Country Director - Nepal

Job posted by: Marie Stopes International - UK - Tue, 18 Nov 2014

Job Details:

Organisation: Marie Stopes International - UK

Deadline Mon, 1 Dec 2014

Job type: Permanent

Location: Nepal

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Based in: Kathmandu, Nepal

Salary: Competitive salary and expat package

About the role

Marie Stopes International are recruiting a Country Director for our Nepal Programme. Based in Katmandu, the Country Director will be MSI's senior representative in the country, working closely with governments, donors and other key stakeholders to promote access to safe, affordable, reliable family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services.

The progamme in Nepal employs c. 240 staff, with 36 clinics, 12 outreach teams and a planned launch of our 'Marie Stopes Ladies' model in 2015. With a turnover of c.£3m and a low cost base, we reached over 200,000 clients in 2013.

Our current Country Director is being promoted internally, hence we are seeking a leader to continue building strong relationships with the Nepalese government and grow the organisation, through staff management and capacity building.

As the Country Director you will oversee and navigate this growth by preparing and executing the annual budgets, marketing plans. This will include developing new business opportunities; overseeing financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensuring adherence to MSI standards; and assuring quality operations in line with annual and long-term strategic goals and objectives, keeping the client at the heart of everything we do.

About You

You do not need to have Family Planning or SRH experience to apply for this role; working as a Country Director at MSI, what you do need is a passion for our mission and the work that we do. In addition you will be a hands-on, proven commercially-minded manager who is drawn by the challenge of both programme expansion and building long-term relationships with key stakeholders.

You will have proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments, including labour relations, as well as experience designing and delivering strategic and annual business plans and income generation through donor funding, and/or commercial activities.

You will have financial and reporting management experience, to include managing and improving the bottom line and the ability to generate, track and analyse management information and client data to inform management decision-making. In addition you will be motivated to deliver tangible results for the organisation and have the ability to manage change successfully.

An interest in health finanacing models would be an advantage.

The successful candidate will be pro-choice.

For more information about this role please view the attached job framework.

We are ideally looking for a start date towards the end of 2014 / early 2015.

Closing date: 9/11/14 midnight UK time

About Us

Marie Stopes International is one of the largest international family planning organisations in the world. Millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality family planning and reproductive healthcare. We are in 37 countries, with 9,000 team members, 3,190 social franchises, 52,000 outreach locations and 600+ clinics.


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