Job Title: Country Director - Senegal
Reports To: SAMT Regional Director
Status: Full Time/Exempt
PURPOSE:
The Country Director is responsible for leading, managing and implementing the country strategy to achieve World Renew’s vision of community transformation in alignment with World Renew’s values, standards, and global strategic priorities. This position acts as the in-country representative for World Renew and represents World Renew to government entities, partners, alliances, and donors. This position is also responsible for the day-to-day operations of all aspects of the country office including administration, human resources, and fiscal management.
We do not discriminate based on disability, culture, ethnicity, or gender, and welcome and encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Planning: Develop and update the country strategy as required, ensuring alignment with regional strategy and with World Renew’s Strategic Plan, vision, and global strategic priorities. Develop and implement a multi-year operational plan and budget that enables the achievement of the country strategy.
2. Leadership: Effectively communicate, engage, train, develop, and provide accountability for staff.
3. Organizing: Create structure, conditions, and systems for the team to flourish. Ensure all staff are oriented to organizational policies, guidelines and best practices for their position, their conduct, and their responsibilities in alignment with our commitment and adherence to the Core Humanitarian Standard.
4. Oversight:
- Ensure program results are in alignment and program reports are submitted in a timely, high-quality manner.
- Ensure financial oversight of the country budget.
- Provide human resource leadership to all staff by ensuring appropriate strategies are in place for recruitment, compensation, employee appraisals and development, and staff care.
- Provide administrative oversight for all country office matters and assets, including supervision of staff, ensuring compliance with national laws, and ensuring security protocols are in place, monitored, maintained, and reviewed.
5. Representing and Networking: Develop and build relationships with partner organization staff, networks, and alliances, with national religious leaders, with government representatives, with NGOs and any other appropriate national forums or strategic partnerships.
6. Fundraising:
- Develop a country funding and donor management strategy, in consultation with CORE and the Regional Director, to identify and secure a stable funding base to support the country's program needs.
- Develop and maintain relationships with donors and constituents, e.g., institutional partners, churches, partner agencies, international aid organizations and other donors. This includes actively supporting education and fundraising efforts which may include hosting in country, travel within Canada/USA, video conferencing and producing content.
7. Carry out tasks related to country specific responsibilities:
- Actively contribute to all regional team activities
- Capacity building: Develop and manage partner relationships in the country by providing coaching/training to implement and improve policies, programs, and systems. Ensure that partners have the capacity to build local, sustainable community-based organizations to implement and sustain the programs through effective consulting.
8. Other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This position will oversee national and international staff, contracted vendors, and volunteers.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES REQUIRED:
1. Active engagement in a local Christian community and able to sign World Renew’s Statement of Faith Commitment to live out World Renew’s mission, vision, and values.
2. Committed to Christ with a compassionate and servant’s heart
3. Committed to working towards gender equality, equity, and justice in all aspects of our programming, plans, policies, and organizational structure.
4. Working knowledge of and a commitment to core sustainable development and relief concepts, models, and values.
5. Demonstrated ability to implement, improve, and integrate community development programs.
6. Demonstrated ability to provide effective facilitation, negotiation, active listening, decision-making and problem-solving.
7. Demonstrated ability to lead, manage and work in a collaborative complex international team environment.
8. Demonstrated ability to work and collaborate with partner organizations, government, and other organizations.
9. An ability to relate to donors and diverse international donors (granting institutions). Knowledge of grant writing, project oversight, and grant management
10. Demonstrated competence in administration, human resources, financial/budgeting, reporting, and fundraising.
11. Demonstrated competence in all basic technical computer skills, especially Microsoft (project management, communications, and reporting software applications).
12. Demonstrated commitment to contribute to and promote a work environment that values diversity, inclusion, and equity. Demonstrated commitment to working towards gender equality, equity, and justice in all aspects of programming, plans, policies, and organizational structure.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
1. Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
2. Minimum of ten years work experience in a cross-cultural international management or organizational development role working in a community development, disaster response, and/or organizational consultation environment of which three years’ management experience
3. Current right to work in Malawi is an asset, ability to obtain the right to work in Malawi is required.
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
1. Fluent in English with effective written and verbal communications skills is required.
2. Some command of French is required (business level preferred).
Fluency in a language widely used in the country is an asset.
WORK ENVIRONMENT, PHYSICAL, AND OTHER DEMANDS:
The work environment encountered, and physical demands described here, are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job description.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position requires:
● Computer work and concentrated reading, sitting for extended periods of time
● Setting up training sites with education process equipment and methods (including for example easels, projectors, PowerPoint, and so forth)
● Mental Demands:
○ Work is difficult and diversified and requires the frequent application of a high degree of independent thinking to originate and develop procedures, techniques, or ideas within the parameters of a broad conceptual outline.
● Travel:
○ Travel in insecure and/or impoverished areas which may have limited or no infrastructure or support structures.
○ In Country travel of up to 30% of time.
○ Periodic international and/or regional travel.
Why Work with World Renew?
We Value Flexibility! Effective January 2022, full-time positions transitioned to a 36-hour workweek (1,872 hours annually) with Fridays being "Focus Fridays"
• Work that follows a relentless mission to end hunger and starvation in the world
• Full-Time Flexible Work Arrangements
• Generous Vacation and Holiday Time
• Embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Benefits include Health, Welfare, & Retirement
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Contributing to an organization that is making an impact in the world
• Up to 1 week of paid time off for voluntary mission/service project trip