About AFSC
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action. Drawing on continuing spiritual insights and working with people of many backgrounds, we nurture the seeds of change and respect for human life that transform social relations and systems.
From our experience, we know that peacemaking requires more than merely advocating against one war or another. Real peace is more than the absence of war. Rather, we need to change the culture, situations, and systems that lead to violence.
AFSC knows that miracles can happen when we build the capacity for peace person-by-person, community-by-community. When people understand the terrible consequences of violence and witness realistic alternatives, they come together as a powerful force to address the underlying causes and lay the foundation for lasting peace.
About AFSC LAC and Haiti
AFSC's programs in the Latin America and Caribbean Region focus on issues of urban peace and community security. The regional office in Guatemala provides monitoring and support to the programs. Our staff also collaborates with other AFSC programs on public information and other activities in the United States.
In Haiti, internally displaced people and youth and community leaders from 13 different Haitian organizations, faith-based organizations, and schools are collaborating with AFSC to bring security and peace to neighborhoods in Port au Prince, where more than 250,000 people still displaced from the 2010 earthquake are living in temporary housing amid insecure and precarious conditions.
Through the “Local Peace Networks” methodology, these community leaders use conflict analysis and participatory planning and dialogue to address the root causes of conflict, including economic exclusion, gender-based violence, bullying, street violence, and natural disasters.
Four years after the earthquake, AFSC is also promoting civic engagement, risk prevention, and peace education as ways to build nonviolent alternatives to conflict and address community needs in a participatory manner.
Fonctions
Summary of Responsibilities
The Country Coordinator is responsible for the overall management and program direction, legal obligations, reporting, and stewardship of all AFSC resources. The Coordinator serves as official representative of the AFSC; manages contacts in Haiti with government ministries, UN agencies, and local and international NGOs. He/she reports to Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean, supervises Haiti program staff; consults and collaborates with Latin American staff and others as appropriate.
The appointee will work directly under the supervision of the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Director.
The American Friends Service Committee is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified persons are encouraged to apply regardless of their religious affiliation, race, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability.
The American Friends Service Committee is a smoke-free workplace.
Summary of Principal Responsibilities
Program Description: The AFSC has had a long history in Haiti and is currently responding to earthquake recovery needs of selected communities in Port Au Prince and establishing its longer term strategies to contribute to the resilience of the Haitian people as they struggle for longer term peace and justice within their society. With a focus on youth, the AFSC is working with local partners in the areas of education, conflict transformation and livelihoods development.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities: The key responsibilities of the Organizational Learning Coordinator include the following:
Program Development and Management
1. Plan, develop and provide overall management and coordination for AFSC’s longer term relief, recovery and development programs in Haiti, within the context of the AFSC, International Programs and Latin America and Caribbean strategic plans.
2. Ensure programs are developed and implemented adhering to AFSC principles and internationally accepted program quality standards.
3. Incorporate and adapt regional strategies into program approaches and contribute to regional and organizational learning.
4. Working with AFSC U.S. based staff, seek and nurture opportunities for collaboration and joint programming as appropriate.
5. Participate in regional strategic planning activities and other joint planning and program review meetings as required.
6. Establish regular program monitoring and evaluation procedures in close collaboration with the Regional.
7. Ensure timely and accurate annual and semi-annual narrative reports, reports to appropriate Haitian authorities and regular correspondence and written reports to the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Director.
Representation and Networking
1. Develop, strengthen, and expand AFSC contacts in Haiti. Articulate AFSC’s basic philosophical and faith-based commitments as appropriate, including the organization’s commitment to a nonviolent approach to conflict and long-term strategy for peacebuilding.
2. Establish and strengthen institutional relationship and partnerships with Haitian institutions, government ministries, international NGOs, coordinating bodies, and UN agency officials.
3. Develop familiarity with government reconstruction, and urban security plans, and other INGO and local NGO peace-building, relief, and development efforts. Participate in INGO coordinating meetings as appropriate and relevant.
4. Provide to LAC Regional Director timely information on changes in the national/regional context or program locations that affect AFSC work.
Stewardship of Resources
1. Ensure sound fiscal management of supervised programs including oversight of budgeting and accounting procedures defined by AFSC and donor partners; preparation and timely processing of monthly financial reports; oversight of contracts, equipment and materials.
2. With the guidance of the LAC Regional Director, contribute to the planning and implementation of fundraising and communication strategies including preparation of materials, periodic donor visits in Haiti, speaking tours in the U.S. and Europe as agreed upon.
Administration and Supervision
1. Develop country-relevant personnel and administrative policies and procedures; establish salary structure and benefits; oversee registration of the offices with government agencies as needed, consistent with AFSC guidelines and in consultation with LAC Regional Director.
2. Recruit, hire, and supervise national staff, including staff development, performance planning and review. Ensure that all staff are familiar with and work toward the long-term vision and strategic goals of AFSC and incorporate the organization’s values and principles in their work.
3. Following the guidelines of AFSC’s security policies, develop security protocol, manage emergency situations as they arise, and make recommendations to the LAC Regional Director regarding security and emergency response.
Qualifications Requises
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Bachelor’s degree is required. Master’s degree in international development, peace studies or urban studies is desirable.
Experience
• Six years of experience with increasing responsibility in international development work, including planning and managing humanitarian assistance, recovery and development programs and budgets. Experience with peacebuilding programs a plus.
• Extensive knowledge on Haitian context, including the legal and economic frameworks and social current situation.
• Fluency in written and spoken English, French and Creole; demonstrated ability to report orally and in writing; ability to write and edit materials for publication in English. Knowledge of Creole a plus.
• Experience working and living outside of one’s own country in the global south.
• Experience supervising staff in multi-cultural settings.
Other Requirements
• Commitment to the faith-based principles and guidelines that define the work of AFSC, including a commitment to nonviolence, equality, and the belief in the intrinsic worth of every individual and to the considerations of AFSC in regard to issues of race, class, nationality, religion, age, gender and sexual orientation, and disabilities.
• Proven ability to work with diverse staff and to reach out collaboratively to individuals, groups and organizations.
• Track record of managing complex programs, ideally with an emphasis in conflict resolution or transformation and peacebuilding, and in urban settings. Demonstrated experience in strategic thinking, fundraising, grant writing, program planning and implementation.
• Ability to work independently in an unstructured setting and program, yet within a framework of long-distance communication, consultation, and decision making.
• Capacity for coping in situations of high risk and in compliance with security measures, to work under pressure, and to organize time effectively.
• Demonstrated administrative ability, including experience with staff supervision, financial management, narrative and financial reporting, and budgeting
• Understanding of macroeconomic and political developments in the world and the ability to interpret their impact within the context of regional issues and concerns.
• Experience with peace-building, conflict transformation programs, and nonviolent approaches to problem solving highly desirable. Ability to travel regularly, nationally and internationally, and to attend frequent evening and weekend meetings, working overtime as needed.
• Experience in development, conduction, monitoring and evaluation of social projects is required.
• Experience working in social conflict contexts and countries facing natural disasters.
• Used to working with qualitative and quantitative goals and objectives.
• Used to working on a schedule and under pressure.
• Excellent computer skills.
• Resident in Haiti
