Country Director, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Country Director, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Organization: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation Country: Burkina Faso City: Ouagadougou Office: SNV Netherlands Development Organisation Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Company Description About SNV SNV is a global development partner, deeply rooted in the countries where we operate. Driven by a vision of a better world where all people live with dignity and have equitable opportunities to thrive sustainably, SNV strengthens capacities and catalyses partnerships that transform agri-food, energy, and water systems. We help strengthen institutions and effective governance, reduce gender inequalities and barriers to social inclusion, and enable adaptation and mitigation to the climate and biodiversity crises. With 60 years of experience and a team of approximately 1,600 people, we support our partners in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia, tailoring our approaches to different contexts to achieve large-scale impact and create more equitable lives for all. Our CARE principles— Committed to Impact , Adaptive to Context , Respecting Differences , and Expertise in Practice —are at the heart of who we are and the work we do. These principles are embedded in our vision, mission, and strategy, which serve as our compass guiding us towards 2030. To delve deeper into SNV's initiatives, explore our website at www.snv.org Job Description Are you looking for an exciting position, in which you are crucial for the success of SNV in spearheading SNV's impact, business development, operational excellence and partner engagement in Burkina Faso? Then this is your role! We are currently looking for a: Country Director for Burkina Faso Contract : National contract (fulltime), initial one year with possibility to extend Location : Ouagadougou SNV in Burkina Faso is implementing a broad and diverse portfolio of single and multicounty projects with an average annual budget of 16m EUR (a €50m+ portfolio) and works with and through government structures, private sector, national and international CSO's in all regions of the country. Position overview The Country Director leads and enables the country programs through their team and local implementation partners, focusing on upscaling and strengthening our country position with an ambitious strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. In this role, you are the face of SNV in the country, ensuring a positive image and strong visibility. You will report to the Deputy Director of Country Programmes. Your core assignment is to expand our network and funding opportunities by building strong relationships with embassies, donors, institutions, and the private sector, while providing clear leadership to a small team of about sixty-eight staff. You remain well informed about national and international development priorities and steer sectors and themes in response to these priorities. Success in this role means growing SNV's visibility, forging new partnerships and alliances with key national and international actors, stimulating collaboration for impact, and enabling teams to perform confidently and effectively. We are looking for a strategic, externally focused leader with strong negotiation skills, proven business development experience, and the ability to represent SNV at senior levels while frequently traveling to build private‑sector engagement. In this role you will also be responsible for the following tasks: Strategic leadership of the country and future programmes . Providing innovative leadership and encouraging people to take an active role in programme design and proposal development and ensuring quality and implementation is in line with the strategic directions of SNV's global and West Africa strategy and annual plan; Strong and supportive people leadership enabling the country team: creating and nurturing an environment that supports high performance, continuous learning and teamwork at all levels; Representation and profiling: maintaining, strengthening and expanding partnerships and maintaining excellent relationships with national and local governments, donors, partners, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders; Oversight and quality assurance of project implementation (including project director roles) ensuring the delivery of impact to the satisfaction of key stakeholders and compliance with national Burkina Faso government regulations, SNV's and the donor's financial standards and monitoring protocols; Business development to grow the country position and its programmes, ensure financial sustainability of SNV in Burkina Faso and ensure high-quality, effective and efficient project design; Collaboration with other SNV countries to effectively exploit opportunities for synergy, deliver at scale (including multi-country projects), exchange knowledge and strengthen SNV's position; Foster innovation of SNV products and services : facilitates learning, documentation and evidence-based knowledge development in collaboration with SNV's global team and partners; and ensures collaboration with renowned knowledge institutes and networks. Qualifications Your background The ideal candidate brings a minimum of five years of relevant leadership experience at a senior, end-responsible level in West Africa. We expect you to be a strong people leader with an understanding and curiosity for diversity and inclusion. You thrive in an environment where evidence building is required, and you are not shy to share that passion to motivate others. You have experience in cooperation with governments and partners as well as donor relations, and actors in SNV's three sectors and core thematic areas. You have a proven track record in project management including familiarity with donor-funded project procedures and processes. You have strong business acumen accompanied by demonstrated business development experience on l

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