Team Lead Country Office Management (m/w/d)

<h3>Wen suchen wir?</h3> <p>CARE Germany is looking for a talented, visionary solution-oriented professional to lead the Country Office Management Team, a HQ based team that supports and works closely with CARE Germany Country Offices. Currently CARE Germany manages operational structures in Ukraine, Libya, Balkans and Iraq on behalf of CARE International as Lead Member within the CARE Confederation. The position is based in our office in Bonn, Germany, and the contract is limited to 2 years, with an option for extension.</p> <h3>Ziel der Stelle</h3> <p>The Team Lead (TL) provides strategic and operational leadership for CARE Germany’s engagement with Country Offices (COs). This includes shaping and supporting strategic approaches to operating models that advance CARE’s localization ambitions, driving resource mobilization for COs, and establishing efficient and effective collaboration mechanisms with COs and other stakeholders. The TL ensures that COs receive the support they need, while maintaining robust oversight and control systems to safeguard quality, compliance, and impact.<br/>Reporting to the CARE Germany International Programme Director, the TL line-manages a multidisciplinary team of eight staff based in Bonn. The role requires close coordination with CARE Germany’s Country Directors, fostering strong partnerships and ensuring alignment between HQ functions and field operations. Regular travel to COs is expected with periods up to 3 months/year.<br/>We are seeking a people-centered, solution-oriented leader who can motivate a diverse team, foster a collaborative working environment, and champion continuous learning and improvement. This position offers the opportunity to influence CARE Germany’s strategic discussions and decision-making as a member of the Programme Leadership Team.<br/><br/></p> <h3>Ihre Aufgaben</h3> <strong>Country Office (CO) strategies and Strategic overview on all operational aspects  </strong><br/>This role ensures strategic coherence across CARE Germany’s portfolio, enabling Country Offices to operate with clear vision, sound business models, and strong confederation positioning. The Team Lead serves as the bridge between CARE Germany strategy and country-level operational realities:<ul><li>Ensure that COs have a process in place to design Country Strategies and review them periodically under the umbrella of CARE International and CARE Germany strategies.</li><li>Support COs to develop fundable operating models that strengthen CARE's legitimacy and foster localization, as well as the impact of CARE's work. This includes exploring shared resources between COs.</li><li>Institutionalize a peer learning mechanism between Country Offices to exchange around successful operating models, innovation and adaptive management.</li><li>Support COs and the COM Team in building relationships with CARE Member Partners</li><li>Together with the COM Team members ensure that each CO has a multi-year budget, as well as an annual operations plan that clearly outline the roadmap for the achievement of strategic and operations objectives.</li><li>Ensure a streamlined monitoring mechanism for COs is implemented with the COM.</li><li>Lead on the establishment of new country presences.</li></ul><strong> </strong><br/><strong>Leadership and Coordination</strong><br/>This role provides strategic leadership to a multidisciplinary HQ team and ensures high-trust, high-alignment collaboration across CARE Germany departments and the wider confederation. It also acts as an escalation and resolution point for sensitive CO issues:<br/><ul><li>Coordinate CARE Germanys Lead Member responsibilities across departments at HQ level and ensure productive coordination mechanisms with HR, Finance and Admin, Security, IT, Marketing as well as Communications and Advocacy.</li><li>As member of the CARE Germany Program Leadership Team, contribute with the perspective of the COMT and COs issues and proactively approach peers to strengthen collaboration and support COs on donor engagement and fields of expertise such as climate, gender, humanitarian, controlling and Programme quality.</li><li>Co-lead CARE Deutschland’s strategic initiative on localization and its link and implementation with COs.</li><li>Represent CARE Germany in relevant CI governance or working groups related to Country Office management, risk steering or localization</li></ul><strong> </strong><br/><strong>Resource Mobilization and Programme Implementation</strong><br/>The role ensures that COs are positioned for funding success and programme excellence, in strong alignment with German donor opportunities and CI confederation ambitions:<br/><ul><li>Ensure Country Offices have a Resource Mobilization plan that is aligned with resource mobilization opportunities in the German context and with the wider CARE confederation</li><li>Lead on the donor engagement plans of HQ for COs and work closely with the Programme Development and Marketing Team.</li><li>Su