National Director - Vietnam

National Director - Vietnam

Posting Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The National Director (ND) will lead the Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Vietnam in fulfilling its critical, complex role as housing expert, convener, and lead implementer of innovative housing solutions. The ND is accountable to lead, direct, develop and manage HFHI resources ensuring quality, effectiveness and accountability in line with HFHI policies, protocols and standards. This role is also responsible for developing the capacity of the Branch Office to fulfill the purposes of Habitat for Humanity Vietnam. The position enables sound organizational growth through effective strategic and operational development, with an emphasis on collaboration, innovation and quality programming in alignment with HFHIs strategic goals.

Habitat for Humanity Vietnam is seeking a visionary and transformative National Director (ND) to lead its strategic direction, partnerships, and national impact. The ND serves as Habitat Vietnam’s chief representative and is responsible for strategy, operational excellence, resource development, stakeholder engagement, and safeguarding.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

The National Director must be a compelling, transformative leader with 10+ years of NGO or development sector leadership experience encompassing the following:

• Casts a clear and transformative vision for the future of HFH Vietnam in alignment to the Regional and Global Strategic Framework, to position the organization as a leader in housing and a key convener to work within the housing system
• Builds a highly competent leadership team and empowering agile organizational culture capable of developing and implementing organizational strategy.
• Leads a wide range of diverse internal and external stakeholders through complex organizational change.
• Builds and leads multi-sector coalitions and strategic partnerships to successfully scale solutions and advocacy impact and expand funding support.
• Orchestrates wide-spread public and donor engagement and support of the organization's mission and strategy through a clearly articulated value proposition.
• Secures funding to support evidence-based, innovative, scalable solutions.
• Navigates the complexity of matrixed NGO structures, demonstrating collaboration with and accountability to local communities as well as local and international governance structures.
• Oversees operational excellence of a direct service organization, including safeguarding, financial management, monitoring and evaluation, and other quality controls.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as international development, international relations, public administration, management, civil engineering, or social sciences.
• Master’s degree preferred.

YEARS OF RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of Ten (10) years in a senior leadership role (Country Director, Chief of Party, senior Program Development/Program Management) in a humanitarian or development organization.
• Track record in stewardship, servant leadership, and strategic organizational management.
• Experience leading and building coalitions across public, civil society, non-profit, academic, and private sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize resources through partnerships.
• Proven track record in advocacy, with preference for experience in policy advocacy.

Child and Adult Safeguarding: HFHI recognizes that building and sustaining a safe organization requires commitment to children, families who partner with Habitat, community members, partners and our colleagues. Managers at all levels shall commit to reinforcing HFHI’s responsibility to create and maintain operational, programmatic and workplace environments that are safe, inclusive and healthy for children, at-risk adults in communities where we operate, and our staff and volunteers by referencing and acknowledging the role of other HFHI policies.
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About

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. The purpose and goal of Habitat for Humanity International is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses in partnership with families in need. HFHI has an Administrative Headquarters based in Atlanta, Georgia, an Operational Headquarters based in Americus, Georgia and Area Office bases of operations in Manila, Philippines for our Asia and the Pacific work, San Jose, Costa Rica for our Latin American and the Caribbean work, and Bratislava, Slovakia, for our Europe, the Middle East and Africa work.

HFHI is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified personnel for all our positions in a manner that does not unlawfully discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, gender, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, veteran/reserve national guard status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.

Function

International National Organization

Auto req ID

10692BR

Position Category

In-Country National

Position Type

International Employment

Geographic Location

Asia & the Pacific

Location

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Required Travel

20%