SOS Children’s Villages Programme Director

Job Description

Mission of the position: The SOS Children’s Villages Programme Director (CVPD) leads under the monitoring and guidance of National Office function staff the overall development and implementation of an SOS Children’s Villages Programme (CVP) in response to needs of the location and in line with the vision, mission, and values of the organisation. She/he represents the organisation towards governmental and non- governmental stakeholders in the location. She/he coordinates the CVP activities, ensures high quality and cost-efficient services for children and families from the target group. She/he acts as a manager of the standard SOS project (Connect SOS). The CVPD is responsible for the professional implementation of the programme management cycle in the location. She/he leads the managing co-workers within the programme. She/he negotiates with local authorities, advocates for the rights of the target group and involves in professional child welfare networks. She/he actively engages volunteers, partner organisations, institutional funders, donors from the community and identifies potential income sources in cooperation with the Fund Development & Communications function in the National Office and/or the National Director (ND). She/he reports to the ND and cooperates content-wise also with national functional managers. As a member of the National Management Team she/he participates in the annual strategic planning of the Member Association. Key performance areas and main responsibilities: Programme Development and Management · Leads the development and implementation of the SOS CVP in line with the SOS Children’s Villages Programme polices and related international and national strategies, quality standards and guidelines · Leads the implementation of the programme management cycle including the CVP planning process as part of MA annual and strategic planning to ensure that interventions are relevant to the local context, respond to the needs of the target group and contribute to the development of sustainable social support systems · Coordinates and ensures cooperation between all areas of work within the CVP · Ensures efficiency through best use/sharing of resources across different programme units · Regularly reports on CVP activities and progress to ND and relevant National Office functions · Ensures that the CVP is supportive to the brand of the SOS Children’s Villages Organisation HR Management and organizational development Financial and administrative Management Quality Management, Monitoring and Evaluation Partnership building, advocacy and cooperation with external stakeholders Fund Development and Public Relations Child Safeguarding (CS)

Job Requirements

• Must criteria
• Bachelor or Master degree in social sciences, public administration, business administration, law
• Minimum 3 years management experience in social welfare field, preferably in the sector of child and youth welfare
• Minimum 3 years leadership experience
• Strong communication, negotiation and advocating skills
• Strong in leading, planning and managing
• Good knowledge of English

Competencies – knowledge, skills, abilities:

• Leadership and people management: able to build engaged and high performing teams committed to the programme goal, interested in own and team’s learning and development
• Good skills in programme management, project cycle management, monitoring and evaluation
• Good knowledge of standards, legal issues, developments in the social welfare field, particularly in child and youth welfare. Good knowledge of and commitment to children’s rights
• Open for innovation
• Highly organised, result-oriented, collaborative way of work fostering integration and teamwork
• High level of communication and presentation skills, networking building skills to foster effective relations and build partnerships with local stakeholders
• Good knowledge in financial management, budgeting
• Basic knowledge in fund development, particularly in public funding
• Computer literacy (MS Office)