COUNTRY DIRECTOR UGANDA

War Child Holland
War Child Holland is an international NGO aiming at providing psychosocial relief to children in (former) war and/or conflict zones. War Child invests in the peaceful future of children affected by war. War Child’s goal is the empowerment of children in war-affected areas, through psychosocial, child protection and education programmes in which creative and sports activities are used to reinforce the psychological and social development and the welfare of the children and to create public awareness of the problems of children in (former) war zones.
Closing date: 20 Apr 2010
Location: Uganda - Kampala

Organization: War Child Holland
Job Location: Kampala, Uganda
Starting date: July 2010

War Child program in Uganda:

Since 2004 War Child Holland is working in Northern Uganda in Gulu, Amuru, Kitgum, Pader and Lira districts and from the countries’ head office in Kampala. The programme aims at improving psycho-social well being of children and youth, through education, child protection and psychosocial support intervention, to this end War Child seeks to empower children and youth and promote a supportive and protective environment.

The job:

The Country Director (CD) is based in the office in Kampala and bears the overall responsibility for the country programme and team. As such, the CD is responsible for the implementation of the programmes by War Child staff. The CD directly manages a team of so called key positions holders (7) and indirectly a team of local staff (70). The CD reports to the Director of Programmes based at headquarters in Amsterdam.

Responsibilities:

1. Realisation of War Child’s country programme;
- Final and overall responsibility for country programmes;
- Leads and facilitates the development and updates of the Country Strategy;
- Has final responsibility for the development and writing of programme and project proposals;
- Produces annual plan following consultation with the Country Management Team;
- Monitors and evaluates implementation of programmes;
- Ensures that appropriate local (implementing) partners are identified and capacity building of local partners takes place;
- Monitors local developments and needs;
- Reports to HQ on programme progress and context development;

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 and international recruitment and assists with the international recruitment of key field staff CD is responsible for all recruitment
- 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 in place and adhered to.

3. Fundraising and representation:
- Final and direct responsibility for in-country fundraising with institutional donors;
- Represent War Child Holland within War Child International;
- Develops and maintains donor relations;
- Develops and maintains productive relationships with local and national governments, other agencies, donors and media;
- 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 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;
- Final responsibility for office management and logistics, including reporting to HQ.

Profile:

- A strong leader with at least 7 years relevant management experience in an international/ humanitarian context of which 3 years as a Country Director;
- Relevant academic background e.g. international relations, social sciences, business administration;;
- Able to manage on a distance;
- Knowledge of child development and children’s rights issues
- Knowledge of financial management and human resource management;
- 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;
- Required: English.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to send a CV and a letter of motivation before April 20th (please mention CD Uganda in the subject line) to recruitment@warchild.nl (your letter and CV should not exceed 5 pages).