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Job Title:  Country Director

Organisation: Children of Grace

Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda

About Organisation:

The story of Children of Grace began in 2000 when Mary Ann McCoy read a magazine article about the devastating effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. She knew, in her heart that God was calling her to respond. During a trip to Uganda to better understand the AIDS crisis, Mary Ann met Grace, an HIV positive mother of two. Grace confided in Mary Ann that she was HIV positive and afraid to die leaving her children behind. “Who is going to love, nurture, and educate them?” she asked. In response, Mary Ann promised to educate and oversee the care of Grace’s children.

Job Summary:   The children of Grace, located in Jinja District, is seeking an exceptional country director to join and lead the team. Children of Grace is committed to international standards of safeguarding and child protection and have robust and comprehensive child protection and safeguarding mechanisms in place in its recruitment process.

 




Qualifications, Skills and Experience:  

• A minimum of a master’s degree in a relevant subject area (e.g. social work, psychology, leadership, MBA, development studies).
• Experienced (7 years+) Christian leader who has held senior positions in complex/high profile/multinational organisations.
• Experience (7 years +) in working with large, complex donors (USAID, EU, FCDO etc.) to secure and/or manage new large-scale and/or competitive funding.
• Experience in designing and managing complex programmes with large budgets across multiple domains flowing complex MERL systems.
• Sophisticated networker and experienced in imitating and managing relationships across stakeholders, including government ministries, leaders, and donors.
• Understanding of key trends in international and humanitarian development.
• Demonstrable ability to recruit, lead and develop high caliber specialist senior staff with a range of backgrounds and expertise (finance and administration, MERL, programmes, legal and compliance, safeguarding and security).
• Strong track record in building high performance teams and future successors/leaders.
• Ability to manage and motivate self and others to respond to significant and complex needs of beneficiaries, requiring swift action and rapid changes in priorities.
• Innovative approach to solving a range of highly complex issues and galvanizing buy-in to the solutions at all levels.
• Experience (7 years +) and knowledge of context and actors in the East Africa Region.
• Fluency and speaking and writing in English.
• Commitment to the Children of Grace vision, principles, mission and values.
• Experience (7 years+) in designing, implementing and running humanitarian programs and ability to work in a volatile environment preferred.

How to Apply:  

For more information or to submit an application, please email david@childrenofgrace.com and indicate “Country Director” in the subject line  and we will send you more information on the role, the job description, person specification, and an online application form to complete.

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