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Key Responsibilities:
Job Purpose
The Country Director (CD) provides overall leadership and oversight of World Vision’s humanitarian and recovery response in the Central African Republic, ensuring programs are timely, effective, compliant, secure, and adequately resourced. The role is accountable for strategy execution, program quality, financial and operational performance, risk management, donor compliance, and delivering measurable impact for vulnerable children and communities affected by humanitarian crises.
As the senior leader and principal representative of the response, the CRD engages with government authorities, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, church partners, and other stakeholders to strengthen coordination, mobilize resources, and advance recovery outcomes. The position ensures alignment with World Vision’s Child Well-Being (CWB) objectives, humanitarian principles, national priorities, and organizational policies.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1) Strategic Leadership and Response Management
Provide overall vision, leadership, and direction for the response, ensuring humanitarian and recovery programming remains relevant, evidence-based, integrated, and responsive to evolving needs of vulnerable children and communities.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the development, implementation, monitoring, review, and adaptation of response and transition strategies in collaboration with regional leadership, response leadership, and key stakeholders.
Provide overall leadership for response design, implementation, performance management, and operational excellence.
Ensure humanitarian, recovery, resilience, development, and advocacy priorities are integrated across all sectoral programming.
Guide emergency preparedness, contingency planning, scenario analysis, and response readiness processes.
Ensure strategic decisions are informed by needs assessments, context analysis, learning, and evidence.
Monitor implementation progress and adapt strategies to maximize impact and effectiveness.
Secure and maintain required operational agreements, MoUs, contracts, waivers, and authorizations with government authorities, donors, and partners.
Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and sustainability across response operations.
Grant Management
Ensure grant-funded projects are implemented in accordance with approved proposals, budgets, award conditions, donor regulations, partnership commitments, and World Vision policies and standards.
Chair or oversee regular grant performance reviews, monitoring programme quality, expenditure, burn rates, procurement, staffing, risks, compliance, deliverables, and reporting deadlines, and ensuring timely corrective action.
Ensure timely and high-quality narrative and financial reporting, effective donor communication, and proper documentation of grant decisions, approvals, amendments, waivers, and correspondence.
Oversee grant risk management, compliance reviews, audits, and the timely resolution of findings, disallowed costs, underperformance, and other implementation issues.
Ensure effective management and oversight of sub-grants, consortium agreements, and implementing partners, including due diligence, contracting, capacity strengthening, performance monitoring, and compliance.
Build organizational grant-management capacity by clarifying roles, strengthening systems, and ensuring relevant staff understand donor requirements and grant-management standards.
Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional donors, UN agencies, support offices, and funding partners.
Ensure adequate funding is secured to support response goals and long-term…