Job Description

Position: Head of Country Engagement & Regional Coordination - Africa

Location:  Global Secretariat hubs in Johannesburg, Nairobi, or any hosting ActionAid country office in Africa

Contract duration:  Permanent

Entry Salary:  Grade F, starting from £73,200.00 Gross salary per annum

Closing date:  24 February 2025

 

The Role:

 

The role exists to enhance organizational performance through provision of strategic leadership, coordination, and management to deepen the impact of our work at the country, regional and international level. The role facilitates external engagements with countries to develop clear policy influence targets with collective priorities the Federation is working on and policies that affect Africa. It also facilities AA members in the region to recruit, engage, organize, and activate campaign supporters to achieve short-term political change goals and develop a stronger popular base over the longer term.

Towards campaign and policy influencing the role ensures that country, regional and international policy, and campaign engagements are informed with the organization rooted campaign vision and advance our local and national programme practice and are developed in close cooperation with key feminist and social movements and allies.

The role ensures income growth through various fund-raising streams providing proactive leadership to achieve the set regional and country fund raising targets and cost recovery through the regional team and working in collaboration with countries and GS relevant programme and communication team.

The role also facilitates organizational development that strengthen countries’ capacities and enables them to effectively plan and deliver their country strategies and contribute significantly to international programmes.
The role has responsibility for the line management of Country Directors of Country Programmes, and established strategic coordination with other GS heads, particularly those who matrix manages the regional team. The role is a critical leadership position in supporting and coordinating organizational processes that require strong levels of interaction between countries and the Global Secretariat.

Who we're looking for:

 

You should also have a strong commitment to ActionAid’s values and ethos, including ActionAid’s feminist leadership principles.

 

Please see further information in the job description.

 

What we offer:

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done, encourage close collaboration and sharing power, and where safeguarding standards and feminist leadership are exemplified everywhere. At ActionAid, you can look forward to a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment, including

A workplace that embraces feminist principles  Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay 

How to apply: 

Please click on the "apply” button to start the application process: 

Applications close at 23.59 GMT on Monday, 24 February 2025. Please upload an up-to-date curriculum vitae, a covering letter clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile .

 

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification. In addition, your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please do not apply as we only consider candidates if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description. We will only consider candidates who have the right to work in the specified locations.

 

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us: 

ActionAid is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. We want to see a just, fair and sustainable world, in which everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and oppression.  We work to achieve social justice and gender equality, and to eradicate poverty. 

All our work is underpinned by a set of feminist leadership principles:  Self-awareness, Self-care and caring for others, Dismantling bias, Inclusion, Sharing power, Responsible & transparent use of power, Accountable collaboration, Respectful feedback, Courage and Zero tolerance against discrimination and abuse of power.  

ActionAid International welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity. 

 

Our commitment to Safeguarding

ActionAid is committed to recruiting candidates who promote ActionAid’s SHEA and Safeguarding policies and values.

ActionAid will only recruit candidates who are committed to SHEA and Safeguarding and ActionAid’s values, thereby helping to create safer working cultures. As a deterrence measure ActionAid is also committed to deterring candidates who are intending to cause harm from joining ActionAid.

 

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