Human Appeal
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About Human Appeal
Human Appeal (HA) is a British humanitarian, non-governmental and non-profit organisation that works in 25 countries around the world since 1991. Human Appeal has been operating in Iraq since 2016. Human Appeal currently has almost 400 staff across numerous locations in Iraq, including Erbil, Dohuk, Ninewa, Salah al Din, Kirkuk and Baghdad. Human Appeal Iraq’s country office is in Erbil with sub-offices in Mosul, Tikrit, Baghdad and Aana. Human Appeal has and is delivering over $50 million in humanitarian and early-recovery assistance in 2017-18. Human Appeal is working in a number of thematic sectors: primarily in protection; shelter and non-food items; food security and livelihoods; WASH; and education. Human Appeal’s main donors include UNHCR, UNOCHA, WFP and numerous other international institutional partners.
Main Job Purpose
Manage and oversee the coordination and administration of all aspects related to ongoing programs activities, including planning, organizing, staff leading and controlling programmes activities. For the successful delivery of the whole programme, proposed changes, projects and management of their inter-dependencies.
Some of the essential Job Responsibilities
Program Management
• Establish and maintain systems for programmes operations in accordance with HA policies and procedures to lead the implementation of the International programmes strategy in line with Human Appeal’s vision, mission and core values.
• Represent and safeguard the image, reputation and interests of HA at office, field and community perspective. Attend Cluster meetings and other important forums via engagement with UN, NGOs, CBOs and government line ministries on developing and ensuring adherence to minimum humanitarian standards in the implementation of projects;
• Develop and implement long-term goals and objectives to achieve the successful outcome of the programmes.
• Contribute and lead programmes development efforts by identifying opportunities and working with programmes Team to draft proposals to respond to those opportunities, as well as the delivery of programmes, ensuring programme effectiveness through Head office, Sub-offices and partner teams.
• Plan, Design and implement staff capacity development and relevant trainings to provide guidance to programmes staff on all issues related to programmes implementation.
• Implement Day-to-day and on the ground management of the emergency project team.
• Institutional funding program management – drive office towards self-sustainability through maintaining funding partnerships and supporting new funding pipelines
• Networking and building relationships: with key influencers, donors and leverage new opportunities for the benefit of the office.
Reporting
• Report the progress of the programme(s) at regular intervals through Concept Notes, Proposals, Project interim and completion reports, and project related presentations to the Country Director to monitor programme implementation process.
• Support program staff to generate high quality donor reports and ensure their submission in a timely manner.
• Oversee the preparation and submission of technical and programmes reports as per the grants agreement.
Resource mobilisation
• Develop an annual program budget and operating plan to support the programmes, coordination closely with all other key departments including Finance, HR, logistic for development and execution of Core Competencies (Food Security & Livelihoods, Health, WASH, Protection) strategies.
• Ensure there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme individual projects to maintain the dependencies and the interfaces between projects
• Provide cohesive humanitarian planning for office, ensuring that priorities and opportunities identified are in line with strategic plan and goals.
• Prepare the Employment Plan, Yearly – quarterly to programmes department according to grants and manage third party contributions to the programmes.
Financial management
• Financial oversight of the projects under his/her supervision. Responsible for ensuring financial management controls are effectively practiced through all programme levels to ensure value for money of budgets.
• Manage grant by identifying funding opportunities, developing competitive, responsive proposals that meet internal standards, and dealing with donors’ complaints to build, monitor and manage the quality of the open contracting grant portfolio.
• Maintain effective communication and relation with donors and other stakeholders in consultation with the country director to explore current and potential funding opportunities.
• Manage all projects funds according to established accounting policies and procedures as per HA regulations and donor compliance.
• In collaboration with the head of mission and Finance Manager maintain of all programmes financial activities and monitor the budget for each program to ensure effective management of agency and donor property.
• Monitor budgeted vs actual expenditure (BvA) as provided by Finance whilst mitigating any budget variances
• Mitigate and reduce financial risks to the operational delivery of regional Office’s objectives.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
• In coordination and collaboration with the M&E Department, develop a programmes evaluation system to assess the strengths of each program and to identify and implement action plans for areas that need improvement to ensure MEAL processes and framework are in place.
• Identify and evaluate the risks associated withProgrammes projects and take actions to control risks.
• In cooperation with programmes staff, oversee the implementation of a monitoring and evaluation plan for all the projects, in line with the donor guidelines, and ensure that activity, impact and output data is captured in an accurate and efficient manner, and that programs are continually tailored to optimize quality and impact levels.
• Follow up M&E reports, recommend and implement changes to enhance the programmes, as appropriate
• Ensure full accountability to both donors and beneficiaries and be responsible for continuously improving transparency and value for money and programmatic impact.
• Support the NB – Employee duties are not limited only to the above-mentioned accountabilities; he/she may perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Experience and Technical Competencies
• Bsc degree ideally in Project Management. Master degree or equivalent preferred.
• Project Management training or project cycle management desirable.
• Minimum of 5 years of INGO senior programmes experience with at least 3 years of successful project management experience in the humanitarian field.
• Experience using MS Office Suite ,Office 365, Outlook and basic systems
• English language is mandatory and Arabic and Kurdish is strongly desirable.
• Experience working with INGOSs in Iraq and knowledge of basic regulatory guidelines/laws.
Work Environment
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- Indoors : 75%
- Outdoors : 25%
- Working Days : 5 Working Days
- Working Hours : 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
How to Apply
Interested applicants must send their most recent CV to:
https://humanappeal.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=7ed5785d-77b4-474c-883d-ea0e884fe979
Reviewing the application CVs will be on a daily basis, therefore HA reserves the right to do the interviews for the position before the closing date of the job advertisement, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.