Project Director

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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: Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term) Job Description: Strategic Leadership and Project Oversight Provide overall vision, leadership, and strategic direction for the multi-sectoral emergency project, ensuring alignment with donor agreements, humanitarian principles, and World Vision's national and global emergency strategies. Maintain full accountability for programmatic, financial, compliance, safeguarding, and risk performance across all sectors and regions. Lead integrated annual, quarterly, and contingency planning, ensuring priorities reflect evolving humanitarian needs and access conditions. Chair project senior management meetings and ensure clear decision‑making, accountability, and follow‑up across technical, operations, MEAL, finance, and partner teams. Provide leadership during acute crises, access constraints, displacement, outbreaks, and security incidents, ensuring timely decisions and continuity of lifesaving services. Ensure alignment between national office leadership, regional teams, and field operations. Promote a culture of results, integrity, accountability, safeguarding, and learning across the project. Donor Engagement, Representation and External Relations Serve as the primary focal point for donor engagement and communication. Lead donor meetings, review missions, field visits, and strategic consultations. Maintain strong relationships with government ministries, regional authorities, UN agencies, clusters, and humanitarian partners. Represent the project in national humanitarian coordination mechanisms and strategic forums. Advocate for humanitarian access, protection of affected populations, and integrated service delivery. Promote visibility of project achievements and lessons learned among stakeholders. Support resource mobilization and future funding opportunities. Consortium, Partnership and Localization Management Provide oversight and strategic guidance to consortium and implementing partners. Ensure compliance with partnership agreements and performance standards. Promote meaningful participation and leadership of local organizations. Strengthen partner capacity through mentoring, coaching, and institutional development initiatives. Lead partnership review meetings and performance assessments. Resolve partnership challenges and facilitate collaborative problem-solving. Program Quality, Accountability and Performance Management Ensure robust systems for quality assurance, monitoring, accountability, and learning. Review project performance against indicators, milestones, and donor commitments. Lead corrective action planning and performance improvement initiatives. Ensure Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms are functioning effectively. Promote evidence-based decision-making and utilization of monitoring data. Ensure safeguarding, PSEA, gender equality, disability inclusion, and conflict sensitivity are integrated throughout implementation. Financial Stewardship and Operational Oversight Provide overall accountability for project budgets and financial performance. Monitor budget utilization, burn rates, forecasts, and financial risks. Approve major expenditures and budget realignments within delegated authority. Ensure compliance with donor regulations, organizational policies, and audit requirements. Oversee procurement, logistics, security, fleet, and operational support functions. Ensure value for money and efficient resource utilization. Risk Management, Compliance and Safeguarding Lead project risk identification, mitigation, and contingency planning. Monitor contextual, operational, financial, security, and reputational risks. Ensure compliance with donor regulations and organizational policies. Champion safeguarding, child protection, and ethical programming practices. Lead incident management and crisis response when required. Ensure business continuity and emergency preparedness measures are maintained. KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification Master's Degree in International Development, Humanitarian Affairs, Public Health, Education, Agriculture, Social Sciences, Project Management, or a related field. Additional certifications in humanitarian programming, project management, INEE Minimum Standards, Sphere Standards, Cash Programming, or Protection are advantageous. Required Professional Experience Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing large, complex, multi-sector humanitarian or resilience programs, including at least 5 years in senior leadership roles suc

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