Country Representative

Date Posted: Aug 03, 2022

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Location:

Kabul
Company:

STICHTING SPARK
Type:

Full Time/Permanent
Shift:

First Shift (Morning)
Career Level:

Experienced Professional
Positions:

1
Vacancy number:

1
Experience:

5 Year
Gender:

Any
Salary:

As per Company salary scale
Degree:

Masters
Apply Before:

Aug 15, 2022

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About STICHTING SPARK

About STICHTING SPARK:

About SPARK

SPARK develops higher education and entrepreneurship, so that young ambitious people are empowered to lead their conflict-affected society into prosperity. SPARK is a dynamic and growing not-for-profit development organisation with 100+ staff members, which supports young entrepreneurs to start or grow their own businesses. SPARK provides displaced youth and women with access to higher education in fragile areas. SPARK specifically focuses its intervention on localization through building the capacities of local partners and stakeholders, green entrepreneurship, digitalization, and women entrepreneurship.

SPARK is an international non-profit organization based in the Netherlands. SPARK has worked in several dozen conflicts affected countries in the world. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has supported SPARK since its inception year 1994 to date.

In collaboration with local partners we provide young people with the tools they need to succeed in regions affected by conflict, climate crisis, and displacement. Together with our local partners we implement six services that empower students and entrepreneurs to study, work and grow their own businesses.

SPARK is exploring the possibility to support agribusiness and food production and processing capabilities in Afghanistan. SPARK will carry out an assessment to determine the key regions affected by food insecurity and the specific conditions and socio-economic situation/factors that lead Afghan citizens to become susceptible to food insecurity. We will pay attention to the major drivers of food security, including food availability, food access, food utilisation and food stability throughout different regions of the country. The general objective is to determine whether there is potential to design a programme to support sustainable food security in Afghanistan by building capacity and scaling activities of tested local (Afghan) partner organisations and scale up domestic food production and processing in the country.

Job Description

SPARK is an international development organisation with more than 28 years of experience in supporting entrepreneurship development in fragile states. Soon we will start implementing a new programme in Afghanistan.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial and dedicated country representative to lead this process together with SPARK’s international team. The country representative will be responsible for the SPARK operations in Afghanistan, including development and coordination of programme activities and all stakeholder relations of SPARK.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

The responsibilities and tasks include, but are not limited to:

Responsible for the implementation and overall management, reporting and implementation of activities of programmes
Manage HR for the country office and coordinate, support, train and coach staff.
Operationalization of programme components, coaching staff on PCM skills and monitoring delivery of project results within set deadlines according to budget;
Work closely with partner organisations and maintain partner relations;
Reporting to donors including finances and M&E;
Being the (legal) Representative of SPARK in Afghanistan and maintaining contacts with the relevant authorities, donors, multi-stakeholder platforms meetings and promoting SPARK visibility.
Ensure harmonisation and learning at programmes and projects level between SPARK’s programmes, local partner’s projects, programmes of other NGOs and government agencies;
Contributing to acquisition and development of new programmes including identification of project development opportunities for SPARK, contextual analysis and assessment of the entrepreneurial landscape, and donor communication;
Provide organisational and logistical support for other missions and ongoing activities in the region;
Managing the safety and security of the team and assets based on best practices, operational standards and field realities.
Up to date with the security situation and communicate with local government security officials and other humanitarian, relief and development stakeholders regarding critical incidents, periods of increased risk, incident reporting, and security policy change
Other tasks as required.

Job Requirements

Requirements and Skills

Minimum of at least 5 years of proven experience with entrepreneurship SME development, jobs creation and private sector cooperation
Minimum 8 years’ experience with multi-donor programme implementation and team management
Good understanding of the political environment and operational space in Afghanistan

Experience in managing teams with members of diverse backgrounds.

Extensive network in State of Afghanistan with authorities, stakeholders, universities, and the private sector
Full professional proficiency in Dari and English
Willingness to travel in-country and occasionally internationally

SPARK Offers

A challenging and exciting field position in an international environment and an opportunity to contribute to impact full interventions.
Remuneration based on experience and full-time contract (40h/per week)
A dynamic working environment and a great team

Skills Required

COMMUNICATION

Submission Guideline:

How to apply?

If you have any questions regarding SPARK or the position, please visit our website www.spark-online.org.

Please apply through SPARK’s online application platform through https://vacancy.spark-online.org/Tab1/LoadProfileFromVacancy/453

All applications will be assessed on a rolling basis; interviews can therefore take place before the application deadline. However, due to the large volume of applications we receive, we cannot respond to every applicant individually. There may be a delay between the deadline and the moment we contact selected applicants.

If you have not received a reply, we regret to inform that we have continued with other candidates.

At SPARK, we embrace diversity in thoughts, opinions, and backgrounds. We’re open-minded and committed to creating a work environment of mutual respect. That’s why your gender, age, religious beliefs, race, sexual orientation, skin color, or any other difference in your background doesn’t influence our hiring decision.

Submission Email:

Please apply through SPARK’s online application platform through https://vacancy.spark-online.org/Tab1/LoadProfileFromVacancy/453

Submission Email:

https://vacancy.spark-online.org/Tab1/LoadProfileFromVacancy/453

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