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Regional Director - Amman, Jordan
Job Title: Regional Director-Middle East
Location: Amman, Jordan with potential travel to multiple future field locations in the Middle East Region
Reports to: CEO
About United Mission for Relief and Development (UMR):
United Mission for Relief and Development is a fast-growing nonprofit organization working in various regions around the globe, headquartered in Washington DC. UMR’s mission is to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty. United Mission for Relief and Development combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term sustainable impact. UMR’s approach is to emphasizes local participation, youth integration in relief efforts, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower youth and communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Position Summary:
United Mission for Relief and Development is seeking experienced candidates for the position of Regional Director for Middle East, based in Amman - Jordan. The Regional Director will have significant management and international experience, a passion for humanitarian relief and development work, and be capable of successfully leading program team and operations in Jordan, and help establishing local offices in potential countries (Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Yemen) and improve the quality of our fields operations and programs management and the results of our work. United Mission for Relief and Development has carried out a portfolio that has a range of emergency response and development programs valued at 20 million USD.
The Regional Director will provide guidance, supervision and support to future country directors and senior managers. He/she is directly responsible for the overall regional and country strategic planning, successful program delivery and performance management of country programs within his/her region, as well as oversight of the program support operations (security, finance, HR, operations). In addition, the Regional Director is responsible for strengthening regional-level external relations and coordination. The Regional Director will have a successful track record of building partnerships with academia, government, potential donors and private sector organizations. The Regional Director will identify the funding opportunities for UMR programs in the regionn. For his/her region and countries the Regional Director will identify, and take steps to mitigate organizational risk. He/she will collaborate closely with all departments and support the future Country Directors by making resources from the regional support team available, in order to ensure that programs meet stated objectives, are in line with UMR’s mission, approach and strategy, meet the needs of partner communities, and are implemented to the highest standards, on time, and within budget. The Regional Director also supports all efforts at the regional and country-level in new program development, ensuring that new programs fit within UMR’s strategy, are technically sound and meet budgetary requirements.
The Regional Director (RD) will building the regional office, as well as multiple local offices in future countries where UMR will operate, and will provide insight and guidance on regional strategy, approach, systems effectiveness and improvements, and provide to senior management and the CEO a vital field perspective of UMR’s work, impact, and efficiency. The RD will ensure, and help building, strong leadership of all members of the UMR’s Regional Team so as to build team spirit, cohesion, motivation, commitment, quality performance and fulfillment of all agency functions and compliance with all agency policies and procedures, as well as commitments to our stakeholders.
Skills, Experience, Knowledge:
- Demonstrated belief in UMR’s core values
- Ten years’ experience in relevant management positions in development or humanitarian
organizations with focus on the Middle East. - Adequate mixture of field and HQ experience.
- Proven leadership skills and experience of managing multidisciplinary teams;
- Practical experience of applying development issues at a project or community level coupled with impact assessment and evaluation of poverty reduction and social change.
- Proficient English language writing and verbal skills. Arabic language skills is highly preferred.
- Substantial experience in the financial management of budgets, including preparing
financial projections, general financial management and reporting. - Proven expertise of leading in fundraising, seeking and securing new donors,
- Demonstrated success at proposal writing as well as management of large and complex grants;
- Evidence of understanding the challenges of donor and grant/contract management and the implications for program management
- Demonstrated team leadership experience, particularly multi-cultural teams.
- Experience of working effectively as a team member with colleagues based outside the country.
- Sufficient computer comfort level to learn new relevant software tools.
Travel frequency: Up to 25%
Working Enviroment:
The UMR organization and UMR workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the UMR – Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the UMR operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others.
Equal Opportunity:
UMR is committed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, UMR will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
HOW TO APPLY
hr@umrelief.org
Please send your resume and cover letter to
hr@umrelief.org