Head of Service Unit (Maternity Cover)

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• You will take on managerial responsibility for the administrative staff in Rwanda and Burundi in line with the GIZ leadership philosophy, ensure a culture of respectful leadership, and foster your staff’s potential • You will be responsible for providing commercial advice on co-financing and the financial management of projects and will ensure that the necessary expertise is available within the Service Unit • You will ensure the efficient organizational and financial structure of the Service Unit and design work processes to meet objectives, requirements and client needs • You will ensure that the Service Unit has the necessary staffing and technical resources • You will assume administrative responsibility for the Service Unit’s special cost centre (SOKO) as well as coordinating with personnel cost accounting to ensure that personnel costs are allocated according to the source of expenditure, and you will oversee cost-effectiveness monitoring • You will be responsible for coordinating and managing staff deployment within the Service Unit based on the funds available (in the long term) • You will implement company policy within your area of responsibility in accordance with company-wide procedures (e.g. P+R) and ensure compliance management • You will independently develop complex issues and tools within your area of work and embed them within the company. You will devise solutions to complex issues and fundamental problems affecting the unit. • Several years’ experience in the line management of diverse teams in various cultural contexts, as well as experience in managing managers and remote management • Several years’ operational experience in a GIZ country office, cluster and project • Several years’ experience in financial management, including (large-scale) EU co-financing, as well as experience in conducting internal audits • Customer focus and the ability to collaborate, combined with assertiveness, adaptability to a changing portfolio, commitment, reliability, diplomatic skills, gender competence and intercultural understanding of the region • In-depth familiarity with the new S4GIZ software landscape and processes (and their implementation planning), as well as in-depth knowledge of legacy systems • Business fluency in German and English • The ability to provide direction and motivation in shaping the new landscape of roles and collaboration