Admin Jobs at BRAC; Country Head

Job Title:    Country Head – BRAC South Sudan, BRAC Uganda, BRAC Liberia
Job Location:    Uganda, Sudan & Liberia
Employer:    BRAC Uganda
Salary:        Negotiable
About Us:
BRAC is a development success story, spreading solutions born in Bangladesh to 10 other countries around the world – a global leader in creating opportunity for the world's poor. As the largest NGO in the world our work now touches the lives of an estimated 135 million people, with staff and BRAC-trained entrepreneurs numbering more than 100,000. Starting from a modest launch in 2006, BRAC's programmes in Uganda are halfway toward its goal of reaching 4.2 million people, or 12 percent of the population, by 2016.

Job Requirements:

• Master's Degree or equivalent post-graduate qualification in relevant field
• Minimum 10 years work experience ideally in development sector, of which at least 5 years at a Managerial level

Additional Job Requirements:

• Familiarity with managing budgets, financial reporting, grant writing and reporting.
• Excellent human resource management and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and teambuilding skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• High level of maturity and cultural sensitivity.
• Knowledge of the political, economic and social context of the country
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time efficiently.
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Willingness and ability to travel within the country and overseas and spend time in the field.

Job Duties:

• Lead the country team in line with BRAC’s mission, vision and values and ensure BRAC policies 
• and code of conduct are followed.
• Be the key person accountable for ensuring high quality delivery of integrated/other programmes,
• Analyse continuous impact and effectiveness of existing programmes on a national level
• Develop new programmes in line with the country’s policies, priorities and BRAC’s strategic direction and capability
• Participate in networking and coordination with different stakeholders i.e. ministries, policy makers, donor agencies, foreign embassies, NGO associations and other relevant organisations nationally and internationally to represent BRAC and find potential partners for collaboration and fundraising
• Work as focal person for the organisation and represent BRAC in different forums, actively participating in national level consultation or committees formed by the government for specific issues where BRAC is invited
• Facilitate the preparation of project proposals and programme and operational budgets, working closely with programme anchors at BRAC International
• Inform the Executive Director of in-country developments that influence the sector and ensure timely production of Situational Reports that may affect the in-country strategy.
• Ensure strong manpower plans for adequately staffing the national teams and build ownership among local staff
• Develop managerial and technical capacity of national and expatriate staff
• Ensure effective and transparent management of resources that comply with the organisational, host country governments and donors’ policies.
• Follow up with programme managers on the findings of Audit and Monitoring reports and take steps to improve quality of programme activities. Ensure legal and ethical compliance of the host country departments/ministries and the contractual obligation with donors
• Build effective working relationships with Head office in Bangladesh
• Build a strong country management team and plan succession

Deadline Date: 15/04/2014

How to Apply:
If you feel you are the right match for above mentioned position, email your CV with a letter of interest mentioning your educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at:
Email: recruitment.bi@brac.net
Please mention the name of the position, country allied for and AD# BI 20/13 in the subject bar..

Note: Only complete applications will be accepted and short listed candidates will be contacted.

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