Country Director

Country Director

Solidarites International

Juba, South Sudan

The Country Director is Solidarités International’s official representative in a country. He / She oversees the smooth running of the mission. He / She proposes mission strategy, according to the geopolitical and humanitarian context, and ensures its implementation once it has been validated. He / She monitors projects, ensuring that they are progressing in accordance with the Solidarités International charter and complying with internal and contractual procedures. He / She mobilizes the material and financial resources necessary for the programs to run effectively and supervises the administration of these resources. He / She coordinates the teams in place and ensures their security on the mission. He / She is the direct liaison for Solidarités International’s HQ.

Main responsibilities

Security

• Serve as main focal point for the mission for critical incidents.
• Liaise with security national authorities and other stakeholders (INGOs, INSO, NGO Forum, UN).
• Ensure security procedures and analysis are regularly updated.
• Brief new staff on security context of the country and the mission.
• Maintain overview of the security context by studying the daily, weekly, and quarterly security analysis from relevant organizations (INSO, NGO Forum).

External outreach

• Serve as main point of contact for strategic decisions with donors, UN, NGO Forum or other NGOs.
• Keep awareness of relevant donors and their funding priorities.
• Maintain regular communication with the donors.
• Represent SI in director level fora.

Annual strategy

• Lead the exercise of defining the annual strategy.
• Ensure the application of the strategy throughout the new proposals.
• Review the fulfillment of strategic goals.

Strategic management

• Lead the Coordination team.
• Make strategic decisions influencing the direction of the mission.
• Maintain overview of the security and funding context of the country as well as situation of the mission (financial, HR, logistics) to inform the strategic decisions.
• Coordination within the mission.
• Coordination with HQ.
• Team management.

Priorities for the 2/3 first months:

• Oversee the implementation of the annual strategy 2024.
• Reinforce the security management / contingency planning of the mission
• Dynamic analysis of the context to identify new potential needs / relevant areas of intervention
• Consolidate the recent scale-up of the mission to ensure programmatic quality and process compliance
• Sustain and further develop SI’s funding strategy in South Sudan and identify new donors to diversify the funding portfolio.
• Support the Senior Management Team in their coordination roles.
• Regularly represent SI with donors, local authorities, NGOs J17and Coordination forum.

YOUR PROFILE

Education/academic background:

• Master Degree in humanitarian/development studies, social sciences, management or other related discipline.

Specific skills and experience:

• At least 1 or 2 years working as Country Director, and 5 years in the humanitarian sector.
• Excellent communication, organizational and prioritization skills and the ability to multi-task and support and/or fill multiple positions at one time.
• High management abilities, and particularly team management skills and capacities to provide distance technical support.
• Ability, acquired through experience, to represent the organization and negotiate and defend SI’s interests with a diverse range of government officials, departments and ministries, civil society organizations, and other international organizations professionally and appropriately.
• Proven ability to deal with donors and operational partners.
• Technical knowledge in SI sectors of expertise (WASH, FSL, Shelter) is an asset.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work both independently and cooperatively with team members.
• Capacity to adapt and show organizational flexibility.
• Good stress management.
• Experience working with SI (or a similar organization) is an asset.
• Prior experience in South Sudan would be considered as an asset.

Language:

• Fluent in English, written and spoken. Arabic is an asset.

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