Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) Director-EARO

Position Title:	Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) Director-EARO	Application Deadline Date:	31 Oct 2014
Position Location:	KAREN, NAIROBI	Position Start Date	01 Jan 2015
Region:	Africa\East Africa	Position End Date:	30 Dec 2016
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	Kenya	Program/Office Name:	Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA)
City/Province:	KAREN, NAIROBI	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	18	Recruitment Status:	Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2014AFECKIU-9NRHZ2

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

To provide strategic and operational leadership for the implementation of World Vision’s humanitarian and emergency response in East Africa.
The East Africa Region (EAR) Humanitarian Emergency Affairs (HEA) Director will ensure quality of WV emergency response engagement including appropriate structures, standards, staffing and resources available and policies for emergency preparedness, response, mitigation and transition management are in place and correspond to the standards set by the region and the WV partnership.
In addition, The EAR HEA Director provides strategic leadership around humanitarian operations including: assessment, adoption and implementation of World Vision (WV) engagement with a range of contemporary humanitarian principles or issues such as IHL, conventions, codes of conduct, vulnerable populations, situational and humanitarian analysis, and conflict.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership:

• Position World Visions’ emergency response ministry as a competent and effective humanitarian agency by ensuring that the East Africa Area responds professionally to all Categories of emergencies as defined by World Vision’s criteria for response.
• Support and advise the East Africa Region Senior Director of Operations in the event of Category II and Category III declarations.
• Assist the Regional Vice President (RVP) and National Directors (NDs) in ensuring implementation of Level III and Level II Standards during responses.
• Facilitate the establishment and functioning of emergency preparedness and response strategies on the basis of sub-regional country groupings or under the concept of 'Crisis Country Clusters' if appropriate.
• Assess pending disasters through scenario analysis and design and develop preparedness action plans, utilising in-house capacity that exists through regional Relief Community of Practice Teams.
• Working with National offices, assess, adopt and operationalise WV’s engagement with a range of contemporary humanitarian principles or issues such as IHL, international humanitarian standards, conventions, codes of conduct, vulnerable populations, contextual & humanitarian analysis, conflict issues, at a national level.
• Maximise resources for humanitarian response in the East Africa Region through engagement with government and multilateral donors and public and private donors.
• Lead the process of learning from WV’s humanitarian response in East Africa Region and ensure that the good practice recommendations are incorporated into a partnership wide learning and application model.
• Work closely with other ministry teams for appropriate integration in East Africa Region.
• Working closely with NDs, the Regional Security Adviser and OCS, promote appropriate measures to ensure risks are objectively assessed, mitigated and communicated to staff especially in medium to high risk locations and to properly involve Corporate Security in HEA Executive and Coordination teams and other HEA decision making and review mechanisms.
• Assist the Regional Vice President and National Directors in ensuring that all on-going Cat III and Cat II programs are well managed.
  
  Coordination and Representation:
• At a strategic and policy level, represent WV with Government agencies, UN, INGO and Church bodies, in collaboration with National Offices (if present), dealing with macro and local issues regarding humanitarian principles including advocating on key issues which affect the most vulnerable.
• Coordinate and supervise the East Africa Region HEA team in areas of policy analysis, communications and programming.
• Coordinate human, financial and spiritual resources with WV entities, funding partnership and coordinating agencies when needed by the National Offices.
• Work in coordinated action with existing national office management structures, or where non-existent, regional management structures.
• Upgrade quality and timeliness of communications and marketing support.
• Develop networking and partnership with other humanitarian actors.
  
  Management:
• Lead the East Africa Region HEA team in ensuring that national offices have the knowledge, skills, resources tools and capacity to maximise mitigation, preparedness, response and transition at a community level.
• Assure that National Offices have a functioning NEPRF in place as per the NEPRG policy guidelines.
• Ensure that Regional Rapid Response Team capacity is recruited, built and developed.
• Ensure that regional emergency response and disaster mitigation capacity, and a talent pool of on-site Category II and III project managers are available for immediate response.
• Lead, if necessary on-site, Cat II and III project managers in coordination with National Offices and regional leadership structure.
• Invest in training, capacity building and career development of relief staff.
• Promote and ensure high standards of programmatic quality in such areas as: emergency health and nutrition, child protection, HIV/AIDS, food production, commodity delivery and refugee/IDP support and settlement.
• Facilitate transition strategies so that relief programs are integrated into national offices and regional entities where feasible.
• Ensure that ICRC / NGO Code of Conduct including SPHERE and other humanitarian minimum standards are maintained in responses.
• Facilitate and support NO/GC processes which will ensure smooth transitions between relief and development and development to relief, as well as the development of entry & exit strategies for program interventions.
• Facilitate the use of the appropriate HEA tools in NO/POs for adoption by the NO/POs.
• Ensure that the NOs, National and Community DPPs are updated as frequently as necessary.
• Assist in establishing Early Warning systems and strengthening Early Warning and Early Action Reporting from all National Offices to the regional office leadership and the partnership.
• Participate in, and facilitate lessons learned processes, program evaluations and audits (operational as well as financial) of NO/PO programs, and contribute to post-audit monitoring and remedial activities.
• Ensure that an annual Macro Regional Risk Mapping Exercise is undertaken for each country in the Region, and use its findings to determine HEA capacity and resource requirements for respective countries.
  
  Relief Response:
• Provide short term leadership of Category II or III emergencies while replacement is being found.
• Provide technical and managerial advice during the implementation of Category I, II & III emergency responses relief responses in East Africa.
• Monitor all East Africa HEA projects on a regular basis, noting policy implications, and offering appropriate support to ensure projects are managed according to WVI and international standards.
  
  Strategic Planning:
• Facilitate informed planning and timely decisions by Senior Director of Ops and the RVP for East Africa concerning World Vision’s HEA ministry in the East Africa region.
• Assist National Offices (NO) to intentionally include HEA programming as an integral part of their national strategic and operational plans.
• Lead the creation and coach HEA /ERDM Committees in National and Program offices.
• Support HEA strategic planning and co-ordination among East Africa National Offices (NOs), as well as with Africa Regional & other WV Partnership entities.
• Oversee the formulation of strategies covering more than one country and facilitate co-ordination across international boundaries and National Offices for interventions in regional clusters.
• Work closely with East Africa Region/NO/GC leadership and other relevant WV Partnership entities to develop and implement appropriate advocacy strategies for East Africa.
• Ensure that National Offices are equipped to secure adequate resources (cash, commodity and personnel) for the relevant Category II & III responses.
  
  Capacity Building:
• In preparation for emergencies, work with NOs to build or acquire the required capacity to manage Category I, II and III responses.
• Provide management advice and technical support to HEA staff and HEA/ERDM Committees (on site if necessary) in the design, documentation, approval, implementation, management, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of HEA projects according to partnership and donor standards.
• Encourage NOs to initiate and maintain Community DPPs across the region.
• Enhance HEA capacity through the mentoring and coaching of staff, especially HEA Managers/ Directors.
• Work with NOs to promote understanding and use of Partnership HEA response procedures, standards & structural relationships using HEA tools.
• Work with NO staff to establish understanding of relevant internationally accepted protocols and standards,(such as Sphere standards, ICRC / NGO Code of Conduct, People in Aid Code of Conduct, International Humanitarian Law, Good Enough Guide).
  
  Collective Responsibility:
• Commit to capacity building of communities, ADPs and National Offices to attain long-term sustainability.
• Commitment to implementation of Africa/East Africa Strategic Directions and other key regional strategies.
• Commitment to team building experiences that enrich, stretch and celebrate the regional leadership team.
• Contribute to meetings and collective Africa/East Africa strategy formulation, planning, decision making and speaking with one voice on all matters where agreement has been reached.
• Attend and participate in weekly chapel and devotions
  
  Learning Centre:
• Develop, manage and ensure effective operation of the HEA Learning Centre.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

• Masters-level degree in management or similar
• A Minimum of 10 years in operational humanitarian experience with minimum of five years in a leadership role, preferably in Africa.
• Strong empirical knowledge of the humanitarian sector including humanitarian charters, laws and standards.
• Strong commitment to WV’s vision, mission and core values.
• Strong ability and commitment in critical networking, relationship building, and partnerships, especially those outside of WV itself.
• Understanding of management and integration in a cross functional management matrix model.
• Strong skills in strategy development, prioritisation and implementation.
• Understanding of and comfort with providing leadership in an increasingly globalised organization in an increasingly complex industry environment.
• Proven ability to manage large numbers of staff, efficiently and effectively, whether in a live or virtual environment.
  
  Preferred:
• Demonstrates Christ-centered life and work-High degree of negotiation and persuasion skills.
• Ability to travel internationally as needed.
• Ability to work with a reasonably level of comfort in high tension and high security risk situations.
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardships.
• Strong written and verbal skills in English and with another language such as French or Portuguese.

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