Job Title: Director Community Based Inclusive Development
Responsible for providing strategic leadership for
community-based inclusive development programmes, overseeing inclusive
education, community support and care, and inclusive livelihoods, managing
teams and budgets, developing global strategies and technical standards,
strengthening programme quality, building partnerships and resource
mobilisation. Requires a Master’s degree in Business Administration,
International Development, Disability Studies, Social Sciences, or a related
field, with at least 10 years’ managerial experience. The position can be based
in Nairobi
Key
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.
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
