With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
As the Integrated Operations Director, you will provide oversight to the operations and supply chain in World Vision Somalia to deliver a multi-sector portfolio of projects on-time, on-target, and to-specification. You will:
- Lead decentralised, multi-departmental teams to deliver a high-quality portfolio of humanitarian and development projects which align to the national office strategy and support Child Wellbeing.
- Lead the development, implementation, and improvement of performance management systems. Moreover, you will ensure the implementation and improvement of accountability, risk and financial management mechanisms.
- Provide oversight to supply chain function, ensuring strategic, timely and quality procurement and transparent and accountable systems are in place and functional.
- Support and mentor local managers to manage interdepartmental processes, identify challenges and co-create solutions.
- Support field teams to pro-actively identify risks and take actions to enable smooth implementation of projects.
- Support the mainstreaming of disaster management capacities.
- Coordinate with security to ensure capacities are in place to implement the organization’s core security requirements and manage crisis.
Requirements include:
- Bachelor’s degree in international development, business administration, social and agricultural development studies.
- A minimum of 7 years’ experience in humanitarian and development practice, with at least 5 years in management positions.
- Strong leadership skills with demonstrated experience either (i) leading/coordinating decentralised, multi-sector teams in fragile context; (ii) leading and/or supporting procurement process and/or (iii) development/improvement of performance management systems; (iv) government engagement.
- Experience in external engagement with NGOs, donors, private sector, etc. with the ability to represent the organization to a variety of stakeholders in a range of forums.
- Experience working with or in fragile context settings.
Working Environment/Conditions:
- Mogadishu-based with frequent travel to field-offices and Nairobi back offices.
- 10% international travel
