County Director – Türkiye

About Us

GOAL has responded to the world’s major humanitarian crises since its founding in 1977, working with vulnerable communities in 15 countries across the globe with a dedicated team of 3,500 personnel. While GOAL continues to be an agile first-responder to humanitarian crises, it is also committed to working with vulnerable communities to help them survive crises and support them on the road to recovery.

GOAL Türkiye began implementing humanitarian programmes in 2016, contributing to the national refugee response framework which affirms the human rights of refugees and migrants, advocating for support where it is most needed. Our project targets the most vulnerable and excluded refugees, specifically migrant seasonal agricultural workers, and members of nomadic/semi-nomadic groups to reduce, remove or prevent protection risks, until lasting solutions for their protection are found.

Job Purpose
The Country Director for GOAL in Türkiye has overall accountability for all GOAL’s work in-country and is responsible for context specific programming and is the main contact for donors and to GOAL’s HQ.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for securing and responsibly growing the portfolio within the Country. The CD leads the process for updating and implementing the Country Funding Strategy; proactively engages existing and future donors.
• Responsible for aligning the country programme to GOALs Global Strategy through development and implementation of Country Strategic Plans and Annual Country Plans. The CD guides the Head of Programmes (HoP) on programme development, implementation and leveraging of global technical resources for Programme Quality visits and reviews.
• Responsible for ensuring all programme activities are planned, resourced, implemented, monitored and evaluated in a timely manner, to ensure that they are appropriate, necessary, cost effective, targeted, sustainable and in keeping with GOAL’s mission and philosophy and Turkish law.
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate and effective support functions for programme implementation. The CD manages and guides the Head of Operations (HoO) to ensure lean supply chain activity; appropriate and compliant procurement functions; fit for purpose IT systems and a service level mindset for support to programmes. The CD will also engage with the Liaison Advisor to ensure the overall safety/security management and appropriate duty of care of the country programme staff.
• Responsible for managing country-wide financial exposure and leading the annual Country Budgeting process to ensure effective forecasts and resourcing. Responsible for managing and mitigating against risk in country.
• Responsible for effective governance of the country programme including day-to-day management of the Internal Auditor; maintaining an effective control environment through management action on audit findings; review of Feedback, Complaint Response Mechanism (FCRM) reports and liaising with the Head of Investigation Unit on case-by-case basis.
• Support regional integration and collaboration with GOAL teams across Turkey.
• Represent GOAL in key stakeholder and peer networks and coordination mechanisms and with state and local government agencies.

The role
Act as a representative of GOAL and demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children and vulnerable adults both in your private and professional lives.
Lead by example and coach and development capacity of the GOAL team in Türkiye.
Develop GOAL’s network of partnership in Türkiye.
Provide strong leadership by motivating, inspiring and building a strong culture of collaboration and accountability while communicating effectively and making hard decisions if and when necessary.
Provide troubleshooting interventions and an approach which supports problem solving and team building.

Essential Requirements
Proven and significant experience at Country Director Level in the overseas humanitarian or development environment
Demonstrated experience in a senior leadership position within an INGO in the Middle East.
Demonstrable experience in security and crisis management
A record of successful engagement with institutional donors and securing funding
Experience leading a large and geographically dispersed team and working in highly insecure locations.
Fluent written and spoken English.
An interest in capacity building/mentoring of teams
Excellent staff management and personnel skills
Excellent analytical, writing skills and training skills.
Problem solving skills to identify and lead the resolution of issues.
Excellent coordination skills and ability to work as part of a team.
Patient, flexible, able to improvise and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure.

Desirable

Prior experience working in Turkey or in the Middle East
Fluent written and spoken Turkish is not mandatory but desirable for this role.
Experience directly managing multi-sector programmes across multiple grants and/or experience in managing qualified programme managers implementing multi-sector activities across multiple grants.
Prior experience in programming in protection, resilience, livelihood and humanitarian response as well as refugee programming

GOAL is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees. We know that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. If you would like more information or have any special requirements or needs that would support you during the recruitment process then please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.hq@goal.ie

All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling GOAL’s commitment to equal employment opportunity and equal treatment. GOAL does not discriminate against any employee or volunteer; or any applicant for employment or volunteering on the basis of age, gender identity, ancestry, political opinion, civil status, medical condition, ethnic background, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.