Deputy Regional Manager

Deputy Regional Manager
Nairobi, Kenya

To manage staff and project development on behalf of the Regional Director. As a senior manager in the Region, to contribute to the overall regional management and representation of Oxfam in the Region, and to ensure and deliver the regional strategic plans through programme quality and impact, the management of key regional resources, and the line management of Country Directors under the assigned portfolio.
DIMENSIONS:
• Senior management position, key responsibility is to ensure programme objectives are delivered.
• Complex HR, financial, programme, and security challenges involved.
• Communicates widely within Oxfam, and externally.
• Contributes to and helps to shape the Region's strategic business plan.
• Plays a lead role in ensuring timely and accurate donor reporting.
• Part of a senior team, collaborative and matrix ways of working as important as the direct line functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Proven strategic and programme management skills and experience
• Broad set of management skills (financial, people, donor, technical) and competences
• Proven communication, and representational skills.
• Proven ability to lead and work effectively with others to achieve results.
• Previous, senior experience in working to combat poverty and suffering highly desirable, in at least two different countries.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of gender and diversity issues
• Good interpersonal and facilitation skills essential.
• Full written and spoken fluency in English essential. Working knowledge of Arabic/ French desirable
• Ability to undertake unaccompanied travel away from home base essential.
• Compatibility with Oxfam's values essential

Skills and Competence

o Proven strategic and programme management skills and experience
o Broad set of management skills (financial, people, donor, technical) and competences
o Proven communication, and representational skills.
o Proven ability to lead and work effectively with others to achieve results.
o Previous, senior experience in working to combat poverty and suffering highly desirable, in at least two different countries.
o Demonstrable knowledge and experience of gender and diversity issues
o Good interpersonal and facilitation skills essential.
o Full written and spoken fluency in English essential. Working knowledge of Arabic/ French desirable
o Ability to undertake unaccompanied travel away from home base essential.
o Compatibility with Oxfam's values essential

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