ROLE PURPOSE:
The Partnership, Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Manager will provide operations support and oversight for humanitarian preparedness and response, and will be responsible for overall partnership management for NCI. They will be the team lead for categorized responses in Haiti, within a response structure integrated into SCI structure in Haiti. The Partnership, Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Manager will be the focal point for emergency responses. The holder of this position will be responsible for the implementation of all SCI humanitarian preparedness and response procedures. They will be accountable for ensuring SC humanitarian standards and humanitarian policy are implemented, while ensuring compliance with the SCI’ commitment to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS). The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the SCI programme adheres to all its partnership approaches and requirements, for all types of partners. The person will also support in identify and manage diverse partnerships with local NGOs, the Government, other INGOs, and the private sector that help to build the capacity of local civil society and government, and more effectively deliver programs.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Preparedness:
• Responsible for ensuring robust and practical emergency preparedness plans, Early Warning systems, humanitarian contingency plan, implementing emergency preparedness procedure across CO and FOs.
• Ensuring implementation of Minimum Preparedness Actions and Advanced Preparedness Actions , ensuring engagement and functions roles are assigned and followed up on.
• Ensure humanitarian capacity building needs are addressed, both in preparedness and during a humanitarian response, for both SCI and partners, following capacity assessment of SCI and its partners.
• Ensure humanitarian capacity is available at FO and in mobile teams.

Response:
• Responsible for implementing emergency response management procedures and ensuring key deliverables are met.
• Function as centralized Team Lead, working with operations managers, FOs, and mobile response team to implement quality humanitarian responses. Will resume leadership of response related functions.
• Maintain strategic overview, ensuring direction of travel, progress, course correction and also in charge of updating/adjusting response plans and strategies accordingly.
• Accountable for ensuring the quality of categorized responses, ensuring SC standards, CHS, sectorial standards are applied in assessing and addressing the needs of children, their families and their communities.
• Having oversight over the development of relevant master budgets aligned with the Response Strategy objectives, for the duration of the response and for multiple sites and multiple sectors where appropriate.
• Ensuring humanitarian responses support CSP objectives, joint response plans and are implemented in a coordinated manner to ensure a timely, appropriate and effective humanitarian response.


Programme Support (typically will be for large/complex emergencies working with limited support):
• Lead on the Humanitarian Response, strategic and operational planning and reviews, in line with the Country Strategic Plan and Save the Children global guidelines.
• Take overall lead to ensure integrated project management and, linking functions PDQ and OPS, and, advisory and support to field offices/programmes are in place and efficient to enable effective and impactful humanitarian programme/project implementation according to donor guidelines and Save the Children minimum standards
• Take overall lead in compiling the Humanitarian Response monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports against the Response Strategy and relevant operational plans.
• As a member of a Response Senior Management Team, play a leadership role in the overall management of SC emergency responses.
• Take overall leadership on ensuring operational staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency programmes are met – this will include scale up of teams as well as scale down at the end of a response. This will include leading on staffing structure, recruitment, and performance management.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the CHS, Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.
• Ensure strong accountability to beneficiaries, in accordance with the CHS and SC standards.
• Coordinate with SC members and HQ teams to ensure that operational backstopping support is in place.

Capacity Building:
• Oversee the delivery of capacity building plans to develop the requisite operational competencies in operational staff, for emergency operations.
• Coach and mentor operational surge capacity staff and national level counterparts and link in to wider organisational talent development mechanisms.

Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
• Represent Save the Children’s emergency response on a national, regional and international level to donors, the media and members of the humanitarian community.
• Help shape broader sector strategies through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed
• Take the initiative in documenting lessons learnt, best practice and case studies to shape in-country strategies and programme approaches, and contribute to broader sector learning.
• Support implementation of Humanitarian analytical approach (HAA) incl. response review framework (OCR, RTR, AAR and EHA) and ensure follow up and implementation of recommended actions
• Pro-actively identify advocacy opportunities, case studies and research opportunities which link with wider organisational strategic objectives, and turn these into action.
• Support organisational level operational practice, innovation and learning in consultation with relevant advisory teams.

Partnership management:
• Develop and lead the implementation of CO partnership policies and strategies and interface with current and potential partner organizations including identifying appropriate partner organizations in consultation with the operations team, and PDQA;
• Conduct partner mapping in line with the current country strategic plan (CSP);
• Develop and manage capacity assessment and capacity building plan of strategically important local civil society partners, including identification of necessary funding for plan’s implementation.
• Build the capacity of relevant CO staff on approved partnership management and SCI and CO minimum standards.
• Support the delivery of capacity building to other teams in the CO and to Partner organisations.

Communicating with impact, negotiation and coordination
• Provides leadership to support partner identification and gathering details information on partners;
• Support the coordination with strategic and implementing partners, including enhancing networking with strategic allies.

Compliance (systems, processes, donor)

• Maintains accurate CO wide partnership information including partners’ registration status with license renewal tracking system, organizational partnership decisions, partner assessment
• Coordinate with relevant departments to support and ensure compliance of partners with core SCI and local policies.
• Ensure SCI processes and key donor requirements related to partnership are known and implemented by SCI and partner’s staff;

General:
• Proactively identify and pursuit opportunities for preparedness, early action and humanitarian response funding.
• Ensure coordination and information management across CO and FO (PDQ, Ops, and functions)
• Work with functions to put procedures and ways of working in place according to SC policies and procedures and guidelines.
• Drive humanitarian advocacy
• Ensure SCI initiatives related to preparedness and response are developed in coordination with all key actors in country, including state entities, the UN agencies, bilateral agencies, and other international and local NGOs.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
COMPETENCIES FOR THIS ROLE:

1. Delivering Results
Takes personal responsibility and holds others accountable for delivering our ambitious goals for children, continually improving their own performance or that of the team/ organisation.
Level required: Accomplished

2. Problem Solving and Decision-Making
Takes effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating relevant information from within or outside the organisation.
Level required: Accomplished

3. Innovating and Adapting
Develops and implements innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in ever-changing and
uncertain global and working environments.
Level required: Accomplished

4. Working Effectively with Others
Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.
Level required: Accomplished

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential
• Extensive experience of working within a senior management role within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile state; and/or extensive experience of setting up responses in out of area contexts (either where no SC presence or CO presence); and/or extensive experience of working in high income contexts
• Previous experience of managing programme teams in large-scale first phase emergency response is essential
• Master Degree level or equivalent field experience
• Previous experience of managing a large multi-sector, multi-national team
• Previous experience of programme management across multiple locations
• Experience of managing multi-donor, multi-site, multi-sector programmes (including ECHO, DFID and OFDA) Security management experience across a large programme.
• Demonstrated ability to set up operational management systems in a large complex programme
• In depth knowledge and experience of logistics systems and requirements in a multi field office, multi programme setting
• Experience of supporting MEAL systems in large complex programmes
• Proven ability of mentoring and coaching
• Experience of senior level representation
• Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven ability to influence change at an operational and strategic level
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• A high level of written and spoken English, French and Creole

Desirable
• Media experience
• Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/context

REPORTS TO: Director of Program Operations

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers.