Dan Church Aid DCA seeks a senior leader to provide short- to medium-term leadership across country programmes (including acting HoP/CD), ensure programme quality and compliance, drive fundraising and donor engagement, and mentor diverse teams in complex settings.
Dan Church Aid saw increased incidences of human wildlife-conflict plague more than 68% of local households in districts across the lower Zambezi Valley, who indicated that they have encountered some form of human-wildlife conflict in their community involving elephants, lions, and crocodiles.
Dan Church Aid supports ascertains by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority that the two main animals to attack humans are elephants and crocodiles followed by buffalo and lions. This is due to reduced geographic landscape carrying capacity on account of (human) population growth, settlement encroachment into protected areas, shared sources of water between people and animals, climate change, and habitat loss. Ironically, 80% of citizens are aware of wildlife preservation in these protected areas despite venturing into them, and 92% are aware of their obligation to protect the natural resources
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Dan Church Aid Zimbabwe’s primary programme goal is that resilient and empowered men and women enjoy their human rights and actively participate in their own development, DCA programme seeks to ensure that communities and households have diversified household income, can access and influence public services that are more responsive, accountable, equitable and gender sensitive, at local and national Levels, resulting in better quality of life, security, layered agro-based livelihoods and nutrition.
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Essential profile
- Master’s degree
- Fluent in French and English
- 5+ years as Country Director or Senior management in humanitarian programmes
- Proven work experience at senior level in Central African Republic, DR Congo or other French speaking countries
- Technical specialist in at least one: Cash & Voucher Assistance, Peacebuilding, Community resilience
- Strong skills in operations, security risk management, partnerships, and grant management, prior experience with a Danish and faith-based NGOs are a plus
About DCA
We save lives, build resilient communities, and fight inequality across fragile and conflict-affected contexts, working through the humanitarian-development-peace nexus with strong local partnerships.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply via our recruitment system on the website.
Publication date: 25 Sept 2025
Application deadline: 9 Oct 2025
Candidates with the right to work in Kenya who meet the criteria are highly encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
The story of Brightness Siyahundu is still a nightmare for the community in Siyamavhu village. It was on the morning of 19 November 2022 around 7 o’clock, the heat was just settling in.
As usual Brightness, a 26-year-old mother of a playful five-year-old boy, was going about her daily chores. Brightness took her 20-litre plastic bucket to fetch water from Nyaodza river, as she did every day.
Little did she know that what was about to happen on that day would change her life for ever.
Upon reaching the river Brightness put her bucket into the river and immediately a crocodile rushed at her and bore into her right leg. Instinctively she screamed. Then just as suddenly her bucket was gone, and she was being dragged into the water. At the same time, both the shock and horror of her reality began to sink in.
Fortunately for Brightness, there were two men just up ahead in a small boat in the river. They saw the commotion and heard her piercing screams. Promptly they arrived on the scene and managed to scare away the crocodile and save the young mothers life. She was rushed to a hospital in Kariba almost an hour away by speedboat, for treatment. Two days and two hospital transfers later, Brightness was informed that her leg had to be amputated and nothing more could be done.
