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Director Humanitarian Programs at Mercy Corps

Posted on Mon 13th Oct, 2014 - hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)


Mercy Corps has been present in Nigeria since 2012, focusing its interventions on women’s empowerment, economic development and conflict mitigation. With the insurgency spilling over from the north east of Nigeria and causing displacement of thousands of individuals, Mercy Corps has decided to address the rising humanitarian needs among displaced households and vulnerable host communities by starting its humanitarian program. With current funding from OFDA and possible funding from other donors, the program is currently concentrating on meeting essential non-food item needs, assisting families to recover their livelihoods and ensuring food security. All Mercy Corps interventions in Nigeria are implemented in a conflict and gender sensitive manner. Depending on the scale of needs, the response may scale up. Mercy Corps has secured funding for this position until October 2015, but expansion plans are in place and it is intended that the position will be funded beyond this date.

Mercy Corps is recruiting to fill the vacant position of:

Job Title: Director Humanitarian Programs - Nigeria


Tracking Code: 219348-927
Location: Abuja, Abuja Capital Territory, Nigeria

General Position Summary:

The Director of Humanitarian Programs is a member of the country senior management team and will be responsible for developing and implementing Mercy Corps Nigeria’s humanitarian response strategy. This involves coordinating and implementing the delivery of humanitarian response programming that might include livelihoods, cash, food, non-food items and wash interventions for families affected by conflict or unrest from both host and displaced communities. The position includes overall leadership of humanitarian program. management of daily program activities and staff, ensuring appropriate systems and support mechanisms are in place to track, analyze and report on results as well as engagement with senior management on the strategic direction of the overall emergency and recovery program. The post holder will represent Mercy Corps on various humanitarian coordination platforms in Nigeria. He/she will be responsible to grow and strengthen our humanitarian and transitional programming.

Essential Job Functions:
Strategy and Vision
  • Recognize opportunities for innovative action and create an environment of empowerment, inclusion and participation
  • Set direction by prioritizing and organizing actions and resources to achieve objectives and contribute to country-wide strategy development
  • Bring innovation into program implementation, ensuring diversity of modalities and promoting market-based approaches and use of technology, wherever local and security conditions () permit
  • Support senior management in developing the strategic direction of the overall humanitarian response in Nigeria
  • Contribute to proposal development to expand the programme and respond to increasing needs
  • Integrate conflict and gender programming into the humanitarian response.
Program Management
  • Oversee program start-up and ongoing program management and administration of teams across various field locations
  • Ensure that program implementation is responsive to communities, authorities and partners and consistent with Mercy Corps’ relevant program guidelines, principles, values, quality standards and strategic plan
  • Ensure that beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to established vulnerability criteria
  • Develop and oversee program implementation strategies, including partnership frameworks, beneficiary targeting, distribution processes and capacity building of partners as needed
  • Initiate needs assessments, surveys and other data gathering tools to ensure that Mercy Corps has continued access to updated information and is able to address emerging needs in timely manner
  • Integrate community approaches, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate
  • Ensure program implementation is on time, target and budget, using effective M&E systems to achieve the desired impact
  • Create and maintain systems ensuring effective and transparent use of financial resources and timely, accurate and informative reporting in line with donor and Mercy Corps policies and procedures
  • Fulfill Mercy Corps Program Management Minimum Standards based on the organization-wide guide.
Team Management
  • Lead the program team in implementation of the humanitarian program.
  • Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect in which team members strive to achieve excellence
  • Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews
  • Hire, orient and supervise new team members as necessary
  • Provide team members with information, tools and other resources to improve performance and reach objectives
  • Contribute to country team-building efforts, help team members identify problem solving options and ensure the integration of all team members into relevant decision-making processes.
Representation & Fundraising
  • Identify, build and manage collaborative partnerships with consortium partners, sub-grantees, donors, local governments and other stakeholders
  • Communicate effectively to ensure overall project targets and donor obligations are met
  • Represent Mercy Corps programs with national and international media and participate in community activities as appropriate
  • Fundraise to address ongoing needs of IDPs.
Finance and Compliance Management
  • Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations related to humanitarian programming
  • Build and/or maintain operational systems that ensure proper administrative support for programs
  • Draft and/or review scopes of work to hire and manage technical consultants, including review for technical capacities and contract budget
  • Manage humanitarian program budget(s)
Security
  • Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership
  • Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.
Personal Leadership
  • Consistently demonstrate flexibility, resilience and ability to maintain positive relationships and composure, even under difficult circumstances
  • Maintain high ethical standards and treat people with respect and dignity
  • Demonstrate an awareness of his/her own strengths and development needs
Accountability: Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Organizational Learning:
As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Supervisory Responsibility:
Humanitarian program team (field)

Accountability
Reports Directly To:
Country Director
Works Directly With: Operations, Finance, Program Managers, TSU team members, and others.

Knowledge and Experience Required:
  • MA or equivalent in relevant field
  • 7-10 years of field experience in international relief and/or development programs, including demonstrable success in managing humanitarian programs in transitional environments; previous working experience in Africa highly desirable
  • 5 years of senior-level leadership, capacity building and field management experience.
  • Demonstrated success working effectively and respectfully with host country governments, private sector, INGO, NGO partners and other stakeholders in complex environments
  • Proven skills in finance and grants management; prior experience with emergency response grant management for both private and institutional donors desired
  • Knowledge of SPHERE and other humanitarian programming standards
  • Successful and proven negotiation, communication and organization skills
  • Excellent oral and written English skills
  • Ability to work effectively with an ethnically diverse team in a sensitive environment.
Success Factors:
The successful candidate will skillfully represent programmatic priorities of the agency to donors and regional partners while providing effective leadership to the Mercy Corps humanitarian program team. S/he will be capable of multi-tasking, rapid decision-making, have initiative, drive and a lot of energy, as well as high emotional intelligence, constructive mentoring skills and proven experience with capacity building. S/he will be committed to long-term program sustainability and the delivery of high-impact activities at the community level. Successful Mercy Corps team members have a strong commitment to teamwork and accountability, thrive in evolving and challenging environments, and make effective written and verbal communication a priority.

Living Conditions:

The position is based in Abuja, Nigeria. The location is accompanied (family) but with some level of insecurity. Housing is in individual accommodation with freedom of movement beyond the house/office. Recreational facilities are limited. Staff have full access to medical services, internet, electricity and water. This position requires extensive travel to Gombe and other IDP hosting states approximately 40% of the time.

Mercy Corps Team members represent the agency both during and outside of work hours when deployed in a field posting. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and Mercy Corps policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all locations.

Application Closing Date
Not Stated

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

  

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