Country Director/Response Director, Central African Republic

Country: Central African Republic Organization: World Vision Closing date: 21 Nov 2026 With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories! Here’s where you come in: As Country Director/Response Director, Central African Republic, you will provide overall leadership and oversight of World Vision’s humanitarian and recovery response, ensuring programmes are timely, effective, compliant, secure, and adequately resourced. You will lead strategy execution, programme quality, financial and operational performance, risk management, donor compliance, and delivery of measurable impact for vulnerable children and communities affected by humanitarian crises. As the senior leader and principal representative, you will engage government authorities, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, church partners, and other stakeholders to strengthen coordination, mobilize resources, and advance recovery outcomes. You will ensure alignment with World Vision’s Child Well-Being objectives, humanitarian principles, national priorities, and organizational policies. 1) Strategic Leadership and Response Management You will provide overall vision, leadership, and direction for the response, ensuring humanitarian and recovery programmes remain relevant, evidence-based, integrated, and responsive to evolving needs. You will oversee grant implementation, performance reviews, donor compliance, reporting, audits, risk management, sub-grants, consortium agreements, and implementing partners. You will strengthen grant-management capacity, maintain donor relationships, and ensure adequate funding to support response goals and long-term programme sustainability. 2) Program Quality, Accountability, Learning, Reporting and Information Management You will ensure humanitarian programmes meet quality standards, deliver measurable impact, promote accountability to affected populations, and support evidence-based decision-making, learning, coordination, and continuous improvement. 3) Resource Mobilization You will ensure sustainable and diversified funding by leading donor engagement, strategic partnerships, proposal development, and grant acquisition to achieve response objectives. 4) Financial Management & Stewardship You will ensure sound financial management, accountability, and responsible utilization of organizational resources to maximize programme impact, maintain financial sustainability, and uphold stakeholder confidence. 5) Risk Management, Compliance & Governance You will strengthen organizational resilience, accountability, governance, and ethical conduct by proactively identifying and managing risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory and donor requirements, and maintaining effective oversight mechanisms. 6) External Representation, Partnerships, Advocacy, Communication and Visibility You will represent World Vision externally and strengthen strategic relationships that enhance humanitarian impact, resource mobilization, organizational visibility, and influence. 7) Faith and Community Engagement You will strengthen engagement with churches, faith leaders, and faith-based organizations while promoting World Vision’s Christian identity, values, and faith-inspired approaches to sustainable change and child well-being. 8) People Leadership and Organizational Culture You will build and sustain a high-performing, accountable, and values-driven workforce with the leadership capacity, organizational structure, and culture required to deliver quality programmes and achieve response objectives. 9) Safeguarding, Ethics, Accountability and Compliance You will provide strategic leadership and oversight for safeguarding, ethics, accountability, and compliance, ensuring a safe, ethical, transparent, and accountable operating environment while protecting children, vulnerable adults, staff, and affected communities. 10) Security, Staff Wellbeing and Safety You will provide strategic leadership and accountability for security, risk management, staff safety, well-being, and business continuity to safeguard personnel, assets, operations, beneficiaries, and organizational reputation while enabling effective programme delivery in a complex operating environment. Requirements include: • Over 15 years of progressive humanitarian leadership experience, including more than 7 years in senior country-level management roles, leading large-scale emergency and recovery operations in fragile, conflict-affected, and high-risk environments. • Master's degree in International Development, Humanitarian Affairs, Public Administration, Business Administration, International Relations, Public Health, Social Sciences, or a related field. • Alternatively, a university degree in a relevant field combined with extensive humanitarian leadership experience. • Advanced certification in Humanitarian Leadership, Emergency Management, Project Management, Organizational Leadership, or related disciplines. • Proven track record managing complex multi-sector humanitarian responses, overseeing portfolios exceeding USD 20 million, and administering grants from major institutional donors such as Global Fund, USG-funding, ECHO, UN agencies, EU, SDC, Philantrhopy, etc.. • Extensive experience leading multicultural, multidisciplinary teams and engaging effectively with governments, donors, UN agencies, NGOs, civil society, media, and private-sector stakeholders, including serving as an organizational spokesperson. • Strong expertise in humanitarian operations within war zones and crisis settings, fostering innovation and calculated risk-taking while managing competing priorities under pressure. • Preferred background includes experience as a Country Director or Response Director, work in Central or West Africa, and service with faith-based organizations and international NGOs. Work Environment/Travel: • The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time. • Work hours are often in excess of 12 hours per day during difficult periods of the response. • Responses are often mounted in insecure or natural disaster-prone contexts, which may disrupt normal work patterns and generate staff safety issues. • Work and housing environments may at times be well below normal standards in terms of facilities, equipment, food availability and hygiene. Language Requirements • Full professional fluency in English and French (written and spoken). Applicant Types Accepted: Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted How to apply Is this the job for you? Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online by the closing date November 21, 2026. World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.