Director Community Based Inclusive Development NGO Job CBM

Job description

NGO Jobs, CBM Jobs. Responsible for providing strategic leadership for community-based inclusive development programmes, overseeing inclusive education, community support and care, and inclusive livelihoods, managing teams and budgets, developing global strategies and technical standards, strengthening programme quality, building partnerships and resource mobilisation. Requires a Master’s degree in Business Administration, International Development, Disability Studies, Social Sciences, or a related field, with at least 10 years’ managerial experience. The position can be based in Nairobi

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Provide overall leadership and management of the CBID Division.
• Lead, develop and inspire a globally distributed team of CBID and technical advisors.
• Manage divisional resources, people, budgets and performance to achieve organisational objectives.
• Position CBM and the CBID work in key global, regional and national processes and alliances which are related to the work of CBID.
• Develop and implement the global CBID strategy and implementation framework within CBM’s overall strategy.
• Monitor emerging sector trends and position CBM as a thought leader in community based inclusive development.
• Grow CBID within CBM as a core pillar of CBM’s strategy.
• Ensure attractiveness of CBM’s CBID work for Individual and Institutional Donors.

Technical Leadership & Quality

• Develop and maintain technical standards, guidance and tools for CBID programming in the areas of Inclusive. Community Support and Care (ICSC), Inclusive Education, Inclusive Livelihood.
• Provide guidance to the ICSC team and the advocacy team lead.
• Directly manage the advisors for Inclusive Livelihood and Inclusive Education.
• Bring clear approaches (definition, concepts, methods, tools) in the respective technical areas in place.
• Provide strategic oversight of programme quality.

Resource Mobilisation & Organisational Sustainability

• Contribute to resource mobilisation strategies and donor engagement.
• Support development of high-quality funding proposals.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, International Development, Disability Studies, Social Sciences or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of international development experience at managerial level.
• Extensive expertise in disability-inclusive development and community-based approaches.
• Ability to define and drive global strategies, translate vision into action, and align diverse stakeholders around common objectives.
• Proven capability to lead, coach, and develop multicultural and geographically dispersed teams while fostering collaboration, inclusion, and accountability.
• Professional English; German, French and/or Spanish desirable.
• Identification with Christian values and the mandate of CBM

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