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
Country Director
ROC Required
The Country Director oversees all programme and support activities in-country in Ukraine and Poland. Representing Medair in all issues relating to the programme, the Country Director plays a key role in donor relations and grant management, external representation, legal compliance, they manage the country strategy, project implementation and evaluation in conjunction with senior field managers.
Deputy Country Director
ROC Required
The Deputy Country Director manages the development and oversees the implementation and development of the programme and support functions to facilitate the implementation of the country strategy. Providing 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.
Country Director
ROC Required
The Country Director oversees all programme and support activities in-country. Representing Medair in all issues relating to the country programme, the Country Director plays a key role in donor relations and manages the country strategy and the project implementation in conjunction with senior field managers.
Country Director
ROC Required
The Country Director oversees all programme and support activities in-country. Representing Medair in all issues relating to the programme, the Country Director plays a key role in donor relations and manages the country strategy and project implementation in conjunction with senior field managers.
Climate & DRM-DRR Technical Advisor
ROC Required
Experienced in donor relationships, the Country Technical Advisor provides strategic orientation, support, monitoring, review and evaluation of some aspects of the MDG programme, in one or more sectors such as Climate, DRM-DRR (Disaster Risk Management – Disaster Risk Reduction), WASH, Shelter-Infrastructure and CASH assistance. He/ she plays a key role in strategic thinking and programme implementation, helping the Sr management in securing funding and enhancing its stability (target: $500k-$1m per year), which includes advice to the PFM on potential donors and partnerships, and technical support to proposal writing, project implementation and reporting, also improving its quality. The Country Technical Advisor brings a solid contribution for better impact for beneficiaries through improved quality and exit strategies – more sustainable and in partnership with private actors – analyses of medium and long-term sustainability of Medair realisations of the last 3 years and make suggestions on how to restore/ revalorise failures could be envisaged.
Deputy Country Director
ROC Required
The Deputy Country Director manages all aspects of the implementation and development of the assigned programme and support functions to facilitate the implementation of the country strategy. Providing leadership, strategic direction, management and evaluation of all aspects of the Medair programmes, the Deputy Country Director also plays a key role in external representation, security management, 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.
