Regional Director, Americas

Place title: Regional Director

Location: Americas Area

ChildFund division: International Operations

Supervisor/Supervisor Title: Chief Influence & Innovation Officer

About ChildFund

ChildFund is a child-focused worldwide improvement group that works in 24 nations to attach kids with the individuals, sources and establishments they should develop up wholesome, educated, expert and protected, irrespective of the place they’re.

ChildFund is cultivating a various, equitable, inclusive, and accessible setting the place everyone seems to be seen and welcomed equally. In our tradition of connection, you’ll have ample alternative to develop, be taught, and lead whereas contributing to our inspiring imaginative and prescient.

ChildFund Worldwide has a zero-tolerance coverage relating to sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH) and all different types of hurt by its employees, companions, and different representatives within the supply of its mission and companies for kids. ChildFund is dedicated to making a protected setting within the office in addition to within the communities the place it delivers applications and companies. ChildFund expects each employees member, associate, and consultant to stick to this dedication and to make sure all organizational insurance policies and requirements are adopted.

About This Position

The situation of this place shall be in a rustic the place ChildFund operates within the Americas area: Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Mexico. Particular location to be decided as soon as a finalist is chosen.

The Regional Director is chargeable for strategic management and oversight of operations in every of the Americas area nations the place ChildFund operates, together with Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The Regional Director oversees the efficient implementation of world methods; the Nation Workplaces’ planning, implementation, monitoring, monitoring and reporting on all program actions; fundraising and different enterprise improvement actions (i.e., improvement of proposals), and constructing networks and partnerships; based mostly on the group’s strategic priorities and method. The Regional Director is a member of the International Management Staff, which requires engagement in international initiatives and collaboration throughout organizational boundaries.

By way of high quality teaching and supervision to Nation Administrators, the Regional Director drives the flexibility of the Nation Workplaces to function with elevated self-sufficiency and competitiveness, whereas maximizing their attain and social affect and changing into acknowledged gamers of their native contexts. In partnership with International Shared Companies, the Regional Director guides the Area in the direction of higher operational effectiveness and effectivity; leads an organizational tradition the place ChildFund core values and operational ideas are modeled and practiced with a excessive diploma of worker engagement; establishes acceptable programs; maintains good working relationships with companions, authorities officers, and donors; and ensures all employees and representatives are totally conscious of and cling to ChildFund’s insurance policies and commitments relating to security and safety, Inclusion, Range, Fairness, and Accessibility (IDEA), and Safeguarding.

Required Expertise and Schooling

• Superior diploma in improvement and administration or different related space.
• A college diploma with a related mixture of educational {qualifications} (expertise could also be accepted as an alternative of a sophisticated college diploma).
• At the very least 10 years of expertise in program and neighborhood improvement.
• Demonstrated expertise in useful resource mobilization, coordination, negotiation, and coverage implementation.
• Expertise working in an INGO.
• Expertise working in a sponsorship group and native fundraising is most well-liked.

Major Obligations

• Guarantee full understanding of ChildFund’s international technique and clearly talk priorities to the Americas Management Staff (ALT).
• Present steerage and help within the in improvement of Nation Strategic Plans (CSPs) which are totally aligned with ChildFund’s international technique.
• Guarantee ChildFund develops sturdy partnerships essential to ship sustainable, responsive, and applications and program interventions contribute to strengthening an enabling setting that reduces dangers and supplies kids with alternatives to develop up wholesome, educated, expert and protected.
• Present management on program design and technical steerage for sustaining and enhancing program high quality together with using digital applied sciences.
• Lead the implementation of world monitoring, analysis, and studying programs to measure ChildFund’s progress in the direction of core outcomes.
• Monitor Nation Workplaces for compliance via participation in auditing, common engagements with direct studies, frequent communications, and visits, offering steerage and corrective motion as needed.
• Interact with international shared companies items, making certain the right implementation and variations of administrative, monetary, and human sources insurance policies for every assigned Nation Workplace.
• Champion and promote a tradition of safety and obligation of care within the area. Present regional oversight to the safety requirements and threat administration. Coordinate intently with the safety group and nation administrators to make sure adherence to established safety insurance policies and protocols.
• Lead regional useful resource mobilization planning and execution in addition to interactions with key stakeholders within the Worldwide Workplace.
• Facilitate and coordinate regional partnerships with bilateral and multilateral establishments, sister INGOs, regional suppose tanks, and different related our bodies.
• Guarantee grant administration and compliance on the Nation Workplace and native associate ranges as regards to all awards, grants and NSPs.
• Guarantee ChildFund’s values, core intent, international technique, and CSP and priorities are totally understood by all ALT members, employees, and companions and mirrored in program design and administration.
• Be sure that Nation Workplaces’ commitments within the Annual Working Plan (AOP) are aligned with the organizational priorities for the 12 months and so they meet deadlines set for the planning and budgeting course of.
• Oversee linkages amongst Nation Workplaces applications, Sponsorship, and technical help on the regional and IO ranges, making certain integration and collaboration.
• Doc and disseminate finest program practices to advertise program high quality and studying; establish wants and manage related coaching in collaboration with Human Assets for employees capability constructing.
• Stay alert and aware of any safeguarding dangers; purchase related information and abilities to allow you to grasp the safeguarding coverage and procedures; promote sturdy safeguarding practices; carry out your obligation and accountability to safeguard, report violations, and promote acceptable habits; and conduct your self in a way in line with the group’s insurance policies and values.

Required Competencies

• Potential to steer successfully in a matrix setting.
• Potential to thrive and lead cross-cultural groups successfully in a digitally enabled setting.
• Excellent written and oral communication abilities in English and Spanish; proficiency in Portuguese is a plus.
• Educated on nuances of kids improvement and donor panorama within the Americas area, together with in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
• Demonstrated excellent management in humanitarian response interventions.
• Wonderful observe document of inclusive management with the flexibility to create a motivational tradition of improvement and progress that welcomes numerous views.
• Sturdy change administration expertise, with the flexibility to steer and champion change within the group and articulate a transparent imaginative and prescient and technique.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and cross-cultural abilities, together with the flexibility to construct collaborative relationships internally and externally, with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, social, and political points.
• Potential to handle battle and pragmatically clear up issues, plan a plan of action utilizing analytical, conceptual, strategic, and forward-thinking skills to attain an efficient decision.
• Demonstrated technical experience in such areas as: undertaking, price range and useful resource mobilization and administration.
• Demonstration of information of program design, grant acquisition and administration, useful resource stewardship, and cross-functional coordination.
• Extremely developed analytical abilities and the flexibility to assimilate and course of data on a variety of points, with an emphasis on design-thinking ideas.
• Laptop proficiency on the whole MS Workplace software program (i.e. Phrase, PowerPoint, Excel, PBI, and Outlook).