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Job Summary

Job Title:
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Employer:
Raising The Village (RTV)
Location:
Kampala
Country:
Uganda
Contract Type:
Full-time
Job Category:
Number of Positions:
Deadline:

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Raising The Village is an international development nonprofit that partners with last-mile rural communities — especially in Uganda and Rwanda — to help families overcome ultra-poverty and build sustainable livelihoods. The organization works with subsistence farming households through a multidimensional, evidence-informed program that improves income, food security, community engagement, and local capacity over approximately 24 months per community cohort.

Full-time

Chief Operating Officer (COO) Job at Raising The Village (RTV)

Raising The Village (RTV)

Job Description

Why join RTV 

Raising The Village is building one of the most ambitious and innovative approaches to ending ultra poverty in rural Africa. Through its integrated development model and partnerships with governments and communities, RTV helps last-mile communities build sustainable pathways out of poverty. The COO will play a central role in this next chapter – building operational systems, and infrastructure needed to expand impact across Sub-Saharan Africa.

This is a rare opportunity to scale a proven model that combines community-driven development, data-systems, and technology to improve the lives of millions.

Position Overview 

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) provides strategic and operational leadership for RTV’s global operations, ensuring the organization has the systems, people, and infrastructure needed to scale its mission to end ultra-poverty in last-mile rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa.

RTV is expanding its impact through a range of programs and service delivery approaches. Across these approaches, RTV integrates program methodology, operational systems, and data- and technology-enabled tools to support consistent implementation, learning, and scale across different operating environments.

The COO will play a central role in building the operational architecture needed to scale both streams rapidly while maintaining the quality, accountability, and impact that define RTV’s work. Working closely with the CEO and senior leadership team, the COO will ensure that field operations, digital platforms, and data systems act as a coordinated system capable of supporting the delivery of impact at scale. This role drives operational excellence, disciplined execution, and cross-functional alignment.

The COO is accountable for end-to-end operational performance for Procurement, Logistics, IT, and Operational Planning. The role ensures that the organization operates efficiently, responsibly, and with the resilience required to expand across multiple countries.

Years of experience: 15+ Years

Location: One of RTV’s East Africa operational hubs (Uganda, Rwanda, or United Republic of Tanzania)

Travel required: Up to 35%

Duties, Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic leadership & organizational scale

  • Provide overall leadership for RTV’s global operations, ensuring strong alignment between strategy and execution.
  • Build and manage operational systems required to scale both direct implementation programs and digital platform delivery.

Organizational operations

  • Oversee operations and ensure operational systems enable efficient logistics, strong program delivery, and cost-effective implementation across multiple countries.
  • Ensure compliance with donor requirements, internal policies, and national regulatory frameworks.
  • Build operational systems that support rapid growth and multi-country expansion.
  • Develop operational playbooks and replication frameworks to support expansion into new regions and partnerships.
  • Strengthen coordination between programs, operations, finance, and technology teams.
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to operational leaders and country teams, and establish an internal talent management pipeline to support demand.

Technology infrastructure & platform operations

  • Support continuous improvement of operational infrastructure supporting digital systems, including deployment, procurement, device management, field connectivity, and vendor management.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure effective implementation and utilization of digital tools across internal teams and external partners.
  • Support the reliability and performance of digital platforms with a focus on enabling consistent functionality in rural and low-connectivity environments.
  • Lead and strengthen cyber security practices across RTV, ensuring the protection of systems, data, and digital infrastructure through effective risk management and implementation of security best practices.

Data governance & security

  • Support and strengthen RTV’s data governance framework by contributing to the development and implementation of clear policies and standards for data collection, management, protection, and use across data programs, digital systems, and partnerships.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to ensure operational systems effectively support RTV’s digital infrastructure, including field devices, connectivity, and supporting technologies used by staff contractors, and partners.
  • Contribute to the evolution of organizational risk management systems for digital infrastructure, information security, and responsible data use, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and practices across all countries of operation.
  • Partner with relevant departments to enable the responsible management of large-scale data systems and information flows across multiple countries, partners, and digital platforms.

Legal, compliance & risk management

  • Provide enterprise oversight of RTV’s legal, regulatory, and compliance frameworks at the global level and across all countries of operation.
  • Oversee contract governance for agreements with governments, partners, vendors, and service providers.
  • Strengthen organizational risk management systems covering operational, legal, and partnership risks.
  • Ensure effective internal controls and compliance with donor requirements, national regulations, and organizational policies.

Strategic Priorities for the First 24 Months

  • Operational Integration and Scale
  • Develop an integrated operational model to scale both direct implementation and technical assistance/digital platform services.
  • Data Governance and Infrastructure
  • Establish robust data governance and cybersecurity systems.
  • KPI: 95% compliance to data privacy and security standards across all jurisdictions (5+).
  • Operational Systems for Growth
  • Build scalable processes across procurement, logistics, HR, and program operations.
  • KPI: strong operational systems for efficient, cost-effective rural livelihood programs and new country expansion.
  • Leadership and Organizational Capacity
  • Strengthen leadership across country teams and build internal capacity to support growth.
  • KPI: 90% retention score and increasing % of leadership positions filled by internal candidates.

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