With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
As the National Director for World Vision Chad, you will strategically lead, develop and direct the implementation of World Vision Chad’s strategy, in alignment with the Government of Chad’s priorities and World Vision’s global strategy, Our Promise. In performing this role, you will be an effective leader locally, an effective member of the broader World Vision Partnership, and will model the organisation’s principles of Twin Citizenship to ensure high ministry quality and overall organisational effectiveness.
As a leader, you will contribute to partnership life and unity, by acting as both a local and global representative of the organisation. You will ensure the country’s operations and operating models maintain the Partnership’s focus on Child Well Being outcomes and aspirations as they apply in the Chad specific country context, maximising the impact in the field while maintaining efficiency as wise stewards of entrusted resources.
Requirements include:
- Master’s degree in development studies, international development, management, administration or social sciences or equivalent with at least 8 years’ experience in country level program management.
- At least 8-10 years’ experience in managing effective and efficient operations of a country office organisation demonstrating sound people, program, financial management skills and knowledge (e.g. organisations with over 200 staff and an annual total budget of over $ 10 million).
- At least 8 years’ experience overseeing and/ or managing a large government grant, its acquisition and donor engagement.
- Proven track record of leading multi-cultural teams in complex, culturally and politically-sensitive contexts and/or multi-sectoral emergency response projects.
- Experience in fundraising in general and generating local revenue in particular, advocacy and public relations and overseeing large government grants, its acquisition and donor engagement.
Travel/Work Requirements:
- Domestic Travel: 30% regular internal travel to project areas is required.
- International Travel: 15% international travel will be required.
- On call: 10% in emergency and disaster situations, the position will be required to be on-call.
World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
