Overview
The Country Director plays a strong leadership role in DRC’s comprehensive and solutions-based approach to displacement through strategic leadership, innovation, and effective advocacy. The Country Director is ultimately accountable in country for all aspects of DRC’s work, leading the consolidation and development of the programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative leadership culture.
- Represent the programme to authorities, donors, partners, and in various co-ordination formats.
- Ensure senior management team members have clear and realistic performance-based management goals.
- Ensure the country operation has an actionable and living fundraising strategy.
- Lead on advocacy for all DRC key messages.
- Accountable for ensuring that the programme is delivered in a safe and secure manner.
- Provide overall budget monitoring, financial management and expenses control.
- Enhance financial accountability and performance.
- Manage the resources allocated effectively and transparently.
- Provide leadership support to staff and promote best practices in human resources management.
- Overall responsible for risk management.
- Lead the development and update of the programme strategy.
- Secure diversified and sustainable funding streams.
- Ensure high-quality, compliance, and impactful program delivery.
- Ensure that DRC standard regulations and operational procedures are followed.
- Continuously monitor and develop relevant accountability initiatives.
Required Experience
- Minimum seven years’ management experience in emergency/development contexts as country director/senior manager of a humanitarian or development organization or similar
- Experience representing a large and leading organization to donors, external partners and authorities.
- Experience with networking, advocacy and coordination.
- Experience in managing staff in insecure/stressful locations.
- Experience with conflict related displacement issues and working with IDPs.
- Experience of managing budgets and multiple donor contracts.
- Experience in managing donor contacts, fundraising and networking.
- Experience working in East Africa and/or Horn of Africa.
- Experience and proven leadership skills and competence in people management
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in political science, international development, economics or another relevant field
