education & Experience:

• Over 15 years of experience in M&A and/or corporate finance legal work, either at a law firm, financial institution or in-house.
• English law (or commonwealth equivalent) qualified.
• Experience in ESG / SRI / impact investing a plus.
• Experience in philanthropy and Canadian charity law will be an added advantage.
• Experience transaction execution in Africa.

Skills:

• Demonstrated and long-term experience evaluating, structuring, negotiating and documenting M&A or private equity/credit investments in multiple markets across Africa.
• Experience in sectors such as agribusiness, manufacturing, FMCG, retail, healthcare and education particularly valued.
• Experience working in or with private equity or impact investment firms.
• Understanding of impact investment fundamentals, key drivers of major African markets, and how to structure investments appropriately in African markets.
• Strong influencing skills and an ability to negotiate and engage with a multitude of stakeholders and personalities.
• Excellent networks across legal and financial institutions across African markets.
• Research skills and an aptitude to keep current on industry trends and developments.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment; Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Strong leadership, organizational and analytical skills, drafting and negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and listening skills and is open and receptive to feedback.
• Proven excellence in verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to various constituents across cultures and distill complex. information and data into accessible conversation and written pieces.

Values:

• Professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.
• Team player; philosophy of collaboration and championing impact goals to colleagues, funds and portfolio companies.
• A partnership approach to working with management teams, co-workers, co-investors and other counterparties.
• Demonstrate a commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision.

Application Closing Date
21st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Director, Business Development West Africa

Job ID: R-243355
Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full time
Category: Sales

Description

• Driving growth in B2B payments with new customers is amongst our highest priorities and greatest opportunities. Deepening our participation in carded commercial POS flows and B2B accounts payable flows is essential to realizing our ambitions in capturing new payments flows.
• While the opportunity is significant, these are new areas for us that will require new product offerings and go-to-market strategies, informed by the input and active participation of our customers who are most focused on this space, while also building new capabilities and relationships needed to increase revenue growth.
• Mastercard is expanding its business-to-business payments in the Large & Mid-Market corporate segment, solving for their payment needs across the procurement cycle with current and future platforms and products and making our multi-rail vision a reality for B2B payments.
• The focus of this team is building and expanding the two-sided network of Buyers & Suppliers to deliver accelerated GDV & Revenue growth in our Large & Mid-Market Corporate segments
• The Director, Business Development position is responsible to deliver GDV & Net Revenue KPIs against the customers that are allocated to their portfolio.

Job Role
Working in direct collaboration with our Account Management colleagues that manage/own customer relationships, the B2B Regional & Global product teams, Data & Services and other cross functional teams, the successful candidate will:

• Grow, maintain, convert, and track a healthy pipeline of Large Market/B2B opportunities across all issuers, including new players in this space. Meet and exceed KPIs on Pipeline Value, Conversion rate, time-to-revenue and Y1/Y2 revenue.
• Support issuers through the LM/B2B journey by clearly and simply articulate the value MC can bring both around Product, D&S and other Services capabilities (Cyber & Intelligence, New Payment Platforms, etc.).
• Bring to bear the entire Mastercard capability set, across all functions, to close out deals
• Create, drive, and win deals with Financial Institution (FI) partners (for both card & invoice led flows) and own the response to RFPs when required
• Take responsibility for training the sales teams inside the FI partners and supporting their ongoing product knowledge development to enable them to sell into their customer base.
• Where it is optimal, undertake Direct -to-Corporate (D2C) activities, working directly with Large Market/Mid-Market corporates that have significant procurement activity. Assist them in identifying pain points in their procurement processes, articulate solutions that leverage Mastercard platforms & products and have them make the brand decision in favor of Mastercard.
• Once that is done, then in discussion with Regional B2B Head, take these prospective LM/MM corporate customers to Issuers/FI partners in a completely agnostic manner and help them make decisions around which partners to go with.
• Own deal implementation & go-live in partnership with B2B Program Managers where available or directly interface with TAMs to drive implementation of deals
• Develop and manage a Commercial BD events schedule

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• GDV
• Net Revenue
• Pipeline size & conversion of pipeline deals
• Deal activation rates
• Other strategic & tactical KPIs that may be added from time to time

Requirements

• Good knowledge of the Commercial Large Market segment and it’s AP/Procure-to-Pay and AR/Order-to-Cash cycle pain points
• Working knowledge of the Commercial Card / Transaction Banking industry with a demonstrated experience in sales/product/customer management in these businesses.
• Self-motivated with a demonstrated track record of success
• Ability to interact with external clients
• Successful salesperson with ability to generate and follow up on leads independently
• Good communication skills and active participation to contribute to team settings
• Proactivity, curiosity to learn and eagerness to innovate
• Demonstrated success in commercial management/relationship roles with a strong track record of success
• Superior interpersonal and communications skills and an ability to bring together internal and external stakeholders to create solutions for customers and have them implemented.
• Experience in identifying strategic opportunities and of managing multiple stakeholder projects.

Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Lead, Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Location: Nigeria
Employment type: Full time

Job Summary

• Reporting to the Head of Health Initiatives, the Lead, Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship will contribute to the continuing design and implementation of Health as an economic sector and strategic planning and execution to advance the Foundation’s programmatic priorities in health entrepreneurship.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and execution of evidence-based interventions and partnerships that will advance Health Entrepreneurship to enable young people (particularly young women) to find dignified and fulfilling work.
• Ensure alignment of programs in Health Entrepreneurship with roadmaps and strategies across the Foundation and global and national priorities.
• Work with platform and country teams to ensure connectedness, complementarity and synergy.
• Work with external agencies at global and continental level, local partners, academia and where appropriate the private sector, to identify scalable opportunities, leverage expertise and enhance thought leadership.
• Develop the Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship implementation framework leveraging the experience we gained from the Foundation’s multiple programs in in Africa and Canada.
• Seek opportunities to link, integrate, and leverage existing and upcoming programs across countries and thematic teams such as access to finance and digital technology.
• Contribute to building the Health Workforce Initiatives Team by fleshing out the Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship pillar of the roadmap.
• Work with colleagues in the health initiatives in strategy design, program/partnership development, implementation and learning by connecting the dots and ensuring synergy as one integrated team.
• Serve as a point of contact for Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship internally and externally and represent the Foundation where appropriate.
• Work with colleagues in impact to build monitoring framework to assess impact, synthesize learning, and improve program design and implementation.
• Serve as a thought partner to colleagues in other platform and country programs.
• Work with program finance to develop and manage the budgets and ensure spending adjustments or budget modifications as necessary.
• Create space to listen to young people, partners and stakeholders to scope new ideas, seek counsel, and support programming efforts.
• Champion integrated program design, implementation and learning by developing and maintaining productive work relationships and collaboration with various functions of the Foundation including finance, communication, impact, enterprise risk management, and legal.
• Establish and strengthen relationships with other stakeholders and agencies relevant to the health strategy pillar.
• Facilitate integration, collaboration and convening relevant actors to drive impact at scale.
• Effectively lead colleagues, ensuring high quality of work, safeguarding and alignment with Foundation values.
• Drive oneness building a supportive and collaborative work environment.
• Oversee performance management of direct and indirect reports.

Qualifications and Experience

• MBA or Master’s in entrepreneurship, global development, education, public policy or another related field.
• Fifteen (15) years of experience at a senior level in global organizations with strong leadership experience in innovation, entrepreneurship/enterprise development, development and/or government or public policy within the private sector and/or non-profit organizations is required.
• Six (6) years of exceptional leadership experience, building and leading entrepreneurship and innovation interventions/programs.
• Demonstrated financial management experience including preparation and management of budgets, contracts, etc. Senior level experience in Africa and with exposure to international issues ideally is crucial. Private sector experience would be an asset.
• Advanced expertise in developing and leading innovation and entrepreneurship efforts in Africa.
• Proven experience effectively working with government officials, key players in the health space, business leaders, entrepreneurs and other actors.
• Solution based approach while demonstrating innovation, integrity, quality, creativity, flexibility and resilience.
• Fluency in English. French is an added advantage.
• Excellent strategic insight and ability to translate plans to action to deliver impact with quality and speed.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to express facts and ideas in a clear, convincing and organized manner.
• Demonstrates mature and sound judgement when addressing highly complex needs
• Innovative and entrepreneurial and who is able to formulate and develop new or creative approaches to problems and inspires others on the team to do so as well.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
• Possess excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.
• Possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.
• Commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision.

Application Closing Date
21st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online