Explosive Ordnance Risk Education Specialist – Lyon, France

Place: Lyon, France
Starting date: October 2024
Type of contract: 4 to 5 months fixed-term contract (CDD)
Closing date for applications: 18th September 2024

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

At Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organisation. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities. Please indicate if you require any special accommodation, even at the first interview. For more information about the organisation: www.hi.org

JOB CONTEXT:
HI deploys Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) activities in 26 countries worldwide. 2 HQ EORE Specialists are supporting field teams in providing the most contextualized, qualitative and transformative EORE responses possible.

The Explosive Ordnance Risk Education Specialist is an expert who ensures strategic technical guidance, support and control in his/her scope of expertise. He/she provides standards and methodologies, provides advices, on the job training, and remote mentoring. Ensure and control application of technical quality framework to guarantee optimal outcomes and impact of projects. He/ she promotes innovation, research and professional development. He/she contributes within the AVR division to the implementation of the mandate and the 10-year strategy of Humanity & Inclusion. He/she ensures that synergies within the sector and outside are identified and fostered. The EORE Specialist will also work on supporting Conflict Preparedness and Protection, but also Small Arms Light Weapons Risk Education jointly with the HI HQ Conflict Transformation specialist.

YOUR MISSION:

Responsibility 1: Set framework and standards for RE, including EORE, SALW if relevant, Conflict Preparedness and Protection, and any other linked and relevant subject:

• Ensure sectorial watch, harnessing and appropriation of norms and international standards internally;
• Write and deploy the framework documentation containing HI’s norms and standards (including Nexus); and ensure dissemination;
• Guarantee complementarity of standards and norms between HI sectors.

Responsibility 2: Provide strategic technical guidance:

• Provide strategic technical guidance to HI’s country programs across the globe;
• Provide technical inputs, review and validate technical strategies for country programs and at Headquarters’ level;
• Ensure strategic and technical support to projects when gap of expertise within programs;
• Promote and ensure complementarity of sectors and mainstream in their sector HI’s crosscutting approaches.

Responsibility 3: Ensure the control of the technical quality and the relevance of HI’s Risk Education:

• Conduct/support evaluation or audits on overall quality of projects;
• Monitor the implementation of audit recommendations, if applicable, in their sectorial scope.

Responsibility 4: Contribute to the improvement of technical know-how through the development of lessons learnt, research and innovation projects under their scope when relevant (in close link with 3I Division):

• Identify strategic learning questions;
• Ensure technical learning from projects by using lessons learned and best practices (review of capitalization and assessments).

Responsibility 5: Facilitate the professionalisation of the Technical Division:

• Carry out technical interviews of candidates and produce recommendations/guidelines;
• Ensure a mapping of technical skills of his talent pool and set priorities in terms of capacity building;
• Contribute to the evaluation of field technical specialists.

Responsibility 6: Contribute to the international prestige and influence of HI’s expertise in his sectorial scope:

• Support and/or, when required, represent the technical expertise of HI throughout relevant networks, so as to participate to the exchange of best practices, understands trends and influence major networks on practices and stakes of the sector;
• Support the identification & the development of partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, Institutions, corporate on technical priorities or important topics his sectorial scope.

Responsibility 7: Contribute to the development of major opportunities or new projects under his sectorial scope, in line with the Technical Director, the Business Development Manager and when relevant, the Institutional Funding team:

• Contributes to the context analysis in his sectorial scope (benchmark of stakeholders) and to the value proposition;
• If gap of resources and in support to the business development officer, contributes to the design and writing of new projects.

ACCESSIBILITY OF THE POSITION:
Based in Lyon, the position is located in Open Space, boxes are available for more quiet if necessary and the work space is very bright. The position is easily accessible by public transport (bus, metro). A parking lot is also available. Concerning the building, elevators and access ramps are available.

A disability advisor is on hand to answer your questions and help you with your application. The position can be adapted to your needs.

YOUR PROFILE:

• University Degree, preferably Master’s Conflict/Security issues, International Development, International Relations or other relevant subject;
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Humanitarian Mine Action and specifically in Explosive Ordnance Risk Education;
• Ability to design projects and write successful proposals for a broad range of institutional donors requiring technical and operational detail;
• Willingness to undertake ad-hoc travel to a range of countries including fragile / conflict-affected states;
• Fluent in English, ability to speak and write in other languages (French, Arabic, Spanish) is an advantage.

CONDITIONS OF THE POSITION:

• Type of contract: Fixed-term contract (CDD);
• Working hours: 39-hour week and 22.5 days of RTT (work time reduction) to be taken annually;
• 5 weeks of annual leave;
• Transport: 50% of the cost of a season ticket paid by the employer (weekly, monthly or annual season tickets only);
• Additional benefits: luncheon vouchers: face value of 8.96€ (60% paid by the employer) and health insurance;
• Advantageous teleworking charter;
• Many sports and social activities are offered in our premises.