Humanitarian Programme Manager, Africa

Department: Global Impact, Inclusive Humanitarian Action team

Contract: Full-time, fixed term contract for 12 months

Grade: UK Grade E

Location: Candidates from Kenya/Uganda/Ethiopia/Tanzania

HelpAge and Strategy 2030 – delivering real impact for older people

HelpAge International works with partners and a diverse global network of more than 171 organizations across 90 countries, supporting millions of older people to live safe, dignified, and healthy lives. Through our partnership and collaborations, we work to ensure the inclusion of older people across society and strive to deliver a just and fair world for everyone, whatever their age. Our work is driven by our desire to deliver real impact for older people, to be inclusive, to work in partnership and to learn from our shared experience.

Key areas for impact/influence and responsibilities

These outline the broad areas of responsibility in the role, but in collaboration with your humanitarian colleagues you will be able to shape and design specific activities that are relevant at any point in time. We want you to work creatively to deliver impact and respond to relevant opportunities.

As Humanitarian Programme Manager you will be required to provide support to a group of countries in a specific region (Africa) but also be flexible to support humanitarian work in different regions, when needed.

You will:

• Provide support to humanitarian responses, through remote backstopping, and where required, short-term travel.
• Oversee the programme management of humanitarian partner-led programmes in a specific region (Africa)
• Identify and develop new funding opportunities and project partnerships to build a humanitarian portfolio of work and increase the impact for older people in emergencies.
• Work closely with HelpAge’s Supporting Members (UK, US, Germany, Canada) to provide information needed on the humanitarian portfolio for developing new relationships and funding proposals with new and non-traditional donors.
• Provide technical advice and support to Portfolio Leads and Advisers in the development of new humanitarian project proposals including needs assessments, concept notes, project proposals and budgeting.
• Strengthen the capacity of HelpAge staff, partners, and network members through training (including coaching and mentoring) and support on humanitarian programme development and other aspects of the project cycle.
• Monitor the quality of humanitarian programmes, supporting partners, making recommendations for change that is needed to improve the impact on the lives of older people.
• With the other Humanitarian Portfolio Manager focusing on countries in Africa, support Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for the humanitarian portfolio, tracking progress, sharing and utilising related information, data, learning and evidence across the organisation and the network.
• Strengthen relationships with network members and partners engaged in the humanitarian portfolio, understanding their areas of expertise, and convening regularly to share learning and develop ideas.
• Manage the humanitarian partners within your allocated region, with the support of business partner service team and advisers.

Let’s talk about you

You will be someone with:

• Extensive humanitarian experience, including working with a range of humanitarian donors such as ECHO, BHA, FCDO, GFFO, GAC, START, SIDA & DEC.
• Substantial experience in all aspects of Project Cycle Management with particular focus on proposal development, needs assessments, M&E and Knowledge management.
• Track record in successful humanitarian project development with partners and securing funds to support partner led programming in low and middle-income countries.
• An ability to have a good understanding of the other key portfolio areas for HelpAge (healthy ageing, income security, society for all ages), and in-depth knowledge and experience of one of the focus areas is desirable.
• Experience of development and use of humanitarian MEAL systems and approaches, at project level, across development, humanitarian, and advocacy context.
• Demonstrable experience in leadership and programme management with geographically dispersed teams and in challenging humanitarian contexts
• An ability to represent HelpAge with traditional and non-traditional partners, donors and networks.
• Experienced in building and supporting national staff and partner capacity.
• An ability to travel, occasionally at short notice.
• Fluency in English is essential; other languages are highly desirable: French, Kiswahili, Arabic.

At HelpAge International, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be change makers and leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our values, challenging themselves every day to identify issues that are most important to older persons and their communities, and to make an impact that matters.

Our Values

At HelpAge International we work hard to achieve our goals together as a team with a clear shared purpose. Our values inform how we work together:

Inclusive

We respect people, value diversity and are committed to equality.

Impact

We value and recognise the contribution of our staff and network members, as we put older people at the center of everything we do.

Partners

We work alongside network members and others to increase reach, influence and impact. We are committed to a culture of collaboration and building positive relationships.

Learning

We are passionate about learning, accountable and work together to find creative solutions.

Everyone who works at HelpAge share our values and are committed to behaviors that demonstrate and support them.

Safeguarding

Everyone has a role in creating and sustaining a safe and respectful working environment, where no one comes to any harm or is maltreated. At HelpAge we take our responsibilities very seriously and will take action against wrongdoing. We will do everything we can to ensure that we do not engage people that pose a safeguarding risk and will undertake criminal record checks as required.

Equal Opportunities

HelpAge International is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, promoting and providing equal opportunities and respecting diversity in employment. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.