Regional Director, Program Delivery

Regional Director, Program Delivery Africa

About Splash

Splash is a global nonprofit organization founded in 2007, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. Since 2007, we have completed more than 2,500 projects that serve over 1.2 million children each day. Currently focused on cities in East Africa, Splash delivers the clean water, clean toilets, and dignified menstrual health resources that every child deserves through comprehensive water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health (WASH‑M) services and behavior change programs across 100% of a city’s public schools.

Our distinctive model transforms entire cities, starting at the school water fountain, by shifting systems, infrastructure, and behaviors in partnership with local governments and communities. We start by building relationships with the local stakeholders responsible for education, health, and water management, and we negotiate financial commitments that support a full transition of operations and maintenance to local leadership.

Our vision is global impact without Splash, made possible through partnerships with national governments, co‑creation with local communities, and replication far beyond our day‑to‑day involvement.

In 2019, we began testing and refining Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone), a cost‑effective and replicable blueprint designed to reach 100% of public schools in fast‑growing, complex cities in partnership with local governments and community leaders. In five years, we achieved our goals in Ethiopia and India, and we began our next phase of expansion in East Africa in 2025.

Our core values guide everything we do, including every hiring decision we make. They are:

People – People first. People second. People third.

Quality – Beautiful products that function and last.

Joy – Kids at heart, seeing potential everywhere.

Mistakes – Make them, don’t repeat them.

Splash values the unique skills and experiences everyone brings to the organization, and we are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment. To learn more, please visit splash.org.

The Job

Job title: Regional Director, Program Delivery Africa

Line Manager: Executive Director, Splash Africa

Location: Africa Based or our Regional HQ with quarterly in‑office time with the regional team

The Regional Director, Program Delivery Africa provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure high quality, on time, and on budget delivery of Project WISE II across Splash’s African countries. This role translates global program strategy into country‑specific delivery plans, supports Country Directors in overcoming operational challenges, and ensures that infrastructure, behavior change, and systems strengthening components are delivered as an integrated, high quality package.

This is both a strategic and hands‑on leadership role, ensuring fidelity to the Splash model, strengthening cross‑country program systems, and stewarding a unified approach across multiple implementation contexts.

The Regional Director does not serve as the primary government‑facing lead (this sits with Country Directors and the Executive Director, Splash Africa), but instead ensures that regional delivery systems enable those partnerships to succeed.

Serves as the primary regional owner of delivery timelines, cost, and quality, and is accountable for meeting agreed government and donor commitments. This role is measured first and foremost by whether infrastructure, behavior change, and O&M systems are delivered, commissioned, and functioning to standard, on schedule, and within agreed budgets.

Stakeholder Ecosystem

The Regional Director operates within a sophisticated collaborative framework:

Stakeholder

Nature of Engagement

Collaborates with the Executive Director to set regional benchmarks , financial management and report on mission‑critical KPIs.

Country Leadership

Collaborates with Country Directors, Program Managers, Infrastructure Managers, Impact and MLE Managers to ensure Project WISE is implemented on time, with high fidelity and high…