Refugee Response Director, Gambella

World Vision International

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As Refugee Response Director -Gambella, you will provide an overall leadership, supervision, and quality assurance for the food aid project for South Sudanese refugees residing in Gambella. You are expected to initiate, lead, control, and report on all project activities. Your key role of the position is thus to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of all project activities in accordance with project design, planned activities, and budget ensuring the project’s alignment with World Vision policies, Gambella regional context, and donor (USAID/BHA/WFP) rules & regulations. You will have responsibility of managing over 200 project staff including 5 to 7 direct reports (managers and coordinators) and the management and controlling of the project budget which is estimated to be more than USD $90,000,000 (cash plus commodities). As such, you will ensure the project is fully staffed in accordance with the project contractual agreement, across all areas of the project, including: project office, food distribution centers, warehouses, school feeding, security, and fleet.

Requirements include:

• 5 to 7 experiences at management level, refugee management leadership more desirable
• Program management skill, Participatory M&E, Results-Based management, Logical Framework Analysis, community participation, Participatory Rural Appraisal, Participatory Learning & Action
• Experience in USAID/BHA and WFP funded projects is an advantage
• BA/BSc degree in relevant field such as Sociology, Project Planning & Management is preferred. MA/MSc. degree is an added advantage.
• A demonstrated experience in implementing food assistance programmes with minimum 5 years managing emergency projects.
• Working knowledge of Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) among other initiatives including coordination structures at country and operation level.