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About Tiko

Tiko is an African nonprofit committed to strengthening the potential and resilience of adolescent girls across Africa. We address the “Triple Threat” of unintended pregnancy, HIV infection, and sexual and gender-based violence by building local health ecosystems that provide stigma-free, no-cost, quality-assured services.

Our model brings together key local actors: community-based organizations (CBO) with peer mobilisers who act as health companions to girls; public and private health clinics that deliver care; and retail partners that redeem Tiko Miles -our behaviour-change incentive programme that rewards service uptake and feedback.

We invest in partners by strengthening CBO capacity, training frontline workers and providers, supporting clinic quality improvement, and compensating partners based on performance. Our technology platform connects all actors by enabling referrals, verifying service delivery, facilitating payments, and generating real-time data.

Tiko operates in seven countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia, and Nigeria, with additional offices in Portugal, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. For a clear overview of our work, we recommend watching this short video.

Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young, and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here.

The Role

The Deputy Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer is a senior leadership role responsible for driving organisation-wide execution of Tiko’s long-term strategy. Acting as a close partner and delegate to the Chief Strategy & Development Officer, you are accountable for translating strategic ambition into clear priorities, decisions, and outcomes across the organisation.

You lead the operationalisation of Tiko’s strategy, ensuring alignment across leadership, strong accountability, and disciplined delivery. You play a central role in shaping how Tiko plans, prioritises, and transforms, and in ensuring that strategic and transformation initiatives result in sustained organisational change rather than standalone projects.

Responsibility areas

Organisational Strategy

• You lead the management of Tiko’s multi-year strategy. Working across leadership and teams, you ensure that strategic priorities are translated into clear plans, milestones, and accountability mechanisms.
• You support the institutionalisation of strategy by embedding planning, tracking, and review processes into the organisation’s operating rhythm. You surface risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early, and work with leadership to address them pragmatically.
• You play a key role in maintaining strategic coherence across initiatives, ensuring that day-to-day decisions remain aligned with long-term ambition.
  

Transformation

• You drive critical, cross-departmental transformation initiatives that strengthen Tiko’s ability to deliver at scale. These initiatives often span multiple functions, countries, and senior stakeholders, requiring strong coordination, change leadership, and decision-making under uncertainty.
• You approach transformation with purpose and intentionality, focusing on tangible outcomes rather than activity. From the outset, you ensure initiatives are clearly scoped, resourced, and anchored in measurable results.
• You work closely with senior leaders to remove blockers, manage change, and ensure that transformation efforts are adopted and sustained rather than remaining one-off projects.

Leading your team

• You lead and develop the individuals in your team. You mentor them if needed. We also expect you to continue to develop yourself and keep abreast of new developments in your field.

External partnership development

• You lead on the development of partnerships with external parties related to strategy, transformation or other areas that touch upon your area of work. You maintain and develop relationships with relevant stakeholders, ensuring a positive working relationship and future business opportunities for Tiko.

Other projects

You lead, get involved with, and help out colleagues on other projects as needed.

About You

You are a senior strategic leader who excels at turning ambition into execution. You combine strong analytical thinking with pragmatism, and you are comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities. You are highly collaborative, able to influence senior stakeholders, and confident leading organisation-wide change.

You are motivated by impact and sustainability, and you care deeply about ensuring that strategy is lived through daily decisions, behaviours, and systems. You enjoy building clarity where there is complexity and enabling others to deliver at their best.

Requirements

• Significant experience in strategy execution, organisational transformation, or operational leadership, ideally within complex, multi-country organisations.
• Proven track record of translating long-term strategy into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional and cross-departmental transformation initiatives.
• Strong ability to identify and manage risks, dependencies, and trade-offs at organisational level.
• Experience embedding planning, performance management, and review processes into organisational ways of working.
• Proven people leadership experience, including leading, mentoring, and developing teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working with senior leaders and external partners.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders.
  

Compensation & Benefits
The gross salary range per month for this position is: €8,685 - €13,027 gross per month.

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Benefits and allowances tailored to your location.
• Flexible work arrangements, including remote or hybrid options where applicable.
• A personal development budget of €500 per year to invest in your professional growth - whether through training, certifications, or career advancement opportunities.
• Comprehensive time-off package, including 5 days of wellness leave, all regional public holidays, maternity and parental leave according to local regulations, and unlimited holidays subject to team coordination.
• The opportunity to shape a growing, impactful product and leave your mark on how we work.
• A culture built on trust - we believe you’ll do your best without the need for unnecessary rules or micromanagement.
  

The Details
Interested? Click Apply for This Job! Want more information? Check out our website tikoafrica.org or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email.

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Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.