# Country Director

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Aden, Yemen
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Country Director will lead the IRC's country program in Yemen, providing strategic direction and oversight to ensure the delivery of high-quality humanitarian, emergency response, early recovery, and development programs.

**Major Responsibilities:**

- Leadership and Representation: Lead the country program, representing the IRC in Yemen and maintaining relationships with national and local authorities, donors, and other stakeholders.

- Strategic Direction, Program Quality and Growth: Set the strategic vision and direction of the country program, ensuring alignment with IRC's global strategy and objectives.

- Emergency Response Management: Take primary responsibility for overall strategic and operational emergency response readiness and action for the country program.

- Safety and Security Management: Take primary responsibility for overall management of safety and security for the country program.

- Staff Management and Development: Supervise and mentor direct-report staff, promoting a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

- Stewardship and Operational Management: Drive operational excellence, overseeing the development, deployment, and utilization of financial and operational policies, procedures, and systems.

**Requirements:**

- Strong leadership abilities and interpersonal skills.

- Experience in a leadership role in conflict settings and situations of constrained humanitarian access.

- Graduate degree in a relevant field.

- At least 12 years of dynamically responsible international work experience, including leadership at the Country Director level.

- Fluency in English; Arabic is a preferred asset.

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## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- strategic planning
- emergency response
- safety and security management
- staff management
- financial management

### Nice to have
- Arabic

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