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Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment (WVI – Paid via GCLA) Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

PURPOSE OF POSITION

The Associate Response Director will provide strategic leadership, management and coordination to the Chad SCRAMER Response ensuring effective scale up and delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected Sudan refugees in Eastern Chad as required. The

Associate Response Director oversees all aspects of the response from strategy to implementation including team management, partner relations, risk management and relations with a wider range of local and international stakeholders for this large-scale response in a complex, fluid and challenging humanitarian context with a high level of global interest and engagement. He/she is responsible for ensuring meaningful internal and external collaboration, coordination and engagement with a range of stakeholders in order to effectively deliver assistance to the most vulnerable children in the affected community.

World Vision is looking for a senior, experienced humanitarian leader with a strong track record in complex crises and fragile contexts, program management and excellent team leadership, communications, risk and relationship management skills.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy:

• Develop the Chad SCRAMER (Sudan Crisis & Migration Emergency Response ) Response strategy.

• Develop a Response Disaster Preparedness Plan and update it annually.

• Maximize resources for SCRAMER- national response in the NOs through engagement with government, multilateral donors, public and private donors.

• Lead humanitarian response capacity building that is commensurate to SCRAMER level of disaster risk.

Program Implementation & Reporting

• Ensure that all Chad SCRAMER projects are managed according to agreements made with the donors and support offices

• Ensure that all special programs are implemented, monitored, and evaluated, according to set plans. Ensure monthly Grant Health Tracker (GHT) meetings.

• Ensure that all agreements with donors and support offices and other stakeholders are adhered to.

• Review and submit all SCRAMER reports including Sitreps

• Prepare and submit monthly management report

• Establish a response information management system with program/project Team.

Financial management

• Ensure that all finances in the Chad SCRAMER projects are managed and accounted for in ways that have been agreed upon with the donors and support offices

• Ensure that monthly FFRs and actions followed up on.

• Ensure that audit reports are responded to in time

• Ensure that audit recommendations are implemented and reported on a regular basis.

• Ensure compliance of field operations as per approved policies, systems, procedures and internal controls.

People Management

• Lead in determining or identifying staffing needs,

• Determine skills and qualification and ensure recruitment.

• Define work responsibilities and reporting relationship for staff in country program.

• Ensure that all staff attends devotions

• Promote capacity of all staff and develop succession plans.

• Help create a conducive working environment for staff and harmony between respective units of the response.

• Lead team/individual development and provide direction and support as needed to enable effective performance

Risk management.

• ensure that security, legal, safeguarding, other key risks and resources are well managed with good stewardship across the response.

• Ensure that security assessments are organized for all field operations in order to develop a security plan and monitor the implementation of recommendations.

External Engagement/ Networking

• Create and maintain collaboration linkages (net-working) with churches, government, other Non-Governmental Organizations, UN agencies and Local missions and Embassy Offices within the Eastern Chad, and donor agencies

• Synergize and collaborate with National Office & Support Offices,

• Attend all SO meetings and Eastern Chad meetings associated with Associate Response Director

• Develop a SCRAMER external engagement plan for networking and partnership and ensure its implementation.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:

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• Minimum of Master’s degree in Development Studies; Agriculture/ Social Studies or similar

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• Minimum of 5 years in leadership and operational humanitarian experience in complex settings, preferably in Africa.

• Strong empirical knowledge of the humanitarian sector.

License, registration, or certification required to perform this position:

If applicable, include language requirement(s) as a minimum qualification for this position.

• Strongly prefer fluency in French and English (written, oral)

• Certificate for HEAT or other equal security training

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

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• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, as well as negotiation and administrative abilities.

• Strong people management skills with experience leading teams

• Demonstrated good understanding of the humanitarian industry, including actors, principles, laws and standards.

• Strong ability and commitment in critical networking, relationship building, and partnerships, especially those outside of WV itself.

• Strong skills in strategy development, prioritization and implementation.

• Proven ability to manage large numbers of staff, efficiently and effectively, whether in a live or virtual environment.

• Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to build personal relationships with the teams and support offices.

• Skills in facilitation, and analysis of information

• Ability to demonstrate strategically thinking

• Ability to work well with a team and to build and promote team cohesion.

• Demonstrated well-developed knowledge and sensitivity of cross-cultural communication and dynamics

• Ability to live in remote or hardship areas.

• Proficiency in French and English required (essential to have a working level of French language with a willingness to improve).

• Interpersonal relationship skills and willingness to learn.

• Knowledge of Ms Office packages (Ms word, Power point and Ms Excel)

• Strong experience in setting up or scaling up multi sectoral relief programmes

• Knowledge of SPHERE, LCP and other programming tools

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• An understanding and experience working with the WV Partnership.

• Strong commitment to WV’s vision, mission and core values

• Mature Christian who models Christian Leadership in dealings with others.

• A responsible steward of resources and assets.

• Understands and values diversity and maximizes diversity to achieve organizational goals.

• Has the right attitude to value, listen to and build on local capacities.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA”s) Accepted