Brief Description:

The Country Director is responsible for leading, managing and implementing the country strategy to achieve World Renew’s vision of community transformation in alignment with World Renew’s values, standards, and global strategic priorities. This position acts as the in-country representative for World Renew and represents World Renew to government entities, partners, alliances, and donors. This position is also responsible for the day-to-day operations of all aspects of the country office including administration, human resources, and fiscal management.

We do not discriminate based on disability, culture, ethnicity, or gender, and welcome and encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Planning: Develop and update the country strategy as required, ensuring alignment with regional strategy and with World Renew’s Strategic Plan, vision, and global strategic priorities. Develop and implement a multi-year operational plan and budget that enables the achievement of the country strategy.

2. Leadership: Effectively communicate, engage, train, develop, and provide accountability for staff.

3. Organizing: Create structure, conditions, and systems for the team to flourish. Ensure all staff are oriented to organizational policies, guidelines and best practices for their position, their conduct, and their responsibilities in alignment with our commitment and adherence to the Core Humanitarian Standard.

4. Oversight:
- Ensure program results are in alignment and program reports are submitted in a timely, high-quality manner.
- Ensure financial oversight of the country budget.
- Provide human resource leadership to all staff by ensuring appropriate strategies are in place for recruitment, compensation, employee appraisals and development, and staff care.
- Provide administrative oversight for all country office matters and assets, including supervision of staff, ensuring compliance with national laws, and ensuring security protocols are in place, monitored, maintained, and reviewed.

5. Representing and Networking: Develop and build relationships with partner organization staff, networks, and alliances, with national religious leaders, with government representatives, with NGOs and any other appropriate national forums or strategic partnerships.

6. Fundraising:
- Develop a country funding and donor management strategy, in consultation with CORE and the Regional Director, to identify and secure a stable funding base to support the country's program needs.
- Develop and maintain relationships with donors and constituents, e.g., institutional partners, churches, partner agencies, international aid organizations and other donors. This includes actively supporting education and fundraising efforts which may include hosting in country, travel within Canada/USA, video conferencing and producing content.

7. Carry out tasks related to country specific responsibilities:
- Actively contribute to all regional team activities
- Capacity building: Develop and manage partner relationships in the country by providing coaching/training to implement and improve policies, programs, and systems. Ensure that partners have the capacity to build local, sustainable community-based organizations to implement and sustain the programs through effective consulting.

8. Other duties as assigned.

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