Africa Regional Program Director at Relief International (RI)

Reports to: Regional Director (RD), Africa

Position Summary:

Relief International (RI) seeks a Regional Program Director (RPD) for its programs in Africa with regular travel to regional country offices. Under the leadership of the Regional Director, the RPD has five main tasks:

• Support, monitor and ensure the quality implementation of the projects in the region;
• Ensure the grant management function for Africa;
• Play a substantial role in promoting the RI way and strengthening Accountability to Communities Frameworks;
• Help strengthen Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning systems; and
• Represent RI with the donors and other partners supporting the region.

The Regional Program Director will have significant management and international experience, a passion for humanitarian relief and development work, and be capable of successfully guiding and supporting program teams in the region.

Job Responsibilities

Project Cycle Management

• Help country teams in their efforts to implement RI country, region and global strategy in particular in the design of new programs and technical capacity building of teams.
• Support country teams for the development, implementation and analysis of needs assessment tools and surveys and the preparation of related reports.
• Carry out the timely project mobilization for all new projects in the region, involving country Program, regional and GSO relevant departments.
• Participate in international program personnel recruitment and on-boarding; performance evaluation of international personnel; grievance management; international deployments and repatriations.
• Carry out bi-annual project follow-up coordination meetings for projects that are longer than 6 months.
• Undertake multi-faceted strategy to promote elements of the RI way in our programmes
• Support and ensure that the programme teams develop and follow project management tools such as action plan, budget projections, procurement plans, M&E plans.
• Ensure appropriate Monitoring and Evaluation activities are carried out regularly (including data collection & analysis, monitoring of project progress against established work plans, monitoring of established indicators and utilization of results to inform program design).
• Closely monitor, review and analyze monthly budget vs. actual expenditure reports, and make recommendations on the basis of these and ensure that appropriate action is taken in a timely fashion.
• Review and approve country Request For Funds (RFF) and ensure that they accurately match with programmatic requirements.
• For each project, design and monitor with the country team, project progress tools.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in Development Studies, International Relations, Public Health, or related field preferred.
• At least 10-year experience in implementing multi-sector humanitarian relief or development projects in RI’s countries/regions of operations.
• At least 5-year experience developing and implementing operations and administrative management activities for an INGO.
• Excellent spoken and written English is required.
• Strong leadership and teambuilding skills, staff management and capacity building experience.
• Highly organized and systems-oriented.
• Knowledge of donor guideline requirements (e.g. USAID, UN, DFID, ECHO EuropeAid)
• Experience in proposal writing and programme development activities.
• Experience of external relation, networking and representation in particular with donors.
• Field experience with an INGO working on program implementation.

RI Values:

We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities.