Regional Director

**About Ethical Tea Partnership**:
The Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP) is a global membership organisation that is catalysing long-term, systemic change, to benefit everybody who works in tea - especially people in tea-producing regions.

Our work addresses the key issues within economics, equality, and the environment. We focus on:

- delivering locally-led projects, often in partnership with other organisations, that seek to involve communities and ensure their voices are heard;
- supporting the private sector to pioneer responsible business models; and
- engaging stakeholders to support policies that positively impact people in tea.

At ETP, we believe businesses have the power to be a force for good. Our members include a range of tea companies, from start-ups to multi-nationals who have joined us to address the complex systemic issues that the tea sector faces. We convene and facilitate collaboration between communities on the ground, our members, businesses, governments, and civil society, enabling us to mobilise our resources and deliver our transformational strategy.

In all our work, we seek diverse partnerships with stakeholders across the tea sector, helping us evolve new ways of tackling issues. We share our learnings across regions and the sector to raise awareness of emerging issues, deepen understanding, and galvanise action.

We know the challenges are vast and that systemic change will not happen overnight. But we believe that by listening to workers, farmers, and communities and working collectively we can realise our vision of a tea sector that is thriving, socially just, and environmentally sustainable.

**Our Mission**:
Our mission is to catalyse long-term, systemic change, to benefit everybody who works in tea - especially people in tea-producing regions.

The partnership drives this change by listening to workers, farmers, and communities, convening our members, facilitating collaboration, and mobilising resources to deliver our transformational strategy.

**Our Vision**:
Our work has improved the lives of people living in tea communities. To date, our work has reached over one million tea workers, small-scale farmers and their communities.

**Our Intentions**:
The core of our strategy is to empower teams in teaproducing regions, for that, we are looking for a motivated and ambitious Regional Director to lead our work and team in Asia.

**The Role**:
The Regional Director Asia is responsible for overseeing Ethical Tea Partnership’s (ETP) operations in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and any future operation in the Asia region. The Regional Director Asia will support ETP’s mission to catalyse long-term, systemic change, to benefit everybody who works in tea - especially people in tea-producing regions. They will play a crucial role in ensuring the delivery and success of ETP’s work in the tea-producing countries under their remit.

The role’s responsibilities involve resource planning to deliver the country plans, coordinating with ETP’s members, navigating and establishing new partnerships and providing guidance and strategic advice both to the teams in-country and to the UK-based secretariat. Reporting line - Executive Director (ED).

**Responsibilities**:
**1. Regional strategy**:

- Directly responsible for the overall regional and country strategic planning, successful program delivery and performance management and reporting of country programs within his/her region, as well as oversight of the program support operations (safeguarding, finance, HR, operations).
- Reporting to the ED and working with the SMT, engage the country teams to review and refresh the country plans in line with socio-economic and gender analysis and donor strategies and plans.

**2. Regional operations**:
Line management of regional teams:

- Lead on the organisational development for the teams in Asia headed each by the appointed Country Manager. This includes line managing Country Managers in the Asia region, providing guidance, setting objectives, conducting annual structured performance reviews (appraisals) and providing development and capacity building opportunities.
- Drive a performance-based culture of excellence and accountability and collaboration between programme and functional teams. Identify capacity gaps and recommend training or support.
- Provide guidance, supervision and support to country and programme managers.
- Identify, and take steps to mitigate, organisational risk in the countries under the role’s remit, including feeding into global risk matrix.
- Oversee security and safety strategy for region.

**3. Programme quality**:

- Collaborate closely with all departments and support the country teams by making resources from the regional support team available, in order to ensure that programmes meet stated objectives, are in line with ETP’s mission, approach and. strategy, meet the needs of ETP members and donors, and are implemented to the highest standards, on time, and wi