CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)
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.

ROLE PURPOSE:
The Field Manager (FM) has the overall responsibility to ensure management of the organisation’s interventions in South and Grand’Anse departments, for both long term (development) and humanitarian work, including coordination with partners and oversight of program delivery.
The Field Manager will provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the Children (SC) programs with the responsibility to deliver high quality programming. The post holder will also be responsible for planning and maintaining work systems, procedures, and policies to enable and encourage the optimum performance of people and other resources within the program unit. He or she will also increase SC visibility by forging strong partnerships with and between, local and national government structures, Haitian Civil Society, including Community Based Organisations (CBOs), United Nations Organisations, other national and international NGOs working in the South and Grand’Anse. The FM will ensure results-based management and reporting in accordance with SC standards.
Save the Chidren is implementing long-term education and health programming in the South and Grand’Anse departments of Haiti. The role holder will specifically lead the implementation of a three year, 5m USD Education project funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA), in consortium with Haitian NGO’s PRODEV and SIKSE.
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.

As a member of the extended Senior Management Team (SMT), the FM contributes to:
- Leading SC Haiti, in particular in the South and Grand’Anse departments;
- Ensure the representation of SC in the South and Grand’Anse departments;
- 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 Haiti Country Office (CO) strategies and plans, informed by child participation whenever possible;
- 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;
- Manage relationship with contracted service providers and partners;
- Ensure SC’ key performance indicators are regularly monitored and reviewed through agreed performance management structure;
- Support regular monitoring activities, maintain a continuous presence in the field to ensure that child rights are implemented in responsive ways to communities and children, in line with, SC principles, values, quality frameworks, as well as strategic plans and compliance procedures ;
Strategic Planning
- Provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the South Field Office (FO);
- Contribute to SC Haiti Country Strategic Plan, Country Annual Plans, Country Annual Reports, Child Rights Situational Analysis, Partnering Strategy, National Advocacy and Communications Strategy and other key strategic planning documents as required;
- Contribute to SC Operational Systems Strengthening, Child Participation Mainstreaming, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (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 SC partners in implementation area;
- Ensure clear processes are in place for tracking and reporting on progress against deliverables, working with MEAL staff;
- Work closely with MEAL on baseline, internal and external program/project evaluations.
Coordination, advocacy and representation
- Lead external representation of SC in the South and Grand-Anse departments with all relevant stakeholders, including the Haitian Government, and in close coordination with consortium partners collaborating with SC in South and Grande-Anse.
- Represent SC in coordination forums for education, health, child protection, climate change, DRR and other relevant sectors; building linkages with other sectors where feasible and appropriate in coordination with the field team;
- Identify key opportunities and events for SC Haiti to position itself as the leading organisation for children’s issues in Haiti;
Programme delivery and technical harmonisation
- Lead results-based planning for the delivery of initiatives and activities across programs and projects, seeking to ensure harmonisation in technical approaches where this achieves operational efficiencies;
- Contribute to the design and development of child rights focused emergency and development programs of a high quality that contribute to Haiti CO’s strategies and plans, informed by child participation where possible;
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- Conduct planning and progress review meetings and ensure regular progress monitoring is taking place at different levels;
- Ensure close coordination with PDQA technical team to assure quality of implementation form a child rights perspective
Budget management and compliance;
- Ensure budget holding for the NMFA project 2019-2022, as per SC scheme of delegation;
- Ensure that all FO projects progress in accordance with donors and SC compliance requirements, within time and budget;
- Oversee program and project 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 technical and support team and any short-term technical consultants where required;
- Coordinate the partner capacity building, including participation in assessment, trainings, technical review.
- Inform the development of a coherent organizational structure for the Field Office in line with scale up and scale down plans according to programme needs and funding opportunities;
- Ensure that the FO engages in mutual assessment, feedback and learning with partners and assist partners to engage in knowledge building, advocacy and organisational strengthening in line with SC Partnering Principles
Emergency Preparedness and Response Management
- In coordination with the Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Manager, maintain consistent and coherent engagement in key inter-agency emergency preparedness and response coordination mechanisms at departmental level, including sub cluster system;
- Ensure SC is represented in coordination meetings and sectoral tables at departmental level;
General
- Comply with SC 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 SC 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 SC, 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.

Essential:
- At least 5 years of senior management experience in an NGO environment,
- Proven experience managing child rights based education, child protection, resilience, DRR or other development programming;
- Post-graduate degree in education, development or other relevant Social Sciences
- Proven ability to manage cross-sector programmes, with extensive experience managing multi-agency programmes
- Ability to represent an organisation at a strategic level and engage and influence key stakeholders at regional and national level;
- Demonstrated experience of working with national and local level government structures;
- Demonstrated experience of working with remote rural communities;
- 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 SC’s aims, values and principles;
Desirable:
- Prior experience of designing and/or delivering large scale (in excess of USD5m) programmes;
- Previous work experience in the South/Grand’Anse region
- Previous work experience in emergency response

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

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