Director, Grants & Humanitarian Emergency Operations
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Your opportunity to play a role in directing operations in
Grants and Humanitarian Emergencies and to be part of a leading organisation
dedicated to improving the lives of children living in poverty.
The Grants and Humanitarian Emergency Operations Director will
provide leadership to a team of professionals that oversee operations for a
large and varied portfolio of government, multilateral and private grants, both
development- and emergency- focused.
You will ensure the strong management of grants, donor relations
and high quality deliverables.
You will be responsible for tracking progress of grants
programs/projects implementation, ensuring that timely and appropriate support
is provided to field operations and that the strong technical and financial
reporting requirements/standards of donors are met.
We are looking for a visionary leader who can combine strong
business disciplines with inspirational leadership skills in line with our
Christian values and ethos.
You will have a passionate desire to help others, especially
children.
Responsibilities Include:
Responsibilities Include:
- Provide
strategic and operational leadership for implementation of WV Ethiopia’s
(WVE’s) extensive and complex grants program across the country.
- Manage
a geographically and functionally varied team of grant management
professionals on a day-to-day basis to ensure high-level grant targets are
met on a timely and cost-effective basis, to donor, international and WV
standards.
- Provide
strategic and operational leadership for the development and
implementation of WV Ethiopia’s (WVE’s) humanitarian and emergency
response programs in and out of WVE operational areas, including rapid
response, recovery, mitigation, preparedness and resilience, all to WV
partnership, Sphere, Red Cross Code of Conduct, and other international
standards.
- Ensure
that communities, FBOs, local institutions, government partners, and other
NGOs are included during the planning processes to ensure programs are
responsive to the particular field context
- Network
closely with partner agencies, the UN, government and other global institutions
to develop strong operational synergy, encourage innovative partnership
and cooperation, and ensure maximum impact for the resources invested.
- Improve
business practices in grant management through innovative approaches to
building the capacity of both staff and the organization, looking at
skills, practices, structure, systems, policies, strategy and approaches.
- Contribute
to the strategic leadership of WVE as a member of the Senior Leadership
Team
Required Skills Include:
- At
least 10 years of experience in the development and humanitarian sectors
in increasingly more complex and senior management positions.
- At
least 5 years experience managing multi-sectoral development or
humanitarian operations
- Successful
and verifiable qualification in managing institutional donor grants both
in development and emergency contexts.
- Excellent
planning and organization skills
- The
ability to manage and work with a high level of complexity under constant
time-pressure
- A
high level of awareness of global, regional socio-economic and political
issues.
- Strong
empirical knowledge of the development sector, including generalist
knowledge of development sectors, best practice approaches, and
institutional donor expectations and standards.
- Strong
empirical knowledge of the humanitarian sector including humanitarian
charter, laws, standards, and coordination and response processes.
- Robust,
flexible and dynamic people leadership and relational skills.
Travel: 30% Domestic/international travel is required.
Will you use your experience in a proven emergency or grants operations field to further “life in all its fullness” for children?
For specific details regarding the position, please refer to the full description and apply online by the closing date 15 April 2013.
Will you use your experience in a proven emergency or grants operations field to further “life in all its fullness” for children?
For specific details regarding the position, please refer to the full description and apply online by the closing date 15 April 2013.
For more information on World Vision International, please visit
our website: www.wvi.org.
World Vision is an equal opportunity employer.