Country Director - Tenders Global

Country Director

GOAL

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Position description

GOAL is seeking a highly experienced and energetic individual to join our team as Country Director – Syria. This is a critical role and requires an inspiring leader with a proven track record of successfully managing and growing a large country programme. You will provide overall senior leadership and management and assurance of the integrity of the Syria program, as well as strategic direction and high-level representation of the program.

Main Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership and vision: to attain programme goals and objectives through the development, implementation, reviews, presentation and management of all aspects of this large programme.
  • Safety and Risk Management: Ensure a conflict sensitive approach across GOALs program design and implementation which considers existing and predicted local level risks and sensitivities.
  • Compliance and Accountability: Ensure that programme management and implementation is fully compliant with organizational and donor regulations, including all financial and procurement systems and policies and the overall ethical framework.
  • Support Function Management: Coordinate all programme support function needs with the relevant departments within the support structure of the wider GOAL Syria/Turkey systems.
  • Implementing Partner Programme Oversight: Provide dynamic leadership to ensure technical and financial integrity of the programs as implemented by partners to achieve project goals, objectives and targets.
  • Representation/Visibility: Represent the programme to the wider humanitarian and development community, Donors, local Government ensuring that the Syria Response programme is well understood and well represented in various fora

Qualifications

  • Proven experience at Country Director Level in the overseas humanitarian or development environment
  • Significant overseas management experience in humanitarian assistance and development programmes like the scale and scope of our Syria programme
  • Previous experience of leading and developing a large in-country team in the Middle East
  • Comfortable liaising with government officials and a variety of donors

Desirable:

  • Experience working in the Syria Response and/or a strong demonstrated understanding of the country context Leadership experience managing large country programs as Country Director or Programs Director in the relevant humanitarian and development sectors
  • Experience managing BHA, ECHO, FCDO funded programming specifically emergency or/or resilience focused program in a conflict/post conflict environment.
  • Proficiency in Arabic and/or Turkish an advantage

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