EORE Headquarter Specialist (M/F)

Context :

Handicap International (HI) Armed violence reduction Technical Division is looking for a dynamic, creative and bilingual (French and English) Explosive Ordnance Risk Education specialist to build and grow HI’s technical support to Humanitarian Mine action and armed violence reduction projects worldwide
HI deploys EORE activities in 26 countries worldwide. 2 HQ EORE Specialists are supporting field teams in providing the most contextualized, qualitative and transformative EORE responses possible.
Under the responsibility of the armed violence reduction (AVR) Technical Director, the Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (RE) Specialist is an expert who ensures strategic technical guidance, support and control in his/her scope of expertise. He/she provides standards and methodologies, provides advices, on the job training, and remote mentoring. Ensure and control application of technical quality framework to guarantee optimal outcomes and impact of projects. He/ she promotes innovation, research and professional development. He/she contributes within the AVR division to the implementation of the mandate and the 10-year strategy of Humanity & Inclusion. He/she ensures that synergies within the sector and outside are identified and fostered. The EORE Specialist will also work on supporting Small Arms Light Weapons Risk Education jointly with the HI HQ Conflict Transformation specialist.

Description :

Expert
• 1 Set framework and standards for RE, including EORE, SALW if relevant, Conflict Preparedness and Protection, and any other linked and relevant subject. (NORMS)
– Ensure sectorial watch, harnessing and appropriation of norms and international standards internally
– Write and deploy the framework documentation containing HI’s norms and standards (including Nexus); and ensure dissemination
– Guarantee complementarity of standards and norms between HI sectors

• 2 Provide strategic technical guidance (OPERATIONAL SUPPORT)
– Provide strategic technical guidance to HI’s country programs across the globe;
– Provides technical inputs, review and validate technical strategies for country programs and at Headquarter’s level.
– Ensure strategic and technical support to projects when gap of expertise within programs
– Report and alert to the technical director about the proper implementation of technical strategies
– Promote and ensure transition between emergency response and development programs
– Promote and ensure complementarity of sectors and mainstream in their sector HI’s crosscutting approaches.

• 3 Ensure the control of the technical quality and the relevance of HI’s Risk Education (OPERATIONAL SUPPORT)
– Conduct/support evaluation or audits on overall quality of projects
– Monitor the implementation of audit recommendations, if applicable, in their sectorial scope

• 4 Contribute to the improvement of technical know-how through the development of lessons learnt, research and innovation projects under their scope when relevant (in close link with 3I Division) (NORMS)
– Identify strategic learning questions
– Ensure technical learning from projects by using lessons learned and best practices (review of capitalization and assessments)
– Support the emergence of innovative ideas
– Identify the priorities of Research and Studies and steer R&S
– Pilot directly or support (if in Programs) the implementation of Innovation & Research projects
• 5 Facilitate the professionalisation of the Technical Division (PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT)
– Ensure the animation of a talent pool and of a community of practice
– Describe job profile standards and a standard skill matrix for each professional channel
– Carry out technical interviews of candidates and produce recommendations/guidelines
– Ensure a mapping of technical skills of his talent pool and set priorities in terms of capacity building
– Contribute to the evaluation of field technical specialists
– Identify the needs regarding training, write content for training and give trainings

Influence
• 1. Contribute to the international prestige and influence of HI’s expertise in his sectorial scope (in close collaboration with the Policy Lead and Business Development Manager)
– Support and/or ,when required, represent the technical expertise of HI throughout relevant networks, so as to participate to the exchange of best practices, understands trends and influence major networks on practices and stakes of the sector
– Support the identification & the development of partnerships and/or consortium with NGOs, Institutions, corporate on technical priorities or important topics his sectorial scope
– Contribute to advocacy on specific themes in line with the global advocacy priorities
– Contribute to communication messages in line with the global communication priorities and contribute to scientific publications

Business development

• 1. Contribute to the development of major opportunities or new projects under his sectorial scope, in line with the Technical Director, the Business Development Manager and when relevant, the Institutional Funding team
– Contributes to the context analysis in his sectorial scope (benchmark of stakeholders) and to the value proposition
– If gap of resources and in support to the business development officer, contributes to the design and writing of new projects
– Contribute to the identification of new donors & the transformation of major opportunities under his scope
– Support or directly develop offers & proposals for technical assistance & capacity development for specific identified partners

You work on a day-to-day basis with a large range of actors within the HI structure, including:
– Armed Violence Reduction technical unit;
– HQs Operation staff;
– Advocacy, communication and institutional fundraising teams;
– Programme teams, remotely and during direct programme support missions;
– The global EORE sector.

Specificities/Particularities : This position could be localised in Lyon or Bruxelles (The location should not be an obstacle, thank you for sharing your needs)

Profil :

– University Degree, preferably Master’s Conflict/Security issues, International Development, International Relations or other relevant subject.

– Significant expertise and experience in all areas linked to the project cycle: project design, proposal writing, budget development, project start-up and implementation, managing stakeholder relationships etc.
– Significant experience in designing strategy and forging partnerships in a broad range of contexts
– Work experience within the humanitarian/development sector including field experience in fragile / conflict-affected countries, including at least 5 years of experience in Humanitarian Mine Action / Armed Violence Reduction and related disciplines
– Work experience in emergency, transition, chronic crisis and development settings in Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) required

– Ability to design projects and write successful proposals for a broad range of institutional donors requiring technical and operational detail
– Ability to co-ordinate and work with multi-disciplinary teams as well as a variety of people and organizations
– Established leadership skills

– You are fluent in English and ideally also in French
– Ability to speak and write in other languages (Arabic, Spanish) at an advanced level is an advantage

High degree of computer literacy
Experience using or ability to quickly learn Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel and PowerPoint necessary.

Salary: According experience and background