UK Charity Jobs – Deputy Country Director-Finance and Operations at PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)

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Organisation: PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools)
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Country Director
About US:
Promoting
Equality in African Schools (PEAS) is a UK based charity/social enterprise with
a mission to ‘expand access to sustainably delivered, quality secondary
education across Africa.’ PEAS establishes and operates low-cost secondary
schools in Uganda and Zambia in areas where access to quality secondary
education is limited due to cost and geographical barriers. PEAS’ interventions
are built upon 3 pillars of education impact; Access, Quality and
Sustainability. Since opening its first schools in 2008, the PEAS network has
grown to 30 schools, and we are currently educating over 13,000 students.
What’s more, external evaluations have proven that although PEAS students come
from poorer backgrounds and begin secondary school academically behind their
peers in other similar schools, they are able make significantly more academic
progress by studying in PEAS schools.
Job Summary: The Deputy Country Director of Operations will be
responsible for delivering organisation wide results on a day-to-day basis. The
incumbent will take charge of an organization-wide ‘value for money’ approach,
driving efficiencies and effectiveness both at the schools and support office
levels with a strong focus on sustainability. They will be responsible for
Finance, Operations and Human Resource leadership and delivery in PEAS Uganda.
In particular, the incumbent will oversee the development and implementation of
PEAS ‘financial and operational management strategy’ which will involve policy
and guidelines development across these broad functions. This work will
facilitate and support organisation wide culture strengthening and programme
implementation thereby contributing to the achievement of organisational
strategic objectives.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate should hold a Business or
    Accounting degree is strongly preferred as a minimum.
  • At least five years of senior management and
    leadership experience in an operational and financial capacity – including
    managing departments of professionals with high levels of technical
    expertise and managing through others to deliver organisational
    improvements.
  • Previous exposure and experience in creating
    organisation wide policies across finance, operations, and HR, together
    with overseeing operational adherence.
  • Prior experience in utilising sound
    leadership and management skills to ensure key deliverables are achieved
    on an individual, departmental and organisation wide basis.
  • Previous experience in budget setting, cash
    flow management and monthly management accounts reporting, together with
    overall management of financial systems and processes.
  • Ability to work well under pressure and
    deliver work with high levels of accuracy to tight deadlines across a
    range of internal and external stakeholders while balancing competing
    demands.
  • Working knowledge and experience of financial
    regulatory requirements including taxation, the financial year end
    process, the creation of statutory accounts and liaising with external
    auditors and other stakeholders to ensure regulatory requirements are met.
  • Able to make high quality business decisions
    on a timely basis that ensure the effective and efficient functioning of
    the organisation and ‘value for money’ for PEAS.
  • Excellent judgment and creative problem
    solving skills including negotiation and conflict resolution skills
  • Excellent English communication skills (both
    oral and written)
  • Excellent IT skills (i.e. Word, Outlook,
    Excel etc).
  • Problem solving and thinking strategically: Able
    to get things done by focusing on solutions as opposed to problems and
    able to see the big picture while demonstrating excellent attention to
    detail.
  • Great people skills: Able to work effectively with staff
    of all levels.
  • Values driven: Demonstrates PEAS values of
    effective, empowering, enduring, genuine & collaborative.
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send a cover letter (paying
particular attention to the person specification) and curriculum vitae to
recruitment@peas.org.uk
Please
include all portions of your application in one attached document as a PDF
document, and use PEAS Deputy Country Director–Finance and Operations as the
subject of your email.
NB: Only complete applications will be reviewed and
only qualified candidates will be shortlisted and contacted.
Deadline: 6th July 2016 by 5:oo PM EAT

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