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Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership and Planning in humanitarian response program design, strategy development and coordination.
- Program Design: Lead the development of response strategies and programs that align with the organization’s mission and core humanitarian principles. This includes setting operational objectives, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Lead CAT III National humanitarian response ensuring effective scale up and delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected vulnerable people as required
- Response Strategy: Design and implement rapid, scalable responses to crises, including natural disasters, conflicts, epidemics, and other emergencies. This often involves balancing immediate needs with long-term recovery and resilience-building efforts.
- Coordination with HEA Director, Ops directors and other departments of the organization to set organizational priorities and allocate resources effectively.
All response project implemented to agreed organization response standard and donor’s requirement.
All projects targeting the most vulnerable
Timely and quality reports submitted
Business plan for projects developed
Advocacy integrated in DM
DM Input in Child wellbeing report.
Disaster Response And Management Strategy in place and implemented
Assure functional EMS
Leadership on Humanitarian preparedness and response
- Ensure rapid response to the needs of children and their families in times of crisis.
- Lead the development of the country programme Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Strategy and Contingency Plans and liaise closely with the East Africa Region HEA and SOs.
- Make clear recommendations based on the Ethiopia’s Response Strategy re: proposed programme content, staffing, management and administration arrangements and budget with clear indications of funding and technical support resources
- To ensure a funding strategy is in place to resource the delivery of the humanitarian response strategy
- Continually monitor the situation of the affected population and ensure revisions to humanitarian response strategy where necessary
- Develop, ensure training and activate National disaster management team and EMS team.
- Ensure rapid humanitarian multi-sectoral integrated assessments are undertaken as necessary to continue to inform the implementation of the humanitarian response strategy
- Ensure that HEA director, SLT and Regional Humanitarian Director are well informed on issues related to humanitarian response and humanitarian risk management.
- Proactive response mechanises
- Active preposition
- Activation of NDMT, EMS
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning, Reporting and innovation
Ensure quality preparation of response program reports/documents for dissemination to various stakeholders.
Ensure monitoring and evaluation of all DM projects.
Ensure that findings and recommendations from various accountability mechanisms such as Peer Review, Operational and Finance Audits, Programme evaluations, Programme Capability Review, Monitoring/Evaluation reports, Complaints & Response Mechanism reports are acted upon in a timely and effective manner.
Create an environment for innovations that will lead to operational efficiencies
Facilitate knowledge sharing and collaborative learning through internal avenues such as community of practice
Quality program documents developed and shared with Stakeholders
Monitoring and Evaluations done and reported
Demonstrated learning and reflection meetings and actions
Number of innovations shared and adopted
Knowledge sharing/collaborative learning with other WV entities demonstrated
Robust risk management accountability mechanism is in place.
Timely implementation of all audit issues emanating from field operations audits
Internal and External Engagement: represent WVE internally and externally for emergency response related matters, and that is effectively communicating at all level.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with other departments within the National office.
Actively participate in the department leadership team, supporting the development and delivery of the strategy
Collaborate with and support other senior leaders in the organization.
Develop and maintain relationships with the host government, donor agencies, UN agencies and other NGOs to influence these bodies and promote WV’s lead contribution in the humanitarian field.
Ensure that advocacy is integrated in the Disaster Management projects and programs
Well maintained relationships with support offices and other donors
World Vision Ethiopia is well positioned with National Government and other NGOs
World Vision representation in Key Cluster/ Sector Groups in the country
Good coordination and implementation of Partnership initiatives and requests.
Programme and People Management (Operational excellence in Emergency Response people and programme management).
- Lead and ensure the implementation of Disaster Management activities as per partnership agreement for declared Responses / National office
- Assure standards of excellence in the management of human, financial, capital, and technical resources of the Portfolio.
- Regularly monitor KPIs and other performance metrics to ensure the team continuously contributes to achieving strategy objectives.
- Meet all reporting and other requirements of the National office including Situation Reports (SitReps).; and review and approve all the project and program reports prepared.
- Ensure adequate monitoring, reporting and execution of emergency response activities in accordance with WV’s humanitarian accountability framework, SPHERE standards, and other essential standards.
- Ensure that different sectoral activities are implemented in a coordinated and integrated manner.
- Ensure all personnel understand and carry out their duties in accordance with humanitarian principles, core values, the Code of Conduct, Core Humanitarian Standards and SPHERE.
- Contributed for the documentation and sharing of the disaster preparedness processes and learning and share across the organization to enhance learning.
- Provide leadership in the implementation of all projects and programs under Disaster Management
- In close collaboration with People and Culture (P&C), ensure right staff are timely recruited, retained, and provided with intentional opportunities, mentoring and coaching for development.
- In collaboration with Supply Chain department, ensure timely procurement of response commodities
- Ensure that the Program staff based in remote locations receive care and support.
- Ensure development and Implementation of Disaster Response and Management Strategy
- Regular one on one meetings with direct reports
Projects targeting the most vulnerable
Timely and quality reports submitted
Business plan for projects developed
Advocacy integrated in DM
DM Input in Child wellbeing report.
Disaster Response and Management Strategy in place and implemented
Ensure that security, legal, safeguarding, other key risks and resources are well managed with good stewardship across the response.
Others
Perform any other duty as may be assigned by supervisor or designee from time to time which may include but not limited to:
Participate and contribute in teams,
Active participation in committees and task forces appointed to including Senior Management Team, National Disaster Management Committee, Risk Committee, National Resource Development Team among others
- Working with HO risk management/compliance team
- Build risk aware, well oriented and risk sensitive response staff
Required Professional Experience
Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification
Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement
Work environment: Office-based with 20% travel to the field
Language Requirements: English
World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries, and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.
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Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only