Senior Management
At Medair, we are fundamentally about people. That’s why our Senior Management staff are first and foremost servant leaders committed to living out our core values and providing spiritual leadership to their teams. They are also experienced leaders with previous humanitarian and intercultural overseas work experience who are highly skilled at managing and motivating diverse teams under tight budgets to ensure the highest quality standards.
Our profile
What we are looking for
Leadership roles are available across our country programmes, affiliate offices, and at our Global Support Office. Day-to-day responsibilities vary, but most of our senior management staff have experience:
- Managing diverse teams
- Dealing with insecurity
- Coordinating with diverse stakeholders to get the job done well
- Designing, developing and driving key strategies
- Possess strong project management skills
- Can monitor and evaluate programme successes.
Current opportunities
Project Coordinator
ROC Required
The Country Project Coordinator provides strategic, operational, and security leadership for Medair’s activities inside Syria. The role oversees the implementation of multi-sector programming, ensures strong coordination with internal and external stakeholders, and maintains Medair’s presence and access in a highly complex and dynamic humanitarian environment. The Project Coordinator represents the organisation at country level and plays a critical role in team leadership, representation, fundraising, support with security management, and programme quality.
Project Coordinator - Kinshasa
ROC Required
The position ensures effective management of donor funded grants, including compliance, reporting, and donor communication. To lead Medair’s engagements with government authorities, external stakeholders, and strategic partners at national level with the focuses on strengthening institutional relationships, supporting government liaison and advocacy efforts, as well as positioning the possible geographic expansion, particularly in the western part DRC. Acting as a key interface between senior management and external actors, the position also supports grant compliance, donor engagement, and coordination level operational functions.
Project Coordinator
ROC Required
Working as a senior member of a diverse team who are committed to serve the most vulnerable with practical and compassionate care, the Project Coordinator leads the implementation of humanitarian projects, ensuring strategic direction, management, and evaluation. Key responsibilities include team leadership, security management, and liaison with authorities, local partners and other relevant stakeholders to achieve project objectives effectively.
Roving Country Director - Remote
ROC Required
The Roving Country Director (CD) provides interim senior leadership cover in established programmes or new emergency responses. They lead in programme and support activities, including donor relations, grant management, external representation, legal compliance, and project implementation. They work closely with senior management in-country and are part of the Global Emergency Response Team (G-ERT) and International Programmes Department at the Global Support Office (GSO).
Deputy Country Director
ROC Required
The Deputy Country Director manages all aspects of the implementation and development of the programme to facilitate the execution of the country strategy. Provide leadership, strategic direction, management and evaluation of all aspects of the Medair programmes. Play a key role in external representation, legal compliance, grant management, programme coordination and team leadership.
Deputy Country Director
ROC Required
Manage and oversee development of the Humanitarian programme and support functions to facilitate the implementation of the country strategy. Provide leadership, strategic direction, management and evaluation of all aspects of the programme, the Deputy Country Director also plays a key role in external representation, legal compliance, grant management, programme coordination and team leadership.
Don’t see the right fit?
Apply to our Relief & Recovery Orientation Course
Medair’s Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) is a one-week simulation course that will help determine if a humanitarian career with Medair is the right fit for you, and if you are a strong fit for Medair. After participating in the course, you will enter a “pool” of qualified candidates that are ready to be called upon to respond to humanitarian crises. When needs arise in our country programmes, we will offer you a position in line with your competencies and our needs. If you apply for an international position, the ROC will be mandatory for you to work in our country programmes.
