ROLE PURPOSE:
Save the Children works in four of Haiti’s departments, reaching children and families in over 10 communes with programming in the thematic areas of education, health (including WASH), nutrition, child protection, HIV/AIDS, child rights governance and humanitarian response. It has a current staff complement of over 100 and approx. $8 million budget for 2015. We are growing and refining our portfolio to provide quality impactful programs for Haitian children.

The Field Office Director will provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the project, with responsibility for delivery of high quality programming, developing clear strategic and operational plans, increasing SC visibility, forging strong partnerships with the United Nations, the Government and other NGOs and local organisations working in the area. This role will lead the Sponsorship program which supports access to quality basic education as well as school health and nutrition and adolescent development in the Artibonite Department of Haiti. The Field Office Director will lead the relationship with the SCUS Sponsorship team and ensure that reporting standards and other deliverables meet required standards. The Field Office Director will also oversee any additional projects in the Artibonite region and pro-actively support the search for new funding opportunities.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Director of Operations
Dimensions: Director of Programme Development and Quality, MEAL Manager, Child Rights Governance, Communications and Advocacy Manager, Finance Manager, Logistics Manager, Country Director, Save the Children Grant Management and Technical Assistance team (US and other members as necessary)
Number of direct reports: To be confirmed
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
As a member of the Extended Senior Management Team, contribute to:
 Leadership of SCI Haiti, and in particular the Artibonite Field Office
 Support the development of an organisational culture of quality that reflects our dual mandate values, 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 and excellent customer service for our Members and donors
 Help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with key child rights actors such as: host government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGOs, local and international media outlets
 Support the Haiti Country Office to reach Save the Children Quality Framework Minimum Standards by applying such standards at the Artitbonite Office
 Ensure that all required support is provided promptly, at scale and in line with the rules and principles during emergencies, working closely with the Country and Regional Office
Strategic Planning
 Provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the Field Office.
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 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 initatives as required
 Inspire, lead and motivate consortium 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 in place for tracking and reporting on progress against deliverables, working with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) staff.
 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
 Ensure clear agendas are set and meeting minutes produced and circulated for participatory planning meetings.
 Arbitrate where required in any dispute resolution between consortium partners as appropriate
Coordination, advocacy and representation
 Lead external representation of SC with relevant donors and the Haitian Government.
 Ensure actively coordination with other relevant partners at national and field levels.
 Represent SC in education, child protection, adolescent development, health meetings and other relevant sector coordination forums, building linkages with other sectors where feasible and appropriate.
 Share operational and technical learnings with wider education, child protection, adolescent development, health and other sectors within Haiti and internationally to enable the sharing of best practice
 Identify key opportunities and events for Save the Children Haiti to position itself as the leading organisation for children’s issues in Haiti
 Support thematic staff to articulate their top priority advocacy objectives in line with the Country Strategic Plan, and to develop plans and key messages in support of these top priorities. This should include guidelines on the meaningful and safe participation of children in advocacy. With the support of the Child Rights Governance, Advocacy and Communications Manager develop comms. & advocacy plans for all FO projects, and oversee timely implementation.
Programme delivery and technical harmonisation
 Lead operational planning for the delivery of activities across thematics, 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 Artibonite, reflecting all priority technical and sector aspects of the Save the Children global strategy
 With the Director of Programme Development and Quality Assurance, ensure the design and development 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 major risks and obstacles to delivery are escalated and actions taken with agreement of consortium partners.
 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 in coordination with other agencies.
 Oversee knowledge sharing between partners, and ensure that monitoring and evaluation results are understood and used to improve programme implementation.
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 Maintain clear overview of technical assistance requirements for the consortium and ensure appropriate levels of technical support are provided to consortium partners.
 Ensure that FO projects are appropriately staffed across Save the Children and consortium members, including the appropriate combination of expertise across technical and operational areas.
 Manage relationship with any contracted service providers and ensure KPIs are regularly monitored and reviewed through agreed performance management structure.
 Conduct regular field monitoring of activities, maintain a continuous presence in the field and ensure child rights programs are implemented in responsive ways to communities and children in line with quality framework, Save the Children principles, values, compliance procedures and strategic plans.
Budget management and compliance
 Ensure that all FO based projects progress in accordance with donor and Save the Children compliance requirements, within time and on budget.
 Oversee budget for the whole consortium, ensuring central and partner expenditures are in line with agreed budget. Budget holding responsibilities to be determined in line with Save the Children scheme of delegation.
 Monitor expenditure, forecasting and financial performance.
 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 coordination with consortium partners, in particular ensuring that anti-fraud and anti-corruption policies and procedures are followed to minimise risks in delivery of project outcomes.
Line & Partner management
 To directly line manage the FO operations team and any short term technical consultants where required, and to provide managerial oversight to consortium partner counterparts.
 Develop a coherent organizational structure for the Field Office in line with scale up plans, and the possibility of additional projects.
 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 Director of Programmes, maintain consistent and coherent engagement in key inter-agency emergency preparedness and response coordination mechanisms including the Cluster system
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:
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 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 AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
 At least 5 years of senior management experience in an NGO environment, with experience managing child rights based education, protection, resilience, food security or other development operations.
 Post-graduate degree in education, development or other relevant social sciences.
 Proven ability to manage consortium programmes, with extensive experience managing multi-agency programmes.
 Ability to represent the programme at a strategic level and engage and influence key stakeholders at regional and national level.
 Demonstrated experience of working with national level government structures.
 Self-motivated and results orientated.
 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.
 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 and ensuring buy in.
 Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
 Fluency in written and spoken English and French.
Desirable:
 Proficiency in Haitian Creole highly desirable
 Prior experience of designing and/or delivering large scale (in excess of USD5m) programmes.
 Previous work experience in Haiti, and the Artibonite region in particular.
 Previous work experience in emergency response.

TITLE: Dessalines/Artibonite Field Office Director
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Extended Senior Management Team
LOCATION: Dessalines/Haiti
GRADE: 1
CONTRACT LENGTH: Open ended
CHILD SAFEGUARDING:
Level 3: the role 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 in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Les parties intéressées sont priées de soumettre leurs dossiers complets (CV, lettre de motivation)