Strategic Leadership

• Is responsible for fulfilling the strategy, vision and mission of the RDD in compliance with the core values of PIN;
• gives strategic direction related to PIN’s presence in the country; the CD is responsible for the formulation of a country’s strategy in line with the RDD strategy, as well as its implementation and communication within the team;
• follows country development, politics and trends within the donor environment;
• ensures the relevance of PIN programmes to the local as well as global context, ensures programmes are built on local capacities and considering policy and governance, markets and the private sector, climate change and other global trends;
• with support in consultation with the RD, the CD initiates new programmes and interventions in new sectors;
• supervises the economy of the country programme and ensures that the CP is covering country-born costs;
• strives for financial stability and the diversification of financial resources;
• strengthens “a local identity” of the country programme and ensures compliance with local rules and regulations;
• is responsible for contingency planning and emergency preparedness; with support from the HQ, manages/supervises new emergency responses;
• provides support and creates space to accountability team for independent implementation of its tasks, being member of investigation committee ensures that fair and equal approach in investigation is applicable for all cases
• follows the security development in the country and suggest adequate and proper response to identified risks
• ensures that medium-term and short-term plans, as agreed with headquarters (HQ), are implemented;
• contributes to the organisational development and strategy of PIN, provides HQ with feedback to established procedures, and dedicates time to and participates in the relevant global/regional strategic meetings.

Human Resources & Capacity Development

• Promotes team spirit, a culture of respect, personal responsibility, transparency and openness;
• makes sure there is no place for any form of discrimination within PIN teams;
• ensures all staff are aware, understand and comply with relevant PIN policies and rules, the Code of Conduct and key policies, including the PSEA and Safeguarding Policy;
• makes sure any reported suspicions of breaches of PIN policies are properly investigated and reported to management;
• ensures that HR related roles and responsibilities are assigned to staff with an adequate level of seniority and that their performance and capacity needed is regularly evaluated;
• together with RD, ensures that current and future human resource needs are identified and correspondingly budgeted reflecting the current and forecasted scope of the country programme;
• together with HR director, ensures main HR procedures are in place, followed, and well-documented including: transparent recruitment based on clear job descriptions, new staff induction and onboarding, regular performance evaluation, mapping of training needs against core competencies, planning of capacity development, employment termination, duty of care, HR administration and regular revision of salary scale and national staff handbook;
• ensures that the capacity development of national staff is properly managed and financed and that PIN internal resources (e-learning, webinars) are utilized;
• provides the senior staff under her/his direct supervision with regular feedback and support.

Representation & External Relations

• Is the legal representative of the organisation in the country;
• duly represents PIN at Syrian NGO forum (newly established);
• actively participates in the discussion of coordination bodies in WoS response;
• builds strategic relationships and formally represents PIN towards local authorities, donors, partners, the Czech embassy;
• is formally as well as informally networking and developing partnerships with all relevant stakeholders in the country – clearly define the split of agenda between External relations director and CD;
• maintains a good partnership within Alliance 2015 (if PIN is a leading agency of the Alliance 2015, ensures Alliance coordination mechanisms are in place);
• is responsible for the PIN brand at the country level, visibility and external communication;
• ensures a strategic approach in advocacy and personally advocates for the interests of our beneficiaries.

Safety & Security

• Adhering to the PIN Safety and Security Policy and country-relevant procedures;
• strives for the maximum safety and security of PIN’s staff and assets and ensures an awareness of risks and mitigation strategies;
• ensures a balance between the accepted level of risk and the urgency of programmes (as per the Risk Management Policy);
• ensures that the Do-no-harm approach and maximum protection of PIN’s beneficiaries is applied;
• executes crisis management; leads the Incident Management Team (IMT).