Director of Finance and Operations

About War Child

War Child believes no child should be part of war. Ever. Children have the right to grow up in peace, free from fear and violence. To develop their full potential and become the person they want to be. War Child makes a lasting impact. By protecting children from violence and offering psychosocial support and education. We unleash the children’s inner strength with our creative and involving approach. And inspire as many people as we can to participate in our cause. War Child is both implementing its own programmes and cooperating with a variety of partner organizations in 14 countries around the world.

The War Child Alliance is a registered entity in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a staff presence there and in 19 countries of operation: Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Colombia, Burundi, DR Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

The Role

As a member of the War Child Alliance (WCA) leadership team, you, the Director of Finance and Operations will play an important role in overseeing the financial health of our organisation, leading and managing information technology, governance processes, risk and auditing to support short- and long-term strategic goals. You promote a collaborative and inclusive culture and foster a great place to work for all colleagues in our Finance, IT and risk management department,

You lead the ongoing development of processes and systems needed to support effective programme operations and future scaling. You provide strategic influence and high-level expertise to support the necessary functions and related legal matters. You promote collaboration across War Child Alliance members in the areas of IT, finance, governance and risk management and you support their teams to set up the mechanisms to do this effectively.

The role can be based anywhere where War Child has an office. The eligible candidate needs to have the right to work in this country, War Child does not support with visa sponsorship.

Person Specification

• Leadership experience spanning Finance, IT & Risk and governance
• Significant general management experience preferably in the international development sector and or humanitarian context
• Experience of successfully scaling operations into new geographical areas
• Significant experience of recruitment & retention of capable key staff, financial & budget management, working in consortia and/or on the integration of programming, strong people management and team building skills and reporting skills
• Experience and established relations with relevant external networks
• Experience with development of business and funding allocation models
• Experience with change management and being able to naturally innovate in a dynamic environment whilst retaining a handle on inclusivity to take others along
• Outstanding relationship and negotiation skills
• Comfortable liaising at board level; understand and meet the needs of supervisory board
• Strong strategic and analytical skills for effective policy development and risk management
• Result-based management: demonstrated capacity to plan and deliver results in a structured manner
• Understanding of legal implications and risks, ICT, procurement policies and procedures
• Strong leadership skills: demonstrated capacity to take decisions regarding strategic, tactical, and operational and personnel matters
• Leadership of organisational development in a rapidly changing organisation
• Strategic & annual business planning processes
• Monitoring and reporting against core business aim.
• A thorough knowledge of the legal and accounting context for INGO’s
• High levels of energy and personal resilience
• Ability to involve others whilst also making decisions in a timely manner
• Strong social and communication skills, able to deal effectively in a variety of cultural and political contexts
• An appetite to really make a difference, have impact and inspire others
• University degree in general management, MBA, development studies or related fields would be preferred
• Fluent in English and preferably any of the other WCA country languages (Dutch, French, Spanish and/or Arabic)
• You must have the right to work in one of the locations where War Child has an office, War Child does not offer visa sponsorship
• Available for 40 hours per week

This recruitment is carried out via OxfordHR. When applying you will be forwarded to their webpage with a more detailed overview of the role and the official application link.

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Safeguarding

War Child is committed to humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.

Equal opportunity

War Child has a dream that every child lives in peace - no matter who or where they are. That’s why we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We promote diversity and belonging in everything we do and select our potential new colleagues without regard to gender, race, colour, religion, nationality, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Application process

To ensure that we spend as much of our resources on the support of children and youth, War Child needs to operate as efficiently as possible. This means we can only process job applications received through our websites.

If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, the vacancy will be removed from our websites. In this case, any responses received after removal will not be processed. Sometimes the closing date of a vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.