Deputy Country Director – Program Quality and Development At CARE

Deputy Country Director – Program Quality and Development

Duty Station: Erbil or Dohuk, North Iraq (Kurdish region of Iraq)

Duration: 12 months renewable

Presentation of CARE INTERNATIONAL

CARE International (CI) is among the world’s largest international non-governmental humanitarian relief and development Confederations. Drawing on more than 75 years of experience, through its 21 members, as both a practitioner and thought leader, CI’s work reaches over 100 countries worldwide to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

CARE’s vision is to seek a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice; where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security. CARE focuses heavily on women and girls, and the areas of gender equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the center of our work because we know that we cannot overcome poverty and social injustice until all people have equal rights and opportunities. We recognize that power relations between people and within systems and structures are unequal and that these are entrenched in our broader systems, structures, and institutions.

At the core of the CI Confederation is a globally distributed Secretariat, which provides coordination and support to its members in areas including governance, strategic planning, communications, membership development and accountability, advocacy, humanitarian response, and program development. In addition, the Secretariat represents the CI Confederation at the United Nations and the European Union, and with other external stakeholders.

Job Summary

CARE is seeking a dynamic, engaged, innovative and motivated Deputy Director, Program Quality and development. The DCD will be responsible for leading completing the transition of CARE Iraq program from humanitarian to a development and nexus program that addresses major needs in Gender equality and climate justice and contribute to CARE’s vision and mission. The DCD is also expected to play a leadership role and provide strategic and technical leadership in the areas of program quality, design, monitoring and evaluation.

A major emphasis of this position is to play a strong managerial role in ensuring that CARE’s country program strategy is implemented in a quality manner and ensuring projects are successfully delivering the desired impacts in making a significant contribution to reducing poverty, social injustice, and saving lives.

The DCD will develop and/or maintain collaborative and cohesive working relationships with, donors, counterparts, national partners, CARE Member partners, and other stakeholders.

The DCD will be based in Erbil or Dohuk and expected to travel frequently to project sites as well as to represent CARE in meetings and relevant networks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of healthy program pipeline including but not limited to concept paper development, proposal development, donors mapping, strategic partnership development, coordination with CARE international members and country offices
• Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development,
• Provision and/or mobilisation of technical support to CARE Iraq program team,
• Ensuring program quality and program technical excellence,
• Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning, and Knowledge Management,
• Representation and networking with peer organizations,
• Identify and track funding opportunities and advise on donor priorities
• Assume responsibility and provide support during the absence of Country Director

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in international development, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• At least 5 years in senior management and leadership positions in humanitarian and development programs, including familiarity with common quality standards of international development and humanitarian aid.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills in a very complex international setting.
• Demonstrated experience in program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience leading the design and proposal writing for development and nexus programs.
• Experience working with various institutional donors and thorough understanding of logframe and PCM processes
• Strategic mindset with good analytical skills and ability to bring different strands of information together and determine their relevance for the organisation.
• Excellent English writing skills.
• Strong numeracy and general financial skills, particularly developing budgets, financial management/ monitoring and reporting.
• Good research skills with ability to identify and propose successful strategies for identifying and establishing donor opportunities.

Working & Living Conditions

Main duty station will be Erbil or Dohuk in the northern region of Iraq with travel to Baghdad and to the areas of Iraq that projects are being implemented.

The security situation is currently moderate in Erbil and Dohuk but may differ in project locations. This is an unaccompanied position. There are restaurants, supermarkets, swimming pools and other sports facilities. Erbil and Dohuk are relatively moderate Muslim environment.

Accountability within CARE:

A commitment to CARE values and CARE’s integrity framework is critical to working with CARE. Any candidate offered a job with CARE will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with CARE’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a CARE staff or partner.

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with CARE as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury, and any other harm. One of the ways that CARE shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Gender equality:

CARE is committed to meeting the standards of the CARE International Gender Policy (2019). Through this policy, CARE seeks to promote the equal realization of dignity and human rights for girls, women, boys and men in all diversities, and the elimination of poverty and injustice. Specifically, this policy seeks to improve the explicit incorporation of gender in programmatic and organizational practices.