Head Of Mission – Caucasus Georgia

Ref: HOM/GEORGIA/11

ACF is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for ACF in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation.

ACF-Spain has been operating in the South Caucasus region since 1994. At this time ACF-Spain is proposing to implement a technical assistance project to support the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure (MRDI) in it implementation of infrastructure rehabilitation and private sector development (PSD) initiatives.

For further information on the current context of Georgia: http://www.accioncontraelhambre.org/ficha_pais.php/id_map/98/pais/georgia

Objective:

The Head of Mission is in overall charge of all aspects of the mission in the Caucasus area, developing the mission strategy and the link with HQ for all aspects of the mission’s running. His/her main objective is to manage appropriately ACF mission in the South Caucasus ensuring the relevance and impact of the interventions according to ACF-E mission statement.

Specific Duties:

• Mission Strategy:

To be responsible for defining the ACF Country Strategy and its annual work plan, to give out responsibilities within the Coordination Team, Ensure proper development and implementation of the strategy, coordinate development and definition of new programmes, promote the interchange of contextual information and analysis between the Mission/Headquarters, etc..

• Fundraising

Define and monitor the fundraising strategy, monitor and control the co-financing needs in the mission, responsible for reaching the Annual Volume and margin objective figures

• Security:

Manage the security of the mission, follow-up and analysis of security information regarding the local context, responsible for keeping coordination with HQ during evacuation and/or any change of security level or context.

• External representation and internal coordination: develop a network with the partners in the country, ensure the follow-up of donor contracts and operational follow up of projects, ensure good team work and communication anticipate and manage internal conflicts, evaluation of staff.

• Follow-up and update ACF HR procedures: Follow-up labour contracts, recruitment processes, trainings of the team, job adverts and job descriptions.

Profile

• Higher Degree or Master in the Humanitarian field.

• Previous experience in the humanitarian field (at least 5 years) within a development context managing development and aid projects, preferably with ACF.

• High degree of maturity and responsibility to manage a team of expats and national staff.

• Security management in complex security situations

• Good experience in accountancy, finance, budget management, project management, HR management, donor’s rules, procurement and Cost Coverage Plan.

• Experience in Saga and advanced Excel utilisation, in logistics and security management in training.

• Diplomatic, professional and very transparent.

• Leadership, management capacities, team spirit and good communication skills.

• Experience working in partnership with government, UN, NGOs and donors.

• Organized and rigorous.

• English essential, Spanish or French. The candidate has to speak English and French or Spanish

• Technical experience in FS and/or WS. (desirable)

We offer immediate incorporation to a dynamic international network with the following remuneration package:

Remunerative Package:

• House and maintenance cover by the organization.

• Formal contract of work (2 years commitment)

• Salary: from 2000 € to 3000 € gross per month according to candidate’s previous experience + responsibility plus ( according to standard list of ACF – Spain)

• ACF- Spain remuneration system allows a salary progression based on the annual development appraisal

• Travel costs to and from the mission. • Per Diems.

• 25 working days of holidays per year.

• One week of breaks

• Travel and accident insurance and repatriation on account of the organization.

Requirements:

We will only consider CVs received by email. For candidates who are not in Madrid, the first interview will be through telephone. Short listed candidates will have a face to face interview to be held in Madrid. For those candidates selected, all the travel costs will be refund when the first mission is assigned.

Interested candidates should send: - A letter of motivation. - Updated cv. Please specify the length of the experience monthly. - The details of 2 managers who can provide us with professional references for the last two work experiences (We could ask for references also to different managers from the ones that you facilitated us. If you don’t agree, please let us know it). PLEASE indicate this reference HOM/Caucasus/ before 07/08/11 (Estimated date. Due to the urgency in covering the vacancies the process could be finalized before the end date given here) to: ach-candidaturas@achesp.org

We will appreciate if you could specify the web page where you saw the announcement. The Human Resources department will contact only those pre-selected for an interview. Many thanks. Selection process might include sending the CV to other HQs and/or to missions. If the candidate doesn’t agree, please tell us. Note - for more information about the post, please consult our webpage: www.accioncontraelhambre.org If the relevant post is not to be found on the website, this means that the selection process has been finalized. If the candidate has previous experience with ACF and has been recruited and validated in the past by another headquarter, or if the contract must be under other HQ please note that the salaries scale for this post will be in accordance with the policy of that headquarter.