Plan International recruits 01 Finance and Operations Director
Plan International
Nampula, Mozambique
Humanitaire (ONG, Associations, …), Projet/programme de développement
Finance and Operations Director
Location: Nampula, Mozambique
Company: Plan International
The OrganizationPlan International is a rights-based development and humanitarian organization working for better lives for all children. We are independent of government and have no political or religious affiliation. Our purpose is to strive for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
Our global strategy has a specific focus on girls, as they are often the most marginalized and most often left behind. We have committed ourselves to the ambitious target of reaching 100 million girls over 5 years, to ensure they can learn, lead, decide and thrive. This is our contribution to reaching the sustainable development goals, and in particular the goals on gender equality. Our organization is transforming itself to meet this enormous challenge everywhere we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals to lead our country operations, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls.
In Mozambique we are working to eradicate early marriage and early pregnancy through projects that focus on adolescent girls in Inhambane Sofala and Nampula provinces. These projects are programmed along our three strategic pillars: Girl Education, Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, Youth Economic Empowerment and climate change. Our work is gender transformative and includes influencing work at national and sub-regional level.
Plan International is seeking a Finance and Operations Director for an anticipated USAID-funded Education program in Mozambique. This program will support the result areas of the USAID Mozambique Mission’s Human Capacity strategic goal under the USAID Advancing Girls’ Education (AGE) activity, with the purpose of increasing safety of girls in school through mobilizing communities and to expand girls’ access to quality education and improve learning outcomes for girls in upper primary and secondary grades.
The Finance and Operations Director is responsible for overseeing project finances and administrative operations in accordance with relevant USAID regulations and in line with Plan’s financial and administrative management policy provisions. The Finance and Operations Director will supervise financial reporting on grant performance and will ensure best use of resources by managing the preparation of sound budgets, monitoring project expenses, and assuring timely preparation of donor financial reports. This position is contingent upon award of the project by the donor.
MANAGEMENT SCOPE, REPORTING LINES, KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Direct reports: Finance and Operations team to be set.
Key relationships
Internal• Operations team (Procurement, Logistics, Security)• Plan Head of Business Support Services• Country Finance Manager• Internal technical networks as relevant• Global and Regional functional and thematic leads • Functional departments Heads• Plan Inc. US National Organization
External• Subgrantees• USAID• Government institutions• Bank Relationship Manager / representatives
LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN
Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT• Typical Office environment with 10% travel in Country.
ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES• Provide oversight of financial and administrative management of the project in compliance with donor’s rules and regulations.• Supervise all financial management to ensure best use of resources through sound budgeting, monitoring of project expenses, and timely preparation of donor financial reports.• Develop and implement monthly project-wide financial review (project tracker) and analysis, as well as provide timely and reliable financial information for decision-making.• Develop strategic planning, work planning, and budgeting processes. • Manage logistics and procurement surrounding project processes• Prepare financial reports for donors.
Internal Financial Controls:• Maintain strong internal policies, processes, and controls systems in order to provide timely, consistent and accurate financial and budget management.• Follows up on audit recommendations and actions related to financial and operational management of the project. • Ensure finance related audit actions are implemented and alternative actions taken as required to address weaknesses in financial controls and procedures identified in finance and other forms of audit reports• Work closely with Plan International USA home office and Plan Mozambique country office staff on internal and external financial reviews and audits; work closely with project finance/grants/administrative staff and sub-grantees to ensure appropriate implementation of same.• Perform risk analysis to identify high risk areas and put in place mitigation measures and monitor implementation of the same
Capability Building and People Management:• Manage a team of finance and operations staff of the project• Provide overall vision and direction to the team in coordination, planning, prioritization, coaching and supervision.• Support staff to understand and comply with the donor and organizational procedures and policies.• Ensure the finance and operations teams operates as high-performance team and have clear accountability lines (direct and matrix)• Socialize and nurture Plan Values and Behaviours. • Create an enabling working environment across to foster excellent teamwork and high performing staff.• Create a safe working place safeguarding. • Establish, communicate and monitor standards of performance and behaviours of the team through development of Individual Accountability Plans (IAP), and key performance indicators (KPI’s) that are agreed annually, and monitored and updated regularly.• Support team members to gain the necessary skills through learning and development • Engage in the performance management of functional subordinates.
Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) (%)• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.• Ensures that Humanitarian Program staff are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project design, during implementation and as principles applied in day-to-day work of Programme team; • Ensures that Plan Mozambique contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.
Location: Nampula or ZambeziaSalary: Competitive
Plan is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Child Protection Policy. As an international child-centered community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children’s rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk. Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.POSTULER