Vacancy title:
Country Director

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
NFT

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, September 15 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 1 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Our client is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, our client aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

Job Purpose:

As the Country Director in Uganda, you are ultimately accountable in country for all aspects of Uganda’s work including SHS and mini-grids. You will own the opportunity of leading and growing a high-performing team of over 200 (including a young and vibrant leadership team) and further scaling and diversifying our business by building out the operations for optimal geographical coverage of Uganda, consolidating and leading our mini-grid business, developing government relationships, and ensuring the business’s long-term strategic and financial sustainability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategy Development and Implementation

• Develop and implement the multi-year strategic vision and annual country business plan, aligned to the overall Company strategic plan for both Solar Home Systems and Mini-grids.
• Drive business model innovations/evolutions that result in improved customer engagement, better repayment, and reduced bad debt for both SHS and mini-grid businesses.
• Iterate and create a country-centric business model that has the ability to acquire hundreds of thousands of customers on an annual basis while driving to YoY profitability growth.
• Gather insights to inform scalable, profitable, and sustainable commercialization strategies in subsequent years.
• Participate in business development projects by contributing all necessary data and validating assumptions.
• Continuously monitor company performance, product fit and pricing, marketing, sales, distribution, portfolio health, technical integration, and service with potential partners, as well as customer experience and country-specific customer insights.

Leadership and Management

• Provide strong, visible, and inspirational leadership to Uganda’s management team including SHS and mini-grid leaders thereby delivering bottom line business results.
• Build a world class team that loves what they do and embodies our culture.

• Build a culture of performance and accountability to execute against goals.
• Lead management team in the resolution of operational challenges and contribute towards the creation of new and innovative solutions.
• Lead the development of a sustainable team structure to support the operational requirements of the business.
• Oversee the recruitment, development, retention, and engagement of all team members in Uganda in collaboration with the HR department.
• Act as custodian of succession plan development and implementation to support the growth of people within the organization.
• Lead, coach, and mentor direct reports to foster personal growth and teamwork.
• Manage the administration of direct reports through the approval of leave, subsistence, and travel expenses.

Finance Management and Operations Oversight

• Manage the country P&L for Solar Home System and mini-grid businesses, drive performance, challenge spend, and lead changes to deliver higher value.
• Own and manage Country performance management dashboard and financial model for both SHS and mini-grid.
• Provide oversight in financial management matters of the country operations, ensuring compliance with the overall company’s procedures and external best practice as well as donor and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and effectively execute the country resource allocation plan, using insights and a focus on opportunities, priorities, and capabilities for business growth.
• Monitor cash flow to ensure effective cash management.
• Oversee all operations in Uganda including construction of mini-grid sites, development of SHS distribution networks, inventory management, etc. to ensure successful completion of projects, protect health and safety, and reduce loss.
• Monitor operational risks through the management of a comprehensive risk framework to assess risks and devise risk mitigation plans.

Health and Safety

• Responsible for Health and Safety for all activities in the country.
• Champion and maintain a culture of Health & Safety compliance, ensuring accountability throughout the organization for the safety of our staff and contractors.
• Accountable for ensuring compliance by all teams in Uganda to all Company and the Group Health and Safety Requirements.

Ethics

• Adhere strictly to the company's Ethics Charter, encompassing ethical conduct, conflict resolution, compliance with laws and regulations, and anti-wrongdoing standards.
• Demonstrate ethical leadership by upholding the highest standards of integrity, corporate responsibility, and ethics, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Oversee the implementation and enforcement of ethics policies, report any violations promptly to the CEO and Head of Ethics, actively engage in ethics training, advocate a zero-tolerance stance against unethical behavior, and foster a culture promoting ethical conduct within the organization.
• Ensure accurate financial and audit reporting and that all potential contractors complete an ethics due diligence.

Stakeholder Management

• Locate, initiate, develop, and execute on key partnerships initiatives that can assist in distribution, branding, customer acquisition, and scale.
• Own and ensure that Uganda region maintains productive relations with all external stakeholders and partnerships (i.e., telcos, government, tax authorities, industry organizations, banks, multilaterals, donors, etc.)
• Represent the country programs to authorities, donors, partners, and other relevant forums.
• Engage with Group Executives on country operational matters and in the provision of input into high level strategy.
• Participate in Country Board meetings and engage with shareholders and local chairpersons.
• Strengthen the company’s position nationally and regionally.
• Leverage and collaborate with global team and other country leads for insight and support.

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications:

• A holder of a minimum master’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent in a relevant field
• 12-15 years in a senior leadership role in a growing business of a reasonable size in B2B and B2C contexts.
• Strong GM experience, P&L responsibility, and orientation.
• Sales, Marketing and Consumer-oriented.
• Multi-channel sales distribution experience e.g., door to door, in-house retail, third party retail, partnerships, Telesales).
• Experience representing a large and leading commercial multinational entity to both internal and external partners and authorities.
• Government and Labor stakeholder engagement experience.
• Experience of managing budgets and multiple stakeholder’s contracts.
• Proven commitment to accountability practices and knowledge of quality assurance systems.
• Experience with rural African Markets and financial services highly beneficial.
• Experience with sales oriented integrated operations in renewable energies sectors is preferred.
• Outstanding analytical skills and ability to synthesize analysis into practical strategy recommendations.
• Understanding of asset & non-asset based business models and economics.
• Experience with multi-entity governance.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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