With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
As the Senior Director Operations for the Middle East and Eastern European Region (MEER), you will strengthen the line management role of the Regional Leaders and enable them to focus on strategic, governance and leadership issues. With the delegated authority of the regional leaders, you will provide leadership for functional and operational issues, monitor the national office performance, coordinate regional support to the national offices and oversee the management of the regional office. This leadership is to ensure alignment with the World Vision partnership’s global, regional strategic direction and key priorities, and implementation of World Vision’s global strategy, Our Promise.
You will report to the Regional Leader and function as a twin citizen to support the Partnership Principles (accountability, twin citizenship, interdependence and empowerment) and will embed agility and simplicity across the region.
Requirements include:
- Master’s degree required in international relief and development, behaviour change, engineering or business or any other related field.
- 10 years’ experience in providing operational leadership in more than one function or country
- Significant multi-cultural leadership and management experience.
- Professional maturity to provide counsel and expertise as well as actionable feedback. The ability to identify the highest leverage changes required and the self-confidence to work with senior executives, challenging their perspective as appropriate, to achieve buy in for key changes and/or initiatives.
- The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.
How to apply
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online by the application deadline of 25 AUG 2024.
World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
For more information on World Vision International, please visit www.wvi.org.
Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.