Warchild Holland is looking for a ‘country director’ DR Congo
Currently we are looking for a:
COUNTRY DIRECTOR DR CONGO
Organization: War Child Holland
Job location: Bukavu, DR Congo
Starting date: as soon as possible
DR Congo is a non-family position; the expatriate is not allowed to bring a partner and/or children to the DRC.
War Child programme in the DR Congo
War Child's DRC Programme aims to promote child rights and improve psychosocial development opportunities for vulnerable children in Eastern Congo. The programme focuses on increasing marginalized children's attendance in formal and non-formal schools (literacy courses and vocational training) and community reintegration. A particular attention is paid to the problem of gender based violence and economic exploitation. Target groups are ex child soldiers and other vulnerable children and youth. War Child DRC relies on local organizations for the implementation of its programme and runs a programme of strengthening of local capacities. We work in synergy with local and international organizations and governmental institutions.
War Child Programme Area (WPA) DR Congo will support options for collaboration and exchange with War Child offices in Uganda and Burundi.
The challenge
The Country Director (CD) is based in the office in Bukavu and bears the overall responsibility for the country programme in DRC, which is done through local partners. The CD directly manages a team of expats and indirectly a team of local staff, which constitutes among others of a programme development manager, a programme development advisor, an operations support manager, a project coordinator, an advocacy and communications officer, a finance/admin coordinator and a general support employee.
The CD reports to the Deputy Director of Programmes based at headquarters in Amsterdam.
Responsibilities
1. Realisation of War Child's country programme
· Final and overall responsibility for the country programmes;
· Leads and facilitates the development and updates of the Country Strategy;
· Develops tools and formats for planning, monitoring and evaluation and supports partner organisations in application of these tools;
· Monitors and evaluates the programme's implementation;
· Ensures that appropriate local (implementing) partners are identified and capacity building of local partners takes place;
· Produces annual plans, quarterly and annual reports;
· Effectively supervises the country team and country office to reach those objectives.
2. Management of staff
· Manages and develops the team of key positions holders, indicates training needs and ensures that capacity building takes place;
· Conducts appraisals; team development and discusses career perspectives with key field management staff;
· Manages the local recruitment and assists with the international recruitment of key field staff;
· Ensures a well functioning team and a good team spirit amongst the whole team;
· Final responsibility for ensuring that national staff HRM instruments and systems are developed, in place and adhered to.
3. Fundraising and representation
· Final and direct responsibility for in-country fundraising by institutional donors;
· Develops and maintains donor relations;
· Ensures appropriate communications, information exchange and sharing with the local partners and with HQ;
· Develops and maintains productive relationships with local and national governments, other agencies, donors and media;
· Development of national fundraising strategy;
· Shares project learning's, supports communication activities, field visits, etc;
· Represents War Child in meetings or coordinating platforms.
4. Security Management
· Final and direct responsibility for security management throughout the programmes;
· Makes sure to be well informed about security developments at all times;
· Develops/ regularly updates the country security plan and ensures implementation by all staff.
5. Financial and logistics management (to a large extend delegated to the Operation Support Manager)
· Final responsibility for finance, office and logistics management; authorizes investments and manages supplies;
· Maintains efficient financial control (of cash flows, local payment, etc), accountability standards, procedures and records;
· Prepares budget and budget control; takes action by imminent deficiencies or surpluses.
Profile
· At least 5 years relevant management experience in an international/humanitarian context of which at least 2 years in a senior position (e.g. as Representative or Country director);
· Relevant academic background (e.g. international relations, social sciences, business administration);
· Experience in working with local partners;
· Knowledge of psychosocial, protection and education programmes for children affected by conflict;
· Knowledge of financial management and human resource management;
· Able to assess social/political situations and able to act in a diplomatic way in delicate situations;
· Result- focused, good problem solving and social skills;
· Stress-resilient to be able to cope with deadlines and complex problems;
· Excellent written & oral expressions skills;
· Affinity with War Child's mandate;
· Fluency in French (or willingness to learn it) and English (verbal and written).
War Child offers a challenging job, within an inspiring and motivated team of people and the backup of a strong and professional organisation in The Netherlands. War Child offers good remuneration and excellent benefits. Please visit our website www.warchildholland.org for more information on the organisation and the programme.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to send a CV and a letter of motivation before November 5th 2010 (please mention CD DRC in the subject line) to recruitment@warchild.nl (your letter and CV should not exceed 5 pages).
For more information about this position or the recruitment process you can contact the Deputy Director of Programmes (Waldo Serno: waldo.serno@warchild.nl) or the HR Advisor (Marieke Leeuwenburgh: marieke.leeuwenburgh@warchild.nl) by e-mail or call +31 (0)20 422 77 77.