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
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).
Senior Emergency Response Specialist
ROC Required
Role Summary The Senior Emergency Response (ER) Specialist is available for immediate deployment into new emergencies and strategic start-ups to lead operations, ensures quality of implementation and represents Medair’s Global Emergency Response Team (G-ERT) in key external coordination and networking. The role provides strategic direction, team and security management, and maintains strong communication and collaboration with the Head of G-ERT and Global Support Office (GSO). The Senior ER Specialist may also deploy into existing country programmes to help scale up major, organisationally prioritised emergency responses.
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.
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.
