• Oversee implementation of IRC’s global strategy across the regional portfolio
• Ensure a consistently high level of team performance
• Manage, mentor, and coach all country directors and regional team members, modeling healthy, collaborative intra and inter-departmental working relationships
• Lead measurable efforts to ensure IRC’s workforce – including at leadership levels – reflecting the diversity of the places the organisation operates and the people it serves
• Cultivate a safe and protective environment for all people, combining locally-led initiatives with wider organisational efforts related to safeguarding, gender equality, diversity and inclusion, duty of care and safety and security
• Ensure all country finance, human resources, supply chain, and IT functions are resourced and managed in accordance with IRC and donor policies and standards
• Champion humanitarian access and security management strategies across the region
• Actively partner with the ethics and compliance unit to strengthen IRC’s efforts to prevent, detect and respond to issues of fraud and misconduct
• Foster a balanced and diligent approach to risk management across all country programmes
• Ensure strong representation of the IRC to local, regional and global stakeholders – including governments, donors, and civil society partners
• Support the IRC business development and fundraising efforts through cultivating a strong network of donor contacts, engaging with the HQ fundraising team, ensuring country teams build and maintain strong donor relationships
• Support the development of creative, impactful approaches to priority policy issues, both locally and in concert with the global advocacy team
• Raise the IRC and its partners’ profiles, working closely with the communications team

Requirements

• Extensive field experience leading humanitarian, protracted and/or post-crisis development programmes with demonstrated ability to manage in complex and often insecure working environments
• 15 years, minimum, of professional experience with ten or more years in leadership with increasing levels of responsibility
• Exceptional financial and operational analysis and management skills, including project management
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills, commitment to open and transparent communication and top-notch diplomatic skills
• Deep commitment to and knowledge of strategies to advance diversity, equality and inclusion
• Proven experience in incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work
• Receptive and collaborative leadership approach that contributes to positive team environment, builds and maintains strong relationships with people from all backgrounds, genders, cultures and viewpoints
• Professional fluency in written and spoken English and French

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