Eurasia Programme Manager

Organization: International Alert

Website: International Alert

Title: Eurasia Programme Manager

Location: London

Salary: £46,162 per annum

Description:
International Alert is recruiting a Manager to lead its Eurasia Programme. The post holder will be based in London, with substantial travel to the South Caucasus and Central Asia regions, as well as to Europe, Turkey and Russia.

As Eurasia Programme Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing the Eurasia programme in accordance with the aims and strategic priorities of International Alert. Specifically you will:
 * Provide strategic leadership
 * Manage existing relationships and develop new ones  with key
   individuals and institutions
 * Manage regional projects, staff and other resources, while also
   developing new ideas and raising funds

Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have a talent for communicating clearly and sensitively within complex environments. The South Caucasus in particular is a region where strongly held positions, disputed borders and geopolitics combine to create complex conditions in which to work.
Relationships with partners and also between staff working on different but interrelated projects need to be managed carefully and skilfully given these conditions. In addition, the Programme Manager will be a natural entrepreneur, bringing the creativity and energy required to grow the programme over the next few years.

Educated to degree level (or equivalent) you have significant experience of peacebuilding or related activity, (including at least two years in the field), leading strategic planning processes, developing successful project proposals and raising funds.  As well as the ability to lead, you will also have an aptitude for all aspects of financial management and skills in mobilising others' energies around shared objectives. You will be fluent in English and Russian and familiar with the South Caucasus and/or Central Asia regions.

To Apply: Click Here  Deadline: April 6, 2010.

Click here to see the previous post of this position: Eurasia Programme Manager, October 2009

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