mWomen Commercial Programme Manager

Title		mWomen Commercial Programme Manager - Contract until March 2015
Job ID		mob-lon-645
Department		Mobile for Development
Location		London
Description  The GSMA mWomen Programme is a London-based, public‐private partnership between the worldwide mobile industry and the international development community, aiming to increase women’s access to and use of mobile phones and life-enhancing mobile services in developing markets. The programme’s objectives are to encourage the mobile industry to serve resource-poor women, increase availability of life-enhancing value-added services, and promote solutions to women’s barriers to use of mobile technology. GSMA mWomen is a programme within GSMA Mobile for Development, which brings together mobile operator members, the wider mobile industry and the development community to drive commercial mobile services for underserved people in emerging markets. We identify opportunities for social, economic and environmental impact and stimulate the development of scalable, life-enhancing mobile services. The GSMA mWomen Programme, which is a partnership with USAID, DFAT, Visa Inc. and GSMA, achieves its objectives through two key sets of activities. First, through grants and consulting support, the team promotes and supports mobile industry and development partner actions to serve women in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, in order to test and prove sustainable business models for serving women. Second, building on lessons arising from these and other projects to serve women through mobile, the team also generates and shares insights to encourage and equip partners to reduce the global mobile gender gap. Activities include undertaking bespoke research to determine what works, generating tools and case studies to equip partners for action, and sharing the evidence base broadly to encourage global action. For more information, visit www.mWomen.org. Roles and responsibilities. GSMA mWomen Commercial Programme Managers consult to mobile industry and international development partners to help them recognize and realize opportunities arising from serving women in developing markets. Key roles and responsibilities include the following: • Oversee and manage projects undertaken by mobile operator and non-governmental organization grantees. Managers will help a select group of mobile operator and development partners to design, develop and launch mobile services targeted at resource-poor women. These services should deliver clear social impact, whilst being commercially sustainable and scalable. • Provide advisory services to mobile industry and development partners. Managers are responsible for growing, cultivating and supporting a portfolio of mobile operators and other industry and development partners, providing thought leadership and advisory support to analyse market opportunities, design products and services, and monitor commercial and social results. • Capture and share insights from grant-funded projects. Managers will share insights, expertise and lessons learned, both internally and externally, so that the mobile industry and the development community can better serve women’s needs through mobile. Each team member will generate a portfolio of case studies, insight papers, and other outputs that will be shared via events, workshops, webinars and other channels. • Refine and expand the GSMA mWomen resources for mobile operators. Managers will create a suite of tools to accelerate mobile operators’ entry into the women’s market segment, e.g. case studies, market sizing and partner assessment tools, performance monitoring tools, etc. The new Commercial Programme Manager will join a team of 4 and report to the GSMA mWomen Senior Commercial Programme Manager. S/he will work closely with the GSMA mWomen team and colleagues within GSMA Mobile for Development.
Criteria  Criteria The ideal candidate will be excited to join a diverse team that shares a passion for the ways mobile phones can empower women in the developing world in a sustainable way. We welcome applications from professionals with the following demonstrated qualifications: • Experience and familiarity with the mobile industry, ideally with exposure to the mobile for development sector • Experience working as a management consultant or within corporate strategy, business planning or marketing functions, ideally within the telecoms industry • Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to generate frameworks and delivered structured analyses through case studies • Experience managing projects including multiple stakeholders • Experience establishing and managing productive client relationships, including C-level executives • Experience working with clients/partners based in developing markets, Asia and Africa in particular • Experience delivering results both through individual contribution and through culturally diverse, collaborative teams • Fluent and compelling written and oral communications skills, particularly in English • An entrepreneurial, creative, can-do orientation • Conscientious, with high personal standards and attention to detail • Excited to travel globally 20-30% of the time
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