• As Head of Impact Labs (Consultant), you will advance the Foundation’s impact-driven innovation agenda by: • Leading Innovation Initiatives: Manage projects across the Impact Labs innovation cycle, from opportunity discovery to solution scaling, ensuring disciplined execution, relevance, and timely delivery. • Driving Co-Creation and Adoption: Design and lead collaborative processes with Foundation teams and partners to ensure solutions are user-centred, adopted, and scalable. • Developing and Scaling Solutions: Oversee the incubation, roll-out, and scale-up of innovations aligned with the Foundation’s Young Africa Works and EleV strategies. • Strengthening Operational Models: Contribute to the evolution of the Labs’ service delivery model to ensure solutions and processes are standardized, scalable, and sustainable. • Leading Thematic and Technical Work: Serve as lead in selected innovation domains, shaping methodologies and applying user-centred approaches. • Fostering Strategic Relationships: Build trusted relationships across the Foundation and with partners to cultivate a strong innovation community of practice. • Representing the Labs: Contribute to thought leadership and represent Impact Labs in internal and external forums to enhance visibility and strategic alignment. • Managing and Developing Talent: Lead and support team members, fostering alignment with the Foundation’s mission, culture, and growth objectives. • Contributing Across the Foundation: Engage in cross-functional initiatives that strengthen the broader Impact, Research & Learning function and organization-wide priorities.

• Advanced degree or equivalent experience, preferably in innovation-related fields. Additional background in International Development, Economics, Research, or Social Sciences is an asset. • Deep experience in international development and/or market-based initiatives relevant to African contexts. • Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder, impact-driven projects, including operational and financial oversight. • Skilled in participatory design, youth-led and community-based approaches, and knowledge generation. • Strong grasp of innovation, technology, and science trends, particularly within Africa. • Foundational knowledge of impact measurement and learning, with deep expertise in one or more related domains considered a plus. • Proficient in facilitation, project and product management, and team leadership in innovation-driven environments. • Experienced in budget development and financial management. • Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in French is desirable. • Able to frame, adapt, and execute plans creatively and pragmatically. • Thrives amid change, emergence, and evolving priorities, balancing action and structure. • Curious, humble, willing to interrogate conventional wisdom and bridge diverse fields of knowledge. • Thrives in feedback-driven, co-creative environments with a strong growth mindset. • Builds lasting, impactful partnerships based on fairness, respect, and trust. • Demystifies complex ideas and inspires diverse audiences to act. • Professional maturity and sensitivity to working within different cultures. • Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities. • Possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values. • You have a commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision.