ABOUT VILLAGEREACH
VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has registered offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States; with physical presences also in Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Tanzania.
Summary
The DRC Country Director is responsible for the overall strategic, programmatic, operational, and administrative leadership of VillageReach’s work in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This role serves as the primary representative for VillageReach in DRC, engaging government stakeholders, donors, partners, and other key actors to advance the organization’s mission and country priorities. The Country Director leads and manages the DRC country team and reports to the Vice President, Global Programs.
Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities are listed below, and these may change or new ones be assigned at any time.
1. Country Strategy, Program Leadership, and Learning
• Lead the development, implementation, and periodic review of the DRC country strategy and annual operating plans, ensuring alignment with VillageReach’s global strategy, organizational priorities, and country needs.
• Oversee the implementation of VillageReach’s programs in DRC including the development, execution and monitoring of work plans, budgets, and evaluations;
• Monitor program implementation and refine program strategies and plans accordingly, ensuring that DRC program design and execution are aligned with the organization’s global strategy;
2. Country Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Risk
• Oversee the development and execution of country budgets, ensuring sound financial stewardship, achievement of financial targets, identification of funding needs, and alignment of expenditures with strategic priorities.
• Ensure effective, compliant, and efficient management of all country resources, including personnel, assets, infrastructure, and finances;
• Ensure the effective implementation and enforcement of security, safety, and risk management procedures to safeguard staff, visitors, and organizational assets.
3. Partnerships, Representation, Business Development, and Influence
• Lead the pursuit and development of new business opportunities for growth in DRC including drafting of concept notes, proposals and budgets, in consultation with relevant global staff;
• Develop, strengthen, and manage strategic relationships with government counterparts, donors, implementing partners, and other key stakeholders to advance VillageReach’s mission and influence.
• Coordinate VillageReach’s activities in DRC and provide regular reporting to government partners, other NGOs, and donors as appropriate;
• Represent VillageReach in technical working groups, committees, government forums, and conferences;
• Stay informed on local and international initiatives that support VillageReach objectives in the DRC;
4. People Leadership, Culture, and Cross-Organizational Collaboration
• Lead and manage the country office team, providing strategic oversight for finance, administration and human resources and operations to ensure compliance with all local laws, donor requirements, and organizational procedures and policies;
• Maintain strong collaboration and communication across VillageReach offices, serving as the primary liaison between the DRC office and global teams.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing workplace culture that promotes equity, staff wellbeing, professional growth, learning, accountability, and organizational values.
• Assess workforce needs and ensure the recruitment, development, and retention of a high-performing team capable of delivering on country objectives.
• Perform other duties as assigned by VillageReach leadership.
Competencies:
VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.
Achieving Great Results :
1. Risk Taking and Innovation
· Key Behaviors : Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.
2. Business Judgement
· Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.
3. Building Strong Teams
· Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.
Setting Direction:
4. Compelling Communication
· Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.
5. Resilient Self Leadership
· Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.
6. Stewardship and Personal Alignment
· Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.
Bringing Others with You:
7. Influencing Leadership
· Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.
8. Radical Partnership
· Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact throu