Country Director

Country Director

GOAL

Syrian Arab Republic (Syria)

Job Purpose

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

The Person

• 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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