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Head, Workforce Development at MasterCard
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 5 days ago (15 Oct 2026) Deadline: 22 Oct 2026 Updated 4 days ago
Job Description
The Head of Workforce Development will lead the design and delivery of education and skills programs that align with Kenya’s national roadmap. The role involves strategic planning, partnership building, and monitoring of youth‑focused initiatives such as internships, fellowships, and job placement. Providing technical leadership, the incumbent ensures programs address the needs of young people, especially women, and reports progress to senior leadership. This remote full‑time position reports to senior management at MasterCard.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • MBA, MSc or MA degree
- • Minimum 12 years experience in workforce development, education, or related fields
- • Proven track record in program design, implementation and evaluation
- • Strong stakeholder engagement and leadership skills
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Identify opportunities to create impact through education and skills interventions aligned with the Kenya Country Roadmap
- • Develop and execute programmatic approaches that create synergy across education, skilling, school‑to‑work transitions, and youth placement
- • Set workforce development goals and targets—including internships, fellowships, job placement, entrepreneurship, and further education—and monitor progress
- • Integrate education and skills initiatives with youth engagement, inclusion, grassroots solutions, access to finance, and digital enablement
- • Provide technical leadership to ensure country programs and partnerships respond to emerging needs of young people, especially women
- • Prepare and present regular reports to senior leadership on key performance indicators, program effectiveness, learning, and improvement areas
- • Establish trusted forums that enable youth networks, particularly young women, to contribute to program design and implementation
- • Support country program colleagues during partnership co‑creation