Country Manager, Ghana

Description Are you ready to use your leadership, program management, business development, and operational skills to correct the vision of millions of low-income customers across Ghana so they can work, learn, stay safe, and care for their families? The social enterprise, VisionSpring, seeks a dynamic and experienced Country Manager to grow VisionSpring’s pioneering portfolio of Vision Access Programs and eyeglasses sales which advances the income earning potential and livelihoods of people living on less than $4 per day. The Country Manager joins with an exciting mandate to scale-up evidence-based programs, grow sales channels, identify and introduce innovative approaches that further advance the mission, catalyze collective action within the vision sector and with allied parties, and influence systems change globally. According to the 2015 Ghana Blindness and Visual Impairment survey, just 5% of Ghanaians who need eyeglasses have them. VisionSpring has worked to solve this problem in Ghana since 2017. Exclusively focused on the base-of-the-pyramid customer, VisionSpring is fast becoming a market leader in the provision of affordable eyeglasses and screenings in Ghana. Over the past five years, VisionSpring in partnership with over 49 collaborators, has screened the vision of more than 70,000 Ghanaians and delivered in excess of 100,000 eyeglasses through wholesale partnerships. VisionSpring implements Vision Access Programs which bring free vision screening and highly subsidized eyeglasses to people where they work and live with the sponsorship of businesses and foundations. Additionally, VisionSpring sells affordable eyeglasses to mission-aligned hospitals, vision centers, and NGOs to help them sustain and expand their optical services. VisionSpring focuses on building partnerships that lead to the very first pair of eyeglasses for the low-income and marginalized people. In Ghana, VisionSpring has established strong partnerships with faith-based organizations (FBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector and government institutions. Notable among these partners are Allianz Insurance, Cocoa, Coffee, and Shea nut Farmers Association (COCOSHE), Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP), Operation Eyesight Universal, Greater Accra Regional Hospital and Optical wholesaler. The Country Manager will lead a growing team of 4 people and is responsible for business development; program expansion and implementation; sales operations; and the execution of shared services with the support of global functional leaders for programs, human resources, supply chain, finance, and marketing. The Country Manager will cultivate high levels of mission alignment, team engagement, customer satisfaction, and the development of associated processes and culture. This position is based in our Accra office and reports to the Africa Region Director, located in VisionSpring’s Nigeria office. The Country Manager is a member of VisionSpring’s Africa leadership team