Haiti Country Director
REPORTS TO: Director, Disaster Response LOCATION: Port-au-Prince, Haiti with travel throughout Haiti POST: Unaccompanied
GENERAL FUNCTION: Provide specific technical assistance in damage and needs assessment, information management, response planning, coordination of relief operations, mobilization and management of international resources. Conduct or participate in post emergency evaluations to review the response effort identifying gaps that need to be filled. Ensure that DR specific policies and procedures, templates and Standard Operating Procedures, as they are developed, are incorporated into operational programs and complied with.
RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Develop and implement approved World Relief (WR) programs in Haiti consistent with WR's mission of empowering the local church to serve the most vulnerable. 2. Develop and strengthen appropriate institutional structures, controls, and strategies for all short-term and long-term WR work, with special attention to establishing strong partnerships with existing churches and other national institutions. 3. Provide strong leadership to a growing and diverse organization, with direct oversight and management of the senior leadership team. 4. Recruit, hire, train, and supervise WR staff in Haiti. Actively provide spiritual leadership and oversight to the entire WR team in Haiti. 5. Ensure consistent funding from bilateral, multilateral and other donors, and U.S. partner churches to augment the resources provided from WR's general fund. 6. Provide monthly, quarterly, and annual reports comparing objectives with results achieved. 7. Cultivate partnerships with local churches, denominations, and church bodies. Oversee and lead relationship building with key U.S. partner churches, including hosting vision teams, work teams, and ministry teams. Actively communicate with U.S. partner churches through email, phone conversations, and visits to U.S. churches. 8. Manage all expenditures of WR funds within approved budgets and in the best interests of WR and its beneficiaries. 9. Represent WR to government, donor, church, and community leaders and other stakeholders. 10. Ensure that WR operations in Haiti conform to all applicable laws and regulations and that all required reports are submitted punctually. 11. Ensure adherence to World Relief financial management, accounting, and reporting policies and procedures. 12. Ensure deliverance of monthly, quarterly and annual financial data for consolidation in headquarters, including required audit schedules. 13. Responsible to approve and verify acquisition and delivery of all major purchases, liquidation of cash advances as well as the execution of sound cash management practices. 14. Ensure that all donor requirements and restrictions are honored in the implementations of our programs. 15. Report immediately to the Senior Vice President of Programs any identified cases of fraud, theft, abuse, misconduct, or conflict of interest. 16. Oversee the hiring and retention of strong Christian and professionally qualified staff using an equitable and transparent recruitment process, and dismiss any staff who does not perform according to standards and expectations. Work with all expatriate staff to ensure a plan for eventual development and training of local and /or regional replacements. 17. Perform any other duties assigned by the Senior Vice President of Programs.
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. University degree in related field. Masters degree preferred. Business management and leadership experience is highly valued. 2. A minimum of five years experience in International relief and development work with progressive leadership responsibilities and proven resource development skills, or a minimum of ten years experience in business management and leadership with progressively increasing responsibilities. 3. Experience in administration of U.S. government grants and experience with budgeting in a multi-project and multi-funding environment. 4. Strong oral and written communication skills in English and conversational French. Knowledge of local languages (Creole) a plus. 5. Ability to represent WR well to partners, donors, churches, and government officials. 6. Passionate commitment to Jesus Christ and to the mission of World Relief, with the ability to transmit this vision to others; and a strong commitment to seeing the local Haitian church empowered and strengthened to serve its local community in the name of Jesus Christ.
For World Relief staff, Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Legal Background in the United States World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. This means that we conduct hiring without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, parental status, membership in any labor organization, political ideology, or disability of an otherwise qualified individual. The status of World Relief as an equal opportunity employer does not prevent the organization from hiring staff based on their religious beliefs, so that all staff share the same religious commitment.
