Country Director

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Position: Country Director, ActionAid International in Occupied Palestinian Territories
(ActionAid Palestine)

Location: West Bank/Hebron, Palestine

Contract period: 2 years

Application deadline: 5PM GMT time on 3rd March 2023

This role is an exciting opportunity for a senior management professional who wants to help shaping the future success of a major international NGO working with over 25 million people in more than 45 countries for a world free from poverty and injustice by helping people use their own power. The role provides vision, leadership, management, and effective high-level national representation for ActionAid International in Palestine. If you are a leader who is strategic, influential with the passion for making a difference, this is the job for you.

The country director role represents ActionAid International Federation in Palestine; leads the development and the implementation of Country Strategy for ActionAid.

As the top leadership in the country, the Country Director will focus on delivering high standards of ActionAid’s operations in Palestine and ensuring resources are in place to achieve performance targets and monitoring overall performance against these targets. The role requires deep knowledge of Palestine social, political and economic context to make significant improvements to policies and processes that lead long-term success of ActionAid in Palestine; of broad organizational experience to develop and manage the team well and; strong alignment with ActionAid’s values and principles. You will need to have excellent negotiation and communication skills, including demonstrated ability to handle sensitive diplomatic and State level advocacy negotiations on matters relating to ActionAid's Palestine country programme.

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with appropriate degree level qualification, preferably post-graduate qualifications in development study, social science and/or organisational management, you should have significant experience working at the top management / executive director position in development work with proven initiative, flexibility and enthusiasm in managing complex activities in a changing environment and ability to influence change. Your backgrounds must include proven track records in leading change management, fundraising and managing complex financial control and management system from diversified resources with the budget size of at least 2 million GBP and above. A strategic thinker, you will need to have ability to manage a large diversified team and build high performance cultures with feminist values and practices.

If you have the expertise to take on this exciting opportunity, please send your application online by no later than 5PM GMT time on 3rd March 2023 to the link below

https://actionaidinternational.bamboohr.com/careers/158  

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity. Although all applications will be considered on their individual merit, suitably qualified Palestinian national, especially women leaders, are encouraged to apply.  

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification, in addition your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please don’t apply as we only invite candidates for an interview if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.