• The Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) was established by a resolution of the Council of Ministers in 1956, in line with international legislation requiring the creation of national societies in independent states, as stipulated by the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949.

The national society delivers a wide range of humanitarian services through its network of volunteers across all Sudanese states, operating strictly in accordance with the seven Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. These principles, particularly independence, neutrality, and impartiality ensure that humanitarian assistance reaches those in need without discrimination and free from any political, religious, ethnic, or sectarian agendas.

SRCS also implements numerous joint activities in collaboration with various ministries and relevant stakeholders and operates through 18 branches, ensuring coverage across the entire country.

• Purpose of the Position

To provide strategic and operational leadership for all humanitarian programmes and emergency operations and support services of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society, ensuring timely, effective, protection-sensitive, and accountable service delivery in line with the Fundamental Principles, Movement standards, and the organization’s mandate in a complex and protracted crisis environment.

The DSG acts on behalf of the Secretary General during absence or when formally delegated.

• Key Responsibilities

1. Provide unified leadership and strategic direction for all programme sectors, including Health, WASH, Disaster Risk Management, Protection and Field Operations, ensuring coherence and complementarity of interventions.
2. Lead emergency preparedness and response, including activation of emergency response mechanisms, operational prioritization, rapid reprogramming, and allocation of resources during acute and evolving crises.
3. Ensure protection-sensitive and principled programming, including systematic integration of Protection, Safeguarding and Protection of Family Links (PFL/RFL) across all humanitarian operations.
4. Strengthen Headquarters–Branch operational coordination, ensuring clear guidance, consistent standards, and effective technical and operational support to State Branches.
5. Oversee operational risk management, including access constraints, security considerations (in coordination with Safer Access), duty of care for staff and volunteers, and continuity of operations.
6. Guide programme planning and implementation, ensuring alignment with national priorities, Movement strategies, donor requirements, and available institutional capacity.
7. Support surge capacity and emergency readiness, including contingency planning, volunteer mobilization, and coordination of rapid deployment mechanisms in collaboration with DRM and People & Culture
8. Represent SRCS in national and inter-agency operational coordination fora, including sectoral and emergency platforms, as delegated by the Secretary General.
9. Provide strategic oversight of all support services, including People and Culture, Supply Chain, and ICT, ensuring these functions are efficient, compliant, and responsive to operational needs.
10. Lead human resources governance and systems strengthening, including implementation of HR reform, job architecture and grading, recruitment and contract management standards, performance management, and duty of care for staff and volunteers.
11. Oversee Supply chain management, ensuring timely, transparent, and compliant procurement, warehousing, fleet, and asset management in support of humanitarian operations.
12. Strengthen ICT and information systems, including support to operational systems, HRIS, data protection, and business continuity arrangements.
13. Core Competencies

• Strong strategic and operational leadership in complex crisis environments.
• Proven ability to manage large, multi-disciplinary teams.
• Sound knowledge of humanitarian standards, Protection, and Movement architecture.
• Excellent coordination, negotiation, and representation skills.
• High integrity and strong commitment to neutrality and humanitarian principles.

1. Working Relationships

Internal: Secretary General, Steering Committee/Board, Directors, Branch leadership, staff and volunteers.

External: IFRC, ICRC, Partner National Societies, donors, UN agencies, government authorities, NGOs.

Qualifications and Experience

• Education: Master’s degree or higher in management, humanitarian affairs, law, social sciences, or related fields.
• Experience: Minimum 10–15 years of senior leadership experience in humanitarian or public sector organizations.
• Skills: Strategic leadership, diplomacy, organizational management, communication, integrity.

• We Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and code of conduct as applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of SRCS and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.
• if you are interested to know about SRCS you can visit our website https://www.srcs.sd 
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contact.