Country Director, Sudan

The Country Director for Sudan leads Save the Children's country operations, delivering quality programmes and advocacy for children, ensuring stewardship of resources, and driving transformational change aligned with the global strategy. The role involves strategic leadership, compliance, safety and security management, and child safeguarding to achieve significant impact for children in Sudan.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategic development and delivery of integrated international programming across humanitarian and development contexts in line with Save the Children mandate and strategy
• Deliver transformational change in-country aligned with global programme strategy and growth targets
• Engage staff, partners and stakeholders to create shared ownership and collaboration
• Create an environment of continuous learning and accountability
• Ensure focus on rights and needs of children
• Develop strong country strategy and operational plans addressing significant issues facing children
• Prepare for and implement rapid and effective responses to emergencies affecting children
• Deliver programmes and advocacy resulting in significant impact for children
• Collaborate with regional colleagues to deliver programmes and advocacy in line with regional strategies
• Develop and maintain good relations with Members and donors
• Grow the country programme to strengthen position as leading NGO for children’s rights
• Develop and maintain efficient and effective operating systems ensuring compliance with Save the Children standards including safety and security management
• Contribute to global knowledge and learning in Save the Children
• Ensure compliance with Anti-Fraud policy and host government requirements
• Ensure timely and efficient internal and external audits and follow-up on recommendations
• Investigate and take decisive action on incidents of fraud
• Implement and comply with Safety and Security policy including security plans and procedures
• Maintain up to date security context analyses and ensure staff adherence to safety guidelines
• Implement and comply with Child Safeguarding policy and provide leadership to achieve full compliance
• Hold self and team accountable for decisions, resource management and delivery of Save the Children values

Requirements

• Master’s degree level qualification or equivalent length of experience in the sector
• Substantial experience of building, leading and developing a diverse team of senior staff to deliver on both development and humanitarian programs
• Experience of working with donors to secure and/or manage new large-scale and/or competitive funding
• Experience of leading high-profile advocacy and campaigning initiatives
• Experience in managing a growing country office and the need to balance growth with capacity
• Experience of leading change in an organisation which has led to considerable results for the organisation and its stakeholders
• Experience of building personal networks, including government, at a senior level, resulting in securing new opportunities for the organisation
• Strategic thinker who is comfortable with developing highly ambitious business strategies at scale and the track record of delivering on these
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in
• Excellent understanding of programme, financial and operational management processes
• Good understanding of key trends in international and humanitarian development
• Strong and nuanced cultural awareness
• Fluency in speaking and writing in English
• Commitment to the Save the Children values
• Experience leading humanitarian or development programmes in complex environments, managing organizational change and fostering innovation (desirable)
• Experience with partnership development, resource mobilization and media engagement in international humanitarian and development sector would be an advantage (desirable)
• Demonstrable ability to recruit, lead and develop high calibre specialist senior staff with a range of backgrounds and expertise (desirable)
• Strong track record in building high performance teams and future successors/leaders (desirable)
• Evidence of identifying and building strategic and effective business networks at a very senior level, which have resulted in clear business benefit for the organisation (desirable)
• Innovative approach to solving a range of highly complex issues and galvanising buy-in to the solutions at all levels (desirable)
• Highly developed political acumen and ability to navigate through diverse political situations (desirable)
• Prior experience in Uganda or Eastern Africa (desirable)

Skills

• Team Leadership
• Donor Relations
• Funding Management
• Advocacy Activities
• Country Office Management
• Organizational Change Management
• Strategic Planning
• Complex Problem Solving
• Programme Management
• Finance Management
• Operational Management
• Cultural Awareness
• Humanitarian Programme Leadership
• Development Programme Leadership
• Partnership Development
• Resource Mobilization
• Media Engagement
• Senior Staff Recruitment
• High-Performance Team Building
• Political Acumen

Languages

English