DRC Country Director - Jobs in Nigeria

DRC Country Director - Jobs in Nigeria

DRC is looking to recruit an experienced, highly-qualified, and enthusiastic professional Country Director to provide overall representation, management, and coordination of our mision in Nigeria, while ensuring compliance DRC’s Operations Handbook.


About the job
The Country Director is accountable for all aspects of DRC's work in Nigeria. This role will be expected to lead and consolidate DRC programming and impact while overseeing the efficient use of resources. The Country Director will be also responsible to ensure that the organizational set up is adapted to the context of operations. This role is expected to be strong in management. The Country Director should be able to delegate specific duties as necessary while maintaining global oversight and accountability.

The main responsibilities and tasks of the Country Director are the following:

Representation

Represent DRC to authorities, donors, partners, and in selected co-ordination forums

Strengthen DRC’s position nationally and regionally

Ensure that DRC maintains excellent and productive relations with all key stakeholders, especially beneficiaries, local authorities, the humanitarian community and donors


Direct managerial oversight and support

Overall management of the operation and direct manager for senior staff members. This includes coaching, ensuring co-ordination between managers, recruiting, and development of staff

Frequent travel to the field offices for direct operational support and representation

Ensure compliance with internal and external reporting requirements including procurement


Fundraising & Advocacy

As the majority of the fundraising is done locally, the Country Director will lead the process of applying for funding and broadening the funding basis in a challenging funding environment

The Country Director will lead his/her team in the submission of high-quality concept papers, project proposals and budgets in line with the approved country and donor strategies

Maintain high quality exchanges with the Regional Office team and mobilize the country team to participate in regional projects and strategies

Lead in the team’s advocacy on all DRC key messages

Actively engage with government and donor agencies to help influence the humanitarian response in Nigeria


Security & Safety

Be accountable for ensuring that DRC country programme is delivered in a safe and secure manner

Provide overall accountability for security, including development of and ensuring adherence to security procedures, monitoring of the security situation, analyzing the context, and ensure the implementation safety improvement plans


Support Services

Together with the Head of Support Services, ensure that overall budget monitoring, financial management and expenses control, including compliance with minimum DRC and donor requirements, are done and ensure that necessary systems for risk mitigation are in place

Manage the resources allocated effectively and transparently by respecting and meeting all legal requirements in country

Together with the HR team, provide leadership support to staff and promote best practices in human resources management

Provide coaching and counselling advice to staff when necessary and lead initiatives to develop staff capacity


Programme Development

Lead the development and update of the programme strategy, within DRC’s overall regional and global strategic frameworks

Lead the development of the programme within the strategic objectives and not being constrained by the current limitations of existing programming

Ensure that DRC standard regulations and operational procedures (Code of Conduct, DRC Management handbooks, SPHERE standards etc.) are followed


Accountability & Quality

Be accountable for ensuring that programmes comply with the organizational quality and accountability commitments
Guided by the Programme Handbook, continuously monitor and develop relevant accountability initiatives in the field as well as strengthening the effort to document the impact of DRC’s activities in Nigeria

In addition to the above, the Country Director may be asked to carry out other duties requested by the Regional Operations Director and/ or the Regional Executive Director. As stated above, the Country Director is based in Abuja but is expected quite frequently, especially in the States of Borno and Adamawa.

About You
To be successful in this role we expect you to posses the following:

Required

Master's degree in political science, international development, economics, management, international relations or other relevant field;

Minimum 5 years' relevant work experience in emergency contexts for a humanitarian agency or similar;

Minimum 5 years' experience in people management;

Experience in representing

a large international organization with donors, external partners and authorities;

Experience with networking, advocacy, and coordination;

Proven leadership skills and significant experience in managing large teams containing both national and expatriate team-members;

Significant experience of grant management and a strong understanding of fundraising;

Proven experience managing large and complex humanitarian operations;

Experience in financial and safety management;

Desirable

Work related experience from the region/country

Proficiency in Hausa or other Nigerian languages (or in French) is considered an asset but not a requirement
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.


General Regulations

The employee shall follow DRC instructions on safety, confidentiality and ethical guidelines, including the Code of

Conduct and the Humanitarian Accountability Framework

Employee should not engage in any other paid activity during the DRC contract period without prior authorization

Employee should not engage in any activity that could harm DRC or the implementation of any project during the DRC contract period

Employee should not give interviews to the media or publish project-related photos or other material without prior authorization


We offer
Contract length: 2 years

Band: D

Designation of Duty Station: Accompanied Duty Station l This position is based in Abuja but requires frequent travels to other DRC implementing locations – in particular in the Northeast states of Borno and Adamawa. Abuja is a modern city with access to most amenities, although power cuts can be frequent. Abuja has several international schools and wide variety of restaurants.

Start date: 1 October 2022


Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies.

For additional information regarding the position, you are welcome to contact the Regional Executive Director at the following address: yann.faivre@drc.ngo or the Regional Head of Support Services at the following address: jean.doursounian@drc.ngo. Applications via email will not be considered.



How to apply

All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English.

Application deadline: 17 August 2022, at midnight (Dakar-time). Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.

Due to the urgency of the position, DRC has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.

DRC provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. DRC encourages all applicants to apply and does not practice any discrimination in any recruitment process.

However, due to internal DRC legal rules, all applicants shall take into consideration that DRC cannot offer an international employment contract to a citizen of the country of assignment (in that specific case: the Federal Republic of Nigeria). This applies even in case of dual citizenship and/or possession of a foreign residency card.


For more information and job application details, see; DRC Country Director Jobs in Nigeria



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