Deputy Country Director, Generic

Medair seeks a Deputy Country Director to lead program implementation and management in humanitarian contexts. Apply now for future opportunities.

• Portfolio Management: Ensure coordinated, high-quality programme implementation underpinned by effective support services. Oversee cross-departmental planning and operational coherence. Contribute to country strategy and proposal development, reporting and partnership management. Deputize for the CD as required.
• External Representation: Support Country Director in external engagement with authorities, partners, clusters, and donors. Actively participate in coordination fora as required.
• Financial Management: Maintain oversight of spending and grant management. Ensure appropriate compliance and controls are in place to mitigate risks of fraud or disallowances.
• Team Leadership & Culture: Line-manage senior staff. Promote a supportive, accountable, and inclusive work environment; ensure effective communication, performance management, capacity building and support the team to work together effectively, modelling Medair’s values. Understand and communicate programme needs clearly to the support teams, fostering close collaboration.
• Security Management: Manage security in the Country Director’s absence. Support Project Coordinators to update security plans/ protocols and talk through security decisions. Manage incidents and support staff preparedness as required.

• [Medair organisational values](https://www.medair.org/jobs/our-culture/).
• Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with,[Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.](https://www.medair.org/accountability/)
• Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).

• University degree in Management
• Development Studies
• Business Administration
• Public Health