World Renew, an agency of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA), has a full time opening for a Team Leader based in Uganda or Kenya for the regional East Africa ministry team.
Purpose: To provide overall direction, regional and administrative leadership to ensure team organization, team development, and team performance and represent the regional ministry team (MT) to the World Renew agency directors, teams, denominational (CRCNA) agencies and institutions, and external organizations.
The position provides oversight to management staff in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
There is also a collaborative relationship with management staff in South Sudan.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Set and implement World Renew’s regional strategy so that it builds on the strengths of disaster response and community development programming and effectively and appropriately integrates the work of disaster response and community development into a cohesive regional level program
Develop a multi-year operational plan, with input from various stakeholders, that clearly articulates how strategic priorities will be funded, operationalized and achieved in a given time period
Ensure that World Renew’s vision and values as well as the regional strategy objectives are communicated amongst staff to foster mutual understanding and ownership
Ensure that regional capacity and resources positively impact the regional strategy
Lead the regional team in focusing on and achieving the program performance impacts and outcomes by:
Monitoring and evaluating team program performance
Reviewing, approving each country team’s annual plans, budgets and provide agency directors with a team review semi-annually. In addition, do a regular review with each country team providing feedback and quarterly progress reports
Facilitating and monitoring team processes for gathering feedback from other stakeholders
Ensuring financial accountability of all ministry team resources
Overseeing grant compliance within the region
Lead the ministry team in managing its work within organizational and team boundaries by:
Ensuring the alignment of the team’s vision and long-range plan with World Renew’s and CRCNA’s vision, mission, strategies, policies, and values
Leading collaboration with other World Renew teams, Co-Directors, with stakeholders, and, where applicable, with other CRCNA agencies
Establishing and monitoring inter-team written agreements
Ensuring appropriate information sharing and decision making
Providing leadership to the overall regional strategic planning and budgeting process
Planning and leading ministry team meetings, preferably twice per year
Managing administrative responsibilities
Coordinating disaster responses within the region in alignment with World Renew’s international disaster response protocols
Facilitate the ministry team’s growth by:
Facilitating cross-team learning and training
Encouraging team initiative and awareness of new opportunities in the region
Encouraging spiritual foundations to the work and arranging appropriate spiritual retreats
Implementing and supervising the Main Team Self Assessment Survey (MTSAS) process of the team
Plan regular visits to team members, partners and partner programs throughout the ministry team region to carry out strategic directions
Lead the management team for the East Africa Ministry Team, ensuring that staff development plans are in place and there is clarity about plans and priorities.
Provide supervision, guidance and mentoring for direct reports. Encourage effective team work and inclusiveness and build a team spirit and culture characterized by a shared vision, commitment and mutual accountability that reflects World Renew’s values and policies
Carry out annual performance appraisals according to the World Renew performance management procedures and take appropriate remedial action with the country team to address any areas of gap or poor performance
Conduct disciplinary and grievance procedures as required, seeking advice of other management staff including home office management staff where and when appropriate
Promote healthy engagement and fund raising with constituents including churches through various activities, in collaboration with the constituency relations team,
Perform other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities: Regional international tier staff.
Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to perform the responsibilities outlined in this position description.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Mature Christian committed to serving Jesus Christ and with a strong sense of calling
Demonstrated commitment to promote a work environment that values diversity and equality, as well as have respectful relationships with others
Committed to working towards gender equality in all aspects of our programming, plans, policies and organizational structure
Working knowledge of and a commitment to the core development and relief concepts, models, and values
Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team environment
Experience in people management and development is essential
Effective facilitation, negotiation, active listening, decision-making/problem-solving skills is required
Working understanding of and practices the principles of servant leadership
Ability to manage in complex/chaotic environments using a systematic approach
Demonstrated ability to implement, improve, and integrate community development programs through consultation
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with disaster response
Demonstrated ability to work and collaborate with partner organizations
An ability to relate to CRC donors and diverse, international donors (granting institutions), including knowledge and oversight of project and grant management
Demonstrated competence in administration, supervision, and budgeting
Effective written and verbal communication skills required
Education and/or Experience
Master’s degree in a related field preferred
Minimum of eight years in a cross-cultural international management or organizational development role working in a community development, disaster response, and/or organizational consultation environment
Minimum three years of work experience in staff supervision, and program and/or grant management
Language Skills
Fluent in English with effective written and verbal communications skills is required
Fluency in a language native to the ministry team region is an asset
Physical Demands and Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Living and travel conditions with unreliable access to water and electricity and increased exposure to illness
Travel in insecure and/or impoverished areas which will have no infrastructure or support structures
Travel up to 30% of the time to carry out assigned duties
Please visit our website at www.worldrenew.net/careers or www.crcna.org for more information; to apply, submit your current resume and a cover letter indicating your related skills and experience to sshaheen@worldrenew.net.
Application deadline is November 16, 2015.