SNV Country Director Jobs 2024 – South Sudan NGO Jobs

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SNV Country Director Jobs 2024 – South Sudan NGO Jobs.

SNV South Sudan looking for “Country Director”.

Applicants with a Master’s degree may apply on or before 12th May 2024.

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is a not-for-profit international development organisation, established in the Netherlands in 1965. Driven by the Sustainable Development Goals, SNV makes a lasting difference in the lives of people living in poverty by helping them raise incomes and access basic services.

The SNV has published a job vacancy announcement on 29th April 2024 for qualified South Sudanese to fill in the vacant post of Country Director to be based in Juba, South Sudan.

Duties and Responsibilities

The selected candidate will be responsible for the following tasks:

Strategic leadership of the country and its current and future programs within the overall parameters of SNV’s global strategy;
Strong and supportive people leadership enabling the country team: creating and nurturing an environment that supports high performance, continuous learning and teamwork at all levels;
Representation and profiling: building partnerships and maintaining excellent relationships with donors, partners, local governments, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders;
Oversight and quality assurance of project implementation ensuring the delivery of impact to the satisfaction of key stakeholders, management of risk and compliance with SNV’s and the donor’s financial and operational policies, standards and monitoring protocols;
Business development to grow the country position and its programmes, ensure financial sustainability of SNV South Sudan and ensure a high-quality project design;
Collaboration with other SNV countries to effectively exploit opportunities for synergy, deliver at scale (including multi-country projects), exchange knowledge and strengthen SNV’s position;
In addition, the Country Director fosters innovation of SNV products and services: facilitates learning, documentation and evidence-based knowledge development in collaboration with SNV’s global team and partners; and ensures collaboration with renowned knowledge institutes and networks.

Eligibility Criteria

Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline;
Relevant (programme) leadership experience in international development at a senior level and taking part of management team;
At least 5 years of experience in fragile and conflict affected situations (FCAS)
Knowledge and understanding of the international development context in East Africa, including familiarity with key financiers and actors in SNV’s three sectors;
Strong business acumen accompanied by an innate people-centric focus;
Ability to coach, lead, stimulate, and inspire professionals in a development context;
Strong ability in operational and financial oversight;
Self-starting professional, with entrepreneurial skills and data-driven approach to business leadership;
Previous experience in starting up a country operation;
Demonstrated business development experience across a range of actors – bilateral donors, multilateral partners etc.;
Good track record in mobilising resources from the public and private sector, including strong networking and positioning skills at multiple levels;
Proven ability of establishing partnerships, consortia and fostering relationships with government at multiple levels;
Proven track record in project management including familiarity with donor-funded project procedures and processes;
Excellent interpersonal skills, culturally aware, inclusive and open-minded;
Proficiency in both written and spoken English is required.