SOS Children’s Villages Programme Director

Syria

Operations - Social Services - Humanitarian/Disasters

Finished or Exempted (For male)

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:
Programme Development and Management
-Leads the development and implementation of the SOS CVP in line with the SOS Children Villages Programme Policy and related international and national SOS policies, strategies, quality standards and guidelines
-Leads the implementation of the programme management cycle including the CVP planning process as part of MA annual and strategic planning to ensure that interventions are relevant to the local context, respond to the needs of the target group and contribute to the development of sustainable social support systems
-Coordinates and ensures cooperation between all areas of work within the CVP
-Ensures efficiency through best use/sharing of resources across different programme units
-Regularly reports on CVP activities and progress to ND and relevant National Office functions
-Ensures that the CVP is supportive to the brand of the SOS Children Villages Organisation
HR Management and organisational development
-Develops appropriate workforce planning in close cooperation with national HRM and ensures full staffing of the CVP
-Establishes a positive, healthy and safe working environment in accordance with mission, vision, values of the organisation
-Continues to build own knowledge and knowledge of team regarding national and Federation trends and strategies in child protection
-Builds and leads an engaged and high performing CVP team
-Recruits, interviews and selects co-workers with proper profile, all according to national recruitment guidelines
-Ensures that all new co-workers are onboarded in quality way
-Ensures and conducts performance management process for all co-workers which includes monitoring staff performance on ongoing basis, conducting annual performance conferences
-Coaches co-workers as appropriate to improve performance
-Contributes to optimize processes between the CVP and the National Office
-Fosters cooperation between National Office staff and their counterparts in the location

Financial and administrative Management
-Builds accountability in the programme by ensuring implementation of simple and effective financial and administrative procedures in accordance with defined policies and guidelines
-Leads the budgeting process in the location(s)
-Monitors budget expenditures and conducts financial and content controlling of CVP in order to ensure that funds are properly used
-Continually looks for ways to provide quality services in a cost-effective manner
-Ensures that budgeting of maintenance costs (construction, repairs, renovation) for SOS property is carried out by the leader of the programme the facility belongs. The CVPD is overall accountable for good facility maintenance in the CVP

Quality Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
-Is overall responsible for quality management in the CVP and ensures the implementation of national and international quality standards with guidance and monitoring from function staff in the National Office
-Is responsible for the implementation of results-based management, including planning, monitoring and evaluation of programmes
-Monitors the implementation of recommendations from national and international audits

Partnership building, advocacy and cooperation with external stakeholders
-Negotiates and concludes agreements and contracts with state authorities and other organisations with a power of attorney given by the ND
-Leads and coordinates cooperation, partnership building, and networking efforts of the CVP with local and national authorities and other external stakeholders
-Represents together with managing CVP staff the organisation at relevant local networks, forums, platforms, campaigns, working groups and advocates on behalf of the organisation for the promotion of child rights, especially related to children from the target group

Fund Development and Public Relations
-Promotes the organisation in the public and identifies potential income sources in cooperation with the Fund Development Communications function in the National Office and/or the ND
-Strives for the highest possible level of programme self-financing with a focus on government subsidies and public funding within the frame of targets agreed at strategic planning process

Child Safeguarding (CS)
-Leads and coordinates the CS team work in the CVP with a particular attention to prevention and awareness raising. This includes carrying out a CS risk assessment and mitigation of existing and possible CS risks in the CVP
Reports to national CS focal person about all incidents and development of the incident management on a timely manner (bi-annually or quarterly)
-Is responsible for the implementation of proposed CS incident actions in the CVP
-Is responsible to maintain CS incident register at the programme level
-Is responsible to organise review of incidents dealt with in the CVP
-Takes decision to close the incident managed by CS team in CVP after implementation of respective action plan
-Ensures new co-workers receive CS orientation during the onboarding period
-Ensures CVP co-workers CS capacity building and specific individual CS support
-Assesses capacity building needs of the CS team on programme level and plans support actions in cooperation with national CS focal person and HR manager
-Acts as a child rights ambassador to influence communities, policymakers, governments, other stakeholders to make them understand the importance of protecting children and young people and to take action
-Establishes diverse reporting channels, incl. anonymous, for co-workers, children, young people

(Must-have all of the below or show capability to develop within maximum 1 year)

-Leadership and people management: able to build engaged and high performing teams committed to the programme goal, interested in own and team learning and development
-Good skills in programme management, project cycle management, monitoring and evaluation
-Good knowledge of standards, legal issues, developments in the social welfare field, particularly in child and youth welfare. Good knowledge of and commitment to children rights
-Open for innovation
-Highly organized, result-oriented, collaborative way of work fostering integration and teamwork
-High level of communication and presentation skills, networking building skills to foster effective relations and build partnerships with local stakeholders
-Good knowledge in financial management, budgeting
-Basic knowledge in fund development, particularly in public funding
-Computer literacy (MS Office)

SOS Children's Villages Syria, a nonprofit, nongovernmental association that is committed to responding to the social development needs of society's most vulnerable children and young people. We establish facilities and programs that aim to strengthen families and prevent the abandonment of children. We join hands with community members to provide education, protection, and alternative care services.

SOS Children's Villages Syria is a branch of the International Federation of Children's Villages, based in Austria and spread out in 136 countries worldwide. It was founded in Syria in 1975, and since then, we have been working to ensure that children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it grow up with the needed support and care to become their strongest selves.

SOS Children Villages strives to maintain a recruitment process that is open and competitive for all candidates. SOS supports employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, ancestry, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, marital status or any other status protected by applicable law.

Oct 26, 2025

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