Ghana Country Manager
Title: Country Manager, Ghana Location: Accra, Ghana Duration: 24 months Start: April 1, 2012 Salary: $40,000 CAD Plus Benefits
Youth Challenge International is a leading global youth development organization that promotes youth innovation to drive positive change. Building on over 20 years of experience, YCI’s programs are designed to meet the needs of youth affected by poverty through three integrated sectors: youth leadership, youth health and youth livelihoods. YCI engages youth in creating solutions to the challenges they face, incorporating youth development, volunteerism, partnership, and equity into all that we do.
The Country Manager will be responsible for the overall management of programs and partnerships in Ghana. The position will be based in Accra with frequent travel within Ghana (30%). The Country Manager will supervise field staff, interns and volunteers and support the programmatic and institutional development of YCI’s local partners. In addition the Country Manager will expand YCI programming, partnerships and funding opportunities. Reporting to the Project Director based in Toronto, the Country Manager will:
Program Management/Development: • Manage the implementation of program activities with a commitment to best practice in youth-focused programming; • Develop and implement annual program work-plans in collaboration with local partners, youth and YCI volunteers; • Design and implement capacity building programs for local partners with a focus on institutional and program capacity building; • Work with partners, YCI staff and volunteers to design and develop new programming opportunities; • Manage partner relations in Ghana through continuous communication and support; • Establish relations with new partners committed to youth programming; • Oversee the implementation of YCI operational policies in YCI and partner offices; • Liaise with national and international agencies and donors to expand YCI programming by responding to proposals and/or securing grants and sub-grants; • Contribute to YCI proposals including assessment, program design, logical frameworks and budgets; • Oversee the development and implementation of YCI and donor monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
Operations Management: • Manage in-country staff in Ghana including managers, officers, interns and local volunteers operations and complete staff evaluations as per YCI policies and timelines; • Ensure accurate receipt tracking, implementation of YCI finance polices and practices, and timely submission of finance reports to YCI head office in Toronto; • Manage development of all partner, donor and headquarters reporting and submit prior to deadline; • Recruit, hire and train new staff as required; • Oversee in-country security management and risk management; • Facilitate field visits from YCI headquarters staff, donors and evaluators.
Background and Qualifications: • Degree in international development or related field; • 5 plus years’ international development field experience; • 5 plus years' experience managing development programs; • 5 plus years' experience in program, partner, volunteer and staff management;
• Previous experience working with partners and partner capacity building; • Previous experience working with youth, youth volunteers and peer educators; • Previous experience successfully developing projects and writing proposals for public donors, experience with CIDA preferred; • Technical skills in youth focused programming in health, livelihoods and/or good governance; • Previous experience successfully managing multiple partners, staff, volunteers, peer educators and program initiatives; • Previous experience with financial management, donor reporting, budget development and M&E; • Flexible, strong inter-cultural skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills; • Candidate must be able to work autonomously, have a proven ability to multi-task, work under pressure, work effectively with limited infrastructure and support, and appreciate freelance travel; • Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English; • Minimum commitment of 24 months.
How to apply:
Please submit a cover letter and CV in a single word or PDF document to recruitment@yci.org by February 3, 2012. Please state Country Program Manager in the cover e-mail title. YCI is an equal opportunities employer and strongly encourages applications from females and people with disabilities. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. YCI will not accept any telephone queries in relation to this application. Starting salary is non-negotiable.
Job ID: #471144
Career categories:
* Management
Country:
* Ghana
City:
* Accra
Organisation:
* Youth Challenge International
Theme:
* Education
* Gender
* Health
* Other
Job years of experience:
* 5-10 years
Job type:
* Job
Youth Challenge International is a leading global youth development organization that promotes youth innovation to drive positive change. Building on over 20 years of experience, YCI’s programs are designed to meet the needs of youth affected by poverty through three integrated sectors: youth leadership, youth health and youth livelihoods. YCI engages youth in creating solutions to the challenges they face, incorporating youth development, volunteerism, partnership, and equity into all that we do.
The Country Manager will be responsible for the overall management of programs and partnerships in Ghana. The position will be based in Accra with frequent travel within Ghana (30%). The Country Manager will supervise field staff, interns and volunteers and support the programmatic and institutional development of YCI’s local partners. In addition the Country Manager will expand YCI programming, partnerships and funding opportunities. Reporting to the Project Director based in Toronto, the Country Manager will:
Program Management/Development: • Manage the implementation of program activities with a commitment to best practice in youth-focused programming; • Develop and implement annual program work-plans in collaboration with local partners, youth and YCI volunteers; • Design and implement capacity building programs for local partners with a focus on institutional and program capacity building; • Work with partners, YCI staff and volunteers to design and develop new programming opportunities; • Manage partner relations in Ghana through continuous communication and support; • Establish relations with new partners committed to youth programming; • Oversee the implementation of YCI operational policies in YCI and partner offices; • Liaise with national and international agencies and donors to expand YCI programming by responding to proposals and/or securing grants and sub-grants; • Contribute to YCI proposals including assessment, program design, logical frameworks and budgets; • Oversee the development and implementation of YCI and donor monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
Operations Management: • Manage in-country staff in Ghana including managers, officers, interns and local volunteers operations and complete staff evaluations as per YCI policies and timelines; • Ensure accurate receipt tracking, implementation of YCI finance polices and practices, and timely submission of finance reports to YCI head office in Toronto; • Manage development of all partner, donor and headquarters reporting and submit prior to deadline; • Recruit, hire and train new staff as required; • Oversee in-country security management and risk management; • Facilitate field visits from YCI headquarters staff, donors and evaluators.
Background and Qualifications: • Degree in international development or related field; • 5 plus years’ international development field experience; • 5 plus years' experience managing development programs; • 5 plus years' experience in program, partner, volunteer and staff management;
• Previous experience working with partners and partner capacity building; • Previous experience working with youth, youth volunteers and peer educators; • Previous experience successfully developing projects and writing proposals for public donors, experience with CIDA preferred; • Technical skills in youth focused programming in health, livelihoods and/or good governance; • Previous experience successfully managing multiple partners, staff, volunteers, peer educators and program initiatives; • Previous experience with financial management, donor reporting, budget development and M&E; • Flexible, strong inter-cultural skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills; • Candidate must be able to work autonomously, have a proven ability to multi-task, work under pressure, work effectively with limited infrastructure and support, and appreciate freelance travel; • Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English; • Minimum commitment of 24 months.
How to apply:
Please submit a cover letter and CV in a single word or PDF document to recruitment@yci.org by February 3, 2012. Please state Country Program Manager in the cover e-mail title. YCI is an equal opportunities employer and strongly encourages applications from females and people with disabilities. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. YCI will not accept any telephone queries in relation to this application. Starting salary is non-negotiable.
Job ID: #471144
Career categories:
* Management
Country:
* Ghana
City:
* Accra
Organisation:
* Youth Challenge International
Theme:
* Education
* Gender
* Health
* Other
Job years of experience:
* 5-10 years
Job type:
* Job
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