About the job

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in 100 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 disaster response to food and nutrition to education and work for women and girls to healthy mothers and children. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because when they have equal access to resources, they lift their families and communities out of poverty. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for 75 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.

Work Location : Zimbabwe - Harare Type of Post : Accompanied - Family

Other Possible Location : Malawi - Lilongwe Funding : APPROVED

Expected Travel: up to 30% Type of Contract :

Language Requirement: ENGLISH Application Deadline :

Employee Duration: Active Full-Time

Location: This role can be located in any one of the countries listed below

Countries: Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Manager: Vice President, International Programs and Operations

Background

CARE seeks a world of hope, inclusion, and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live in dignity and security. CARE places a particular emphasis on women and girls, their dignity, and empowerment to lead their communities out of poverty. In 2020, CARE worked in 104 countries, reaching 90 million people through more than 1,300 programs, with an annual budget of $650 million. Every single one of those 90 million people has a story of resilience, community, strength, and hope—all things that bind us together, across every corner of the globe.

The Regional Director (RD) for Southern Africa (SA) is expected to drive and champion the implementation of the change, build a strong regional team, and ensure coordination and partnership with other CARE regions in Africa (East and Central Africa and West Africa), in order to build a coherent approach of the organization on the continent.

The Regional Director (RD) for Southern Africa (SA) is expected to drive and champion the implementation of the change, build a strong regional team, and ensure coordination and partnership with other CARE regions in Africa (Southern Africa and West Africa), in order to build a coherent approach of the organization on the continent.

A key priority for senior leadership in the SA region includes ensuring that CARE is strengthening its impact on poverty and injustice as well as tackling gender inequities in a rapidly changing complex region that is experiencing protracted insecurity and politically driven crises, resulting in an increasing number of humanitarian emergencies. In both development and humanitarian programming, the Regional Director will ensure that focus is maintained on how CARE can be most relevant and impactful, by designing, implementing, and measuring the impact of appropriate programs across the region, adapting our operational presence as appropriate to incorporate local voice through partnership and evolving the organization to support its future impact and relevance.

Opportunity

CARE is looking for a talented visionary Regional Director (RD) in Southern Africa (SA) who will lead the region in the pursuit of its vision, influence and inspire, advocate for people we serve at the regional level while identifying and generating new revenue for CARE programs.

The Key Responsibilities Of The Regional Director Are

• Drive Strategy and regional performance : Lead the regional team on strategy development and execution, have high-level oversight of key areas of regional performance
• Act on CARE’s vision of Locally Led, Globally Connected network, and ensure alignment of country presence, capacity, and partnerships to the vision
• Represent CARE to all parties and stakeholders , including members of the CARE Confederation, regional decision-making bodies, donors, civil society, and other organizations, and act as a conduit to external networks, alliances, and (women’s) movements to harness the power of new and diverse actors (e.g. philanthropists, the private sector and diaspora)
• Advocate, network, and influence : Mobilize and partner with key stakeholders in the region to influence policymakers and donors and advance relevant humanitarian and development policies.
• Mobilize resources : Identify and cultivate prospective regional multilateral, corporate, foundation, and individual donors, promoting and identifying new and creative resource streams for humanitarian crises response and longer-term development.
• Operational excellence: Ensure the quality and efficiency of programs and management processes at regional and country office levels and ensure that key performance indicators are met.
• Line manage Country Directors, and Deputy Regional Directors in the region
• Ensure Talent Development and Succession Planning at the senior levels in the region.