ROLE PURPOSE:
As a member of the Senior Management Team, the Director of Program Development and Quality shares in the overall responsibility for the direction and coordination of the Country Office. S/he is responsible for all technical strategic development, implementation and ensuring that program quality standards are met through full spectrum response for children. Along with the Senior Management Team and Country Director, s/he is responsible for ensuring the Haiti country office achieves the objectives of the Country Strategic Plan 2019-21.

Must have the ability and willingness to change work practices and hours, and work with incoming teams in the event of major emergencies.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
As a member of the Senior Management Team, contribute to:
• Leadership of the Haiti Country Office,
• Supporting the development of an organisational culture that promotes accountability and high performance, encourages a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation, and frees up our people to deliver outstanding results for children.
• A coherent organizational structure that is consistent with agency practices and appropriate to programme needs.
• Establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with: host government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGO’s.
• Ensuring that the Haiti Country Office complies with all Save the Children (SC) Management Operating Standards and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Ensuring that all required support is provided promptly, at scale and in line with the rules and principles during emergencies, working closely with the Regional Office.
Strategic Planning
• Develop strategic vision and direction to the SC Haiti program.
• Ensure all SC programs align to and contribute to the Government of Haiti’s development plans and global context.
• Be responsible for improving and increasing child participation across all programs, to enable strategic direction and programs to be based on needs identified by children themselves.
• Take a lead role in developing program strategies and annual plans ensuring coordination of all technical input to the country strategy, proposals and reports.
• Participate in conceptualizing and designing cost effective, innovative and high quality programs to serve hard to reach children.

Programme and Proposal Design and Development
• Identify strategic fundraising leads and concepts and identify and nurture funding opportunities to ensure adequate resources are secured.
• With Strategic Portfolio Manager and Director of Operations, lead proposal development and the conceptualization and design of cost effective, innovative and high quality child-focused emergency and development programmes, informed by child participation where possible.
• Ensure the Haiti Country Office has a first class, multi-sectoral and dual mandate program reflecting all priority technical and sector aspects of the Save the Children global strategy.

Technical Assistance and Knowledge Management
• Ensure the provision of high quality technical assistance and capacity building to all country office programmes, projects and staff by managing all internal and external technical assistance, including surge capacity during emergencies and ensure application of the TA protocols and tools.
• Ensure that the different technical sectors are coordinated, integrated and support each other to optimize programs and projects.
• Ensure the integration of cross cutting issues into design and implementation including gender, social inclusion, non-discrimination, child participation and child safeguarding.
• Promote learning within the Haiti country program from relevant internal and external thematic trends and best practice.
• With the Director of Operations and CD, ensure engagement in relevant national and global networks.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
• Foster and champion a culture of evidence building and learning across the Haiti country office.
• Develop and oversee a robust MEAL system to measure achievement and progress toward national and global programme goals and results, including reach and global outcome indicators, and to drive learning and improved program quality.
• Ensure the delivery of internal and external program/project evaluations as per the Evaluations Essential Standard and donor requirement, and execution of baseline, and periodic research in coordination with Director of Program Operations.
• Ensure our work is accountable to children and other stakeholders through the establishment and management of effective accountability mechanisms and processes.
• Ensure that data, monitoring and beneficiary feedback inform program decision making and management action.
• Oversee SC Haiti’s operational research to ensure children are supported through evidence based programs and that research informs advocacy.
• Spread information relating to the outcome of research projects widely and – in particular – to the Government and to other humanitarian and development actors, and through publications or OneNet.

Advocacy and Communication
• Ensure that advocacy is an integral part of SC’s Theory of Change and strategic planning.
• Help to position SC as the leading organisation for children’s issues in Haiti, with child rights at the core of the advocacy work.
• Ensure advocacy coherence at local, national and global level and reinforce synergies between programs and advocacy to maximise SC impact, especially ensuring evidence and best practice inform advocacy.
• Oversee the development of advocacy and communications plans and their effective implementation.
• In collaboration with CD and Director of Program Operations, identify and manage potential risks associated with SC’s public positions and design strategies to mitigate identified risks.
• Ensure that SC branding, communication and sign off guidelines are adhered to.
• Ensure there is a clear and effective system in place for internal communication.

Staff Management, Mentorship and Development
• Develop a culture and focus on quality in the PDQ team and ensure appropriate staffing, and the recruitment, training and promotion of staff as appropriate.
• Manage the PDQ team through: effective use of the Performance Management System; regular evaluation of direct reports; provision of coaching, mentoring and other developmental opportunities.
• Ensure that all staff understand and are able to perform their role in an emergency.
• Oversee that all technical staff proactively build and maintain technical skills and competencies required for leading and/or advising first class programs in both development and emergency contexts.

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

QUALIFICATIONS
• University degree or higher qualification in a relevant technical area (social protection, education, health e.g.)
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an NGO environment, including experience directing and implementing programs in both development and emergency contexts.
• Experience in more than one of the Save the Children priority or cross-cutting sectors: education; child protection; child rights governance; health and nutrition; food security and livelihoods; gender and social inclusion; emergency response programs etc.
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills in a complex international setting.
• Significant experience leading strategic planning and in programme design and proposal development.
• Understanding of and experience in monitoring and evaluation and operational research.
• Ability to effectively establish a learning culture within an organisation.
• Experience in successfully establishing and managing collaborative relationships and partnerships with donors and government counterparts.
• Influencing skills and capacity to represent SC Haiti at all levels.
• Experienced in managing a diverse team, and in capacity building, coaching and mentoring staff.
• Demonstrated use of positive coping strategies in stressful environments.
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches.
• Fluency in written and spoken French and English.

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.

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 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.

SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Country Director
Staff reporting to this post: 9 Technical Advisors in following areas: (Child Protection, DRR & Resislience, Health, Education, Gender Equality, Food Security and Livelihood, Advocacy Campaigns and Child Rights, Partnership, MEAL)
Indirect: Regional PDQ Director

Cover letter, Resume, copies of diplomas

This position is attracting both national and international candidates.