Organization: War Child Holland
Job Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Starting date: 15 March 2010

War Child Holland’s program in Afghanistan
War Child Holland is working with local NGOs to provide children rights programs within Afghanistan. The objective of our work is to build the capacity of local actors to carry out programs in the fields of education, protection and psychosocial wellbeing of children.

The job
The Country Representative (CR) is based in Kabul and bears the overall responsibility for the country programme in Afghanistan. He/ she ensures that the country strategy is in place and that the programme is implemented, monitored and evaluated. The CR directly manages a small new team of (mainly) local staff and will be responsible to build the capacity of this team.

The CR 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 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. Capacity building staff & local partners
• Coach and build the capacity of local staff;
• Assesses the need of the partner in terms of capacity building;
• Ensures adequate means are organized, like trainings, to meet those needs;
• Evaluates the effect of the trainings and other support (follow-up) and keeps ensuring that needs in capacity building are met.

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; shares project learning’s, supports communication activities, field visits, etc;
• Represents War Child Holland 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
• 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 experience in an international/ humanitarian context of which 2 years in a senior position (e.g. as Representative or Country director), experience in Afghanistan is a plus;
• Relevant academic background e.g. psychology, pedagogy, community development, social sciences, international relations;
• Demonstrated experience in building the capacity of national staff and partner organizations;
• Knowledge of psychosocial, protection and education programmes for children affected by conflict;
• Capacity building and training skills;
• Experience in managing programs in complex security environments;
• Knowledge of financial management;
• Result- focused, good problem solving and social skills;
• Stress-resilient to be able to cope with deadlines and complex problems;
• A team worker and at the same time, able to work independently;
• Excellent written & oral expressions skills;
• Affinity with War Child Holland’s mandate;
• Required: English, (some) understanding of Dari or Farsi is an advantage

Terms of employment
War Child Holland 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 Holland offers its international staff a fair salary and comprehensive secondary benefits that includes free housing, good insurances (including health, travel and disability), good R&R arrangements and opportunities to develop and learn professionally.

Please visit our website www.warchildholland.org for more information on the organisation and the programmes.

How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to send a CV and a letter of motivation before December 31st, 2009 (please mention CR Afghanistan in the subject line) to recruitment@warchild.nl (your letter and CV should not exceed 5 pages).


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