Chief Executive Officer / Senior Executives

-By Development Network-

Aga Khan Foundation
Location:Africa and Asia
Last Date: April 15, 2011

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is part of the Aga Khan Development Network
(AKDN); a group of private, international, non-denominational agencies founded
by His Highness the Aga Khan. The Network's organisations have individual
mandates that range from the fields of health and education to culture, rural
development and the promotion of private-sector enterprise. AKDN is dedicated
to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard
to faith, origin or gender. More information....www.akdn.org/akf

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Chief Executive Officer / Senior Executives
Various locations in Africa and Asia

Role
AKF has a number of CEO and Senior Executive level positions in key locations
throughout Africa and Asia. These are exciting and challenging opportunities
to contribute to high quality multi-input development programmes in the
developing world. The CEO / Senior Executive for a given Country will have
responsibility for ensuring AKF has, and executes a clear direction, sense of
purpose and a well-defined proactive agenda that strives to continually create
new opportunities, improve the organisation's human and financial capacity and
positively influence the Country's environment within the global development
agenda.

Profile
The CEO / Senior Executive must be able to demonstrate the highest level of
responsibility and leadership under extreme deadlines with experience in
financial management, personnel management, and public and donor relations.
Experience and knowledge of the developing world or experience working in a
demanding environment would be a distinct advantage and commitment and
compassionate concern for development, and inter-cultural sensitivity. The
post requires travel to remote and difficult project sites to understand,
assess and oversee project design, implementation and results orientation. The
candidate should have a willingness and ability to learn quickly about a broad
range of development issues in which AKF is involved. Fluency in English, both
written and oral, is a requirement. Knowledge of one of the following
languages would be desirable: Arabic, Farsi, French, Russian or Portuguese.

Salary and international package to attract the best candidate.

Qualified applicants are invited to apply via the AKDN Career Centre at
www.akdn.org/careers/2529071 by Friday, 15 April 2011.

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