Country Director

Country Director

ActionAid International in Occupied Palestinian Territories

(ActionAid Palestine)

2 Year Fixed Term Contract

West Bank/Hebron, Palestine

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.

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.