Grand Sud Area Manager pour Save the Children en Haiti | JobPaw.com
Introduction

ROLE PURPOSE:
The Area Manager (AM) has the overall responsibility to ensure management and coordination of the organisation’s interventions in Grand Sud of Haiti, for both long term (development) and humanitarian work, including coordination with partners’, and oversight of program delivery.

The AM will provide overall strategic and operational leadership to Save the Children programs with the responsibility to deliver high quality programming, developing clear strategic and operational plans, increasing SC visibility, forging strong partnerships with and between consortium members, local government structures, CBOs, the United Nations, National Government and other NGOs working in in the Grand Sud region of Haiti. The AM will ensure that results based reporting and other deliverables meet SC standards, particularly the Child Safeguarding and Child Safe programming standard.

Save the Children is implementing long-term interventions in the South region of Haiti, particularly in 6 municipalities of South and Grand’Anse, with the possibility to scale up to Nippes and additional municipalities in previous two departments. Save the Children is currently supporting the humanitarian response to the August 14th earthquake that hit the region in 2021, in close cooperation with our local partners.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.


Fonctions

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

As a member of the extended SMT, the AM contributes to:
- Leading SCI Haiti Humanitarian response and recovery, in particular in the Grand Sud region;
- Ensure the representation of SCI in the South region of Haiti;
- Promote accountability and high performance, and encourage a learning culture;
- Design and develop child rights focused emergency and development programs of a high quality that contribute to the country office strategies and plans, informed by child participation whenever possible;
- Ensure managerial oversight to the achievement of technical harmonisation in programme approaches for targeting, data management and monitoring;
- Conduct internal planning and progress review meetings and ensure regular progress monitoring is taking place at different levels
- Oversee knowledge sharing and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve program implementation;
- Maintain clear overview of technical assistance requirements and ensure results are understood and used to improve program implementation;
- Manage relationship with any contracted service providers;
- Ensure SCI’ key performance indicators are regularly monitored and reviewed through agreed performance management structure;
- Conduct regular field monitoring and activities, maintain a continuous presence in the field to ensure that child rights programs are implemented in responsive ways to communities and children, in line with quality framework, Save the Children principles, values, compliances procedures and strategic plans;

Strategic Planning
- Provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the Area Office;
- Contribute to SCI Haiti Country Strategic Plan, Country Annual Plans, Country Annual Reports, Child Rights Situational Analysis, Partnering Strategy, National Advocacy and Comms Strategy and other key strategic planning documents as required;
- Contribute to SCI Operational Systems Strengthening, Child Participation Mainstreaming, MEAL Approach and other transversal programme quality improvement initiatives as required;
- Inspire, lead and motivate partners to deliver on programme objectives and build a shared culture of accountability;
- Ensure strong internal communications with team members and consortium partners;
- Ensure clear processes are in place for tracking and reporting on progress against deliverables, working with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) staff at both field and national level;
- Lead on internal and external program/project evaluations as necessary and ensure the execution of baseline, periodic, and final evaluations as necessary in coordination with Director of Programmes Operations;

Coordination, advocacy and representation
- Lead external representation of SCI in the region with all relevant donors and the Haitian Government;
- Ensure active coordination with donors at both national and field levels;
- Represent SCI in coordination fora for education, health, child protection, climate change, DRR and other relevant sectors; building linkages with other sectors where feasible and appropriate in the area;
- Identify key opportunities and events for Save the Children in Haiti to position itself as the leading organisation for children’s issues in Haiti in the region;

Programme delivery and technical harmonisation
- Lead operational planning for the delivery of activities across programs, seeking to ensure harmonisation in approach where this achieves operational efficiencies;
- Support the Haiti Country Office to put in place a first class, multi-sectoral and dual mandate child rights program in the South region of Haiti, reflecting all priority technical and sector aspects of the Save the Children global strategy;
- With the Director of Programmes Operations, ensure the implementation of child rights focused emergency and development programs of a high quality that contribute to the Country Office’s strategies and plans, informed by child participation where possible;
- Ensure managerial oversight to the achievement of technical harmonisation in programme approaches for targeting, data management and monitoring;
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

As a member of the extended SMT, the AM contributes to:
- Leading SCI Haiti Humanitarian response and recovery, in particular in the Grand Sud region;
- Ensure the representation of SCI in the South region of Haiti;
- Promote accountability and high performance, and encourage a learning culture;
- Design and develop child rights focused emergency and development programs of a high quality that contribute to the country office strategies and plans, informed by child participation whenever possible;
- Ensure managerial oversight to the achievement of technical harmonisation in programme approaches for targeting, data management and monitoring;
- Conduct internal planning and progress review meetings and ensure regular progress monitoring is taking place at different levels
- Oversee knowledge sharing and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve program implementation;
- Maintain clear overview of technical assistance requirements and ensure results are understood and used to improve program implementation;
- Manage relationship with any contracted service providers;
- Ensure SCI’ key performance indicators are regularly monitored and reviewed through agreed performance management structure;
- Conduct regular field monitoring and activities, maintain a continuous presence in the field to ensure that child rights programs are implemented in responsive ways to communities and children, in line with quality framework, Save the Children principles, values, compliances procedures and strategic plans;

Strategic Planning
- Provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the Area Office;
- Contribute to SCI Haiti Country Strategic Plan, Country Annual Plans, Country Annual Reports, Child Rights Situational Analysis, Partnering Strategy, National Advocacy and Comms Strategy and other key strategic planning documents as required;
- Contribute to SCI Operational Systems Strengthening, Child Participation Mainstreaming, MEAL Approach and other transversal programme quality improvement initiatives as required;
- Inspire, lead and motivate partners to deliver on programme objectives and build a shared culture of accountability;
- Ensure strong internal communications with team members and consortium partners;
- Ensure clear processes are in place for tracking and reporting on progress against deliverables, working with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) staff at both field and national level;
- Lead on internal and external program/project evaluations as necessary and ensure the execution of baseline, periodic, and final evaluations as necessary in coordination with Director of Programmes Operations;

Coordination, advocacy and representation
- Lead external representation of SCI in the region with all relevant donors and the Haitian Government;
- Ensure active coordination with donors at both national and field levels;
- Represent SCI in coordination fora for education, health, child protection, climate change, DRR and other relevant sectors; building linkages with other sectors where feasible and appropriate in the area;
- Identify key opportunities and events for Save the Children in Haiti to position itself as the leading organisation for children’s issues in Haiti in the region;

Programme delivery and technical harmonisation
- Lead operational planning for the delivery of activities across programs, seeking to ensure harmonisation in approach where this achieves operational efficiencies;
- Support the Haiti Country Office to put in place a first class, multi-sectoral and dual mandate child rights program in the South region of Haiti, reflecting all priority technical and sector aspects of the Save the Children global strategy;
- With the Director of Programmes Operations, ensure the implementation of child rights focused emergency and development programs of a high quality that contribute to the Country Office’s strategies and plans, informed by child participation where possible;
- Ensure managerial oversight to the achievement of technical harmonisation in programme approaches for targeting, data management and monitoring;
- Conduct internal planning and progress review meetings at the field office level and ensure regular progress monitoring is taking place at different levels;

Budget management and compliance;
- Ensure budget holding for specific project in the area covered by the field office, as per SCI scheme of delegation;
- Ensure that all area office projects progress in accordance with donors and Save the Children compliance requirements, within time and budget;
- Oversee program and projects budgets, ensuring that expenditures are in line with agreed budgets;
- Monitor expenditure, forecasting and financial performance of projects and the FO;
- Ensure timely preparation and submission of reports to donors, ensuring full review by internal stakeholders and partners as required;
- Identify and effectively manage all key risks related to the programme, in particular ensuring that anti-fraud and anti-corruption policies and procedures are being followed to minimise risks in delivery of project outcomes.

Line & Partner management
- Directly line manage the FO operations team and any short term technical consultants where required, and provide managerial oversight to partners and counterparts;
- Inform the development of a coherent organizational structure for the Area Office in line with scale up and scale down plans according to programme needs and funding opportunities;
- Ensure that the Field Office engages in mutual assessment, feedback and learning with partners and assist partners to engage in knowledge building, advocacy and organisational strengthening in line with SCI Partnering Principles

Emergency Response Management
- In coordination with the Country Director and the Director of Programmes Operations, maintain consistent and coherent engagement in key inter-agency emergency preparedness and response coordination mechanisms including the Cluster system at the field level

General
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.


Qualifications réquises

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
- Experience in managing field office with NGO;
- At least 5 years of senior management experience in an NGO environment, with experience managing child right based education, protection, health, DRR, livelihoods, WASH or other development programming;
- Adequate academic education level in any of the thematic highlighted above; or other relevant background in social sciences;
- Proven ability to manage cross-sector programmes, with extensive experience managing multi-agency programmes
- Ability to represent the organisation at a strategic level and engage and influence key stakeholders at the area level;
- Demonstrated experience of working with national level government structures;
- Self-motivated and results oriented;
- Highly numerically articulate with a track record of data manipulation and reporting systems;
- Experience in management of finance and budget monitoring and risk management;
- Proven ability to motivate and develop others;
- Highly diplomatic with excellent political awareness and understanding;
- Strong oral and written communication skills in French, English and Creole;
- Experience of building, leading and developing a team of staff with different backgrounds and expertise;
- Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward;
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles;

Desirable:
- Prior experience of delivering large scale (in excess of USD 5m) programmes;
- Previous work experience in large scale emergency response


Conditions de travail







SCOPE OF ROLE:





Reports to: Director of Program Operations


Staff reporting to this post: Senior Humanitarian Program Manager, Finance Coordinator, Supply Chain Coordinator, FOS&S Coordinator, CSG Coordinator


Direct: 5


Indirect : All other staff of the field office


Role Dimensions: the role combine office and project management, with remote and proactive collaboration with all departments of the main country office ( program development, program operation including supply chain and awards, finance, HR and Admin, security), and also coordination with all relevant external stakeholders.











Equal Opportunities


The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.


Child Safeguarding:


We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.


Health and Safety


The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.


CHILD SAFEGUARDING:


Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.



Dossier de candidature doit avoir ...

CV, Letter of interest, copies of diploma and/or certificates.


Date limite

2022-02-01