In October 2019, Agriteam Canada launched a new five-year project in Ukraine: Support to Ukraine’s Reforms for Governance (SURGe).

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About Agriteam Canada:

Agriteam Canada is one of Canada’s leading international development firms, providing management and technical expertise to developing and transitional country partners on projects that promote sustainable growth and meaningful opportunities for people to improve their lives. Over the past 30 years, we have implemented over 370 projects in more than 65 countries.

Agriteam has two offices in Canada and 11 offices around the world, including an office in Ukraine. Over the almost thirteen-year of Agriteam presence in Ukraine, the team successfully implemented five international technical assistance projects.

About the Project:

In October 2019, Agriteam Canada launched a new five-year project in Ukraine: Support to Ukraine’s Reforms for Governance (SURGe).

SURGe’s Ultimate Outcome is to help the Government of Ukraine (GoU) to deliver governance and economic reforms that better respond to the needs of its citizens. To achieve this, the Project will strategically enhance and strengthen the GoU’s reform management functions, namely its capacity to undertake planning and analysis of reforms that consider citizen impact, and to implement these reforms.

Reform initiative and position summary:

The expert team will assist the Ukrainian Government with implementation of the National Strategy for the Reform of the Institutional Care and Upbringing of Children for 2017-2026.

The engaged experts will work close with the Ministry of Social Policy, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and the Commissioner’s Office for Children’s Rights to provide consultations and assist with the development of the necessary regulations, systems as well as building up capacity within these institutions to plan, implement and communicate reform of the institutional care and upbringing of children taking into account the international standards and best practices.

The goal of the reform initiative is to shift Ukraine’s dependence on orphanages for its 105,000 orphans (95% of whom have parents) to provision of appropriate services to children and families to address their specific needs and ensure that each child is raised in a family or family-like environment.

For this reform, SURGe Project is looking for а Finance Expert who will provide support in the financial mechanism development to fulfill the goals and objectives of the National Strategy for Child Care Deinstitutionalization Reform for 2017-2026.

The expert will be based in Kyiv and will be reporting to Team Lead of the DIRPO office.

Level of effort: Full-time, Monday-Friday.

The duration of the contract is 2 months with a possibility of extensions (this is technical measure because of the Project’s transition and does not mean that this is a short-term initiative. Contract’s extension also depends on implemented deliverables during a previous deployment). For contracting, a candidate should be able to register Private Entrepreneur of the 3d group.

Indicative duties and responsibilities (scope of work):

1. Develop financial mechanism to apply effective approaches in the process of deinstitutionalization.
2. Calculation and analysis of costs of the services which should be developed in the process of deinstitutionalization.
3. Provide the expert support for the key stakeholders in the development of financial calculations to the regulatory documents provided to secure the goals and objectives of the National Strategy for Child Care Deinstitutionalization Reform for 2017-2026.

Preferred qualifications and skills:

1. Master degree or equivalent in Economics, Finance.
2. Minimum 3 years’ proven experience on the positions of Economist, Finance Manager, Finance Analysts.
3. Knowledge of the system of Public Finance Management.
4. Knowledge of Finance, Economic Analyze, Budgeting.
5. Knowledge in the child protection area is a plus.
6. Fluency in Ukrainian, English at least intermediate.

To apply:

Submissions must be prepared in English and delivered electronically by 17:00 Kyiv time on November 01, 2019 to the following address: [email protected].

All submissions must include:

1)         Applicant’s CV.

2)         Applicant’s letter of interest.

Please ensure to state Finance Expert for DIRPO in the e-mail subject line.

Applications received after the indicated deadline and/or without letter of interest will not be reviewed and considered. Please note, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for follow-up. We do not welcome unsolicited phone calls.