Country Director/Response Director, Central African Republic

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Key Responsibilities:

Job Purpose

The Country Director (CD) provides overall leadership and oversight of World Vision’s humanitarian and recovery response in the Central African Republic, ensuring programs are timely, effective, compliant, secure, and adequately resourced. The role is accountable for strategy execution, program quality, financial and operational performance, risk management, donor compliance, and delivering measurable impact for vulnerable children and communities affected by humanitarian crises.

As the senior leader and principal representative of the response, the CRD engages with government authorities, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, church partners, and other stakeholders to strengthen coordination, mobilize resources, and advance recovery outcomes. The position ensures alignment with World Vision’s Child Well-Being (CWB) objectives, humanitarian principles, national priorities, and organizational policies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1) Strategic Leadership and Response Management

Provide overall vision, leadership, and direction for the response, ensuring humanitarian and recovery programming remains relevant, evidence-based, integrated, and responsive to evolving needs of vulnerable children and communities.

Key Responsibilities

• •Lead the development, implementation, monitoring, review, and adaptation of response and transition strategies in collaboration with regional leadership, response leadership, and key stakeholders.
• •Provide overall leadership for response design, implementation, performance management, and operational excellence.
• •Ensure humanitarian, recovery, resilience, development, and advocacy priorities are integrated across all sectoral programming.
• •Guide emergency preparedness, contingency planning, scenario analysis, and response readiness processes.
• •Ensure strategic decisions are informed by needs assessments, context analysis, learning, and evidence.
• •Monitor implementation progress and adapt strategies to maximize impact and effectiveness.
• •Secure and maintain required operational agreements, MoUs, contracts, waivers, and authorizations with government authorities, donors, and partners.
• •Promote innovation, continuous improvement, and sustainability across response operations.

Grant Management

• •Ensure grant-funded projects are implemented in accordance with approved proposals, budgets, award conditions, donor regulations, partnership commitments, and World Vision policies and standards.
• •Chair or oversee regular grant performance reviews, monitoring programme quality, expenditure, burn rates, procurement, staffing, risks, compliance, deliverables, and reporting deadlines, and ensuring timely corrective action.
• •Ensure timely and high-quality narrative and financial reporting, effective donor communication, and proper documentation of grant decisions, approvals, amendments, waivers, and correspondence.
• •Oversee grant risk management, compliance reviews, audits, and the timely resolution of findings, disallowed costs, underperformance, and other implementation issues.
• •Ensure effective management and oversight of sub-grants, consortium agreements, and implementing partners, including due diligence, contracting, capacity strengthening, performance monitoring, and compliance.
• •Build organizational grant-management capacity by clarifying roles, strengthening systems, and ensuring relevant staff understand donor requirements and grant-management standards.
• •Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional donors, UN agencies, support offices, and funding partners.

Ensure adequate funding is secured to support response goals and long-term program sustainability.

2) Program Quality, Accountability, Learning, Reporting and Information Management

Ensure humanitarian programs are implemented to high-quality standards, deliver measurable impact, promote accountability to affected populations, and support evidence-based decision making, learning, coordination, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• •Ensure compliance with humanitarian standards, safeguarding requirements, donor regulations, and organizational policies while integrating protection, gender, and inclusion across all interventions.
• •Lead program quality assurance through monitoring, evaluation, accountability mechanisms, data quality management, learning reviews, and the application of lessons learned and best practices.
• •Oversee reporting, information management, and performance monitoring systems to ensure timely, accurate, and reliable information for decision making and donor accountability.
• •Establish and maintain effective coordination, knowledge management, and information-sharing mechanisms that strengthen operational performance and organizational learning.

3) Resource Mobilization

Ensure sustainable and diversified funding to achieve response objectives by leading donor engagement, strategic partnerships, proposal development, and grant acquisition efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• •Lead donor engagement, resource mobilization, and fundraising efforts.
• •Identify and pursue strategic funding opportunities aligned with organizational priorities.
• •Oversee high-quality proposal development, donor negotiations, and grant acquisition.
• •Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional donors, UN agencies, support offices, and funding partners.
• •Ensure adequate funding is secured to support response goals and long-term program sustainability.

4) Financial Management & Stewardship

Ensure sound financial management, stewardship, accountability, and optimal utilization of organizational resources to maximize program impact, maintain financial sustainability, and uphold stakeholder confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• •Lead budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and resource allocation processes.
• •Monitor budget performance, expenditure trends, and burn rates, implementing corrective actions where required.
• •Ensure compliance with donor regulations, grant agreements, support office requirements, and organizational financial policies.
• •Strengthen financial controls, accountability frameworks, and fraud prevention mechanisms.
• •Oversee supply chain, procurement, contracting, and asset management processes to ensure efficiency, transparency, and value for money.
• •Provide timely financial analysis and decision-support information to senior leadership.
• •Ensure accurate financial reporting and effective cash flow management.

5) Risk Management, Compliance & Governance

Strengthen organizational resilience, accountability, governance, and ethical conduct by proactively identifying and managing risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory and donor requirements, and maintaining effective oversight mechanisms.

Key Responsibilities

• •Lead enterprise risk management and maintain the organizational risk register.
• •Identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate strategic, operational, financial, compliance, and reputational risks.
• •Ensure compliance with donor, legal, regulatory, and organizational requirements.
• •Strengthen governance structures, accountability mechanisms, and internal control systems.
• •Coordinate internal and external audits, investigations, and compliance reviews.
• •Monitor implementation of audit recommendations and corrective action plans and ensure timely closure.
• •Build organizational capacity through risk management, compliance, ethics, integrity, and fraud awareness training.
• •Prepare risk, compliance, governance, and internal control reports for leadership and governing bodies.
• •Provide strategic advice to s