Regional Director, Southern and Eastern Africa

About the role

Respond with Compassionate Action We are seeking a Regional Director for Southern and Eastern Africa to join our International Projects team in Boone, North Carolina.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with field leadership to ensure the successful implementation of projects from proposal to completion.
• Review and approve all periodic field financial and programmatic reporting for submission to Projects senior leadership.
• Represent the Projects department throughout International Headquarters and liaise with external contacts as directed by senior management.
• Communicate with funding recipients in order to ensure timely reports on funds received.
• Provide leadership direction and hold field personnel accountable to policies, procedures, and operational guidelines.
• Promote and ensure field offices maintain a culture of integrity and transparency in all operations, including safeguarding and the preventing fraud, bribery, and corruption.
• Identify, develop, and monitor partners who respond to critical needs in the region.
• Serve on the Incident Management Team and are available to deploy to Disaster Assistance Response Team in disaster situations within the region and globally.
• Travel to field sites as needed for temporary assigned field responsibility, project review and assessment, assurance of policy execution, inventory confirmation, or other work as required.

Qualifications

• Directly manage three to five subordinates who supervise an average of 150 employees in the international field offices, and directly supervise one to five non-supervisory employees.
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with Samaritan's Purse policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university and five (5) to seven (7) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Twelve credit hours of college-level Biblical studies are strongly preferred.

Benefits

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days