Samaritan's Purse is hiring a Country Director for Maputo.
Duties
- Provide overall vision, management and leadership to SP activities in Mozambique
- Provide professional representation for SP with government officials, dignitaries, other NGOs, funding agencies, and visitors
- Maintain awareness and communicate legal and cultural requirements and ensure reasonable compliance of SP with the same
- Ensure proper financial accounting and monthly reporting of all funds and financial activity
- Monitor potential and present emergencies and keep SP informed of events, including crisis response options
- Ensure appropriate supervision, support and direction for the effective engagement of all expatriate and national staff in their various assignments
- Serve as director, executive administrator, and primary contact for country field projects
- Monitor program effectiveness and financial accountability, and evaluate ongoing and new activities
- Implement programs within the organizational guidelines of Samaritan’s Purse
- Prepare and submit monthly narrative and programmatic field reports to the Regional Director
- Conduct field assessments, identify needs, design and implement response plans, including project budgets and writing funding proposals
- Develop new programs, identifying and pursuing potential funding and other available resources for ongoing, new, or planned SP projects
- Ensure that stories and photographs are sent to the Regional Director on a regular basis to share with the Communications Department
- Maintain profiles on all field staff, including emergency contact numbers and copies of passports and visas, performance reviews and exit interviews
- Provide job descriptions for expatriate staff and make hiring / firing recommendations to Regional Director
- Implement field policies to ensure staff satisfaction, safety and security
- Participate in emergency response and first insertion teams as needed
- Attend daily morning devotions and participate in prayer support for the ministry, its donors and volunteers
- Maintain a strong Christian witness to colleagues, vendors, charitable beneficiaries, and the general public
- Assess, manage, and report critical physical, emotional, or spiritual concerns of supervised staff
Requisites
- Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university
- One year of college-level Biblical studies preferred
- 3 to 5 years’ related international work experience, preferably in a developing country
- Proven management and leadership experience and ability to work well in a diverse team and pressured environment
- Excellent planning, organizational and communication skills
- Strong relational skills and financial management experience preferred
- Diplomacy, negotiating skills
- Ability to travel to field sites to monitor projects
- Ability to speak, write and read Portuguese, preferred
- Spiritual maturity; Ability to keep the focus of work on the overall goal of sharing the gospel
Documentation
- Cover Letter
- Curriculum Vitae
Notes
- Due to the amount of applications, only candidates considered for the job will be contacted
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- To submit your application please use the contacts listed above, on the right column