Regional Director East and Southern

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy Development and Oversight

Define Regional ambition and vision: Lead the development and articulation of a clear, compelling regional ambition aligned with the organization's global strategy. Shape and communicate a shared vision that reflects the unique needs, opportunities, and aspirations of the region, while positioning the region to contribute meaningfully to global impact. Ensure this vision is informed by local realities, grounded in partnership with country teams and external stakeholders, and drives strategic alignment, resource mobilization, and innovation across the region.

Lead the design and implementation of regional roadmaps and COs strategies to ensure alignment and coherence between regional, country program, and CARE-wide vision, mission, strategies and goals, while keeping abreast of constantly-shifting regional dynamics, trends, and international politics that influence the operational realities and opportunities on the ground.

Guide and support the evolution of CARE's role, presence, and changes to operating models within each country, including change to the most appropriate 'footprint for CARE in East and Southern Africa COs (and regionally) and adapt as/where needed, to strengthen its legitimacy, local ownership, relevance, impact, and efficiency, prioritizing and strengthening local partnerships with civil society organizations, women led/rights organizations, private sector, donors, governments, etc.

Provide guidance to COs and stay engaged with key regional stakeholders to ensure that CARE has consistent and safe humanitarian access, and has timely and relevant information and capacity to manage security, bureaucratic, administrative impediments in the region.

Management Excellence and Accountability

Support Country Directors and coordinate with other parts of CARE US and CARE Member Partners (CMPs) to ensure COs are ready and have capacity to (i) design and implement quality and impactful development programs, and also (ii) respond to emergencies, and provide effective leadership to the country offices' response during emergencies.

Support COs humanitarian response in the region and ensure Program Strategy and Innovation technical teams engagement with COs.

Provide high-level financial oversight to support proper stewardship of CARE’s resources within the region

Work closely with CARE USA functional teams (Programs, People & Culture, Finance and Operations, Legal, Digital and Internal Audit) to ensure program quality and impact, and compliance with internal and donor policies, and that risks are managed, financial management is effective, and appropriate training and support services are provided to COs and the region

Monitor country and regional programmatic and financial performance on key performance indicators and hold Country Directors and other direct reports accountable for performance against key operational and enterprise level performance indicators.

Representation, Stakeholder Engagement and Resource Acquisition

Represent CARE at regional and global levels, through external stakeholder engagement (with government officials, donors, private sector, partners, community leaders, and other organizations, etc.), advocacy, media and public relations, strategic communication to convey the organization's mission, values, and impact to East and Southern Africa's stakeholders

Lead on, and contribute to the development and implementation of a comprehensive regional advocacy agenda, with a particular focus on humanitarian advocacy, to drive policy changes and influence decision-making that address urgent humanitarian needs and challenges within the region

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