About Digital Green
Digital Green engages and empowers rural communities to produce participatory localized videos, leveraging pre-existing community groups to disseminate these videos through human mediation. These videos are of the community, by the community, and for the community, sharing information and practices that are relevant and that meet the needs of the local community. In 2013, Melinda Gates named Digital Green as one of the four ideas that are changing the world. With roots as an innovative project at Microsoft Research India, Digital Green became its own non-profit organization in 2008. Since then, they have reached nearly 8,000 villages across India, Ethiopia and other locations, produced more than 4,000 videos in over 28 languages, and improved the lives of more than 1 million rural community members.
Digital Green is focused on expanding effectively and efficiently. With a goal of reaching 2 million households in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa by 2018, Digital Green is rapidly building strategic partnerships, identifying new sources of funding, and leveraging innovative technology in order to provide more communities with the tools they need to live with dignity.
For more details, please visit Digital Green’s website: www.digitalgreen.org. Job Summary
The Director - Finance and Administration for Digital Green-Ethiopia will be a strategic thought-partner, and will report to the Country Director with a dotted line reporting to the CFO based in Delhi, India. The successful candidate will be a hands-on and initiative-taking manager and will lead and develop an internal team to support the following areas: finance, business planning and budgeting, administration, and IT. S/he will ensure compliance with organizational, donor, and government regulations in the country of operations.
The Director - Finance and Administration will play a critical role in partnering with the senior leadership team in strategic decision making and operations as Digital Green-Ethiopia continues to enhance its quality programming and build capacity. This is a tremendous opportunity for a finance and operations leader to maximize and strengthen the internal capacity of a well-respected, high-impact organization.
Digital Green has approximately 90 employees across India, Ethiopia and Niger. Operations are global across those countries as well as Afghanistan, Ghana, Malawi, and the USA. Within Ethiopia, Digital Green has a growing team size of approximately 25 employees.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic leadership
Financial Management and Operations
Administration, Procurement and IT
Staff Management
Qualifications and Experiences
Skills and Competencies