Following the on-going complex crisis in Zimbabwe (protracted drought and macroeconomic crisis), it is forecasted that more than 4 million Zimbabweans will be in need of humanitarian assistance.

The strategy of ACF in Zimbabwe is to work via two strategic partners that are fairly autonomous, with the objective to maintain a capacity to scale up in case of an emergency.

ACF has been functioning in Zimbabwe for a year without a Country Director (CD). Given the ongoing and deteriorating emergency, ACF considers it is necessary to  re-establish a Country Director in the country.

The team is currently extremely limited (2 persons) but may increase a little bit (to 4 or 5 people) in the duration of the assignment. It is not planned to increase a lot, as all activities are implemented via our partners. The management component of the position is therefore limited.

The leadership component though  is very important: with regards to our LNGO partner, to the very competitive community in country  and to donors.

You need to have thorough experience (particularly of food security crises) to have a good and quick crasp of the issues and be able to develop and convey a vision.

You will also need to have excellent experience of working with LNGO partnes and to adhere to the localisation agenda, which is the backbone of this mission. You will have to refine the LNGO modus operandi to improve our functioning and make it more cost-efficient.

One of the task that you may need to coordinate is a consultancy for a feasibility study to help designing an Urban cash programming in urban poor areas.