Country Director – El Salvador

Position: Country Director – El Salvador

Organization: Financial Services Volunteer Corps

Location: San Salvador

Salary: Commensurate with experience

Anticipated Start Date: October 2024

The Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) is looking for a highly motivated individual to successfully and effectively lead the implementation of an expected 24-month U.S. Department of State-funded program on anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) capacity building in El Salvador.

The program will focus on enhancing the capacities of reporting entities to adopt and implement risk-based AML/CFT measures and strengthen the AML/CFT supervision and enforcement capacities of regulators. Specifically, the program aims to 1) assist reporting entities in implementing and institutionalizing guidance, and mechanisms for the detection and reporting of suspicious transactions and activities, using a risk-based approach, and 2) develop and disseminate an anti-money laundering guide by supervisors and regulators in line with the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

Key job functions include:

• Manage all field aspects for the technical assistance delivered by recruited volunteer experts and consultants, including program and activity design, logistical arrangements, implementation, post-activity follow-up, and reporting to funders;
• Manage completion of all activities and deliverables in line with approved work plan;
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with key government and private sector counterparts, the funder and other relevant technical assistance providers in El Salvador;
• Liaise closely with FSVC’s Headquarters staff in New York to ensure effective program implementation and management;
• Draft and submit reports for FSVC and its funder on program activity, measuring progress, achievement of performance indicators, and impact for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Successful applicants will be dynamic, results-oriented team players, with outstanding execution skills, a keen sense of diplomacy, and the proven ability to work both independently and in a highly collaborative environment. They will also be proactive and innovative thinkers, with the proven ability to execute new initiatives, particularly in developing countries.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in finance, law, or a related field;
• 5 to 7 years of professional experience in international development or a related field;
• Experience in managing the delivery of international technical assistance programs;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Spanish is required;
• Excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills; and
• Ability to work independently.

About FSVC: FSVC is a not-for-profit organization that helps build the sound financial and governance systems needed to support healthy market-oriented economies in developing countries. Founded in 1990 at U.S. Presidential Initiative, FSVC has conducted over 3,400 technical assistance missions in 70 developing countries. FSVC has worked with regulators, law enforcement agencies, ministry officials, and private-sector financial and non-financial institutions on detecting, monitoring and disrupting financial crime in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. More here: www.fsvc.org.