Job Details

Job Description

Redeem’s mission is to protect widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation by:

• Awakening the world to the need to defend the orphan and the widow in the twenty-first century;
• Assembling the resources needed to protect the world’s most vulnerable widows and orphans;
• Assisting law enforcement in real cases that restore victims and restrain their abusers; and
• Amplifying law enforcement protection through community engagement and capacity building.

We are currently implementing a program in Uganda to protect widows and orphans from the devastation of land grabbing.  We are launching a 12 month pilot project in Zambia to determine if our intervention model would be effective in the Zambian context.

As Redeem’s Zambia Project Director, you will be responsible for leading the efforts of a talented multi-disciplinary team to pilot Redeem’s intervention model to protect vulnerable widows and orphans from land grabbing. The pilot project’s goal is to determine if Redeem’s model can be sufficiently tailored to successfully operate in the Zambian legal and cultural context. If successful, Redeem will launch a full program following the completion of the 12 month pilot, aiming to create a deterrent impact that will drive down victimization rates among widows and orphans across the country. Specific responsibilities include:

Leadership

• Fostering a workplace culture in your casework team that is consistent with Redeem’s mission and values;
• Ensuring that all activities in Zambia are consistent with Redeem’s program strategy and hedgehog principle;
• Supporting the VP of Program Development and CEO in evaluating the success of the pilot project and, in the event of a successful pilot project, designing Redeem’s long-term intervention strategy in Zambia;

Team Management

• Supervising a multidisciplinary pilot team consisting of two investigators, two partnership managers, and one administrative specialist, ensuring that the team is well-coordinated and successful in achieving its goals;
• Managing our partnership with an identified law firm, including the timely delivery of case litigation results;
• Coordinating the efforts of pilot team staff to ensure the efficient allocation of resources and workload;
• Recruiting, vetting, hiring, supervising, evaluating, disciplining and terminating pilot team staff members;
• Providing team members with guidance on technical issues arising in their casework (e.g., intake decisions);
• Overseeing the accurate and timely collection and reporting of team and individual performance data;
• Collaborating with Redeem’s VP of Program Development to measure the pilot team’s performance;
• Ensuring casework team compliance with internal policies and relevant statutes, laws and regulations;

Advocacy

• Engaging local chiefs in the areas of our casework to ensure victim restoration;
• Representing the team and the organization with political, cultural, and religious leaders in your project area;
• Ensuring that the pilot team receives the operational and programmatic support it needs to succeed;
• Advocating on behalf of Redeem, its model, its team, its partners and its clients with relevant authorities;

Miscellaneous

• Participating in Redeem’s professional development and spiritual formation activities;
• Supporting other teams within Redeem in the achievement of their objectives; and
• Completing other duties as assigned.

Redeem strives to build a culture of Christian excellence that reflects the following four core values:

• We love each other well;
• We don’t make easy things hard;
• We measure by results; and
• We are joyful in our work.

Redeem is looking for a highly skilled and responsible individual who will reflect these values while enhancing the delivery of Redeem’s pilot project to protect Zambian widows and orphans from land grabbing. Specific attributes include:

Experience

• Required:  Bachelor’s degree or professional equivalent in program management, law or other relevant field,
• Required:  Five or more years of professional experience in program management and/or the justice sector;
• Preferred: Two or more years of experience in team supervision and/or program management;
• Preferred: Experience in multiple justice-sector disciplines (e.g., law, investigations, social work, corrections)
• Preferred: Hands-on experience with legal intervention models and/or similar development programming;
• Preferred: Experience working in start-up, international, matrixed and/or faith-based organizations;

Skills

• Required:  Fluency in English and at least one local language with excellent written and oral communication;
• Required:  Next-level leadership, emotional intelligence, and relationship building capacity;
• Required:  Confidence-enhancing written work product, oral communication and public speaking;
• Required:  Computer literacy with strong capacity in word processing, email and data analysis;
• Preferred: Working knowledge of Zambia’s legal system, penal code and land and/or succession law;
• Preferred: Knowledge of multiple justice-system related disciplines (investigations, law, social work)
• Preferred: Understanding of Google business suite and digital project management tools;

Attributes

• Required:  Mature Christian faith;
• Required:  High degree of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness;
• Required:  Strong teamwork, interpersonal skills and ability to work on a multidisciplinary team;
• Required:  Excellent independent professional judgment and ethical decision-making;
• Required:  Innovative and creative problem solving in the face of complex nuanced issues;
• Required:  Persistence and tenacity in the face of difficult problems or challenges;
• Required:  Commitment to meet deadlines and achieve results in a fast-paced environment; and
• Required:  Love-motivated service orientation toward colleagues, partners and even adversaries.

The Zambia Project Director will report to Redeem’s Vice President of Program Development.  The position will be based in Lusaka, with significant travel throughout Zambia depending on the locations of the selected cases.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume, with copies of their academic credentials, to Jessica Kyle, VP of Program Development ([email protected]) by 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time on Friday 18 July 2025.