Member Support Advisor French Cluster (MSA)

SOS Children’s Villages International is the umbrella organisation for the global federation of SOS Children’s Villages. As a non-governmental social development organisation we support children without parental care and families in difficult living conditions through services in care, education, health and emergency relief, and we advocate for the rights of children and young people, in alliance with a great diversity of partners. We work in 135 countries and territories, reaching over one million children, young people, families and caregivers each year. To support us with this important responsibility we are now looking for a committed:

MEMBER SUPPORT ADVISOR FRENCH CLUSTER (MSA)

IOR ESAF (Eastern and Southern Africa) (Job Ref: SOS/MSA/10 /1)

Within the Eastern and Southern Africa region, SOS CV International is headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and has member associations in Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somali/Somaliland, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius, Angola and Madagascar.

Location:  Nairobi, Kenya

Tasks and Responsibilities

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

Planning

• Support the CVI Representative in the annual planning process for Member Associations.
• Ensure the link between planning and budgeting.
• Support the linking needs and funds by providing necessary content information based on input from functions.
• Support the management of PSA portfolios by providing necessary content information to IO.
• Support the development of MA sustainable path or long-term strategies.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Have an overview of core SOS Children’s Villages policies and Policy Support Documents.
• Support the development and update of International Policies and Policy Support Documents in cooperation with the Member Associations and functions.
• Have an overview on external financial audits for Member Associations.
• Manage and maintain an overview on Member Associations statistics.
• Monitor Member Associations data and key performance indicators across all functions by preparing management reports.
• Facilitate and support exchange between CVI Rep and functions and follow up on agreements
• Screening of documents prepared by MA for Board meetings including updates of MA statutes.

Information and Coordination

• Provide administration and general service to the CVI Representative in all aspects related to the Member Associations.
• Provide information and general coordination of services and contact requested by PSAs, regional functions and other Member Associations.
• Collect, check and forward standard report to PSAs e.g annual reports including technical handling of databases
• Process miscellaneous requests from PSAs and Member Associations.
• Project management support in public funding and construction projects to Member Associations. and PSAs

 Systems Support

• Implement and give first level user support for Member Associations for the SOS controlling system LUCY (Construction, Monitoring & Reporting)
• Act as first level support for the Linking, Needs & Funds Database

Requirements

Competencies:

• Strategic and financial planning as well as stakeholder servicing and management.
• Good consulting, analytical and critical thinking skills, organized and results driven
• Fluent in English & French with excellent written and oral communication, skills
• Strong project and process management skills.
• In-depth knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, good knowledge of outlook.
• Positive, energetic self-starter with the high level of personal drive and resilience.
• Ability to function as a team player with strong cooperation and negotiation skills
• Personal management skills

      A competitive package will be offered to the successful candidate.

Qualifications

• A Graduate with the postgraduate qualification in project planning and management, M&E and /or Masters in relevant field.
• Minimum five (5) years’ work experience in international programme development with networking and partnership experience with government, child rights and other organizations.

NB Fluency in French with excellent written and oral communication, skills is a must for this position.

How to Apply

• If you believe you are the right candidate for the above position, please send your application letter, detailed curriculum vitae (CV), and copies of academic certificates, and names and contact details of three referees as Single Document.
• Applications that are late, or do not have CV or certificates attached, will be disqualified. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. E-mail applications should bear the reference number of the position in the subject line of the email.

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed e-mail application by (30 January 2018) at the latest to ESAF.HROD@sos-kd.org .