Operations Manager job at VVOB | Apply Now

VVOB is an international NGO with programmes and projects in 9 countries worldwide. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.

When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our programmes and projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. Our teams of national and international experts achieve this by providing technical assistance to governmental and other education actors. In doing so, worldwide we ensure capacity building of governmental and other education actors.
Do you share our ambition to ensure that learners around the world can enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception? Are you convinced as well that quality education guarantees equal opportunities for everyone and is the key to a better world?

We are looking for an Operations Manager who will be responsible for the strengthening and overseeing of effective systems and procedures for HR management, financial management and oversee Procurement, logistics and administrative functions ensuring that their policies and procedures are aligned with global VVOB standards and local laws. You will provide strong organizational leadership (on-the-job mentoring, coacing, capacity development, change management) for your direct reports and you foster good relationships with and between partners and teams, supporting a positive organizational culture. Leading by example, you will represent our organization towards external stakeholders in your field.
The Operations Manager operates from our Uganda Country Office in Kampala, with occasional travel to our operational partners.

Position of the Operations Manager
The Operations Manager will be responsible for setting up, managing, executing, monitoring and optimizing our operational systems and guiding the operations team (Finance, Procurement, HR, Logistics). As a key member of the management team, you know how to inspire direct reports to grow and change with us and you easily navigate between operations and strategy.

The Operations Manager reports to the Country Programmes Manager. You are part of and working closely with the other members of a country’s management team and are responsible for the operations department, thus managing all possible direct reports within this department. Furthermore, you work closely together with the operations departments of Head office.