Job Details:
Organisation: CARE - USA
Deadline Wed, 3 Sep 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location:
Egypt
Jordan
Turkey
CARE is seeking a Regional Director. The Regional Director is responsible for providing leadership and high level oversight of all key areas of regional and country office strategy and performance. This includes responsibilities within the region for strategy development and oversight, leadership and management, building and maintaining relationships, talent development and staff supervision, financial stewardship, resource acquisition, and program focus and quality. The Regional Director is also responsible for leading regional teams around shared directions and priorities, contributing to and applying within the region overall CARE organizational priorities and strategies, and representing regional interests to CARE’s senior management. CARE USA’s regional directors are responsible for all CARE USA development and humanitarian response activities across a specific geographic area, which may include both CARE USA lead country offices as well as country offices led by other CARE members.
The major challenges for all senior leadership in the region includes ensuring that CARE is strengthening its impact on poverty and injustice in the region in the context of a rapidly changing region and world, through remaining relevant, designing, implementing and measuring the impact of appropriate programs across the region, and evolving the organization to support its future impact and relevance.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Strategy Development and Oversight
- Leadership and Management
- Talent development and staff supervision
- Financial Stewardship
- Resource Acquisition
- Program Focus & Quality
Required Skills:
- Bachelors’ degree in a related field
- 8-10 years senior management position in the development field
- Strategic and operational management
- Demonstrated experience in leading strategic and operational planning
- Extensive conceptual skills including strategic analysis
- Demonstrated management skills in a complex international setting
- Proven experience and skills in leading and managing organizational change processes
- Outstanding communications skills (written, verbal – English required, Arabic desired)
- Strong decision-making skills and effectiveness
- People/relationship management
- Experience supervising and developing a multi-disciplinary team in a cross-cultural setting
- Demonstrated self-awareness, leadership and interpersonal skills
- Strong human resource management skills including capacity building, coaching and conflict management
- Demonstrated interest and ability to give feedback, develop, motivate and lead a diverse team to achieve results
- Demonstrated use of positive coping strategies in stressful environments
- Financial management
- Knowledge and experience with financial management as demonstrated by ability to:
- Manage a complex budget
- Effectively follow-up on internal and external audit recommendations
- Ensure donor compliance and reporting
- Information/knowledge management
- Ability to establish a learning culture within the region and to facilitate knowledge sharing across CARE
- External relationships/fundraising
- Experience in successfully managing various forms of partnerships with national and international Non Government Organizations (NGOs), etc.
- Experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with donors and government counterparts.
- Strong representation, influencing and negotiation skills.
To apply for this position, please visit our website here: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH05/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CAREUSA&cws=1&rid=2413
Our diversity is our strength; we encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences, particularly women, to apply.
The closing date for this posting, if listed, is approximate. Job postings may be removed from CARE`s career website at any time.
REGIONAL DIRECTOR
Job posted by: CARE - USA - Wed, 20 Aug 2014Job Details:
Organisation: CARE - USA
Deadline Wed, 3 Sep 2014
Job type: Permanent
Location: Egypt Jordan Turkey
CARE is seeking a Regional Director. The Regional Director is responsible for providing leadership and high level oversight of all key areas of regional and country office strategy and performance. This includes responsibilities within the region for strategy development and oversight, leadership and management, building and maintaining relationships, talent development and staff supervision, financial stewardship, resource acquisition, and program focus and quality. The Regional Director is also responsible for leading regional teams around shared directions and priorities, contributing to and applying within the region overall CARE organizational priorities and strategies, and representing regional interests to CARE’s senior management. CARE USA’s regional directors are responsible for all CARE USA development and humanitarian response activities across a specific geographic area, which may include both CARE USA lead country offices as well as country offices led by other CARE members.
The major challenges for all senior leadership in the region includes ensuring that CARE is strengthening its impact on poverty and injustice in the region in the context of a rapidly changing region and world, through remaining relevant, designing, implementing and measuring the impact of appropriate programs across the region, and evolving the organization to support its future impact and relevance.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
To apply for this position, please visit our website here: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH05/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CAREUSA&cws=1&rid=2413
Our diversity is our strength; we encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences, particularly women, to apply.
The closing date for this posting, if listed, is approximate. Job postings may be removed from CARE`s career website at any time.