Based in: Juba, South Sudan
Salary: Competitive salary and relocation package
About the role
Marie Stopes International are recruiting a Country Director for our South Sudan Programme. Based in Juba, the Country Director will be MSI's senior representative in the country, working closely with governments, donors and other key stakeholders to overcome barriers that prevent women and men from accessing safe, affordable, reliable family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services.
Our progamme in South Sudan employs c. 40 staff (8 international), with 2 clinics, 5 outreach and 40 social marketing outlets. There are plans to launch social franchising in 2015. We have a strong relationship with the government, this role offers the opportunity to lead a growing programme and the creation of family planning in a new country.
With a solid flow of donor funding, we are one of a few organisations in South Sudan that specialises in sexual and reproductive healthcare.
As the Country Director of South Sudan you will oversee and navigate this growth by preparing and executing the annual budgets, marketing plans and overall work plans in an external environment with limited process. This will include developing new business opportunities; overseeing financial, administrative and logistical resources; ensuring adherence to MSI minimum standards; and assuring quality operations in line with annual and long-term strategic goals and objectives.
Building capacity in the country team, you will manage for results, valuing and rewarding high performance, accountability, speed and efficiency and innovation, while keeping the client at the heart of everything we do.
About You
You do not need to have Family Planning or SRH experience to apply for this role; working as a Country Director at MSI, what you do need is a passion for our mission and the work that we do. In addition you will be a hands-on, commercially-minded manager who is drawn by the challenge of both programme expansion and building long-term relationships with key stakeholders.
You will have proven general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging environments as well as experience designing and delivering strategic and annual business plans and income generation through donor funding, and/or commercial activities. You will have financial and reporting management experience, to include managing and improving the bottom line and the ability to generate, track and analyse management information and client data to inform management decision-making. In addition you will be motivated to deliver tangible results for the organisation and have the ability to manage change successfully.
This role is suitable for an individual posting, which attracts additional hardship allowance and leave, the MSI team live in secure shared housing.
The successful candidate will be pro-choice.
For more information about this role please view the attached job framework.
We are ideally looking for a start date towards the end of 2014.
About Us
Marie Stopes International is one of the largest international family planning organisations in the world. Millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality family planning and reproductive healthcare. We are in 37 countries, with 9,000 team members, 3,190 social franchises, 52,000 outreach locations and 600+ clinics.
How to apply:
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