We are currently looking for a Country Director Tanzania <ul><li>Fulltime- Dar Es Salaam </li><li>Reporting to Deputy Director of Country Programmes </li></ul>The role of Country Director is critical for the success of SNV and reports to the Deputy Director Country Programmes ESA. The Country Director Tanzania will spearhead SNV’s impact through business development, team leadership, operational excellence and partner engagement in countries. Our aim is to maintain and expand our diverse portfolio and impact in the matured development context of Tanzania. Focus of the role will be developing and enabling the teams to work on nexus programmes to achieve systems transformation as well seeking to expand our portfolio working with local partners for greater impact.  Country Director Tanzania  SNV seeks an entrepreneurial, results-oriented, seasoned people leader who will lead the Tanzania country teams in enabling and delivering high quality impact programs.    SNV offers the successful candidate a challenging position, leading a well-established team with a EUR 40 million program portfolio. The portfolio includes support from the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, International Climate Initiative, Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office, Energising Development (EnDev) and European Union.  The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country programs with and through their teams and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. He/she will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure its positive image and visibility. The Country Director leads, coaches and supports their country management team (CMT) and inspires a total team of 100 team members in 6 offices across Tanzania. Building capabilities to deliver our 2030 ambition is a key deliverable for the CMT. The Country Director is a key member of SNV’s global senior leadership team, and a key contributor in the ESA cluster, making meaningful contributions across the wider organisation to further shape and enable the future of SNV. Your role   The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country program with and through their team and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. She/he will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure our positive image and visibility. In this role you will also be responsible for the following tasks: <ul><li>Strategic leadership of the country programme. Providing innovative leadership and encouraging people to take an active role in programme design and proposal development and ensuring quality and implementation in line with the strategic directions within the annual Plan and SNV’s global strategy; </li></ul><ul><li>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; </li></ul><ul><li>Representation and profiling: building partnerships and maintaining excellent relationships with national and local governments, donors, partners, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders; </li></ul><ul><li>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 Tanzanian government regulations, SNV’s and the donor’s financial standards and monitoring protocols; </li></ul><ul><li>Business development to grow the country position and its programmes, ensure financial sustainability of SNV in Tanzania and ensure high-quality project design; </li></ul><ul><li>Collaboration with other SNV countries to effectively exploit opportunities for synergy, deliver at scale (including multi-country projects), exchange knowledge and strengthen SNV’s positioning; </li></ul><ul><li>Foster innovation of SNV products and services: facilitate 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. </li></ul>

SNV is a mission-driven global development partner strengthening capacities and catalysing partnerships&nbsp;that can transform the agri-food, energy, and water systems.

Country Director Tanzania 

We are currently looking for a Country Director Tanzania&nbsp;<ul><li>Fulltime- Dar Es Salaam&nbsp;</li><li>Reporting to Deputy Director of Country Programmes&nbsp;</li></ul>The role of Country Director is critical for the success of SNV and reports to the Deputy Director Country Programmes ESA. The Country Director Tanzania will spearhead SNV’s impact through business development, team leadership, operational excellence and partner engagement in countries.&nbsp;Our aim is to maintain and expand our diverse portfolio and impact in the matured development context of Tanzania. Focus of the role will be developing and enabling the teams to work on nexus programmes to achieve systems transformation as well seeking to expand our portfolio working with local partners for greater impact.&nbsp;&nbsp;Country Director Tanzania&nbsp;&nbsp;SNV seeks an entrepreneurial, results-oriented, seasoned people leader who will lead the Tanzania country teams in enabling and delivering high quality impact programs.&nbsp; &nbsp; SNV offers the successful candidate a challenging position, leading a well-established team with a EUR 40 million program portfolio. The portfolio includes support from the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, International Climate Initiative, Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office, Energising Development (EnDev) and European Union.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country programs with and through their teams and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. He/she will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure its positive image and visibility.&nbsp;The Country Director leads, coaches and supports their country management team (CMT) and inspires a total team of 100 team members in 6 offices across Tanzania. Building capabilities to deliver our 2030 ambition is a key deliverable for the CMT. The Country Director is a key member of SNV’s global senior leadership team, and a key contributor in the ESA cluster, making meaningful contributions across the wider organisation to further shape and enable the future of SNV.&nbsp;Your role&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country program with and through their team and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. She/he will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure our positive image and visibility.&nbsp;In this role you will also be responsible for the following tasks:&nbsp;<ul><li>Strategic leadership of the country programme. Providing innovative leadership and encouraging people to take an active role in programme design and proposal development and ensuring quality and implementation in line with the strategic directions within the annual Plan and SNV’s global strategy;&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>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;&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Representation and profiling: building partnerships and maintaining excellent relationships with national and local governments, donors, partners, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders;&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>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 Tanzanian government regulations, SNV’s and the donor’s financial standards and monitoring protocols;&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Business development to grow the country position and its programmes, ensure financial sustainability of SNV in Tanzania and ensure high-quality project design;&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Collaboration with other SNV countries to effectively exploit opportunities for synergy, deliver at scale (including multi-country projects), exchange knowledge and strengthen SNV’s positioning;&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Foster innovation of SNV products and services: facilitate 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.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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