Deputy Country Director - Program

Deputy Country Director - Program

Solidarites International

Kabul, Afghanistan

About the job

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

In close collaboration with the Country Director (CD), the DCD’s prime objectives are to provide leadership and management of the strategic programming, overseeing the strengthening of SI’s programme development, quality and accountability. The DCD ensures the internal coherence between program activities and is responsible for ensuring that programs are driven by needs, based on evidence, adaptable to contextual changes and conflict sensitive, monitored closely and resourced appropriately.

ISSUES AND SPECIFIC CHALLENGES

One of the challenges of the DCD Program would be to ensure high quality program and timely implementation of projects amidst tight deadlines. Continued capacity building of the Program and MEAL teams in coordination and bases will be key to success. Approvals on technical designs for infrastructure related projects can tend to be a lengthy process and requires several discussions with authorities, which could hamper the speed of implementation. Currently, the focus of the mission is on timely implementation of activities of on-going projects and develop new proposals for 2025 & beyond. The position holder will require high levels of flexibility, strategic thinking and adaptability to factor the dynamism of the Afghanistan context for humanitairan-development nexus programming.

PRIORITIES ON THE 2-3 FIRST MONTHS

• Ensure needs assessment reports are finalized;
• Proposal Development with the support of Grants Manager and other Program team;
• Roll-out SOPs and Processes to improve Program quality.

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DIPLOMAS

• License or Master degree in humanitarian field and related topics.

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years experience in the humanitarian sector;
• 2 years experience on similar positions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• WASH/FSL/DRR/IWRM background or experience is mandatory;
• Multisectoral Programming (Humanitarian-Development nexus Programming expeirence is desirable);
• Proposal Development.

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS

• Donors and Cluster technical/sectorial engagement;
• External coordination with Partners and platforms - Technical leadership;
• Management of National and Expat staff.

LANGUAGES

• English mandatory;
• Dari/Pashtoo will be an asset.

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