Director, Africa Programs

Director, Africa Applications

Freedom Home

Washington, DC or Distant, United States

POSITION SUMMARY

The Director for Africa Applications at Freedom Home is a senior place liable for offering the general strategic management, imaginative and prescient, implementation and staff administration, for Freedom Home programmatic actions in and associated to Africa. The Director works for and intently with the Vice President for Worldwide Applications, and the Africa Freedom Home staff to develop and handle donor-funded packages in Africa. This contains analyzing native social and political contexts to find out programmatic intervention alternatives and desires; setting and updating priorities for Africa packages and groups; designing packages; guaranteeing a gradual stream of donor funding for by means of identification of latest alternatives and dealing with Enterprise Improvement and Fundraising on proposals; managing program groups; guaranteeing compliance with Freedom Home insurance policies and processes and donor guidelines and laws; and managing safety dangers for groups and packages.. The Regional Director additionally performs an vital function in communication and advocacy concerning the democratic and human rights scenario in Africa and particular packages and their impression, to key stakeholders, together with donors, policymakers, and the media. The Director oversees the Africa US-based and internationally primarily based programmatic groups and works intently with the Chiefs of Social gathering, Challenge Administrators, and Deputy Program Director to supervise a number of program budgets.

The Director ensures and promotes partnership with different divisions of the group, together with analysis, coverage and advocacy, expertise & tradition, safety, operations, and communications on all actions associated to Africa.

The place requires a candidate with deep data of democracy, governance and human rights points all through Africa; a broad community of relationships in Africa (together with with civil society organizations (CSOs), authorities entities, the diplomatic group, and many others.); relationships with related United States Authorities (USG) entities (together with donors supporting democracy packages in Africa) and a powerful potential to collaborate and talk.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND EXPECTATIONS:

Strategic management

• Working intently with the Vice President for Worldwide Applications, develop and periodically replace a complete technique for Freedom Home programming within the Africa area that’s aligned with the general Freedom Home strategic plan, which prioritizes countering authoritarianism, supporting defenders for democratic change, selling a world democratic panorama, and strengthening Freedom Home as a world class group.
• The Director can even leverages Freedom Home’s strengths and prior and present programming in Africa to assist foster sustainable change.
• Assist the Vice President for Worldwide Applications to foster an atmosphere of organizational cross-functional and regional collaboration.
• Guarantee built-in safety of program personnel on the residence workplace and within the area, together with bodily, digital, and effectively being, together with by assuring that safety threat administration is established and working successfully for every workplace and/or responsibility location of workers; assumes safety resolution making obligations supported by the VP for Worldwide Applications and Freedom Home’s workplace of World Safety.

Group Administration

• Recruit, supervise and mentor direct-report workers, together with speaking clear expectations, setting efficiency goals, offering common and well timed efficiency suggestions, and main documented semi-annual efficiency critiques for direct studies.
• Successfully handle culturally various workers and make sure the holistic implementation of group’s Range, Fairness, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) technique.
• Domesticate a secure and protecting working atmosphere for all workers.
• Foster a tradition of teamwork, studying, and steady enchancment inside the consortium; lead the planning of technical help and organizational capability strengthening efforts inside the consortium
• Construct a powerful Freedom Home tradition that’s rooted in our core values: Belonging, Collaboration; Respect, Integrity and Excellence.
• Present staff with help by means of discovering options by means of wonderful communication and interpersonal expertise to construct sturdy relationships and embody various teams of stakeholders.

Award administration/implementation

• Working intently with the Deputy Program Director, Chiefs of Social gathering, Challenge Administrators and/or SPMs, ensures the well timed and correct completion of deliverables and processes (work plan improvement and implementation, monitoring and analysis, grants and price range/finance monitoring, reporting).
• Drive seamless coordination between programming and operations and throughout portfolios and outcomes, with the target of supporting staff and a dedication to repeatedly enhancing the standard of Freedom Home packages and impression.

Applications

• Working intently with the Deputy Program Director, Chiefs of Social gathering, Challenge Administrators and/or SPMs, result in construct consensus round thematic and nation priorities to enhance the supply of packages in Africa and to make processes extra constant inside the area and between nation packages.
• Ensures that program implementation is compliant with donor guidelines and laws, and Freedom Home polies and procedures.
• Strengthen the Africa regional program staff’s readiness to reply to new emergencies consistent with Freedom Home strategic plan priorities, insurance policies, and pointers.
• Interact Africa regional groups and nation packages in on-going context evaluation to make sure Freedom Home packages are frequently tailored to the evolving contexts throughout the area.

New Enterprise/Proposals

• In coordination with Enterprise Improvement and fundraising determine alternatives for brand spanking new packages and extra funding for present packages; lead the design of program ideas for proposals that prioritize thematic and nation priorities; and draft and negotiate proposals and budgets with a variety of funders.

Exterior outreach, advocacy and illustration

• Interact in sturdy Africa regional-level illustration with donors, worldwide and native NGOs, and networks, and leverage and forge efficient partnerships.
• Work intently with the Vice President for Worldwide Applications and the Vice President for Coverage and Advocacy to develop annual strategic advocacy plans for Africa precedence international locations and points directed on the US authorities and different targets of significance, together with different democracies, worldwide or regional our bodies, and/or the non-public sector, as related.
• Working intently with the Vice President for Worldwide Applications and different members of Freedom Home’s Government staff, function level of contact and converse with authority on Freedom Home’s actions in Africa, together with with donors, at coverage boards, in testimony earlier than legislative our bodies and in regional or worldwide advocacy initiatives.
• Use data of the area to successfully work together with funders, companions, authorities officers, coverage and diplomatic communities, and different stakeholders.
• Work intently with the Vice President for Worldwide Applications and the Vice President for Communications to draft written supplies for publication, together with statements, articles and social media content material to strengthen Freedom Home’s communication, advocacy agenda, and programmatic technique for the Africa area.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Training

• Superior diploma in political science, worldwide relations, or a associated area strongly most popular.

Expertise

• Twelve or extra years of immediately associated expertise together with design and implementation of donor-funded worldwide improvement, democratic governance and human rights packages; minimal 4 years at managerial stage and expertise managing USG funded human rights and civil society venture area workplaces within the Africa area strongly most popular.
• 5 or extra years of expertise within the Africa area strongly most popular.
• Eight or extra years of expertise main and managing multi-disciplinary workers, together with minimal of 5 years managing senior workers most popular.
• Mastery of human rights rules and governing worldwide/regional establishments/organizations, devices, and processes.
• Professional data of Africa, together with historical past, tradition, economic system, political economic system, and of democracy and human rights points, organizations, authorized frameworks, and alternatives.
• Experience in administration of worldwide donor funded programming together with work planning; Monitor & Analysis; price range administration; and donor relations.
• Expertise managing workers to realize programmatic outcomes; potential to teach and mentor workers and supply visionary management.
• Demonstrated dedication to variety, fairness, and inclusion within the office or your group.

Expertise and Competencies

• Confirmed data of USG and different donor guidelines and laws.
• Superior fundraising expertise with demonstrable potential to efficiently domesticate donors and foundations; excellent proposal improvement and writing expertise most popular.
• Sturdy potential to speak successfully in English, each verbally and in writing is required; potential to speak successfully in French is a plus.
• Excellent writing and presentation expertise.
• Astute political judgment and strategic pondering and imaginative and prescient for growing and implementing packages to help human rights and democracy promotion in Africa.
• Wonderful interpersonal expertise and talent to influence folks with divergent views.
• Sturdy potential to provoke, foster, work together, and keep relationships with contacts and stakeholders in various and cross-cultural environments, with sensitivity and a excessive diploma of courtesy, discretion, tact, and professionalism.
• Means to at all times keep the very best diploma of confidentiality relating to all points of labor.
• Sturdy potential to plan, set up, prioritize work, and multitask to satisfy tight deadlines.
• Means to journey independently and full duties in unfamiliar international locations and areas.
• Earlier advocacy or authorities expertise is a plus.

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