Country Program Director at the Solidarity Center

The Solidarity Center is the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization helping workers attain safe and healthy workplaces, family-supporting wages, dignity on the job, widespread democracy and greater equity at work and in their community. Allied with the AFL-CIO, the Solidarity Center assists workers across the globe as, together, they fight discrimination, exploitation and the systems that entrench poverty to achieve shared prosperity in the global economy.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Country Program Director

Location: Abuja

Specific Duties

• Provide specified field officer with programmatic financial and administrative support;
• Write/edit proposals, reports, letters, and other correspondence;
• Conduct issue research for use by Center headquarters and field officers;
• Coordinate activities with the Center's other program and functional offices;
• Assist, as required, in the work of the Center's other program and functional offices;
• Develop coalition-building contacts with African labor, government and non- governmental organizations in the region;
• Provide guidance to field offices on national centers policies and priorities and serve as a liaison between the SC and national centers, and AFL-CIO affiliates, GUF's, ITUC, its regional organizations and the ILO;
• Assist and advise field offices in program development and proposal writing:
• Develop and implement regional and sub-regional programs and programs in the region;
• Provide field offices with information on USAID, NED, and U.S. government rules and regulations that affect program management;
• Share information on country conditions and labor issues as requested;
• Travel on a TDY basis to conduct and/or oversee program development and/or implementation in countries without a Center field office;
• Work closely with AFL-CIO affiliates to coordinate their participation in the development and implementation of Solidarity Center programs, within approved communications guidelines;
• Monitor programs to meet budget targets;
• Represent the Solidarity Center as directed;
• Furnish financial and administrative support services to field offices, and provide advice and guidance to field offices on grants management and funding procedures;
• Initiate concept papers and program proposals and seeks funding for same; and
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit a detailed Resume and a Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.