Christian mission Aid is urgently in need of a Sudan Program Director

Job Titles: Sudan Program Director
Duty Station: Nairobi
Closing date of Application: 31st December 2009 

Christian Mission Aid, an International Christian disaster response and development organization, who has worked in South Sudan since 1993 in areas of Primary Healthcare, Food Security, Capacity building, Comprehensive Eye Care and Christian Outreach programs.

Main Objectives

The Program Director will provide strategic leadership, management, administration, planning, organizational controls necessary to accomplish our field objectives in South Sudan.

The Program Director is responsible for determining overall sectoral needs and shaping CMA's response to these perceived needs.  This process entails data collection, proposal writing and presentation, and donor solicitation and reporting..

The Program Director must have an up to date understanding of the political situation in all the areas of South Sudan, and knowledge of how this affects the security of all CMA teams in the field.  The Director must also maintain a current knowledge of population and sectoral needs and potential CMA response.  This will necessitate constant contact with counterparts, partner NGO's, and the UN bodies, along with ongoing assessments into South Sudan itself.