Country Director, Yemen At Muslim Hands International

RESPONSIBILITIES

STRATEGY, COORDINATION AND REPRESENTATION

Formulating the country strategy for Muslim Hands considering the political, economic, and humanitarian context coupled with the overall organisational mandate as stated in the strategic plan.
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Ensuring the trickle down of MH global policies and guidelines to the respective country chapter.
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Acting as key contact with Head Office (HO), funding offices, Global Operations Development Department (Global Ops), local partners, I/NGOs, UN agencies, local authorities, government authorities and institutional donors.
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Acting as a focal point, to issue policy recommendations in collaboration with Global Ops and HO.
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Representing MH to partners, I/NGOs, local authorities, government authorities and institutional donors.

OVERALL MANAGEMENT OF PROGRAMS
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Defining the programmes with the coordinated team and creating shared understanding.
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Ensuring achievement of the program’s objectives and their tracking.
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Ensuring the organisation achieves Value for Money for its resources.
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Ensuring programme is still appropriate, according to the situation, the context and the programme’s objectives.
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Ensuring regular planning and review with staff.
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Ensuring the program standards are developed and well communicated to the staff.
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Ensuring staff carry out their work to the agreed standard.
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Narrative and financial reporting to institutional donors, HO and funding offices.
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Ensuring the collection of authentic data, uploading into the strategy tracker, representation on the dashboard and rectification of data anomalies as highlighted by the Global Ops.

OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT
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Responsible for financial feasibility of the country programme and budget monitoring.
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Responsible for all logistical aspects.
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Responsible for the appropriate management of all resources in a transparent manner.
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At all times the CD is accountable to the donors and benefactors of Muslim Hands.

OVERALL MANAGEMENT OF STAFF AND THEIR SECURITY
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Responsible for all expatriate and national staff, their security, wellbeing and management.
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Managing human resources in conformity with applicable local labour laws and with internal regulations.
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Security management.
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Setting of job descriptions and requests for new staff to headquarters.
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Performance appraisals of staff and objective setting in line with program requirements.