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.