The African Initiatives for Relief and Development (AIRD) is a non-political, non-religious and non-profit making NGO with Country Program Offices in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Liberia, Niger, Republic of Congo, Tanzania, and Uganda. AIRD’s objective is to offer operational support, including but not limited to: supply chain, logistics, construction, infrastructure, environment, livelihoods and WASH in partnership with relief and development organizations that focus on disaster-affected and development oriented areas. AIRD delivers for and through partners including but not limited to UN Agencies, international and national donor organizations and governments.
AIRD has established its reputation and a successful track-record as an expert in Humanitarian Logistics. For nearly 15 years AIRD has been the main partner of the UNHCR in terms of humanitarian logistics, responsible for refugee transportation, warehouse management, fuel management, vehicle workshop and key assets management.
AIRD’s new vision, as defined by AIRD’s board, is to grow beyond humanitarian logistics, and play a key role in the long-term life conditions improvements not only of the refugees and host communities but also in the population at large, with a focus on the most vulnerable.
As such, AIRD is looking for a Country Program Director to lead AIRD Tanzania through this change process and retain its identity as a leader of humanitarian logistics but also establish itself as the partner of choice of donors, government and communities in stabilization and longer-term development initiatives such as WASH, Livelihoods, and the Environment. AIRD is looking for an exceptional leader with a solid knowledge of humanitarian logistics, together with experience of designing, securing resources for and managing longer term developmental initiatives at various levels.
Job summary
The Country Program Director will define and manage a timely, pertinent, effective, and efficient response to the humanitarian and longer-term development needs of the Country and population within the framework of the AIRD SOPs while ensuring the security of the team.
 Key Responsibilities
1. General Duties
 2. Specific duties
1.     Manage, supervise, evaluate, improve, quality assure and grow AIRD traditional business of logistics services to UNHCR and other donors:
2.     Manage and expand the long-term development activities, expertise, resource-base and funding of AIRD in Tanzania:
 3.     Strategy, Coordination and Representation
 4.     Operational/Program Management:
5.     People Management
·      6.  Security management.
7. Resource MobilisationÂ
Personal Qualities:
Key Result Areas
Key Relationships
Qualifications, experience and skills
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