Area Director, North East Syria
The Area Director (AD) is part of Syria Country Management Team (together with Country Director, Head of Programmes, Head of Systems & Operations, Security Advisor and members of HQ Syria desk). The AD will be responsible for all program and support teams in NE Syria ensuring relevant, impactful and principled programming in line with PIN’s country strategy. Currently PIN has around 300 staff (200 national staff, 11 expatriates, 100 daily workers) working in four different offices. We are looking for a leader with multi-year experience in managing large teams and multi-sectorial programmes in insecure and challenging environments that can provide leadership to move the programme forward expanding into new geographical areas, building local partnerships and moving into early recovery/stabilisation programming specifically in education, shelter and livelihoods.
The AD reports to PIN Country Director for Syria Response. They directly manage Programmes and Systems/Operations Directors, as well as the Security Manager, MEAL Manager, and administratively oversee two staff working with consortia management and the NES forum. They have delegated responsibility for security. They work closely with regional staff in programme quality, finance, comms and security, as well as the Desk team in HQ.