Head of Support Services, Azerbaijan
6 months Fixed Term – Subject to donor approval
The starting salary package for this position is £50,182 GBP / approx. $63,399 USD including all allowances
About MAG:
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) is an international humanitarian organisation based in Manchester, UK, and working in 32 countries. We remove landmines and unexploded ordnance to release safe and productive land for communities, and work to reduce the threat of armed violence by supporting governments to safely manage weapons and ammunition. In 1997, MAG was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for our work campaigning for the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.
About the role:
As a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), you will provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure the efficient and effective development and management of all support services functions for MAG’s activities in Azerbaijan, including Finance, Logistics and Procurement, Human Resources and IT. You will focus on developing and implementing systems, identifying capacity gaps, designing and delivering training to national staff on all support services, ensuring the programme’s operation is compliant with donor requirements and with MAG’s internal policies and procedures, and providing support to the Senior Management Team in country (SMT) in risk management.
The post holder will also be required to assess capacity within MAG’s partner organisations, identify gaps, make recommendations for improvements, and monitor performance against action plans.
About you:
You will have international senior management experience across support service functions, preferably with a humanitarian agency in a developing country. You will need to have demonstrable experience of overseeing complex financial planning, monitoring, forecasting and reporting. Additionally, you will have experience in developing and implementing support services systems and processes, identifying capacity gaps, designing and delivering training across support service departments and building capacity that is appropriate for the size and scope of the programme.
You will be sensitive to cultural differences, able to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts and have the willingness and ability to work both at strategic and operational levels, with hand-on approach when required.
About the Azerbaijan programme:
In December 2021, MAG established a programme in Azerbaijan funded by the US State Department’s Office for Weapons Removal and Abatement (WRA) and the Canadian government’s Peace and Stabilisation Operations Program. The widespread use of landmines and UXO during conflicts between Azerbaijan and Armenia has created a renewed and urgent need to improve the country’s humanitarian mine action response.
Now funded by the US Dept of State and the EU, the current projects involve MAG working to improve our national partner NGO’s ability to deliver high-quality humanitarian mine action activities to address new and legacy contamination, and in turn make affected regions safer for vulnerable communities and internally displaced people.
This role is expected to last for six-months and will focus on building capacity of MAG staff, with some support to capacity building MAG’s partner support services teams too.
How to apply
Further information and how to apply:
For the further information on the role, the application pack and details of how to apply, please visit the MAG website at www.maginternational.org/vacancies-at-MAGby the closing date of 7th April 2024.
MAG will support the successful applicant with any visa or work permit required, including application, administration and costs, however applicants will need to be able to obtain these within a reasonable time period to be considered for the role, due to programme needs.
Please note that as part of MAG’s commitment to safeguarding, this post is subject to background checks before an offer of employment is confirmed. For more information on MAG’s approach to safeguarding hereand background checks here. You can also find more information in the candidate information pack, available on our website.
MAG is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. If you think you would be suited to one of our roles we would welcome your application regardless of your background. We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive working environment where all employees feel respected and supported in fulfilling their potential.