Response Director, Syria Response

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With 75 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, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories! Employee Contract Type: International Assignment (WVI - Paid via GCLA) Fixed Term (Fixed Term) Job Description: JOB PURPOSE World Vision is seeking an exceptional humanitarian leader with a strong track record and demonstrated excellence in leading large-scale responses, someone who combines strategic vision with execution, inspires high-performing teams, and brings outstanding capability in partnerships, communication, and risk leadership. The Syria Response Director will lead and shape World Vision's humanitarian and recovery response across Syria and Jordan, while maintaining strategic oversight of evolving opportunities in Türkiye. This pivotal role will drive a high-impact, well-resourced, and innovative response in a highly dynamic humanitarian context-ensuring excellence in both program quality and scale. The Director will also spearhead the next phase of the whole of Syria approach, strengthening coherence across response areas and progressively aligning capacities and functions into Syria where feasible. As leader of the Syria Response Senior Leadership Team, the role will energize and steer delivery of the FY27-28 strategy, fostering strong collaboration, integration, and accountability across all response contexts. The position will oversee a diverse and multi-country portfolio, unlocking efficiencies, leveraging cross-border synergies, and optimizing resources to deliver a unified, agile, and cost-effective response. As a senior representative, the Director will actively engage and influence key external stakeholders, while upholding the highest standards of risk management, operational integrity, and accountability in line with World Vision's Disaster Management Standards and Enterprise Risk Management framework. Key Job Responsibilities: (a) Strategy & Planning Lead the development and implementation of the Syria Response (for the Syria and Jordan programs and Turkiye "watch the context") strategy that aligns with the overall World Vision Global Strategy, Our Promise. Ensure strategic and operational alignment of all functions to meet humanitarian needs while taking into account operational feasibility and technical quality Lead in assessment and implementation of enterprise risk management and business continuity contingency planning. Working with Resource Development Unit (RDU), Finance and Operations, ensure proper cost recovery in all grants and other funding streams. Lead in the planning and acquisition of diverse funding to implement the strategy. Monitor appropriateness and implementation of strategy and operational plans. Ensure that clear scenario plans are established for each of the country programs within the Response as required. Review the way forward for WV in Turkiye prior to the expiry of the current registration (April '27): decision to renew or not renew. (b) Leadership & Management Promote World Vision's vision, core values and key global Partnership standards and practices across offices and partner agencies. Lead the Senior Leadership Team in a manner that facilitates a high-performance culture, accountability, openness, strong relationships, integrity, decisiveness and fosters a spirit of team unity and synergy between program offices of the response. Ensure that the World Vision Response and its implementing partners have adequate implementing capacity, appropriate systems and processes, and proper risk management requirements are in place, including standards for monitoring, escalating to and managing incidents. Ensure an organizational structure that results in optimal efficiency and effectiveness, minimizing duplication and leveraging synergies between program offices. Model a high standard of Christian leadership, maturity and integrity as an example to staff, and provide overall spiritual leadership for the Response team. Ensure each program office implements World Vision's performance management standards and principles for all staff. Ensure internal communications mechanisms are in place so policies, information and decisions are shared with staff as appropriate. (c) Collaboration & Networking Establish and maintain collaborative relationships and partnerships with host government, bilateral donors, other NGOs, UN agencies, civil society and diverse faith-based organizations, Prioritize high-level external engagement with donors, UN Agencies, humanitarian community, UN Cluster system, other NGO's and INGO's, Support Offices and other stakeholders to stimulate resource acquisition, maximize impact, foster coordination and partnering and profile raising for WVI. Priority engagement with the Syria

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