Country Manager – Peru

Position description

FutureSense Foundation is a small international development charity committed to empowering communities around the world through sustainable development initiatives. We are looking for a passionate results-driven Country Manager to help deliver our global initiatives. 

Country Manager – Position Overview:  

The Country Manager in Peru will lead a small in country team based in Urubamba with a mission to strengthen and grow our programmes in the area. The selected candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the effective delivery of our community programmes, support incoming groups of students contributing to our programme delivery and learning about global issues, manage the logistics and arrangements related to their time in the area and ensuring all legal & governance matters related with operations are managed as required.  

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:   

• Strategically plan and oversee the development and delivery of all programmes in the region to ensure alignment with organizational goals. 
• Seek to identify programme expansion opportunities through research, needs assessments, and partner evaluations.   
• Develop effective relationships with local communities and partners. 
• Provide training, mentoring and support for teams and partners. 
• Strategically manage all group and programme delivery logistics. 
• Oversee and report on all financial management, exhibiting strong financial controls, accountability, and commercial acumen. 
• Lead and support diverse teams through effective communication and leadership. 
• Ensure safety and security of all representatives, programme participants and beneficiaries. 
• Drive strategic planning for growth operational success. 
• Represent the foundation and other group brands internally and externally, upholding organizational standards and values. 

Qualifications

• Experience in education, youth work or community development. 
• Experience in logistics, financial and risk management, and compliance matters. 
• Experience working with volunteering participants, preferably in a service-learning setting  
• Experience living and working abroad or working with diverse cultures. 
• Ability to work in varying working environments and hours, at time communication across time zones 
• A passion for community development and an understanding of the service learning model 
• Strong communication, leadership and people skills 
• Physical level of effort scale 1-5 is a 3.5 (this includes impact of weather, lifting, walking) 

 Requirements:

• Conversational Proficiency and basic written Spanish 
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken) 

Benefits & Perks: 

• 34 days of leave (including annual and public holidays) 
• 5 days of personal leave 
• Phone allowance 
• Paid travel expenses 
• Personal development coaching 

Application instructions

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