REGIONAL DIRECTOR

Work Location:	Jordan - Amman
Other Possible Locations:	Egypt or Turkey
Expected Travel:	up to 50%
Language Requirement:	Arabic preferred
Employee Duration:	Active Full-Time
Type of Post:	Accompanied - Family
Funding:	Approved
Application Deadline:
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DESCRIPTION
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, including the organizational transformational shift to ‘CARE Global’ over the next few years. The Regional Director also serves on the International Programs and Operations (IPO) senior management team and as such represents regional interests to CARE’s senior management through that and other fora. The Regional Director line manages CARE USA Country Office Directors, members of the Regional Management Unit, as well as the Deputy Regional Director for Emergencies (DRD-E). The Regional Director is responsible for all CARE USA development and humanitarian response activities across a specific geographic area (Middle East and Northern Africa - MENA), which may include both CARE USA lead country offices as well as country offices led by other CARE members. The Regional Director is responsible for providing strategic and operational oversight and direction to country and regional programs undertaking emergency response operations. A major challenge for senior leadership in the region includes ensuring that CARE is strengthening its impact on poverty and injustice as well as tackling gender inequities in a rapidly changing region that is experiencing heightened insecurity and politically driven conflict, resulting in an increasing number of humanitarian emergencies. In both development and humanitarian programming, it is important to maintain focus on how CARE can be most relevant, by 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.

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