DR Congo North-West Regional Director

To provide overall strategic leadership, management and coordination of WV ministry within the region to ensure sustainable transformational development of sponsorship and non-sponsorship projects/programs in the Region for improvement of the well being of children.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and manage the Regional team in a way that facilitates a high performance culture, open trustworthy relationships and integrity, promote a culture of learning and development, employee engagement and good stewardship of human capital.
• Ensure excellent standards in the management of the human, financial, capital and technical resources of the organization, which includes inspiring and setting high standards of work and clear performance indicators and accountability to stakeholders.
• Develop a regional strategy that clearly prioritizes development issues within the Region while ensuring alignment with the national, SA Regional and International strategic direction of WVI.
• Develop and maintain capacity to respond to natural or man-made emergencies in the region and participate actively in development of National strategy and disaster preparedness plan for DRC that reflects the unique issues within the Region.
• Provide leadership in performance management to enhance smooth staff relations and accountability.
• Coordinate development of new project proposals and concept notes in response to funding opportunities as well as ministry priorities within the Region.
• Ensure that community members and beneficiaries, especially children, are adequately consulted and involved in program development, implementation and evaluation.
• Coordinate regular reviews on implementation of all projects within the Region through monthly, quarterly and annual review meetings to ensure implementation as per approved plans and budgets.
• Ensure Stewardship and accountability for organization resources – equipment, materials, finance and human are used for the intended purposes.
• Strengthen relationship with WV Support Offices, government, community, church leaders, NGOs as well as other development partners.
• Ensure WV is positioned as a leading NGO in promoting the well-being and rights of children within the country context to deserve public and stakeholders’ confidence and trust.
• Follow up with all audited programs and projects to ensure they have developed implementation plan of all audit recommendations that will guarantee implementation of 100% of all the audit recommendations.
• Ensure staff safety by overseeing implementation of all security protocols, orient staff to the management of potential risks related to operation especially in insecure operational areas.
  
  

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Master Degree in International Development Studies, Project Management or related fields.
• An understanding and experience in working with WV Partnership.
• Strong commitment to WV’s vision, mission and core values.
• Strong empirical knowledge of the humanitarian sector.
• Must be a collaborator and team builder committed to the transfer of knowledge.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, under extreme conditions and travel at least 25%.
• Able to promote a Regional work environment for self and others whereby a balance is maintained between work and recreation/family.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, as well as negotiation and administrative abilities.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to build personal relationships with the teams and support offices.
• Ability to work well with a team and to build and promote team cohesion.
• Demonstrated well-developed knowledge and sensitivity of cross-cultural communication and dynamics.
• Ability to live in remote or hardship areas.
• Proficiency in French and English required (essential to have a working level of French language with a willingness to improve). Lingala is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Ms Office packages (Ms Word, Power point and Ms Excel).
• Strong experience in setting up or scaling up multi-sectoral relief programs.
• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
• Knowledge of SPHERE, LCP and other programming tools.
• Ability to work in a Christian and multicultural environment, and willingness to engage beyond religious and cultural boundaries.
  

PREFERRED:

Master in International Development with 5 years working in developing country.
DR Congo North-West Regional Director