ASSISTANT COUNTRY DIRECTOR, HUMANITARIAN At CARE USA

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

eadline to submit your completed application is November 21, 2021

Background

75 years ago, a small group of Americans sent the world’s first CARE package. They refused to stand on the sidelines while millions of Europeans faced starvation. Much has changed since World War II but CARE’s commitment to helping people has not.

Today CARE is a leader in global development. CARE staff strengthen health in Honduras. Advance gender equity in Ethiopia. Reduce poverty in Pakistan. Mitigate climate change in Cote d’Ivoire. With an annual budget of $700 million and a global team of more than 7,000, CARE works in nearly 100 countries around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

CARE Turkey is seeking a seasoned “Assistant Country Director- Humanitarian” to manage its Cross-Border Program Operations/Syria. The overall purpose of this role is to ensure that CARE Turkey’s cross border response program is of high quality in all aspects, including humanitarian standards, efficiency, effectiveness, compliance and impact.

The Cross-Border program is currently serving the entire North West with a projected US$ 60 million annual budget and 8 partners. Under the leadership of the ACD, the current strategy is to substantially increase the quality while maintaining scale and reach, with particular focus on achieving CARE’s gender in emergency targets.

The major functions include:

• Strategy and Leadership: Leads on setting the strategy for serving those affected by the Syria crisis in North West Syria.
• Positioning of CARE: Leads CARE as a top 5 responder amongst peer organizations in terms of size, and ever higher for quality/ accountability, and focus on women and girls.
• Management: Overall responsible for management and oversight of the cross border response team, overseeing implementation through partner organizations as well as direct implementation.
• External Relations, Communication, Coordination and Policy: management of complex donor portfolio and sensitive government relations, as well as positioning of CARE in Inter-agency coordination system as leading on quality, accountability, humanitarian access and gender equity. Strengthen all levels of communication work to support program and policy objectives.
• Establishes strong policy positions on protection of IDPs and leads on advocacy efforts with a variety of audiences.
• Program Support and Compliance: Works closely with Program Support Units, with special focus on building strong compliance systems to meet all required standards and regulations, of donors, CARE and government of Turkey.
• Program: Provides oversight and direction to build a program portfolio that is impactful and accountable. This includes high quality program design, implementation, monitoring and learning. Also, ensuring that programs meet quality standards and administrative needs of donors and Government of Turkey.
• Fundraising, partnerships and innovations grows the portfolio for cross border programming inside Syria and support expansion of programming in additional locations.
• Security: Oversees security requirements of team, partner staff and monitoring consultants in NW Syria.

In addition to the above responsibilities, the ACD-Humanitarian is the main interlocutor with donors of the NW response. S/he oversees a team of program managers, and engages with CARE Turkey units such as Program Quality, Procurement and Logistics, Compliance etc. This position holder is a member of the CO Core Team, and reports to the CARE Turkey Country Director.

Advanced degree in relevant subjects, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Experience/Technical Skills

• Min. 10 year’s development/ humanitarian relief management experience in complex environments, advanced managerial experience, including complex portfolios and multi-million-dollar budgets.
• Experience in complex decision making and leading a multi-disciplinary, multi-national team under difficult circumstances.
• Experience of working on the Syria crisis, is highly desired.
• High level of expertise in representation and advocacy with governments and donors.
• Strong understanding of the humanitarian emergency operating context, including Sphere, the humanitarian system, donors, security, civil military liaison and program management.