We are looking for:

Operations Manager

Location: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Deadline for applications: 25 August 2024

When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Great, because we are hiring an Operations Manager for our (new) office in Tanzania!

Purpose of the function

The ambition of VVOB is to ensure that learners around the world enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception. In striving for that ambition, we place our values ‘commitment’, ‘integrity’, ‘respect’, ‘quality’ and ‘innovation’ at the centre of what we do.

As an Operations Manager you make a pivotal contribution to the delivery of VVOB’s ambition and values by setting up, managing, executing, monitoring, and optimising our operational systems and guiding the operations team (Finance, Procurement, HR, Logistics). As a key member of the management team, you know how to inspire team members to grow and change with us and you easily navigate between operations and strategy.

The Operations Manager reports to the Country Programmes Manager. You are part of and work closely with the other members of the country’s management team and you are responsible for the operations department, thus managing staff across these functions. Furthermore, you work closely together with the operations department at VVOB Head Office.

You will:

• Co-manage the start-up of VVOB’s office in Tanzania in close collaboration with the Country Programmes Manager.
• Maintain, strengthen and oversee effective systems and procedures for HR management, and you manage HR policies and procedures aligned with global VVOB standards and local laws.
• Maintain, strengthen, and oversee effective systems and procedures for financial management, reporting and auditing, also aligned with global VVOB standards and local laws.
• Oversee the procurement, logistics, office IT and administrative functions ensuring value, efficiency, and compliance of the organisation to local and global policies. You review and manage contracts with suppliers and staff and ensure their compliance with VVOB procedures and relevant country laws.
• Provide strong organisational leadership (on-the-job mentoring, coaching, capacity development, change management) for your team members and you foster good relationships with and between partners and teams, supporting a positive organizational culture. Leading by example, you represent our organization towards external partners and stakeholders in the domain of HR, finance, procurement, and operations.
• As the Operations Manager, you will also perform any other duty assigned by supervisors in line with your capacities.

Your expertise and experience

• Experience with starting-up an office, ideally in Tanzania,
• Proven experience and knowledge of Tanzanian legislation (finance, registration, labour law, taxation, etc…)
• Master’s degree (or equivalent by experience) in Business Management, Accounting, Law, Public Administration, or HR Management.
• Proven expertise in Finance, HR, and Procurement.
• Skilled in leading multicultural and high-performing teams.
• Proficient in IT, including accounting software, Office 365, spreadsheet management, and IT systems administration.
• English language proficiency at CEFR Level C1.
• Kiswahili language proficiency will be a significant asset