Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children - International
Deadline Fri, 10 Apr 2015
Job type: Contract
Location:
Haiti
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential.
We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.
Following a major transition, our international programmes are now delivered through a merged operation with c15,000 staff, managed through seven regional hubs and reporting to a relatively small, central office. We’re changing to become more efficient, more aligned, a better partner, a stronger advocate, a magnet for world-class people and relevant for the 21st century.
Contract length: 12 months
The role
The Field Office Director will provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the project, with responsibility for delivery of high quality programming, developing clear strategic and operational plans, increasing SC visibility, forging strong partnerships with the United Nations, the Government and other NGOs and local organisations working in the area.
This role will lead the Sponsorship program, which supports access to quality basic education as well as school health and nutrition and adolescent development in the Artibonite Department of Haiti. The Field Office Director will lead the relationship with the SCUS Sponsorship team and ensure that reporting standards and other deliverables meet required standards.
The Field Office Director will also oversee any additional projects in the Artibonite region and pro-actively support the search for new funding opportunities.
Qualifications and experience
Essential:
- At least 5 years of senior management experience in an NGO environment, with experience managing child rights based education, protection, resilience, food security or other development operations.
- Post-graduate degree in education, development or other relevant social sciences.
- Proven ability to manage consortium programmes, with extensive experience managing multi-agency programmes.
- Ability to represent the programme at a strategic level and engage and influence key stakeholders at regional and national level.
- Demonstrated experience of working with national level government structures.
- Self-motivated and results orientated.
- Highly numerically articulate with a track record of data manipulation and reporting systems.
- Experience in management of finance and budget monitoring and risk management.
- Proven ability to motivate and develop others.
- Highly diplomatic with excellent political awareness and understanding.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Experience of building, leading and developing a team of staff with different backgrounds and expertise.
- Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
- Fluency in written and spoken English and French.
Desirable:
- Proficiency in Haitian Creole highly desirable
- Prior experience of designing and/or delivering large scale (in excess of USD5m) programmes.
- Previous work experience in Haiti, and the Artibonite region in particular.
- Previous work experience in emergency response.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
To see a full a job description, please visit our website at www.savethechildren.net/jobs
Please apply in English using your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role.
Application Email: Please apply with a covering letter and up-to-date CV to: lgarcia.36095.4810@savethechildrenint.aplitrak.com
Field Office Director
Job posted by: Save the Children - International - Fri, 20 Mar 2015Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children - International
Deadline Fri, 10 Apr 2015
Job type: Contract
Location: Haiti
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential.
We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights, also in times of humanitarian crises.
Following a major transition, our international programmes are now delivered through a merged operation with c15,000 staff, managed through seven regional hubs and reporting to a relatively small, central office. We’re changing to become more efficient, more aligned, a better partner, a stronger advocate, a magnet for world-class people and relevant for the 21st century.
Contract length: 12 months
The role
The Field Office Director will provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the project, with responsibility for delivery of high quality programming, developing clear strategic and operational plans, increasing SC visibility, forging strong partnerships with the United Nations, the Government and other NGOs and local organisations working in the area.
This role will lead the Sponsorship program, which supports access to quality basic education as well as school health and nutrition and adolescent development in the Artibonite Department of Haiti. The Field Office Director will lead the relationship with the SCUS Sponsorship team and ensure that reporting standards and other deliverables meet required standards.
The Field Office Director will also oversee any additional projects in the Artibonite region and pro-actively support the search for new funding opportunities.
Qualifications and experience
Essential:
Desirable:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
To see a full a job description, please visit our website at www.savethechildren.net/jobs
Please apply in English using your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role.
Application Email: Please apply with a covering letter and up-to-date CV to: lgarcia.36095.4810@savethechildrenint.aplitrak.com