CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: BØRNEfonden
Country: Burkina Faso
Closing date: 10 Dec 2014

Country Director for BØRNEfonden (Child Fund Denmark) in Burkina Faso

BØRNEfonden is one of Denmark’s largest development organisation supporting children and their communities in Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, Benin and Cape Verde. BØRNEfonden is part of Child Fund Alliance – a global network which provides assistance to more than 15 million children and their communities in 58 countries.

BØRNEfonden´s work is financed by 3 funding sources. Our main source comes from the 60.000 private sponsors. In addition private companies and corporate foundations provide for local projects and know how and finally institutional donors such as DANIDA, UNICEF and EU support our work.

We are currently recruiting for a position as Country Director for Burkina Faso with location in our country office in Quagadougou. As country director you will in close cooperation with our office in Copenhagen and Regional Office in Cotonou be responsible for the overall operation of our country office, including leading strategic planning, program implementation, human resources, sponsorship service, fundraising, finance and administration.

The office has approximately 100 staff members, which includes the office in Ouagadougou with 3 divisions: Programme Department, Sponsor Department and Finance & HR Department (approximately 30 staff members) and around 20 field offices.

The main task will be:

· To lead and develop BØRNEfonden’s programme in the country

· To develop the local management team and staff

· To implement and further develop a country strategy, including fundraising

· Overall responsibility for finance and administration, reporting and financial controlling

· To ensure the adherence to guidelines and operating procedures within sponsor relations, program, finance, marketing, sales and HR.

Qualifications required

The successful candidate:

· Enjoys playing the role as leader and has documented and solid leader experience, preferably with knowledge from a development organisation

· Has strong negotiation, interpersonal and organization skills

· Has extensive fundraising and representational experience

· Has knowledge and working experience with institutional donors such as EU, UNICEF, DANIDA, CISU and the World Bank

· Has a relevant academic background and is fluent in both oral and written French and English

· Has an outgoing nature, personal commitment, resoluteness in action and result-orientation, acting in a trustworthy way in all areas of work and possessing integrity, empathy and respect for the values of the host country.

We offer

BØRNEfonden offers an attractive job in an organisation recognized by national and local authorities as well as beneficiaries for our substantial impact in the development of the local communities. Your work and collaboration with highly competent and motivated colleagues will make a tangible difference for the sponsor children, their families and the communities in which they live.

Further information on the job is available from Regional Office Director, Poul Hedelund Jørgensen. Please write to e-mail (pj@bornefonden-bj.org) for further information. You are also welcome to call Programme & People Director Anne Smith Petersen at +45 22 85 06 65.

Read more about BØRNEfonden on en.bornefonden.dk or www.bornefonden.dk(Danish site)

How to apply:

Your application

Send your application in English including relevant information on education and previous employment and your CV to job@bornefonden.dk (please write country director in the headline of the mail). The deadline is December 10, 2014.