Regional Program Development Manager – MASHRIQ

Place: Amman, Jordan
Starting date: 15 January 2025
Duration of contract: 24 months
Closing date for applications: 5th November 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.

Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development programmes in more than 60 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 255 million euros, with 4794 employees worldwide.

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’s Middle East Regional Programme (MASHRIQ) coordinates missions in 5 different countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq). The programme is covering the full mandate of HI – emergency, mine action and development with a strong focus on continuum and resilience. The program has a total volume expected for 2024 of 26M Euros with 430 staff + 120 volunteers.

There are 5 main sectors of intervention: rehabilitation, education, early child development, BaNEREI (basic needs, economic recovery and economic inclusion) and armed violence reduction. Inclusion Humanitarian Action is both crosscutting within main sectors and sometimes a standalone intervention.

YOUR MISSION:

Under the authority of the Technical Head of Program, and in collaboration with the Regional Director, Country Managers and Operations Managers, the Regional Programme Development Manager (RPDM) actively contributes to the development of the programme by designing, implementing and monitoring the fundraising strategy for the program to which he/she is attached. He/she identifies funding opportunities and leads the process of developing concept notes and project proposals through to submission to donors (public institutions, foundations and the private sector). The PDM also actively contributes to grant management and compliance. She/he manages one Grant Development Senior Officer, supporting proposals writing and two Grant Officers, supporting reporting and compliance.

 

Responsibility 1: Management

• Exemplary Manager: embodies HI’s values on a daily basis, and is a role model.
• Meaningful manager: understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for the team, leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to each management action. Encourages inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice. Encourages innovation and risk-taking.
• Operational Manager: organises the operational management of his or her team, structures the work around identified processes, steers performance, and facilitates problem solving.
• Manager 1st HR&Coach: contributes to the development of its employees, creating the conditions to enable their commitment, their professionalism and their attachment to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct of institutional policies, the state of mind and the expected individual and collective behaviour.

 

Responsibility 2: Strategic positioning & planning

• Observe donor strategies and priorities at country/regional level and monitor opportunities in order to anticipate
• Calls for proposals and identify bidding opportunities
• Participate in the development and monitoring of the operational strategy, with particular focus on the fundraising action plan and internal project documents
• Ensure follow up, implementation and monitoring of the fundraising strategy
• Interact with identified donors to understand their perception of HI’s current programming, and identify their areas of interest in order to target fundraising efforts
• Draw up a mapping of other humanitarian and development actors (INGOs, UN agencies, government representations) to monitor trends and remain competitive
• Analyse fundraising trends and inform the program on transformation rate, project coverage, duration andamounts secured
• Coordinate fundraising efforts, especially networking, monitoring of donor opportunities
• Liaise and mobilise adequate team members to support fundraising efforts (technical experts, programme director, etc).Organise regular meetings with programme/country directors
• Coordinate with other programmes/countries to gather and promote best practices, facilitate dialogue with donors (for prospection / replication of activities)

 

Responsibility 3: Relationship management

• Work with the Program Director and Country Managers & Technical Unit to strengthen HI’s attractiveness and influence, developing key relationships with relevant decision makers in, national and local organizations, donors and major international organizations;
• Develop active and quality working relationships with donors and strategic partners in the country identify potential consortium.
• Participate in various platforms and meetings on behalf of the DP to increase HI’s visibility and allow for information gathering on funding opportunities
• Promote HI’s technical positioning, approaches, know-how and skills within the relevant networks with a view to developing consortium agreements with the support of the Technical Unit.
• Develop supporting documents, such as “project sheets” and/or “donor sheets”; and develop new tools such as capacity statement
• Set-up a CRM policy and ensure that it is updated as necessary.

 

Responsibility 4: Proposal development

• Coordinate proposal development, distributing tasks among the key people involved the writing of the project proposal for submission to the donor, in accordance with HI’s proposal writing process and tools (PD-tool, project development tracking tool, etc.), including the development of: logical frameworks, MEAL plan, narrative description of technical approach, planning, staffing and budgeting
• Ensure coordination and triangulation framing with O², IPSO, HQ shared services, HQ PDO and technical staff and the HI mission
• Proactively coordinate the involvement and input of all relevant technical advisors (HQ and mission staff) for all proposal development
• Identify, where appropriate, relevant/competitive arrangements (consortia, multi-country projects, etc.) and facilitate negotiations.
• For consortia: ensure coordination and communication, and manage stakeholder input during project development.
• Review the project proposal/final concept note prior to submission for compliance with donor guidelines and expectations, consistency between the budget and the technical description, and overall quality;
• Proceed (if necessary) with the final submission of concept notes and project proposals to donors.
• Coordinate and collaborate with HI national associations (IPO/IPSO) for all relevant donor proposals

 

Resposibility 5: Capacity Building

• Develop training modules on proposal writing and project cycle management for all programmes’ staff and local partners when relevant
• Provide training on donor rules, regulations and strategies for all programmes’ staff involved in the writing of the proposals.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POSITION:

Living conditions in Jordan are comfortable. Security conditions are very stable throughout Jordan. Access to schools and hospitals is easily found in Jordan.

• You hold a degree in an accredited educational institution in international development school or other relevant fields.
• You have at least 5 years of relevant professional experience in similar positions including at least 2years in program development
• You have proven knowledge of donors and strategic analysis skills
• Very good writing skills
• Networking and representation

At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team

• 24 months International contract starting from 15th, January 2025;
• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:
• Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals;
• Pension scheme;
• Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution;
• Repatriation insurance paid by HI;
• Salary from 2813€ gross/month upon experience;
• Perdiem: 665,25€ net/month – paid in the field
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: according to the level of the mission 1 day per month
• Position:
• Unaccompanied:
• Payment for travel costs (air ticket & visa) and transport of your personal effects;
• Mission of more than 12 months: a child allowance of 100€ per month, per child (from the second child) paid in the field;
• open to couples:
• Support travel costs (air ticket & visa) for accompanying dependent and health/ repatriation insurance if the dependent has no income;
• Payment of one yearly additional return flight;
• open to families: Family package:
• a child allowance of 100€ per month, per child (from the second child) paid in the field;
• Contribution to school registration fees for children over 3 years;
• Family-wide health coverage;
• Payment for travel costs (air ticket & visa) and transport of your personal effects;
• Housing: Individual taken in charge by HI;
• If you are resident in the country: local package.