Overview
Provide strategic leadership and overall management of DRC’s country operations in South Sudan, ensuring impactful programming, strong external representation, and sound financial oversight.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide visionary and inclusive leadership across DRC South Sudan operations.
- Lead the implementation and development of DRC’s country strategy.
- Foster a collaborative organizational culture.
- Ensure effective senior management teamwork and decision-making.
- Represent DRC with national authorities, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, clusters, and coordination forums.
- Strengthen DRC’s positioning and visibility nationally and within the EAGL region.
- Maintain constructive relationships with key stakeholders.
- Lead strategic advocacy efforts on displacement-related issues and humanitarian access.
- Ensure quality, compliant, and impactful programme implementation.
- Support programme development, proposal design, fundraising, and donor engagement.
- Promote evidence-based programming, accountability to affected populations, and impact measurement.
- Support diversified and sustainable funding strategies.
- Maintain overall accountability for safety and security management.
- Ensure operations are conducted in accordance with DRC security policies and procedures.
- Monitor contextual developments and support informed operational decision-making.
- Oversee financial management, budget monitoring, and compliance.
- Ensure efficient resource allocation and accountable operational systems.
- Strengthen organizational resilience and risk management practices.
- Lead, coach, and support senior managers and promote staff wellbeing and professional development.
- Ensure performance management systems are effectively implemented.
- Promote safeguarding, diversity, inclusion, and adherence to DRC’s Code of Conduct.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 7 years of senior management experience in humanitarian and/or development settings, including experience as Country Director or equivalent senior leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience leading operations in complex and insecure environments.
- Strong experience representing organizations with donors, authorities, and coordination mechanisms.
- Proven experience in donor engagement, fundraising, and managing multi-donor portfolios.
- Experience managing large and diverse teams in high-stress contexts.
- Experience working on displacement-related issues, including with IDPs and conflict-affected populations.
- Previous experience in East Africa and/or the Horn of Africa is strongly preferred.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Political Science, International Development, Economics, Humanitarian Affairs, or another relevant field.
