Assistant Country Director Program Support

Are you an experienced manager of diverse teams in stressful working environment? Do you have experience in management of human resources, finance, operations and/or administration? Do you believe in the rights of women and girls to live in dignity and security? This could be an exciting career opportunity for you.

Job Summary:

This role provides overall leadership in the management of the Mission’s various support units; Human Resources, Finance, IT, Procurement, logistics and Administration, to ensure optimum support to projects within the policies of CARE and the laws of the CARE Ukraine Country Office (CO). Provides training, mentoring and coaching to senior programme support managers as they mature in their responsibilities. Ensures that projects and programmes receive the quality and quantity of services required in a timely manner. Ensures that rigorous systems are in place and that senior managers enforce compliance with these systems. Assists the Country Director in overall management of the Mission.

Responsibilities:

Responsibility 1: Provide overall management of the CO’s Human Resource Department to ensure that projects are provided with the support required to enable their optimum and most efficient utilization.

Responsibility 2: Ensure overall management of the CARE Ukraine’s Finance Department to ensure that optimum financial support is provided to projects within established CARE financial policies and principles and within the standards set by the mission.

Responsibility 3: Provides overall management to the CO’s Administration and logistics department to ensure that optimum administrative support is provided to the CARE Ukraine projects and partners within established CARE Ukraine operational principles.

Responsibility 4: Provides overall management to the CO’s Information Technology (IT) unit to ensure that optimum administrative support is provided to projects within CARE Ukraine operational procedures.

Responsibility 5: Assists the Country Director in overall CO management in order to ensure that the CO most effectively pursues the achievement of the organizational purpose and the country strategy.

Responsibility 6: Liaison with CARE Deutschland

Competencies:

• Passionate about gender justice and the rights of girls and women
• Able to work under pressure meeting deadlines while working as a team
• Diplomatic with the ability to communicate clearly across diverse teams
• Promotes a culture of learning and growth of team skills and experience
• Innovation/Use of best practices – strong problem-solving skills
• Organizational planning – ability to prioritise and plan
• Work well in team context – enjoy working to develop the skills of others and the success of an entire team

Education and Certifications

• University degree in management, business administration or a related field

Minimal requirements:

• Excellent management skills and experience.
• Strong HR, finance administration and audit skills and experience.
• Excellent team building, coaching and mentoring skills and proven experience in managing multi-sectoral teams.
• Strong interpersonal and intercultural communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, written communications and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required in English

Desired requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of international development or humanitarian assistance experience in program support roles.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in Ukrainian an asset

Working & Living Conditions

Main duty station will be the office in Lviv in the Western region of Ukraine with possibility of moving this office to Kyiv. Expected percentage of travel time: 10 – 15% to CARE project locations in any of the oblasts where CARE programs activities are conducted.

The security situation is currently moderate in Lviv but may differ in project locations. This is an unaccompanied position; regular R&R is given.

About CARE

CARE International (CARE) is a non-religious, non-political international development and humanitarian organization, dedicated to fighting global poverty. CARE works in around 95 countries globally, engaging diverse partnerships to support communities to overcome poverty through development projects and delivers humanitarian assistance. CARE programmes address social injustice whilst placing women and girls at the core of programming in order to create sustainable positive change in poor communities. CARE is an equal opportunity employer irrespective of nationality, religion, ethnicity, caste or gender.

CARE is currently establishing its presence in Ukraine to provide relief and development assistance to vulnerable populations affected by conflict. The core sectors of CARE Ukraine’s work encompass WASH, Sexual Reproductive and Maternal Health services, Livelihoods and multipurpose cash assistance and interventions to assist vulnerable households to meet basic needs and to increase their social-economic resilience. The Country Office continues re-orienting its programming to strengthen mainstreaming of gender and protection (GBV, Child Safeguarding, Disability Inclusion, etc.) with a focus on the empowerment of women and girls in all diversities, recognizing the disproportionate effect disasters have upon their lives.

Accountability within CARE

A commitment to CARE values and CARE’s integrity framework is critical to working with CARE. Any candidate offered a job with CARE will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with CARE’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a CARE staff or partner.

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with CARE as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that CARE shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Gender equality

CARE Ukraine is committed to meeting the standards of the CARE International Gender Policy (2019). Through this policy, CARE seeks to promote the equal realization of dignity and human rights for girls, women, boys and men in all diversities, and the elimination of poverty and injustice. Specifically, this policy seeks to improve the explicit incorporation of gender in programmatic and organizational practices.