Title: Team Leader – Chad
Department: Africa & Asia Region
Location: N’djamena Chad, with travel to Eastern region
Duration: 3 months with possibility of extension
Reporting to: Africa and Asia Regional Director
Direct reports: TBD
Budget responsibility: Not Applicable
About Relief International.
Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries globally to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and chronic poverty.
RI combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact and resilience. We focus on health/nutrition, education, economic opportunity, and water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) programming while integrating protection, environment/climate change, and conflict mitigation in partnership with the communities we serve. We empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
RI includes the three corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, and MRCA/RI-France. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.
About our Programs
RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.
RI employs about 5,000 staff and auxiliary workers
97% of staff are local nationals and there are about 90 international (expat) staff.
2023 programs budget is about $125M
RI receives funding from a broad range of institutional donors – US, UK, Europe, and the UN, to delivery life-saving and resilience building programming with communities and local and international partners. RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.
Context.
Relief International (RI) seeks a Team Leader (TL) to support RI’s assessment, program development and setting up a Chad focused operation in response to the humanitarian needs amongst Chadian host community and Sudanese refugees in Eastern region of the country. RI Sudan team has a presence already in the region, focusing on the cross border supply chain operation, and this role would be working in close coordination with the team, but will primarily focus on program development inside Chad. The TL will be based in country (N’Djamena, Chad) and will be deployed to the eastern region for assessments, establishing an RI presence and position for response and early recovery interventions.
Primary objectives of the team are:
Position Summary.
The TL will have overall responsibility for the program development, including assessments, positioning, local hires and delivery of team objectives. Under supervision of Sudan / Chad CD and Regional Director, the TL will closely engage with regional and global support offices. The TL will provide managerial and technical direction, as well as fulfilling representational roles with key donors and other organizations.
Key Responsibilities and Duties.
Safeguarding and conduct
The Job Holder will provisionally be working from N’Djamena, but RI’s base of operations may adjust as the situation and response evolves.
Role requirements.
Experience and skills required for the role.
RI Values.
Guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, as well as “Do No Harm,” Relief International Values:
We value:
How to apply.
Research shows that women and those from marginalized ethnic groups are less likely to apply to jobs, unless they meet every single requirement. If you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align with every criteria described, we encourage you to apply anyway, you could be exactly what we need!
To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button below.
Please upload a CV and Cover Letter. The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long and explain why you are interested in this post with Relief International and how your skills and experience make you a good fit. Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
This role will require advanced pre-hire checks and includes criminal records self-declaration, references, and other pre-employment checks, which include police and qualifications checks.