Afghanistan: Country Director for GERES

Sep 18, 2014 | Geres

Under the supervision of the Executive Director based in Aubagne (France), the Country Director is the head of the office in Afghanistan and represents GERES with all external partners and interlocutors locally. (S)he is the head of the Core management Team and ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of the operational and program activities of GERES Afghanistan.

GERES - Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités - is a French non-profit NGO created in 1976 after the first Oil Shock. Environmental conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, reducing energy poverty, and improving livelihood of the poor are the main focus areas for GERES. The GERES team is particularly involved in the implementation, in partnership with local stakeholders and communities, of engineering solutions for development and providing specific technical expertise. Activities include conducting energy efficiency programs, providing decentralized energy services for local economic development, supporting and developing renewable energies and promoting waste management.

Today, more than 250 staff members work on 60 innovative and sustainable development projects in France and in 13 developing countries.

In Afghanistan:

GERES has been working in Afghanistan since 2002 and has worked in Environment through Energy scope in 17 provinces of Afghanistan.

Fields of intervention:

Energy efficiency has been developed by GERES in public buildings (more than 300 medical centers, schools, community rooms, mosques, etc.), and in private housing (more than 1100 houses), through insulation and alternative techniques (passive solar houses, solar walls, direct gains, improved heating & cooking stoves, etc.).

Rural development projects implemented by GERES in Afghanistan deal with the development of agricultural income-generating activities (IGA), the improvement of rural productive activities, and capacity-building for local institutions. In these sectors, GERES has been developing tools such as: improved greenhouses, post-harvest cellars (nearly 400 units).

The Country Director is responsible for the following objectives:

1. Fundraising and Representation of the mission

2. Ensuring a good understanding and clear view of the on-going programs’ strategy in consideration of the geopolitical and development contexts

3. Managing and supervising teams to work in line with the global strategy

For more details regarding this position and to apply, please use the links above or click here.