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Provincial Manager - Jalalabad

Peace Dividend Trust - Afghanistan, Multi Location

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Multi Location ()
Full Time
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About Peace Dividend Trust - Afghanistan

Job Summary


Duties & Responsibilities

The Provincial Manager is the field office’s senior national staff liaison with the Afghan business community. S/he reports to the Field Manager and, with the Field Manager, oversees the province-wide delivery of PDM-A’s five core services and manages the day-to-day office activities. S/he directly manages up to four staff members and works closely with Kabul’s BDS, Operations, and Admin/Finance staff sections to ensure that the work produced by the field office is aligned with the PDT countrywide strategy and is properly coordinated and resourced. The Provincial Manager is responsible for forming, maintaining and fostering productive relationships within the provincial business community in order to create opportunities that will generate results and contribute to the achievement of PDT’s economic development goals in Afghanistan.

Management

• Supervision and mentoring of the Tender Distribution and Admin Associate;
• Supervision and mentoring of the Business Verification Associate;
• Supervision and mentoring of the Training Officer;
• Assist the Field Manager with all financial and administrative reporting;
• Assist the Field Manager in establishing workflows for the project activities of the field office;
• Collaborate with the Business Development Team and Kabul-based support staff;
• Ensure that all verification, tender distribution, business matchmaking, training, and market information activities are properly coordinated with national strategic objectives;
• Ensure that the field office is sufficiently and adequately staffed and that the work of the staff delivers results on target and on schedule;
• Develop staff capacity and provide mentoring as required;
• Supervise any special or short-term projects.
• Other support duties as required.

Business Development Services

• Responsible for enforcing workflows and for setting verification, tender distribution, and training priorities
• Responsible for monitoring and evaluation of office performance and reporting outputs on a weekly and monthly basis to Field Manager;
• Identify procurement needs in priority sectors (including both civilian and military institutions such as the UN, the international military forces and large international companies);
• Identify Afghan businesses that can respond to the identified procurement needs;
• Develop local procurement solutions, including organizing site visits, vendor days, feasibility assessments and identifying emerging needs;
• Facilitate the development of key relationships with partner organizations;
• Market PDT’s services to the local business community;
• Support the development of marketing and networking strategies and implement them with Field Manager;
• Represent PDT at events, including trade fairs, meetings, etc.

Administration/Finance

• Establish and maintain a smooth flow of routine, administrative work of the PDT offices; including Finance and Compliance, Office Administration, Human Resources, and Logistics support functions,
• Implementation and adherence to all PDT financial and administrative policies;
• Maintain banking relations; plan and monitor country cash flow requirements to ensure the smooth implementation of PDT programs;
• Provide monthly financial reports to management including expenditures by cost center/project, reporting and other financial information, in a timely and accurate manner.

Job Requirements

ï‚§ Bachelor degree in business administration/communications or equivalent, or any other preferable field;
ï‚§ In-depth knowledge of Afghan business sectors, particularly the Jalalabad business environment;
ï‚§ Excellent communication and networking skills;
ï‚§ Experience managing multiple relationships;
ï‚§ Experience managing national staff;
ï‚§ Creative mindset and ability to structure and find solutions to complex problems;
ï‚§ Energetic and efficient, result oriented;
ï‚§ Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team;
ï‚§ Fluent in Pashto and good command of English and Dari, both orally and written.

Submission Guideline

Forward your CVs to Peace Dividend Trust at delbary@pdtglobal.org

Functional Area

General

Countries

Post Date

Nov 03, 2010

Closing Date

Nov 15, 2010

Reference

PDT-A-35

Number of Vacancies

1

Salary Range

$70000 - $85000 undefined

Years of Experience

2 years

Probation Period

1 month

Contract Type

Permanent

Contract Duration

Not Specified

Contract Extensible

false

Gender

Male