Firm Description
SNV is a worldwide improvement companion, engaged on the core themes of gender equality and social inclusion, local weather adaptation and mitigation, and powerful establishments and efficient governance, with a concentrate on the Agri-Meals, Power, and Water sectors.
The position of Nation Director is vital for the success of SNV and reviews on to the Director Nation Programmes. The Nation Director Benin will spearhead SNV’s affect, enterprise improvement, operational excellence and companion engagement within the nation. Our intention is to make sure the presence and packages in Benin and to increase our donor portfolio.
Job Description
SNV seeks an entrepreneurial, results-oriented, individuals chief who will construct the Benin nation workforce to the subsequent degree enabling and delivering prime quality affect packages. SNV has a stable observe document in Benin of greater than 50 years.
SNV provides the profitable candidate a difficult place, in additional creating the nation program portfolio in a rising improvement context in Benin and neighbouring nations. The Benin packages have been beforehand supported by way of the Mali Nation Director. With its present EUR 6 million, Benin operations is effectively established to additional develop its place beneath impartial nation management.
The Nation Director is answerable for main and enabling the nation packages with and thru their workforce and native implementation companions. This can be a nice alternative for an entrepreneurial chief with a concentrate on upscaling and strengthening nation operations by way of high-quality program supply, in addition to additional creating the SNV place and alternatives with traders and companions alike.
The Nation Director must be effectively knowledgeable about nationwide and worldwide improvement priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to those priorities. The Nation Director is anticipated to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and essential nationwide and worldwide actors and stimulate collaboration for affect. They would be the face of SNV within the nation and guarantee its constructive picture and visibility.
The Nation Director leads, coaches and helps their workforce and conjures up a complete workforce of fifty workforce members working from places of work in Cotonou, Parakou, Natitingou and Kandi. Constructing capabilities to ship our 2030 ambition is a key deliverable for the nation workforce. The Nation Director is a key member of SNV’s world senior management workforce, making significant contributions throughout the West and central Africa area and the broader organisation to additional form and allow the way forward for SNV.
Duties and Tasks
The chosen candidate will probably be answerable for the next duties:
- Strategic management of the nation and its present and future packages throughout the general parameters of SNV’s world technique;
- Robust and supportive individuals management enablingthe nation workforce: creating and nurturing an surroundings that helps excessive efficiency, steady studying and teamwork in any respect ranges;
- Illustration and profiling: constructing partnerships and sustaining glorious relationships with the nationwide and native governments, donors, companions, companies, coverage makers and different related stakeholders;
- Oversight and high quality assurance of undertaking implementation (together with undertaking director roles) making certain the supply of affect to the satisfaction of key stakeholders and compliance with SNV’s and the donor’s monetary requirements and monitoring protocols;
- Enterprise improvement to develop the nation place and its packages, guarantee monetary sustainability of SNV Kenya and Burundi and guarantee a high-quality undertaking design;
- Collaboration with different SNV nations to successfully exploit alternatives for synergy, ship at scale (together with multi-country tasks), change data and strengthen SNV’s place;
- Foster innovation of SNV services: facilitates studying, documentation and evidence-based data improvement in collaboration with SNV’s world workforce and companions; and ensures collaboration with famend data institutes and networks.
{Qualifications}
To be thought of for this position, the next training and expertise is required:
- Grasp’s diploma or equal in a related self-discipline;
- No less than 5 years of related management expertise in a global improvement surroundings at a senior degree and collaborating of administration workforce;
- Data and understanding of the worldwide improvement context in West Africa and the Sahel area, together with familiarity with key financiers and actors in SNV’s three sectors;
- Robust enterprise acumen accompanied by an innate people-centric focus;
- Potential to educate, lead, stimulate, and encourage professionals in a improvement context;
- Self-starting skilled, with entrepreneurial expertise and data-driven strategy to enterprise management
- Good observe document in mobilising sources from the private and non-private sector, together with sturdy networking and positioning expertise at a number of ranges;
- Confirmed capacity of creating partnerships, consortia and fostering relationships with authorities at a number of ranges;
- Confirmed observe document in undertaking administration together with familiarity with donor-funded undertaking procedures and processes;
- Glorious interpersonal expertise, culturally conscious, inclusive and open-minded;
- Proficiency in each written and spoken English and French is required.
- Availability to journey to North Benin the place many of the actions happen
Extra Info
- Contract Sort: fulltime place
- Contract Length: 3 years preliminary project, with the likelihood to increase
- Desired Begin Date: July 2024
- Obligation Station: Cotonou, Benin
Working at SNV
SNV provides a aggressive wage and complete advantages bundle. We provide a difficult work surroundings, alternatives to guide and innovate, and a dedication to rising your expertise in a satisfying and various working surroundings. Our employees profit from, and contribute to, an inside world community of consultants. For extra info, please go to our web site: www.snv.org/careers.
SNV strives to be an inclusive employer, thriving on the variety of its individuals and doesn’t discriminate on the premise of incapacity standing, faith, ethnic origin, gender and sexual orientation, and many others.
Methods to apply
When you imagine that your credentials meet the outlined profile, we invite you to use by importing your CV and letter of motivation by twenty second of March 2024.
Reference examine and vetting
We would require that you just present us with the total particulars of three people who find themselves prepared to behave as a reference. We won’t contact these references with out your specific permission.
SNV carries out rigorous background and reference checks regarding attainable safeguarding incidents for all candidates making use of for Worldwide decided positions. As SNV participates within the Inter-Company Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, all reference checks embrace a request to previous employers to fill in a questionnaire concerning Misconduct (sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment), the “Statement of Conduct“. This Assertion of Conduct adopts the definitions used within the Scheme.
Methods to apply
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