Position: Country Director (Hot Job)

Job Description

• In this role you will provide strategic leadership for a team of staff and volunteers to ensure delivery of VSO’s current programmes and commitments while developing ambitious plans and strategies to maintain and grow our presence in Nepal.

• ou will be accountable for the operations, business development and impact of VSO programmes, ensuring a high level of accountability and high quality development and delivery of VSO programming with our unique volunteering for development approach and People First framework are at the heart of all that we do and that we deliver sustainable change with our primary actors.

• As one of the VSO’s senior leadership network, you will be working with a team in country and globally to lead changes.

• It's important that you lead the team to achieve VSO's strategic objectives and meet ambitious funding targets to maintain and grow the programme in Nepal.

• You will build on excellent relations and engage with a wide range of stakeholders including government authorities, multilateral and bilateral agencies, civil society, corporate sector and other important actors to extend the influence that VSO can have, building on our core competencies and the voices of primary actors to bring about positive change. 

  but simply, this is a hugely important role and your leadership will be critical to our success in bringing people together to fight against poverty and make a real difference to the lives of poor people in Nepal.

Job Specification

• you will be a strategic thinker with excellent leadership skills.
• You will have a proven track record of successfully leading transformative change in a large and complex operations, developing business and securing funding, ideally within challenging environments.
• A practical experience of participatory evidence-based programming approach with good understanding of the role of volunteerism in development and ability to influence and engage with others will be crucial.
• You will understand development issues in complex and rapidly-changing contexts like Nepal and have sectoral knowledge in some or all of the fields of education, governance, social accountability, resilience, social inclusion and gender.
• You will be politically sensitive with excellent representational, networking, influencing and engagement skills.
• You will bring with you good verbal and written communications skills in English and local languages and good financial management understanding and experience.
• Your ability to shape the future with your determination, adaptability and commitment to VSO will be key for success.

Apply Instruction

If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description to read more details about the position and the skills and experience we’re looking for. To submit your application, click http://vso.force.com/jobopportunities/Job_DetailsPage?jid=a0mD000000Ao8O6 and then click on ‘Apply now’ and complete all relevant fields on the online application form.