Erine Dijkstra Email & Phone Number

My role is to enhance cohesion, learning/exchange and purposeful action across the organisation's projects portfolio and to develop complex multi-year programs. I provide guidance to policy officers and act as a strategic partner to the director in program management, stepping in as deputy director when needed.Responsibilities:Vision Development: Collaborate with policy officers to create visions for Mondiaal FNV’s thematic areas and develop complex multi-year programs (including SMART goals) across different policy domains related to various subsidies.Program Execution: Oversee the execution, detailing, and phasing of programs, ensuring the optimal allocation of resources. Set priorities and make strategic decisions in consultation with the Director.Budget Management: Monitor budgets and resources for the entire program, working closely with project managers and the financial manager.Quality Management: Ensure quality management, innovation, and linking and learning within the programs (e.g., ToCs, financial sustainability, aid, and trade).Monitoring and Evaluation: Co-responsible for Monitoring and Evaluation, in collaboration with the Policy Officer PMEL.Team Leadership: Guide, coach, and advise the program team, fostering a positive work environment and collaboration among project teams. Identify individual development and training needs.Strategic Advising: Provide advice on projects within the responsible discipline and related areas, and offer strategic insights to the Director on specific program-related matters.Deputy Director: Act as the deputy director when necessary.Networking: Build a network of contacts with partners and other stakeholders to support program work.Process Development: Develop and document (work) processes, (work) instructions, and their implementation in systems as required by the program.

Timor-Leste

As the Country Director in Timor-Leste, I was responsible for the effective management of the Country Office of around 35 staff, including human resource development, program delivery, financial management, legal and regulatory compliance;I led on the following key Achievements- Change management: o Transition of policies, systems and programming as the Country Office management was taken over by ChildFund Australia (previously managed by ChildFund International USA). o Transition from a Child Sponsorship based organisation towards an organisation with sound systems for quality programming, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, based on clear sector priorities and Theory of Change.o Transition from direct project implementation to a vision for localisation and strategic collaboration with a range of local partnerships. - Increased program quality through strategic program design and development processes in the areas of (preschool) Education, Online safety, Maternal and Child Health and Youth Development. - Resource Mobilisation, Successfully obtained grant funding from Australian Aid, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and UNICEF. - Led the emergency relief programming in response to Cyclone Seroja with focus on Child Friendly Spaces/Mental Health and Psychosocial Support.- Emergencies Management: Steered the country office through the impact of the Covid 19 Pandemic, and the impact of a large-scale natural disaster (Cyclone Seroja 2021)- Localization and partnership management; expanded the relationship with Local CSOs and relevant government ministries at the national and district level, build staff competencies and set up systems for partnership management.

Lilongwe

In Malawi, I set up a new country office as part of the organisation’s new decentralization policy. - I registered the organisation, recruited and build a new team of Program Managers, Finance and Logistics staff, and developed operating systems and procedures.- I developed the Country Strategic Plan and the Fundraising Strategy and managed the transition from a project portfolio to a coherent Country Program in collaboration with local partner organisations.- Successfully managed the country project portfolio of approximately 900.000 Euro annually implemented in collaboration with local implementing partners. (Donors included Europe Aid, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Positive Action for Children Fund, Comic Relief and private donors)- Mobilised Resources, Designed and rolled out new programs in Early Childhood Development, Child Protection and Youth and Work/ Agricultural Vocational training. And set the research and learning agendas in our programs together with the local program partners.- Established relationships with relevant line ministries, donors, and professional networks and build a professional reputation gaining recognition for our expertise in ECD, Child Protection and Youth involvement in Agribusiness.

Lusaka, Zambia

As the project portfolio in Southern Africa grew due to funding from the EU and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I relocated from Netherlands to Lusaka, Zambia. - I developed and implemented the Regional Strategic Plan.- Successfully coordinated the implementation of Basic Education, Health and TVET programs funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010-2015, 2,7 Million EUR for Zambia and Malawi)- Led the implementation of the EuropeAid funded Education Project (Capacity strengthening Community schools) in Zambia (42 months, 2013-2016, 900.000 EUR).- Raised additional funding for HIV prevention & Prevention Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) program in Malawi (Positive Action for Children Fund, 2015-2017, 240.000 GBP)- I Identified new partner organisations and projects and was responsible for the capacity development of local partner organisations with a focus on project design, project quality as well as Organisational Development.- I facilitated the setup of a regional network/ alliance with partners in the Netherlands and their local partners in Zambia, Malawi and South Africa who collaborated in the region on the implementation of programs funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Netherlands

As one of the two members of a new knowledge department. I brought the operationalization of the new policy on Child Centred Community Development and Child Ambassador Model of sponsorship to the next level by developing the Program Handbook, tools for program implementation and monitoring and evaluation, guidelines, and training materials.- I facilitated workshops on Child Centred Community Development, Child Rights Programming and Participatory planning and monitoring across the organisation.- I contributed to the facilitation of research, access to knowledge and learning across the organisation’s programmes.- I developed and rolled out the organisation’s Child Safeguarding Policy.- Meanwhile, I became responsible for the management of the Program portfolio in Southern Africa as described above.

Netherlands

While I managed a project portfolio in India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia and Rwanda, I developed a new policy framework to shape the change process in the organization; from welfare-based approaches towards community and rights-based approaches. The new policy focused on Child Centred Community Development, civil society strengthening and policy influencing through multi-stakeholder approaches.

After an evaluation of child sponsorship programs in India and Kenya, I led the redesigning of the child sponsorship program model in the organisation: I have set new minimum standards for program design and adapted sponsorship models for fundraising. I provided training in project cycle management, community development principles and project design to support local implementing partners understand the change.

- research on the scope and limitations of community based care for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)- capacity building for project staff regarding OVC care and support