Overview
The Country Manager will provide leadership and day-to-day management of IRC’s programs implementation in Venezuela, overseeing programmatic quality and smooth running of programs in field offices.
Key Responsibilities
- Support program coordinators and partnerships team in accompaniment and follow up with local partners.
- Ensure timely planning, implementation and follow up of multi-sector programming.
- Monitor project progress against work plans and budgets.
- Ensure procurement planning support to sector coordinators and base staff.
- Ensure routine monitoring visits to implementation sites.
- Keep abreast of local context, needs, gaps and constraints.
- Ensure collaboration with field leadership and support areas.
- Lead proposal design and development processes.
- Direct supervision of program coordinators.
- Establish and review performance objectives and KPIs for direct reports.
- Provide regular constructive feedback to direct reports.
- Promote appropriate norms and establish measures for a safe and healthy working environment.
- Set annual performance objectives and provide semi-annual performance reviews.
- Maintain open and professional relations with team members.
- Provide development plans for staff.
- Identify staff performance issues and work with HR.
- Promote and monitor staff care and well-being.
- Support staff in career growth and identify training needs.
- Adhere to IRC Global HR Policies and Procedures.
- Represent IRC in inter-agency forums and discussions.
- Participate in relevant working groups.
- Represent and promote IRC with local authorities and coordination bodies.
- Lead assessments and research for program evidence base.
Required Experience
- At least 8 years of experience within the international development / humanitarian sector, several of which was at senior management level.
- Minimum of 3 years’ specific experience in senior management role.
- Experience with multi-sectoral and multi-donor funded programs.
- Prior experience working in remote-management situations preferred, particularly in supporting partners.
- Experience of working in refugee context is an added advantage.
- Experience of managing oversight of logistics, procurement, administrative and financial functions.
- Experience of working successfully with local stakeholders.
- Experience with multi-sectoral and multi-donor funded programs.
- Strong technical and operational knowledge of humanitarian programming in a remote context.
- Proven experience in designing and delivering capacity-building activities.
Qualifications
• BA/BS Degree in international development, social sciences, or a related field preferred; MA/MS a plus.
