Vacancy at the Belarusian HRH: executive director

Posi­tion type: Full-time

Loca­tion: Vil­nius, Lithuania/Minsk, Belarus

Work starts: Feb­ru­ary 1, 2020

Orga­ni­za­tion: The Barys Zvozskau Belaru­sian Human Rights House

About the orga­ni­za­tion: The Barys Zvozskau Belaru­sian Human Rights House (BHRH) was found­ed by the Belaru­sian human rights orga­ni­za­tions in 2006 and is reg­is­tered in Lithua­nia. It is a mem­ber of the net­work of Human Rights Hous­es, which brings togeth­er over 90 human rights NGOs in 16 Hous­es in dif­fer­ent coun­tries. BHRH mis­sion is sup­port and devel­op­ment of the human rights move­ment in Belarus. BHRH works towards its mis­sion via four strate­gic direc­tions: human rights edu­ca­tion, capac­i­ty build­ing for human rights defend­ers and their orga­ni­za­tions, pro­tec­tion and sup­port of human rights defend­ers and human rights advo­ca­cy.

Posi­tion sum­ma­ry: BHRH Exec­u­tive Direc­tor is respon­si­ble for the plan­ning, devel­op­ment, over­all coordination/implementation, and super­vi­sion of strate­gic areas of the BHRH activ­i­ties; for fundrais­ing, liais­ing with donors and part­ners; for over­see­ing staff and ensur­ing smooth oper­a­tions of the orga­ni­za­tion. The Exec­u­tive Direc­tor reports to the BHRH Board.

Responsibilities

• Over­see the plan­ning, imple­men­ta­tion and eval­u­a­tion of the BHRH pro­grams, projects and ser­vices and ensure that they are in line with the organization’s strat­e­gy;
• Over­see the imple­men­ta­tion of the BHRH poli­cies and pro­ce­dures;
• Devel­op and help pro­gram staff devel­op project and pro­gram pro­pos­als, write reports, ana­lyze bud­gets and finan­cial reports and sub­mit appli­ca­tions and reports to donors and part­ners;
• Iden­ti­fy and com­mu­ni­cate with poten­tial and cur­rent donors and ensure that the orga­ni­za­tion has suf­fi­cient fund­ing for its oper­a­tions;
• Liaise with the BHRH Belaru­sian and inter­na­tion­al part­ners about project plan­ning, imple­men­ta­tion, report­ing and fundrais­ing;
• Iden­ti­fy, assess, and inform the Board and the Gen­er­al Meet­ing of BHRH stake­hold­ers of inter­nal and exter­nal issues that affect the orga­ni­za­tion;
• Act as a pro­fes­sion­al advi­sor to the Board and the Gen­er­al Meet­ing of BHRH stake­hold­ers on all aspects of the organization’s activ­i­ties;
• Estab­lish a pos­i­tive, healthy and safe work envi­ron­ment in accor­dance with all appro­pri­ate leg­is­la­tion and reg­u­la­tions; coach and men­tor staff as appro­pri­ate to improve per­for­mance;
• Iden­ti­fy staffing require­ments for orga­ni­za­tion­al man­age­ment and strat­e­gy imple­men­ta­tion;
• Approve expen­di­tures with­in the author­i­ty del­e­gat­ed by the Gen­er­al Meet­ing of BHRH stake­hold­ers;
• Ensure that sound book­keep­ing and account­ing pro­ce­dures are fol­lowed;
• Trav­el to Belarus/Lithuania when required;
• Trans­late from/into Eng­lish, Russ­ian, and Belaru­sian when required;
• Coor­di­nate and facil­i­tate advo­ca­cy activ­i­ties on behalf of BHRH at the nation­al and inter­na­tion­al lev­el;
• Per­form oth­er duties del­e­gat­ed by the Board of the orga­ni­za­tion.

Requirements

Education

The can­di­date should prefer­ably have a uni­ver­si­ty degree, desir­ably in non-prof­it sec­tor man­age­ment, social sci­ences or human­i­ties.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Knowl­edge of lead­er­ship and man­age­ment prin­ci­ples in so far as they relate to non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tions;
• Knowledge/ under­stand­ing of the leg­is­la­tion applic­a­ble to the work of NGOs in Belarus and in the Repub­lic of Lithua­nia;
• Knowl­edge of the sit­u­a­tion of human rights in Belarus in gen­er­al, and that of the rights to free­dom of asso­ci­a­tion, free­dom of expres­sion, free­dom of peace­ful assem­bly, and in par­tic­u­lar the right to be human rights defend­ers, as well as the exist­ing restric­tions on civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions’ work;
• Knowl­edge of human resources man­age­ment prin­ci­ples;
• Knowl­edge of project and pro­gram man­age­ment prin­ci­ples;
• Orga­ni­za­tion­al skills – plan­ning, del­e­gat­ing, pro­gram devel­op­ment;
• Excel­lent man­age­ment skills and under­stand­ing of the bud­get, includ­ing the bud­get prepa­ra­tion, analy­sis, deci­sion-mak­ing and report­ing;
• Excel­lent knowl­edge of Belaru­sian, Russ­ian and Eng­lish.

Technical skills

• Excel­lent skills in using the MS Office/LibreOffice prod­ucts, email-clients, pop­u­lar Inter­net browsers;
• Mes­sen­gers;
• Prefer­ably: fast typ­ing, under­stand­ing of the prin­ci­ples of secure com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

Experience

• At least three years of expe­ri­ence in man­age­r­i­al or admin­is­tra­tive work in a civic orga­ni­za­tion whose activ­i­ties are relat­ed to Belarus, with a team of at least 5 peo­ple;
• Liaisons with the human rights com­mu­ni­ty and/or civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions in Belarus;
• Con­firmed suc­cess­ful expe­ri­ence in fundrais­ing, under­stand­ing of fundrais­ing process­es;
• Expe­ri­ence in the imple­men­ta­tion of orga­ni­za­tion­al strate­gies, prefer­ably in an organization’s strat­e­gy devel­op­ment.

How to apply

Please sub­mit your CV along with a moti­va­tion let­ter to belarus@humanrightshouse.org, indi­cat­ing in the sub­ject line that this is an appli­ca­tion for the posi­tion of Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, no lat­er than Novem­ber 29, 2019. Short­list­ed can­di­dates will be invit­ed for an inter­view in  Decem­ber.

For any ques­tions relat­ed to the posi­tion, please only con­tact us via the email indi­cat­ed above.