Reporting to the Regional Director for the Middle East, the Country Director is responsible for the oPT mission overall, including high-level representation, fundraising and program development, strategic planning, risk and access management, program quality, administrative processes, security, and all other aspects vital to ensure the health of the mission. The Country Director must be extremely dynamic, maintain the ability to work on both macro/ strategic and micro/ detail-oriented issues simultaneously, and have strong communication skills in order to work effectively with internal actors at all levels of the organization and external actors including but not limited to donors, government institutions, U.N. agencies, partners and other key stakeholders. Given the complicated operational dynamics, experience working in oPT within a leadership role will be highly prioritized.
International Opportunities
Relief International team members serve in 16 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
As part of our staff, you will partner with communities facing lack of shelter, food, water, healthcare, education, and economic opportunity. You’ll work together with local residents and leaders to design and implement sustainable solutions to both the immediate and long-term challenges that fragile communities face.
If you’re ready to join our field teams, search for available positions below.
Open Positions - International Opportunities
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The Strategic Partnership and Advocacy Manager shares the overall responsibility for the strategic direction of the Country Office operations. The Strategic Partnership and Advocacy Manager, as a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) for OPT, is responsible to support the Country Director and members of Country Team in identifying, establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships at the country level.
The Strategic Partnership and Advocacy Manager will be responsible for ensuring identifying strategic partnership opportunities with key national and international stakeholders (government, national and international organizations) and institutional and private donors; and supporting Relief International’s positioning in key national and international fora. As part of the role, the Strategic Partnership and Advocacy Manager will be leading the development and implementation of the advocacy and communication strategy, to ensure informing and contributing to the overall strategic partnership engagement of the organization.
RI seeks a Regional Program Development Officer (RPDO) to support its program development efforts across the Middle East region. This position will be responsible for providing a wide range of support to the Regional Program Team contributing to the successful growth of the Middle East portfolio. The RPDO will support coordination of all proposal development processes across the country offices in the Middle East, support proposals review, contribute to opportunity tracking and pipeline management, desk research, donor engagement preparation, training materials for Country Offices, and other tasks.
The position will report to the Regional Program Development Manager (RPDM), and work closely with the Regional Program Unit, Regional Finance Unit, Awards Management Unit, the Middle East Country Offices and relevant departments in the Global Support Office.
This position demands a dynamic, proactive, and flexible individual with program design and development skills who is ready to provide substantive contributions and explore advancing their capacities to achieving results in a demanding and fast-paced environment. This person should be an excellent communicator and team player with fluency in English and who is at ease working in a highly diverse team, capable of adapting communication styles to different audiences.
The Health Coordinator will provide technical advice and support to the field management and the health and nutrition teams. You will be responsible for leading the overall health program design, developing, monitoring, and evaluating health aspects of the country program. You will coordinate and network at a senior level with national and regional health and nutrition authorities, and actively participate in health sector coordination, supporting the development of quality standards and protocols to improve the overall program deliverables. You will also lead on all health elements of proposals and oversight on reporting, providing capacity building for technical program staff, promoting best practices in the health programs, and contributing to the overall management of the country program.
Rakhine Operations Manager is a key member of the Senior Management Team in Rakhine State, supporting and assisting the Country Director (CD) in the overall management and leadership of the support teams. The OM will ensure support departments are contributing to the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting to ensure cost effective interventions of a high quality. The OM assists in the strategic planning and management of the State and country programs. The OM will be expected to have a good understanding of the overall State and Country programs. The OM line manages the support department heads in Rakhine, including HR, Logistics and Finance.
Reporting to the Country Director the Supply Chain and Operations Manager (SCOM) for OPT is responsible for overall strategic and technical oversight of the mission for everything that relates to supply chain, fleet management, and logistics. SCOM will work in close coordination with the CD and other department heads to ensure necessary guidance and oversight is readily available and that all processes are conducted in a timely and compliant way. SCOM will work with RI Regional and Global Supply Chain and Operations and lead on supply chain strategy development and implementation including procurement, stock management and delivery, with a particular emphasis on procurement and pharmaceutical and medical supplies.
The Supply Chain and Operations Manager (Sudan/Cross Border Operations) will be responsible for overseeing and optimizing the supply chain and operations functions. The SCO Manager will provide the RI Sudan Country Program with leadership that contributes to improved systems and standards in Logistics and procurement, ensuring the efficient flow of goods, managing inventory, supporting cross border operatons and enhancing operational processes to support the organization’s goals. The position is a standard-bearer for Relief International’s core policies in procurement, business ethics, code of conduct and conflict of interest policies. The position is integral to the smooth functioning of the RI Country Office, with support systems geared to ensure efficient and effective operations in the RI field offices toward successful project cycle implementation, staff care and operational integrity at all levels. SCO Manager to provide coordination for field offices to report to the Country Office on the same operational standards and systems toward ensuring RI Country, institutional and audit systems are policy compliant and fully functional.
Relief International seeks a Programme Development Assistant (Africa and Asia) to support its programme development efforts across two regions – Africa and Asia. This position will be responsible for providing a wide range of administrative and proposal development support to the Regional Programmes Team including capture planning, programme development administration, programme development compliance, and proposal development.
The position will report to the Regional Programme Development Manager (Africa and Asia), and work closely with the Regional Programmes Unit, Regional Finance Unit, Awards Management unit, and the Africa and Asia country offices.