Project Director
Dadaab Humanitarian Information Service (Dadaab, Kenya)
Description
Duration: Twelve (12) months, July 2012 – July 2013
Background:
Working in partnership with Star FM of Nairobi, Kenya, the Dadaab Humanitarian
Information Service (HIS) project aims to address communication gaps between
refugee populations and humanitarian organizations by providing essential
life-saving information that informs, protects, empowers, facilitates dialogue
and affects behavior change in the target audiences of camp residents.Description
Duration: Twelve (12) months, July 2012 – July 2013
Background:
The project will also assist the humanitarian sector to be more effective by enabling communities to better understand aid operations, access relief services and communicate with humanitarian agencies.
The project will help to establish, train, and operate a
community radio station run by Star FM and staffed by youth from the refugees
and host communities that is being built in the camp to respond directly to the
information and communication needs of those residing and working there.
Scope of Work:
The Project Director (PD) will play a vital role in leading and managing the implementation of this 12-month groundbreaking project in the Dadaab camps, overseeing project staff and representing the project to all stakeholders.
Scope of Work:
The Project Director (PD) will play a vital role in leading and managing the implementation of this 12-month groundbreaking project in the Dadaab camps, overseeing project staff and representing the project to all stakeholders.
Specifically, responsibilities will include:
- Providing
general oversight of the Dadaab HIS project. This includes overall
responsibility for the program management, strategic vision, fiscal
integrity, quality and timing of deliverables, and coordination with
partners; • Providing leadership and overall management of other project
staff, including the Youth Radio Trainer (YRT), the Humanitarian Liaison
Officer (HLO), and the Monitoring & Evaluation Manager;
- Support
the YRT on the design, implementation and overseeing of all aspects of a
regular training and mentoring program for local reporters and correspondents
that will be part of the local radio station run by Star FM.
- Ensuring
that all project deliverables are completed according to agreed timelines
and budgets, including regular training and mentoring program for local
reporters and correspondents, regular liaison with humanitarians, and
robust monitoring and evaluation.
- Managing
risk and security during the implementation of the program, including the
development of contingency plans.
- Leading
in liaison with donors and on all fundraising efforts on the ground, in
coordination with HQ.
- Ensuring
the program complies with all bureaucratic requirements, donor
regulations, laws, and donor requirements, including local laws and
requirements for local staff.
- Ensuring
timely reporting of activities to HQ and effective collaboration with
relevant Internews colleagues.
- Producing
regular multimedia materials (i.e. blog posts, photos, podcast…)
documenting the life of the project for external audiences, as required.
- Liaising
with international/local media and promote Internews’ work, as required.
- Any
other duties as required.
Qualifications:
- Fluency
in spoken and written English; knowledge of Swahili or Somali an asset.
- Extensive
project management experience with the ability to deliver results to
agreed timetables and budgets.
- While
this is a PD position, the successful candidate will have extensive track
record in supervising, designing, managing, and implementing training
programs, preferably in broadcast and journalism skills.
- Fluency
in use of digital field recording equipment, basic studio equipment and
software, such as Adobe Audition and/or CoolEdit Pro.
- Proven
ability to develop and monitor work plans, training plans, and procurement
plans.
- Excellent
interpersonal and networking skills to liaise authoritatively with figures
from the local media, local government, humanitarian community, etc.
- Team-building
skills and the ability to manage a diverse staff in a challenging and a
highly fluid environment.
- Proven
experience in donor liaison and fundraising.
- Good
knowledge of the mandates and modalities of the international humanitarian
sector including the UN cluster system and capacity.
- Experience
working in relief operations in challenging environments, preferably in
Sub Saharan Africa.
- Sensitivity
to cross-cultural dynamics in the work place.
- Ability
to adjust to shifting political circumstances and create programming
accordingly.
- An
understanding of the vision/mission, core values and objectives of
Internews.
- Understanding
of and passion for the area of communications with disaster-affected
communities.
- Excellent
communication and reporting skills, both written and oral.
- Psychological
resilience and a sense of humor.
- Relevant
university degree.
More about Internews in Dadaab:
Over twenty years after the first Somali refugees fled the crisis that ousted President Siad Barre, more than 982,000 Somalis are now refugees in neighboring countries and some 1.5 million are internally displaced.
Over twenty years after the first Somali refugees fled the crisis that ousted President Siad Barre, more than 982,000 Somalis are now refugees in neighboring countries and some 1.5 million are internally displaced.
Thousands continue to cross the border to North-Eastern Kenya
into the largest refugee complex in the world, Dadaab. At their inception,
Dadaab camps were intended to house 90,000 refugees; today that figure has
surpassed the 522,000 mark, according to UNHCR.
In August 2011, Internews led a joint assessment of the communication and information needs of refugees in the Dadaab camps that found that serious communication gaps between the humanitarian sector and refugees are increasing refugee suffering and putting lives at risk.
In August 2011, Internews led a joint assessment of the communication and information needs of refugees in the Dadaab camps that found that serious communication gaps between the humanitarian sector and refugees are increasing refugee suffering and putting lives at risk.
Results from the final report, Dadaab, Kenya - Humanitarian
Communications and Information Needs Assessment Among Refugees in the Camps,
show that large numbers of displaced Somalis did not have the information they
required to access basic aid or voice their concerns or ask questions to aid
providers or the government.
Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.
Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.
How to apply:
Closing Date: 8th
June 2012
Please visit Internews' website to apply:
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