Tearfund is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior professional to lead our programme in South Sudan. You will understand the concepts and be able to integrate development and humanitarian work, have a solid understanding of root causes to conflict and poverty, and are dedicated to localisaton and work with partners.
Tearfund’s 3 corporate priorities, Church and Community Transformation, Economic and Environmental Sustainability, and Fragile States are all included in the complex South Sudan programme, and implement through Tearfund’s own operational team as well as through a range of partnerships with local and national NGO’s, churches and networks. Funding currently is around £6 million, with a wide donor base including institutional donors such as OFDA, with a multi cultural team of about 190 national and international staff. Our strategy for the work in South Sudan outlines a continuing shift in our focus from emergency response to resilience and peace building activities with a strong focus on localization and durable solutions.
Based in Juba, the Country Director (CD) is responsible for implementation of the country strategy in line with Tearfund’s vision, strategy, policies and procedures. As the most senior representative for Tearfund in the country, the CD is responsible for high level representation to the government, donors and the UN and for coordination with other NGOs and UN agencies, and our local partners. The CD has overall responsibility for security management and the health and safety of Tearfund staff within South Sudan. The CD is responsible for leading the senior management team. The role will involve travel within South Sudan, the East Africa region as well as to the United Kingdom.
As a strong leader, you will have substantial senior experience in community development and humanitarian response along with a proven and successful record of strategic planning and thinking; project cycle management and fundraising; people and team management and development; partner portfolio management; programme budget management; and ensuring compliance to donor and corporate systems and procedures.
We are looking for a leader with vision, commitment and energy, someone who is a committed Christian and who shares and supports Tearfund’s values and vision. If that describes you, we would like to talk to you!
Applicants must be committed to Tearfund’s Christian beliefs.
The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.
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