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Director Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID)

Christian Aid Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
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Role description

About CBM

About the role: This full-time position is only filled locally in one of CBM permanent established entities. Local contractual conditions of the respective country will apply.

These are your 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.

These are your 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

What we offer

  • A meaningful position with a lot of creative freedom in the world's leading organisation in the field of Disability Inclusive Development
  • A fair salary and other social benefits based on the local conditions in the country you apply for
  • An approachable, agile organisation with self-reliant people in a diverse and collegial team and great team spirit