Company overview
The Pharo Foundation (“the Foundation”) is a privately funded entrepreneurial organisation that runs philanthropic programmes as well as for-profit Social Ventures. The Vision of the Foundation is an economically vibrant and inclusive Africa. The Mission is to achieve the Vision by investing in the human and physical capital of Africa, with a strong focus on job creation.
Established in 2011 as a UK based non-profit, the Foundation has since made a strategic shift to directly design and implement its own programmes to ensure greater engagement with communities, better results and increased accountability. The Foundation has carried out numerous projects in East Africa, with a focus on Ethiopia and Somaliland and is now expanding into Rwanda. The key strategic pillars for the philanthropic side of the Foundation are education, health, water and agriculture. At the end of 2019, the Foundation also started its Social Ventures franchise to prioritise sectors where the Foundation believes a real impact can be made by establishing self-sustaining businesses, which focus on job and economic value creation.
Headquartered in London, the Foundation has an operational head office in Nairobi, Kenya with country offices in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa and Assosa) and Somaliland (Hargeisa) with further expansion plans in East Africa.
Functional Relationships with:
Direct Reports
The Foundation has decided to establish a best in class diagnostic center in Assosa town in BGRS to complement the curative health services and to become a dependable partner to the existing health system in the region and beyond. The PDC is expected to help upgrade the health infrastructure in BGRS, as it will offer top quality reliable services as well as critical tests.
Run under the Social Ventures business model, the PDC will start with offering advanced medical laboratory services to clients, adding imaging studies and additional laboratory tests in subsequent years.
For this very exciting and ambitious initiative, The Foundation is looking to hire a highly experienced and driven Medical Laboratory Technologist (MSc) who will serve as the Director of the PDC and who will provide strategic and operational leadership.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to : Health Coordinator, The Pharo Foundation Assosa Office
Qualification Requirements
Behavioral Competencies