Health / Policy / Livelihoods / Monitoring and Evaluation

Job Background: The overall purpose of our client's programmes in Afghanistan is to reduce excess morbidity and mortality amongst vulnerable populations through the provision of priority health services to a network of health facilities and Community Healthcare Workers.
Main purpose of the role
Overall responsibility for all aspects of the Afghanistan Country Programme, which includes: Logistics, Finance, Security and Human Resources. As Country Director you will ensure timely, quality programmes are delivered to beneficiaries with all objectives met as outlined in project documents/proposals.

Job Background: Our client focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development. It is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender.

It seeks sustainable solutions to long term problems of poverty, with special emphasis on the needs of rural communities in mountainous, coastal and other resource poor areas across the world. Concentrating its efforts in health, education, rural development and strengthening civil society sectors, our clients approach is based on long-term commitment that is maintained through political and social uncertainty.

The Programme Director is responsible for strategic direction, external representation and overall implementation of an ambitious set of rural development and governance programmes in central and northeast Afghanistan, which include: market-based natural resource management, micro and small enterprise development, rural energy supply, social protection, water and sanitation, and local government and civil society capacity building.

The Programme Director is part of the senior management team, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, and working in close collaboration with the Chief Finance Officer, resource mobilisation unit, sector heads, and regional programme managers.

Job Background: Our client is one of the largest NGOs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They aim to save lives, to strengthen Congolese institutions and to reinforce social cohesion through carefully designed and professionally implemented programs.

The Community Driven Reconstruction Program Director (CDRPD) leads a Consortium including Care International and the International Foundation for Education and Self Help (IFESH) implementing a large scale CDR program in the DRC. With a budget of 45 million USD, this 3-year program aims at supporting 280 communities representing 1.78 million inhabitants to reduce poverty, increase social cohesion, improve access to social services, increase understanding of good governance and improve linkage with authorities at local level. The CDRPD directly supervises a Deputy Program Director and a Technical Advisor, and oversees 4 field-based Program Coordinators, each responsible for one geographical area. The CDRPD provides vision, leadership and management oversight; he/she provides technical support to the field-based CDR Program Coordinators and is accountable for the consistency of approach and implementation in accordance with the agreed model of programming throughout the country. The CDRPD is a CDR expert.