Regional Director, Middle East

Job Description

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We are searching for a Regional Director to serve with our International Projects Department in Boone, NC and provide headquarters-level leadership to our country offices in the Middle East. As a Regional Director, you will collaborate with leadership on the ground to develop strategic, effective, and mission-aligned programming throughout the region. Do you have experience in the humanitarian world as a decision-maker, administrator, and project manager? Have you served internationally, providing leadership and direction to field staff? Come join our team as we serve to make an eternal impact.

A day in the life of a Regional Director, Middle East:

At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.

In the role of Regional Director, Middle East, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him
• Build effective teams in country offices to fulfill the mission statement of Samaritans Purse. Promote and implement activities to develop strong country leadership. Cultivate an environment of continuing development for spiritually health field teams.
• Work closely with field leadership to ensure successful implementation of projects from proposal to completion. Review and approve all periodic field financial and programmatic reporting for submission to Projects senior leadership.
• Travel to field for assessing Samaritan's Purse field activities, needs, and other work funded by Samaritan's Purse
• Travel to field sites as needed for temporary assigned field responsibility, project review and assessment, assurance of policy execution, inventory confirmation, or other work as required.
• Develop partners to adequately respond to critical needs in the Region
• Provide a direct interface for field staff and partners on behalf of the Projects Department
• All other duties as assigned

Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university and five (5) to seven (7) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• General knowledge of international affairs, foreign policy, and fundamental political frameworks within each country of oversight
• General knowledge of socioeconomic, cultural, religious, and political conditions in assigned region(s)
• High degree of diplomacy and cultural sensitivity
• General knowledge of and ability to work in partnership with USAID and other governmental and non-governmental organizations
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required but can be completed after hire)

Job Location: Boone, NC

Type: Full-Time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required); Arabic would be helpful

Travel Expectations: 75-100 days/annually; required travel documents and vaccinations for entry into foreign countries will be necessary

Benefits:

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days

Samaritan's Purse Mission Statement:

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Samaritan's Purse Statement of Faith:

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. (1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17)
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6)
• We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. (Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4 and 1:29; Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15)
• We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit. (Luke 24:46-47; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; Ephesians 1:7 and 2:8-9; Titus 3:4-7)
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life. (John 3:5-8; Acts 1:8 and 4:31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 5:16-18; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:6-10)
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment. (1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:11-15)
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the church. (1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23)
• We believe that the ministry of evangelism and discipleship is a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15)
• We believe Gods plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female. (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9)
• We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism. (Matthew 9:35-38; 22:37-39, and 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15 and 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10; Colossians 2:6-10; 1 Peter 3:15)
• We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen. (Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10)