Area Manager

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Description

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• Line manage area support and program staff ensuring inter-department co-ordination.
• Closely coordinate with the senior management team ensuring regular information flows.
• People management of direct reports (including development, people planning and performance).
• Withteam leaders manage the programme activities budget lines , ensuring effective and efficient use of resources including financial, human and all assets.
• Ensure overall provision of and adherence to DRC policies (including Code of Conduct), procedures, guidelines, systems, and standard practices.
• Provide leadership in overseeing logistical/procurement, Human Resources/administration and office services activities and ensure their timely/efficient delivering.

• Primary DRC representative in operation area and attend with support from DRC technical staff all relevant fora/meetings to strengthen DRC’s position.
• Foster relationships and ensure close coordination with local authorities and other relevant stakeholders in the operation area.
• Support working relationships with donors, national and international organizations, and local counterparts.
• Comply with internal reporting requirements, contribute to, and provide quality assurance of external reports from area of operation.

• Lead the process of adapting DRC national strategy to the local context and circumstances.
• Provide regular analysis on the context and humanitarian situation in the area for the development of project proposals and safety assessments in cooperation with the Country Director and program staff.
• Ensure coordination – directly or through sector managers – with National Office programme team to ensure programme implementation is aligned with technical guidance and programme/sector strategies.

• Ensure a safe and secure environment for DRC staff, beneficiaries, and assets by ensuring the local security procedures are up to date and SOPs are being followed in line with DRC policy. Given the highly conflictive context within the areas of operation, the Area manager will have to monitor closely the activities that take place on the ground and the staff that conduct them, making sure that they abide to the safety protocols.  
• Conduct regular safety and security monitoring and assessments.
• As Manager the post-holder is responsible for the following
• Accountable for achieving DRC’s strategic goals and objectives within the area of responsibility.
• Accountable for making significant decisions on what the unit does: its purpose, functions, and role, and for making commitments and decisions that require the expenditure of significant unit resources.
• Accountable for people management of direct reports, generally at least 3 employees. This includes hiring & firing, objective setting, probation, performance appraisal, development of staff, managing performance, including poor performance, etc
• Accountable for making sound decisions based on DRC policies, MOPs, standards, and the advice of technical experts in DRC
• Contribute to recruitment and/or performance appraisal of members of the team.
• Implements the manager’s decisions through the work of subordinate employees, often playing a role in deciding how to do it; and how to achieve the objective set by the manager.

• Strong leadership skills and a competence in people management.
• Practical and extensive financial, Human Resources, Logistic and administration management.
• Experience working with an integrated ERP system (end to end process of procurement, andother peripheric modules of logistics) – MS Dynamics considered an advantage.
• External stakeholder management (especially with local authorities).
• Proven excellent communication and report writing skills.
• Experience working in remote areas, with limited opportunities to create social networks.

• Master’s degree in political science, international development, humanitarian assistance, economics, or other relevant fields from a top tier university.
• Or bachelor’s degree in relevant fields with 3 years’ working experience in similar positions.

• Full proficiency in Spanish is compulsory.
• Proficiency in English is compulsory.

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