Overview
This role ensures compliance with DRC procedures and guidelines within Burkina Faso, contributing to country strategies and providing support and technical guidance to country operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Operationally and strategically responsible for Finance, Human Resources, Logistics and Procurement, Administration and/or IT.
- Oversees, develops and provides strategic direction to his/her support areas.
- Ensure mission procedures comply with DRC policies and donor agreements.
- Ensure proper implementation of logistics systems.
- Ensure appropriate sizing of the IT infrastructure.
- Ensure all existing and new HR policies are designed, implemented, and reviewed in accordance with HQ requirements and Burkina Faso labor legislation.
- Ensure the mission complies with Burkina Faso’s legal framework and provide support on legal matters.
- Directly manage the Finance, HR/Admin, and Logistics Managers.
- Conduct regular field visits to assess systems and controls and identify areas for improvement.
- May act as Country Director during an absence.
- Ensure implementation and compliance with the Code of Conduct and serve as a member of the Code of Conduct Intake Committee.
- Ensure mission risk management and maintain an up-to-date Risk Register.
- Perform other related duties reasonably assigned by the Country Director.
- Lead and manage the support managers.
- Manage, deliver and report on current operations programme support in geographic scope.
- Establish high performing support teams ensuring high-quality approaches are maintained.
- Develop and improve operational approaches, compliance and systems, and support the Country Director to build and deliver effective and sustainable interventions.
- Responsible for the strategic development, management and implementation of the support operations.
- Ensure appropriate technical support is available to programs, in line whit organizational priorities.
- Ensure support for annual planning and review processes.
- Direct responsibility for ensuring that the DRC programme operates in accordance with DRC’s support function guidelines.
- Support the country Director and the senior Management Team in leasing with donors authorities, especially as relates to issues of compliance, registration, and audit.
- Oversee the operational support units for the country by providing strategic leadership and technical support to the areas under his/her supervision.
- Supervision, audits and controlling and implementation of corrective actions related to DRC’s operational standards within support area.
- Ensure that DRC retains and continually develops its operational capacity to provide rapid emergency response in particular within its procurement and transport systems.
- Develop a risk management plan for the country that identifies the major financial and operational risks and implement a mitigation strategy.
- Ensure that all administrative and legal-related systems are accurate and maintained.
- Work to build the capacity of the operational support staff throughout the operation though frequent in-service training sessions and mentoring support.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of DRC’s global development initiatives.
- Ensure ERP functionality is properly used by relevant staff.
- Apply reports and data analytics from DRC Dynamics to improve overall performance.
- Act as heavy user for most of the projects & Finance functionalities.
Required Experience
- At least 7 years’ experience in relevant field
- At least 4 years’ experience with people management.
- Experience in a similar role in an international NGO.
- Proven leadership skills and competence in people management.
- Proven operational management experience and capability, including in conflict areas.
- Proven significant financial, information and systems management experience.
- Significant experience in procurement and tender processes.
- Understanding and experience of institutional fundraising.
- Understanding of the countries in which DRC operates and sensitive to the cultural context.
- Experience working in an ERP system, including supply chain, finance and HR systems.
- knowledge of the Burkina Faso context (and preferably the Central Sahel region).
- Experience working with ERP systems, including supply chain, finance, and HR modules.
- Previous experience managing projects funded by the European Union, ECHO, FCDO/GFFO, and DANIDA.
- Experience working in large consortiums and multi-country projects.
- Experience working with multiple local partners.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in political science, international development, economics or the relevant field.
