Country Director Job at Give Directly

Country Director Job Responsibilities

• Formulate and deliver annual targets
• Design ambitious work-plans and accompanying budgets
• Ensure that country office achieves annual KPIs for household enrolment, operational efficiency, and key user experience metrics
• Ensure that operational reports are being reliably generated and actioned
•  Increase the organization’s capacity for scale without compromising quality of product
• Build capacity of managers at all levels by ensuring that they have clearly-defined metrics for success and regular feedback on progress
• Build systems to enable rapid scale-up of a high-quality team
• Assess, on an on-going basis, resource/capacity gaps across the org & test solutions
•  Identify and mitigate risk
• Identify vulnerability to fraud and rule-breaking across the operating model and design appropriate controls
• Identify key areas in need of redundancy and buffering to reduce the impact of un-anticipated operational roadblocks
• Build networks with local actors/institutions that will help identify and protect against macro risk
•  Build organizational culture
• Define and communicate a set of practices and norms that animate GD’s core values
• Support org-wide interventions that help to promote productivity, well-being, and morale
• Build systems for monitoring and actioning feedback from the team

Qualifications For Country Director Job

• Thrive in a professional culture where “autonomy” means no rule books for how to do your job well
• Rapidly assess and understand a complex operating environment with a view to the long-term (e. success is not meeting targets in 6 months, it’s building an organization that can double in a year)
• Look critically at a process/system and quickly flag and size risk/inefficiency
• Identify, grow, and retain exceptional talent on your team