Country Director - Uganda

Country: Uganda Organization: MSI Reproductive Choices Closing date: 12 Aug 2026 About MSI 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 life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all. Today, our organisation has around 10,000 team members working in 36 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-centred 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. About the Role The Country Director is MSI’s most senior representative in Uganda. The role works closely with government, donors, and social business stakeholders to overcome barriers that prevent women and men from accessing safe, affordable, and reliable family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services. The Country Director is accountable for the overall strategy, leadership, and management of MSI Uganda, including programmatic, financial, operational, and administrative performance. The role leads the delivery of MSI’s national family planning and sexual and reproductive health programmes through mobile outreach, public sector strengthening, social marketing, maternity services, and centres, managing for results, promoting innovation, and keeping clients at the heart of everything we do. 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. To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills: • Excellent analytical, strategic, and decision-making skills. • Strong business acumen and commercial judgement. • Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Fluency in English. To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience: • Proven track record of building and sustaining strategic relationships with senior external stakeholders, including governments, donors, development partners, and regulators, to secure resources, influence policy, and deliver measurable organisational outcomes. • Demonstrable experience managing a business or business unit through the full business cycle, balancing commercial, operational, and strategic priorities to achieve profitable growth and long-term value. • Strong record of financial stewardship through effective governance, risk management, and internal controls, including experience managing a P&L and making strategic decisions that improve financial performance, optimise resource allocation, and strengthen the bottom line. • Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain high-performing teams, creating an environment of trust, accountability, empowerment, and continuous development. • Proven ability to lead organisational transformation, aligning strategy, people, processes, and culture to implement and sustain change while maintaining operational performance and stakeholder engagement. • Demonstrated experience serving as the principal management interface with a Board, ensuring effective governance, regulatory compliance, strategic oversight, and productive relationships that support organisational growth. Formal education/qualification • Relevant postgraduate qualification, such as an MBA, or MPH. • Minimum of five years’ executive-level leadership experience. Please see attached the job description here. Location: Uganda. Full-time: 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday. Contract type: Fixed Term Contract. Salary: The salary will be strictly banded within the local national context. Salary band: BG 12 Closing date: 12th August 2026. Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates. For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply. How to apply Please apply via our website - https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-GB/msichoices/CANDIDATEPORTALINT/jobs/9205