SUMMARY
Provide overall management to Samaritan’s Purse (SP) activities in Niger, including project development, staff management, and implementation within organizational guidelines.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESinclude the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Provide overall vision, management and leadership to SP activities in Niger.
- Provide professional representation for SP with government officials, dignitaries, other NGOs, funding agencies, and visitors.
- Maintain awareness and communicate legal and cultural requirements and ensure reasonable compliance of SP with the same.
- Ensure proper financial accounting and monthly reporting of all funds and financial activity.
- Monitor potential and present emergencies and keep SP informed of events, including crisis response options and participate in emergency response and first insertion teams as needed
- Ensure appropriate supervision, support and direction for the effective engagement of all expatriate and national staff in their various assignments.
- Prepare and submit monthly narrative and programmatic field reports to the Regional Director.
- Conduct field assessments, identify needs, design and implement response plans, including project budgets and writing funding proposals.
- Develop new programs, identifying and pursuing potential funding and other available resources for ongoing, new, or planned SP projects.
- Ensure that stories and photographs are sent to the Regional Director on a regular basis to share with the Communications Department.
- Implement field policies to ensure staff satisfaction, safety and security.
- Assess, manage, and report critical physical, emotional, or spiritual concerns of supervised staff.
- All other duties deemed necessary by the Regional Director.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manages several subordinate supervisors who supervise a number of employees in various areas of supervision.
- Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of this unit. Also directly supervises non-supervisory employees.
- Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
QUALIFICATIONS
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to travel to field sites to monitor projects
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Above average communication skills – both verbal and written
- Works well in a diverse team and a pressured environment.
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Spiritual maturity; Ability to keep the focus of work on the overall goal of sharing the gospel
- Ability to communicate and interact well with people of different educational, linguistic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
- Strong relational skills and financial management experience preferred.
- Proven management and leadership experience.
- Diplomacy, negotiating skills.
24 month contract with the potential for renewal.
This is an accompanied assignment.
HOW TO APPLY:
You can submit your application at http://careers.samaritanspurse.org/country-director-niger/job/5355447
