Management

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.

They are currently looking for a Director of Education who will provide intellectual and strategic leadership to the Education programme, while also ensuring effective administrative and managerial oversight.

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.