Southern African Region (SAR) Humanitarian Emergency Affairs Director

Position Title:	Southern African Region (SAR) Humanitarian Emergency Affairs Director	Application Deadline Date:	05 Jun 2015
Position Location:	South Africa	Position Start Date	01 Jul 2015
Region:	Africa\Southern Africa	Position End Date:	30 Jun 2018
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	South Africa	Program/Office Name:	Southern Africa Regional Office
City/Province:	South Africa	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	19	Recruitment Status:	Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2015AFSMNAE-9TNH9T

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

To provide strategic, innovative and operational leadership for the implementation of World Vision’s (WV) disaster management (early warning, mitigation, response and recovery) in Southern Africa, to contribute to the Regional and National office strategies.
To ensure the quality of WV emergency response engagement including appropriate structures, standards (internal and external), policies, staffing and resources.
Provide leadership to the DM2020 (Disaster Management 2020) process working across all sectors and functions to ensure WV’s disaster management work is cutting edge, and effectively supporting children in all types of emergencies, with particular focus on conflicts and urban.
To build relationships internally and externally to increase and promote integrated disaster management and resource development, and be an authoritative voice for policy change and learning.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy and Leadership:

Position World Visions as a competent, innovative and effective humanitarian agency by ensuring that the Southern Africa Region (SAR) responds professionally to all Categories of emergencies, under takes effective disaster management.
Develop SAR HEA contribution to the SAR strategic direction and the Partnerships vision for DM2020, using innovative and cutting edge programming and processes.
Work across sectors and functions to support strategy and ensure effective disaster management in all areas of WV’s work
Assess pending disasters through scenario analysis and design and develop preparedness, advocacy and resourcing action plans,
Facilitate the establishment and functioning of emergency preparedness and response strategies on the basis of sub-regional country groupings.
Work with the resource development unit and the Support offices to ensure effective resourcing of all aspects of disaster management, including innovative new funding opportunities with non-traditional donors.
Working with National offices, assess, adopt and operationalise WV’s engagement with a range of contemporary humanitarian principles or issues such as IHL, international humanitarian standards, conventions, codes of conduct, vulnerable populations, contextual & humanitarian analysis, conflict issues, at a national level.
Work closely with other teams for appropriate integration in East Africa Region.
Working closely with National Directors (ND), the Regional Security Adviser and Office of Corporate Security (OCS), promote appropriate measures to ensure risks are objectively assessed, mitigated and communicated to staff especially in medium to high risk locations.
Coordinate and supervise the Southern Africa Region HEA team in areas of policy analysis, communications and programming.

Operational Support:

Support and advise the Southern Africa Region Senior Director of Operations in the event of Category II and Category III declarations and in the matrix management of Cat III responses.
Ensure National offices have the technical and managerial capacity to respond to Cat 2 and 3 responses, by using response registers or by provide short term leadership of emergencies.
In the event of a Global or National Office Response declaration, fulfill all duties of the RHEAD (Regional HEA Director) Terms of Reference (ToR) as outlined in the Emergency Management System manual.
Monitor all Southern Africa HEA projects on a regular basis, noting policy implications, and offering appropriate support to ensure projects are managed according to WVI and international standards.

Technical Support/Capacity Building:

Support capacity building of HEA units at National Office (NO) level, including technical staff and Learning Centres to build understanding and engagement in disaster management to support ensuring clear goals and accountabilities are established and achieved.
Lead the Southern Africa Region HEA team in ensuring that national offices have the knowledge, skills, resources tools and capacity to maximise mitigation, preparedness, response and transition at a community level.
Ensure individuals’ performance and development needs are met, and employees are high performing and engaged.
Engage in NO HEA staff hiring processes.
Assure that National Offices have a functioning National Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund (NEPRF) in place as per the NEPRF policy guidelines.
Ensure that Regional Rapid Response Team (RRRT) capacity is recruited, built and developed.
Promote and ensure high standards of programmatic quality in such areas as emergency programming and Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DME).
Facilitate transition strategies so that relief programs are integrated into national offices and regional entities where feasible.
Ensure that ICRC/NGO Code of Conduct including SPHERE and other humanitarian minimum standards are maintained in responses.
Ensure that the NOs, National and Community Disaster Preparedness Plans (DPPs) are updated as frequently as necessary.
Assist in establishing Early Warning systems and strengthening Early Warning and Early Action implementation.
Participate in, and facilitate lessons learned processes, program evaluations and audits (operational as well as financial) of National Office/ Partnership Office (NO/PO) programs, and contribute to post-audit monitoring and remedial activities.

Collaboration and Learning:
At a strategic and policy level, represent WV with Government agencies, UN, INGO and Church bodies, in collaboration with National Offices (if present), dealing with macro and local issues regarding humanitarian principles including advocating on key issues which affect the most vulnerable.
Enhance constructive collaboration with Global Center (GC), SAR departments, Learning Centers (LCs), Support Offices (SOs), Global capitals, NO’s, regional networks, institutional donors and organizations at regional and country level to ensure effective and efficient disaster management.
Promote continuous learning in the field of HEA at regional level and ensuring that NOs take up good practices. Share learning, innovations and better practices across the region and HEA Community of Practice (CoP).
Ensure HEA is contributing to Child Well-Being (CWB) reporting and breaking silos between development and relief.
Active engagement with HEA CoPs.
Working with the External Relations director, represent WVSAR in strategic forums that could enhance WVs profile.
In line with NO and RO strategy, build consortium and relationships with other agencies for disaster management.

Others:

Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned by the Regional SDO Director.
Attend and participate in devotional meetings.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

Masters-level degree in management or similar.
A Minimum of 10 years in operational humanitarian experience with minimum of five years in a leadership role, preferably in Africa.
Strong empirical knowledge of the humanitarian sector including humanitarian charters, laws and standards.
Strong commitment to WV’s vision, mission and core values.
Strong ability and commitment in critical networking, relationship building, and partnerships, especially those outside of WV itself.
Understanding of management and integration in a cross functional management matrix model.
Strong skills in strategy development, prioritisation and implementation.
Understanding of and comfort with providing leadership in an increasingly globalised organization in an increasingly complex industry environment.
Proven ability to manage large numbers of staff, efficiently and effectively, whether in a live or virtual environment.
Demonstrates Christ-centred life and work.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
High degree of negotiation and persuasion skills.
Ability to travel internationally as needed.
Ability to work with a reasonably level of comfort in high tension and high security risk situations.
Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardships.
Strong written and verbal skills in English and preferably another language such as French.