Overview
Provide overall operational leadership and ensure high-quality, safe, compliant, and cost-effective programme implementation across NRC’s CAR operational area, with Bouar as the main hub.
Key Responsibilities
- Line management responsibilities for directly reporting staff, including performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, staff induction, and development.
- Ensure compliance with NRC policies, guidelines, and procedures.
- Provide area-specific input to country strategy, Core Competency strategies, transition planning, annual plans, and programme development processes.
- Ensure high-quality implementation of projects in the area, including timely delivery, budget monitoring, donor compliance, synergies between projects, and optimal use of resources.
- Lead area-level grant management processes.
- Ensure effective coordination between programme and support functions.
- Represent NRC at area level and, when delegated, in Bangui.
- Ensure overall safety, security, and duty of care for staff, assets, and operations in the area.
- Assess needs, monitor context changes, and contribute to emergency preparedness, access analysis, and response planning.
- Promote the rights of displaced people, returnees, and affected communities.
- Lead and support staff development, accountability, team cohesion, and change management during the transition period.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a senior management position in a humanitarian, recovery, or development context, including staff management responsibility.
- Documented experience in area management, field operations, programme implementation, and support-function coordination in complex and volatile contexts.
- Strong experience in grants management, donor compliance, budget monitoring, and multi-department coordination.
- Experience managing multi-site operations, including office opening, transition, scale-up, restructuring, closure, or handover processes.
- Experience in external representation and coordination with authorities, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, local leaders, and community structures.
- Strong understanding of safety and security management, humanitarian access, duty of care, and risk management.
- Experience working with displacement, return, durable solutions, civil documentation, education, protection, ICLA, WASH, livelihoods, or social cohesion programming.
- Experience coordinating with local authorities, traditional leaders, partners, and communities in sensitive environments.
- Experience managing change processes involving staff uncertainty, programme transition, funding constraints, or new operating models.
