• Job number: SRH05619
• Status: Employee
• Position: Missions

About us

Desired start date: 15 Feb 2024
Duration of the mission: 6 months contract with possibility to extend.
Location: RAQA – Syria

SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs for food, water and shelter. Particularly committed to the fight against diseases linked to unsafe water, the leading cause of death in the world, SI’s interventions provide expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in some twenty countries, the SI teams – 2500 people in total, made up of expatriates, national staff, permanent staff at HQ, and a few volunteers – intervene with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultural norms.

About the mission

SI has been working in Syria since 2012, and is today operating in North East Syria (NES) and North West Syria (NWS)

The NES programs provide an integrated assistance in the WASH, NFI, Shelter, FSL sectors to displaced populations and host communities affected by the conflict.

The NWS programs provide WASH and NFI/Winterization support to affected populations.

In NES and NWS, the lifesaving activities are:

• Wash – emergency package in IDPs settlements,
• Distribution of NFIs and cash for vulnerable populations,

And in NES, SI is implementing more sustainable activities:

Individuals’ houses rehabilitations

About the job

General objective:

• Ensure the quality framework of the projects is respected
• Ensure coordination with partners
• Strengthen the integrated approaches/synergies initiated within the components of SI intervention, and the new sectors recently opened
• Launch technical assessments to reinforce the strategy

The main challenges:

• One of the main challenges is related to management as the Raqqa programmatic strategy is dense with a large number of sectors and voluminous grants
• Ensure coherence and synergies of various projects
• Ensure programmatic internal and external coordination

Priorities for the 2/3 first months:

• Ensure coordination with other partners (Health, Protection, Nutrition etc.)
• Support the implementation of the new projects for 2024
• Provide support and capacity building to new PMs
• Support integration of the different sectors on the base and mainstreaming of protection and accountability questions

Responsibilities and main activities:

• Strategy
• Programs’s quality and monitoring
• Institutional knowledge building
• Reporting / communication / representation
• Team management

Your profil

Education / academic background:

Degree related to International Relations, project management would be an advantage

Specific skills and experience:

Technical skills:

• Good knowledge of humanitarian programming
• Technical experience in Wash, FSL, or Shelter is an asset
• Skills in humanitarian analysis and external representation

Transversal Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Rigor, flexibility and capacity to handle pressure.
• Managerial and Leadership skills

Language:

• Excellent English skills mandatory
• Speaking Arabic would be an asset

SI Will Offer you

A salaried position:
According to experience, starting from EUR 2475 gross per month (2250 base salary + 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly) and a monthly Per Diem of USD 700.

SI also covers accommodation costs and travel expenses between the expatriate’s country of origin and the place of assignment.

Breaks: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of 7 working days every three months (with a USD 850 break allowance, allocated by Sl). To these breaks periods, SI grants one (1) additional rest day per month worked.

Insurance package: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which refunds all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.

LIVING CONDITIONS

The candidate will be based in Raqqa. She/He will live in the SI guesthouse(s). In Raqqa, living conditions are simple but highly improved with a few opportunities and places to socialize.

Application process

Do you recognize yourself in this description? If yes, please send us your CV and cover letter!

Please note that CV-only applications will not be considered, and that the vacancy may close before the deadline.

Thank you for your understanding.

To learn more about Sl: www.solidarites.org

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Solidarités International (SI) est déterminé à prévenir et à combattre tout type d’abus – tout acte d’exploitation, d’abus et/ou de harcèlement sexuels (SEAH) à l’encontre des membres des communautés bénéficiaires ou de ses collaborateurs et collaboratrices, atteinte aux personnes et/ou aux biens, fraude, corruption, conflit d’intérêt non déclaré, financement d’activités portant atteinte aux droits de l’homme – qui pourrait être perpétré dans le cadre de ses interventions. SI applique une tolérance zéro à l’égard de tout type d’abus, particulièrement des actes de SEAH.

Solidarités International est un employeur équitable qui combat toute forme de discrimination. SI ne demandera jamais une rétribution quelconque en vue de participer à un processus de recrutement.

Solidarités International (SI) is determined to prevent and fight all type of abuse – all act of exploitation, abuse and/or sexual harassment (SEAH) against members of beneficiary communities or collaborators, fraud, corruption, violation of persons and/or property, funding of activities harmful to human rights – that could be perpetrated in the frame of its interventions. SI implements a zero-tolerance policy regarding acts of abuse, notably acts of SEAH.

Solidarités International is an equitable employer committed to find all forms of discrimination. SI will ever ask for any remuneration to take part in a recruitment process.