Country Director

Location: Guatemala City, Guatemala; responsibilities cover Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Company

hirify.global is an international humanitarian non-governmental organization supporting people affected by conflict, disaster, violence, and displacement in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities.

What you will do

• Lead the CAMEX country program and provide overall strategic direction, coordination, and management oversight.
• Represent IRC with government ministries, humanitarian coordination bodies, donors, international organizations, NGOs, and local partners.
• Guide the design and delivery of responsive, high-quality humanitarian and protection programs, including expansion across the region.
• Oversee public grants, private funds, budgets, financial controls, compliance systems, and timely reporting.
• Manage security risks and emergency responses while maintaining a strong culture of safety.
• Coach senior managers and develop diverse, multidisciplinary teams through mentoring, performance management, and staff-care initiatives.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in a relevant field preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible international experience, including country-director-level leadership of multisite, multisector operations in complex environments.
• Experience in conflict, post-conflict, or disaster-response settings and in managing rapidly changing security contexts.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English.
• Experience with donor-funded portfolios, fundraising, representation, budget oversight, and collaboration with international and local partners.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Nice to have

• Experience strengthening partner-organization capacity and building strategic partnerships.
• Experience using technology in humanitarian or development response.

Culture & Benefits

• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols, and other support for women’s participation in leadership.
• Commitment to integrity, service, equality, accountability, safeguarding, and protection from retaliation.
• Emphasis on critical reflection, power sharing, debate, objectivity, staff well-being, and a healthy work-life balance.