Farah Ramzan Golant joined Girl Effect in September 2015 as CEO. Farah previously served as Chief Executive of All3Media and prior to this had a 22 year career with AMV BBDO, where she became Chief Executive in 2005. The Manager will report directly to Farah and work across the Girl Effect organisation. This is a new role, which will be critical to the smooth running of the CEO’s office. The successful individual will be responsible for delivering strategic projects, using their relationship and project management skills to facilitate CEO functions and engage with the Girl Effect senior leadership team.
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, energetic and determined, looking to pivot their career and gain experience in social impact, emerging markets, funder relations and brand management. They will relish the opportunity to work in a fast- paced environment at the forefront of where multi-media brand properties meet international development. This is the opportunity to learn first-hand how to build and lead a growing multi-national organization from investor & board relations, to managing delivery, and driving forward a vision for the future. The ability to identify closely with a creative, ideas-centric, technology-enabled organisation and build strong internal and external relationships will be vital to this role.
We are going through a period of exciting growth and change – we are hugely ambitious for our future and we are looking for colleagues who share in our ambition.
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About Girl Effect
For over a decade, the NIKE Foundation, inspired by Nike's belief in human potential, has been focused on investing in girls. In 2008 the NIKE Foundation, in collaboration with NoVo Foundation, United Nations Foundation and other partners, launched the Girl Effect movement. With the support of over 150 partners in 90 countries, NIKE Foundation and the Girl Effect movement have positively impacted the lives of millions of girls and influenced investment in them.
Girl Effect is now a newly independent organisation, with continued multi-year funding from the NIKE Foundation and multiple partners. With a new CEO in place since September 2015, the organisation is scaling up with the ambition to give girls access to the critical assets they need to achieve their full potential.
Our mission? Change the world for girls and enable girls in their unique capacity to change the world. This approach creates a virtuous cycle of change, lifting girls, their families and communities out of poverty.
What We Do
Girl Effect works to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. We do this by connecting girls to each other and to the critical assets they need. We work to create lasting perception change by harnessing media in innovative ways and building social networks that develop girls' positive perceptions of themselves and shift how others see and value them.
Even when services and assets that girls need are available, existing prejudices and negative social norms prevent girls from accessing them.
When a girl is better educated, has access to sexual and reproductive healthcare information and services, has access and control of economic assets, is safe from violence and exploitation, and has the capabilities and confidence to make positive choices, she can break the cycle of poverty. Girl Effect believes that perception change is a critical capacity-builder to improve awareness and sensitivities of communities and families, and create an environment in which girls are better able to overcome barriers preventing them from accessing what they need.
We are a brand- and programmes-led operation with offices in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, a mobile platform live in over 30 countries, and our headquarters in London.
