Country manager, Peru

Work for an organisation where life comes first.

Half the world lives in poverty. Christian Aid is striving for wholesale change to rules that keep people poor. We work wherever the need is greatest, giving people strength to find their own solutions to the problems they face, irrespective of their religion. So if you’re passionate about helping others and want to help us drive positive changes across the world come and join us!

The Country Manager needs to bring dynamic leadership to our staff team as they achieve high impact in our programmes, innovation with our partners, allies and donors. Christian Aid works exclusively through national partner organizations. Tthe team needs to excel in the management of these relationships to achieve impact and lasting change. Relationships with donors in the country and internationally are critical to our growth and success in the future. This role also needs a comprehensive understanding and advocacy experience in the Peruvian, Latin America and global context, ie the correlation between exclusion and poverty with economic, social, cultural and environmental rights.

Essential experience and skills required from applicants are:

· Written and oral fluency in Spanish and English

· Excellent management and communication skills, with the ability to relate well with people at all levels

· Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines

· MS office knowledge at user level

· Ability to analyse the political context

· Development work experience

Desirable experience and skills required are:

· Educated to degree level or equivalent with qualifications in development or related areas

· Ability to plan strategically and coordinate people, projects and resources

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions: Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers.

Decision making

Can you describe an example of a situation where you took a risky short-term decision in order to ensure that a longer-term goal would be achieved or a future problem avoided?

Stewardship of resources

When identifying opportunities or negotiating business relationships, how have you gone about determining best return on investment or maximum benefits for both your organisation and the partner/client? Please give a specific example.

Leading and managing change

Tell us about a time when you communicated a broad organizational change to employees in a way that helped them gain a clear vision of the impact of the change and support and embrace it in their work.

Risk taking

Describe a time when you assessed the various risks associated with a strategic plan of action that you were proposing.

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To apply for this post, please download an application packand email your completed International application form, in English, to: kvillanueva@christian-aid.org quoting the reference number below.

Please note that CVs will not be accepted and that only shortlisted candidates for interview will be contacted.

Job reference: SA/007/2011

Closing date: 5pm (Peru time) Monday 17 October 2011

Interview date: 7 or 8 November 2011

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.