Country Director by Pagus Africa

• Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the organization's operations and programs.
• Develops and implements consistent inventory and cost accounting policies, procedures, and operational reporting/metrics.
• Oversees and reports on the organization's results to the board of directors.
• Supervises the development of operations-based financial modeling.
• Coordinates and leads annual budget reviews, monthly and quarterly reviews, and periodic planning and forecast updates for effective program implementation.
• Ensures ongoing local programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommends timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals
• Maintains and supports in building a strong Board of Directors; builds board involvement with strategic direction of ongoing programs
• Leads, coaches, develops, and retains CFA.
• Ensures effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluates program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents.
• Develops appropriate community partnerships and collaborations, and provides feedback to the Board related to the operationalization of those partnerships and collaborations.
• Manages and develops CFA Path Program and Mentorship Program with build on leadership, personal and professional skills for PATH students

• Provides leadership to and manages the efforts of program teams to ensure appropriate support of all departments.
• Retains diverse, qualified staff and volunteers by providing career coaching, growth, and personal development for workers.
• Represent and manages the team according to CFA Core Values
• Ensures effective staff management by adopting efficient performance management models to maximize output.

• Expands local income generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion.
• Uses external presence and relationships to garnernew opportunities.
• Prepares accurate and timely analyses that capture and communicate fundraising results, variances, and performance trends.
• Ensures that services and funding relationships are robust enough to meet or exceed strategic goals and objectives.
• Designs the national fundraising strategy to intensify in-country fundraising.
• Builds partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders for the growth of the organization.
• Oversees the implementation of the online presence strategy and ensures the quality of the CFA brand
• Intensify local and international presence and communicate program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local programs to up the organization in a better position for resource mobilization.

• Successful resource development, fundraising and philanthropy experience
• High level communication skills, including experience of communicating effectively across cultures and with diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing
• A solid knowledge of accounting, budgeting, financial management and fundraising.
• Extensive experience in leading the process of ongoing strategic planning.
• Extensive experience in public speaking/public relations.
• Ability to appreciate gender, cultural and ethnic diversity
• Sensitive to context, local dynamics that drive conflict and division, and power imbalances

• Demonstrates leadership and management skills
• Is able to multi-task
• Takes initiative
• Works independently
• Demonstrates creative problem-solving skills
• Dynamic
• Flexible
• Organized
• Good team player

• The preferred applicant must have a minimum of a Master's Degree in Development Management, Project Management, MBA or other relating fields with 7 or more years' experience in senior management of the non-profit organizations.

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