Chief of Party for Consortium Project Coordination – Humanity & Inclusion (brand name of Handicap International)

Development and Project Management, Management, Strategic Planning

Humanity & Inclusion (brand name of Handicap International)

Co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, Humanity & Inclusion (new brand name of Handicap International) is an independent and impartial organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. 

We work 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.

With local partners, we run programs in health and rehabilitation and social and economic integration. We work with local authorities to clear landmines and other war debris and to prevent mine-related accidents through education. We respond quickly and effectively to natural and civil disasters in order to limit serious and permanent injuries and to assist survivors' recovery and reintegration. We advocate for the universal recognition of the rights of the disabled through national planning and advocacy.

HI is the world's most comprehensive mine action charity. The heart of this action is victim assistance—this was our beginning in 1982—but teams also prevent injuries through weapons and landmine clearance, risk education activities, stockpile management, and advocacy to ban landmines and cluster bombs.

OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION:

 The Chief of Party will be responsible to coordinate a consortium with IMC and MTI to implement a project funded by ECHO for 13 Months in Tigray and Amhara – regions affected by the conflict with access, security and implementation challenges. He/she will ensure good coordination, quality implementation and link with donor, partners and coordination mechanisms. Project visits in the field (in Tigray) will most probably not be possible. The project is an integrated emergency life-saving response for conflict affected IDPs and host communities in Tigray and Amhara region of Ethiopia with activities implemented directly by HI in Tigray Region (physical and functional rehabilitation, MHPSS) as well as by implementing partners (IMC and MTI) in Tigray and Amhara regions (primary and secondary health care, nutrition, WASH, Protection). It is a 13 months project, ending end of January 2023. However, considering the current situation and implementation constraints as well as the huge and urgent needs in the areas of intervention, it is plan to extend the project with ECHO financial support.

 Reporting to the Program Director, the Chief of Party ensure the coordination and management of the ECHO funded project. As lead of a consortium with IMC and MTI, the CoP ensure good coordination, management practices, quality implementation at HI and partner’s levels to achieve set objectives.

He/she is in charge of implementing the consortium project under his responsibility. He/she ensures optimal quality and impact of the project, through a delegation system with appropriate control mechanisms. He/she shares with all HI managers the responsibility of a sound management and successful functioning of the global organization.

He/she is the focal point person for the consortium and as such coordinates with donor, partners and coordination mechanisms.

The CoP will be the lead in developping new interventions with the consortium to extend current programming, in strong coordination with the steering committee.

 MAIN TASKS

Mission 1: Management

Responsibility 1: Be the manager (direct report) of the project team

·        Foster a team spirit and team functioning guaranteeing synergies and exchange of good practices between the project staff.

·        Recruit and contribute to the professional development, autonomy and well-being at work of the project staff: set formalized individual objectives, ensure coherence between HI’s needs and competencies and motivation of his/her teams, develop and monitor competence development plan, evaluate individual performance, contribute to career evolution.

·        Acknowledge individual and collective efforts and performance.

·        Embody and transmit HI values, ensure compliance with code of conduct and institutional policies, ensure the expected mind set and individual and collective behaviors, and disciplinary measures when necessary.

 Responsibility 2: Contribute to steering organization transformation, in particular through managerial and work practice change and continuous improvement of working processes

 Mission 2 : Standards et expertise

·        Ensures deployment and compliance with HI’s global frameworks, institutional policies and standards. This includes but not limited to: mandatory frames of reference (such as HI’s mission and values or HI’s Theory of Change: access to services), all HI institutional policies (Security/Code of Conduct and Protection/Anti-Fraud and Corruption/PME and Project Quality Framework/Age-Gender-Disability), all institutional guidelines and processes; delegation thresholds; security levels…

 Mission 3: Operational management

Responsibility 1: Ensures the proper implementation of the project, in collaboration with the consortium member organizations, relevant services and in line with general standards and procedures

·        Ensures the proper planning, implementation and reporting of the project, in accordance with the logical framework and the allocated budget

·        In liaison with the MEAL Unit, ensures that HI’s quality standards (including technical ones) are applied in the project and follows up the implementation of recommendations resulting from evaluations, support missions and audits.

·        Ensures compliance with the donor’s rules and respect of contractual commitments: consolidation, control and reporting to his/her line manager of operational and organizational elements (management charts, corrective measures, consumption of own funds, beneficiaries’ data, etc.)

·        With the support of the MEAL Unit, deploys and implements all appropriate tools to enable project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning in compliance with HI policies and frameworks

·        Facilitates internal audits (operational, financial and organizational) and ensures the implementation of their recommendations in his/her area of responsibility.

 Responsibility 2: Ensures data management of the project

·        Ensures that the appropriate data collection and management tools are in place on the project, in line with global standards

·        Ensures that data related to the project is collected and compiled in the project database

·        Carries out regular verifications and makes any necessary corrections in the activity database

 Responsibility 3 : Coordination & partnership management

·        Responsible for setting up and implementing the governance schemes for his/her project (ARCI and coordination mechanisms / tools)

·        Facilitates internal coordination between his/her team and all relevant services (Operations Managers, Shared Services, Technical and MEAL Teams…)

·        Ensure external coordination with all relevant partners of the project/members of the consortium including donors and facilitate effective communication mechanisms; including exchange of good practices between the project staff as well as the consortium member organizations

·        Ensures the overall management of partnerships / consortium partners and related contractual documents (partnership agreements, MoU, amendments, reports…)

 Mission 4: Influence, communication and advocacy

Responsibility 1: Develops HI’s external influence (forums, operational & strategic alliances, etc.) and the organization’s external representation (events, media) in its area of responsibility.

·        Can represent HI vis-à-vis local, national, traditional, political, military and diplomatic authorities and bodies; and international organizations and coordination mechanisms & system.

·        Relay messages of HI global advocacy to all relevant external parties.

·        Contributes to HI’s external influence by participating in relevant networks 

·        Communicates on the project to partners, authorities and stakeholders when relevant

 Mission 5: Emergency Preparedness and Response Responsibilities

Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response

AS per HI’s Salary scale and attractive Based on the experience

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