Country Director - Yemen

Sanaa

Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
Location: Sanaa
Grade: Senior level - Senior
Occupational Groups:
- Operations and Administrations
- Emergency Aid and Response
- Project and Programme Management
- Managerial positions
Closing Date: Closed

Founded in 1946, today the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) works in both new and protracted crises across 31 countries. Our 6,000 employees provide life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. NRC specialises in six areas: food security, education, shelter, legal assistance, camp management, and water, sanitation and hygiene. NRC is a determined advocate for displaced people. We promote and defend their rights and dignity in local communities, with national governments and in the international arena.

NRC’s expert deployment capacity, NORCAP, boasts around 1,000 experts from all over the world who can be deployed within 72 hours. NORCAP experts help improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises.

NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

The Norwegian Refugee Council is seeking an exceptional professional to join the Yemen country programme in the role of Country Director. As one of the most exciting, complex and key roles in NRC’s East Africa and Yemen Region, the Country Director will provide overall leadership to the Yemen country operations. Our ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in a similar role as Senior Manager/Country Director; and is looking for a challenging, yet rewarding, role in which they can utilize their highly developed skills in leadership in complex settings, strategic thinking, problem solving, and ideally, Arabic language skills.

Job description

The Yemen Country Director is responsible for:
• National representation and coordination
• Development and execution of the Yemen country strategy
• Safety and security of all staff
• Country level advocacy and dellivery of content for global advocacy on the Yemen humanitarian situation – Yemen is a priority country for NRC advocacy.
• Resource allocation and mobilization
• Cost efficiency and quality, including implementation of control mechanisms
• Adequate country structures and systems
• Learning, training and development of all staff, including a strategy for national staff development
• Leading teams in ensuring programmes are designed and negotiated to deliver in Hard to Reach areas.
• Building collaborative relationships with both NRC's East Africa and Yemen Region as well as the Middle East Region.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience from working as a Senior Manager/Country Director in humanitarian/recovery context
• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Arabic language skills, highly desirable
• Knowledge of the Yemen context or theater of operations, highly desirable.
• Strong understanding and appreciation of the role of advocacy and broader influencing in bringing about change and impact at scale.
• Ability to lead and build teams to succeed through high degrees of self-sufficiency and remote support.
• Experience of influencing key decision makers, including government and donors, in a complex environment.
• Experience of leading security in complex environment, including in times of crisis.
• Proven delivery through remote management of teams divided by geographic and political boundaries.
• Experience of promoting innovation in difficult operating environments.

Education level

College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

• Strategic thinking
• Handling insecure environments
• Empowering and building trust
• Influencing and negotiating
• Problem solving

We offer

• Contract Duration: 24 months
• Duty Station: Sana'a, Yemen
• Travel: 20%
• Salary/Benefits: Competitive package according to NRC's general directions
• NRC may be required to verify the identify of its partners and check that its partners have not been involved in illegal activity. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.

**This is a readvertisement, previous applicants need not apply**

This vacancy is now closed.
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