Regional Manager, Middle East Region

Regional Manager, Middle East Region

Samaritan’s Purse

Boone, NC, United States

A day in the life of a Regional Manager:

At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.

In the role of Regional Manager, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
• Support the Regional Director to create, articulate, and disseminate a clear vision and strategy for Samaritans Purse programming in the region.
• Work with relevant Headquarters and field-level staff to ensure all grants, awards, and internally funded programs are implemented according to Samaritans Purse Program Management Guidelines and donor requirements.
• Analyze data and background materials in order to provide guidance to and support Regional Director(s) and key decision makers.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of regional grant activity and provide timely summaries to the Regional Director(s).
• Manage partner relationships and programs in the region and communicate regularly with funding recipients in order to receive timely reports. Establish funding and evaluation criteria, send guidelines to prospective partners, evaluate program proposals, make funding recommendations, and monitor currently funded programs.
• Investigate and determine new opportunities for partnership in existing countries and other countries in the region.
• Work with the relevant field-level staff to provide additional detailed information as requested for communications purposes. As needed, provide reports and success stories to Communications for publication.
• In conjunction with the Field Office and IHQ HR staff, manage all HR processes required of the field offices related to International Field Staff (IFS). This includes managing the flow of applicants, conducting interviews, and providing timely and relevant reports for field and headquarters level staff.
• Coordinate evaluation of IFS employees with Country Director, IHQ Projects, and HR.
• Assist the Field Office headquarter-level support with all aspects of procurement including planning, bid justifications, and contracts.
• Assist Regional Director(s) by providing on-site monitoring and evaluation of partner programs.
• Assume lead responsibility for managing specific partner projects. Keep Regional Director(s) informed of status, information, needs, and concerns related to partners. Provide and maintain a monthly project tracking and status report on all assigned programs and projects.
• Liaise with Regional Director(s), Country Directors, and Communications to ensure that all relevant partner programs and field office projects are listed on the Samaritans Purse website and kept current.
• Provide surge capacity and assume additional responsibilities for Regional Director(s) during absence due to travel, disaster response, or vacancy.
• Follow policies and procedures of Samaritans Purse as set forth in the Policy Manual.
• Attend daily morning devotions and participate in prayer support for the ministry, donors, and volunteers.
• Maintain a strong Christian witness to colleagues, volunteers, vendors, charitable beneficiaries, and the general public within the workplace, in the community, and before the general public.
• Reflect Godly character by conducting activities in a manner consistent with the Mission Statement, Statement of Faith, Christian Code of Conduct, Statement of Fidelity to the Holy Scriptures and Distinct Objectives.
• Other duties may be assigned that are not specifically identified within the content of the job description.

Qualifications & experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (BA) from four-year college or university and three (3) to five (5) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Twelve credit hours of college-level Biblical studies strongly preferred.
• General knowledge of international affairs, foreign policy, and fundamental political frameworks within each country of oversight.
• General knowledge of socioeconomic, cultural, religious, and political conditions in assigned region(s).
• High degree of diplomacy and cultural sensitivity.
• General knowledge of and ability to work in partnership with governmental and non-governmental organizations.
• Intermediate to fluent foreign language skills preferred.
• Language requirement: fluency in English (required).

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