Head of Support Services At Islamic Relief

Position: Head of Support Services

Contract Type: One year fixed Term

Location: Kabul

Islamic Relief Worldwide is an independent humanitarian and development organization, serving humanity for over 36 years. With an active presence in over 40 countries across the globe, we strive to make the world a better and fairer place for those effected by poverty, conflicts and natural disasters.

Our International Programme Division is currently recruiting for the position of Head Of Support Services for the Afghanistan office. The Head of Support Services will offer overall direction and management of all support services in the operation, in close cooperation with the Country Director. S/he will ensure the existence of effective and efficient business support in the CO’s finance, procurement and logistics activities and IT.S/he will play a key role in developing and implementing country specific strategies as well as devising, implementing and improving support services systems, processes and policies in in accordance with IR guidelines

The successful candidate must have:

· Participate as a member of the Country Management team in the development of the Annual Strategic Planning in accordance with the Islamic Relief Worldwide Policies and guidelines.

· Provide effective leadership in managing resources of Islamic Relief Afgshanistan. Lead on developing and implementing training programmes for all Support Services’ staff.

· Systems development and roll out of systems already developed in close cooperation and coordination with International Finance, Head of region & Country Director. This includes tools for monitoring shared expenditures, donor co-funding and decentralized book keeping and grants management systems.

· Participate Country and regional level meetings related to support services.

· Risk Management Framework and compliance to external and internal regulations as well as continuous improvement to internal control environment.

· Provide overall financial planning support to Country Team, advise on spending and financial spending strategies, provide accurate financial outlook of the programs on a regular basis.

· Ensure to maintain financial systems and controls to ensure the efficiency, integrity and transparency of the office and sub-office operations in accordance with IR guidelines, national legal requirements and internationally accepted accounting standards.

· Ensure all accounting records and supporting documentation for all financial transactions are maintained in a systematic order and in a safe and secure condition under the custody of the organisation.

· Provide IR with complete, accurate and timely financial reports, including institutional donor reports where required for all projects implemented in the country, in the required formats.

· Maintain accurate and effective financial controls on all transactions incurred by the office and sub-offices as part of project implementation and other related costs.