Team Leader | Gaziantep, Turkey | 2024

Background:

Kimoniks Danışmanlık Limited Şirketi (hereinafter “Kimoniks”) is seeking a Team Leader to join our team. Kimoniks is an international development company that promotes meaningful change around the world to help people live healthier, more productive, and more independent lives. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Position description:

The Team Leader will supervise all activities related to this programme and have overall responsibility for the successful performance of the team. The Team Leader shall provide strategic leadership and bear primary responsibility for all administrative requirements of the contract, ensuring that the quarterly key performance indicators, objectives and deliverables are met. They will be responsible for ensuring the programme is in compliance with FCDO regulations, the contract, and Kimoniks policies. The Team Leader will be the official representative of the contractor and be primarily responsible for liaising with high-level donor and government officials, and forging alliances with a partners and stakeholders.

The Team Leader will adhere to and act in accordance with Kimoniks’ professional code of ethics, ‘Living Our Values’, and will make the principles of the code a part of project’s culture and operating procedures. They will also foster and maintain good and professional relations with prospective and actual partners, grantees, and vendors, will disclose any affiliations that could be perceived as a conflict of interest, and will maintain confidentiality regarding programme activities.

Responsibilities include:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the role.

Main responsibilities:

The Team Leader will supervise all activities related to this programme and have overall responsibility for the successful performance of the team. The Team Leader shall provide strategic leadership and bear primary responsibility for all administrative requirements of the contract, ensuring that the quarterly key performance indicators, objectives and deliverables are met. They will be responsible for ensuring the programme is in compliance with FCDO regulations, the contract, and Kimoniks policies. The Team Leader will be the official representative of the contractor and be primarily responsible for liaising with high-level FCDO and government officials, and forging alliances with a partners and stakeholders.

Management of Planning, Implementation and Monitoring Activities:

▪ Provide leadership, technical direction, and management oversight for all programme activities and results

▪ Define, through consensus of staff, client, and stakeholders, the objectives and vision that will guide programme activities

▪ Ensure that work plans are developed with input from staff, partners and stakeholders and initiate implementation of that work plan

▪ Monitor, and where necessary, modify programmatic assistance to achieve results

▪ Ensure that relevant, productive, and complementary activities are implemented effectively

▪ Work closely with FCDO to ensure consensus regarding programme vision and objectives

▪ Ensure that FCDO is up-to-date regarding programme implementation and achievement of key performance indicator

▪  Work closely with the Senior Strategic Advisor to manage relationship with other stakeholders to achieve the desired result in implementation.

Personnel Management:

▪ Supervise the adoption of job descriptions, performance criteria, and scopes of work for all professional and administrative staff on the programme

▪ Approve selection and hiring of all local professional and administrative staff on the programme.

▪ Manage all professional and administrative work performed by staff

Contract and Financial Management

Oversee and ensure highest quality contract performance in compliance with contract provisions

▪ Manage contract finances (budget and fund allocations) and ensure accurate financial records are kept

Communications:

▪ Develop and communicate (verbally and in writing) the strategic vision for the programme to staff, FCDO, and all counterparts and stakeholders

▪ Maintain open, two-way communication with FCDO, the field staff, and Kimoniks head office

▪ Make formal and informal presentations as needed

▪ Conduct meetings and maintain relationships with the Government officials and other relevant stakeholders

▪ Maintain two-way communication channels with counterparts so as to build a relationship of trust and cooperation

 ▪Performs other duties and responsibilities as required

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree (or higher) in education, public policy, public administration, or a related field
• Relevant work experience, including experience with a Contractor or international NGO managing an office or program
• Significant experience as an educator, experience with psycho-social support preferred
• A minimum of ten (10) years of program management experience with experience leading a team
• Experience with applying an evidence-based approach to education and programming
• Experience working in developing countries is required, preferably in a fragile or transitional state environment
• Experience in the hiring and supervising of host country local personnel and ensuring, when need arises, that they secure necessary training required to meet program needs
• Financial management experience, including budgeting; financial management (tracking, reporting and accounting); and procurement
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with and manage culturally and geographically diverse staff
• Previous experience working in the Middle East and on programs in insecure environments is desirable
• Experience managing complex contracts and agreements, with FCDO experience preferred
• Fluency in Arabic and English is required
• Knowledge of Turkish is desirable

Period of Performance:

The assignment is long-term through the life of the relevant donor contract

Location of the assignment:

The assignment will be conducted in Gaziantep - Turkey with intermittent travel

Supervision and reporting:

The Team Lead will report to the Head office Project Director

Safeguarding

At Kimoniks, safeguarding – protecting a person’s right to live safely, free from violence, abuse, and neglect – is integral to the work we do. We integrate safeguarding measures to protect our staff, partners, and communities from all forms of violence and apply a survivor-centred approach that is trauma-sensitive, human-rights informed, intersectional, and locally led.

Feedback on application

We will review the applications on a rolling basis. Due to the expected high volume of applications it will not be possible to provide any specific feedback to candidates prior to the closing date, post closing date all candidates will be notified if their application has been successful or not No telephone inquiries, please. Kimoniks will contact finalists.

Kimoniks is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics.

Kimoniks is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors

As Kimoniks Danışmanlık Limited Şirketi (“Company”), we pay utmost care and importance to ensuring security of your personal data. Accordingly, we take necessary measures for the sake of providing appropriate security level in order to prevent illegal processing of and access to your personal data and ensuring protection of such data in the processes of processing your personal data and transmitting them to third persons pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Law (“KVK Law”) No 6698.

Application instructions:

Please send an email with your CV and cover letter attached and “Team Lead” in the subject line to syr-sep-hr@chemonics.com by July 21, 2024.