NFI/Shelter Programme Manager ( 2 positions)

Job posted by: Concern Worldwide - Wed, 26 Nov 2014

Job Details:

Organisation: Concern Worldwide

Deadline Wed, 17 Dec 2014

Job type: Contract

Location: South Sudan

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Country:

South Sudan

Job Title:

NFI/Shelter Programme Manager ( 2 positions)

 

Contract Grade:                                                                B

Contract Length:                                              1 year

Date needed By:                                              1st January 2015

New Post or Replacement:                         New Post

Accompanied / Unaccompanied:              Unaccompanied

Exact Job Location:                                           Unity State and Juba

Responsible for:                                              Facilitating the distribution of NFIs and shelter kits; conducting shelter assessments, supervision the construction and rehabilitation of Shelters

Reports To:                                                         Area Coordinator (Unity state); ACD Emergency (Juba)

Liaise with:                                                         Area Coordinator, ACD-Emergency, State NFI/Shelter Focal Point, WASH Manager, Emergency Nutritionist and NFI/Shelter partners in Bentiu PoCs (GAA, Intersos, IOM, DRC & UNHCR) and in Juba (NRC, UNHCR & IOM).

 

Job Purpose: To provide technical leadership and quality control in the management, design, implementation, post-distribution monitoring and evaluation of Concern’s NFI/shelter projects in South Sudan.  To design Robust Emergency shelter (RES) infrastructure that is appropriate for each stage of the emergency. Ensuring the continued effectiveness of the NFI/shelter project as the situation evolves.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

  • To design, plan and oversee the implementation the IDP Shelter activities and distribution of Non-food items (NFIs0
  • As part of the programme management team, contribute to the overall development, planning, roll-out and management of the programme including reporting and budgeting with a specific focus on Shelter activities
  • To provide management oversight to the Concern worldwide’s Shelter team and ensuring that objectives are met in accordance with the programme objectives.
  • To facilitate the assessment, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the IDP shelter activities.
  • Manage the Concern shelter construction teams and ensuring construction of HH robust emergency shelter (RES) in the PoCs.
  • Preparations, planning and distribution of NFI/Shelter Kits.
  • Facilitation the deliverance of Sand/Soil for the purpose of raising the floor of the shelters in the POCs.

 

Programme Planning and Design:

  • Ensure the participation of the programme stakeholders (especially target communities) in all stages of the programme cycle
  • Prepare Scopes of Work and Bills of Quantities for projects to retrofit buildings for suitable refugee accommodation
  • Prepare Scopes of Work and Bills of Quantities for projects to design infrastructure for the establishment of Robust emergency Shelters
  • Ensure Shelter activities are integrated into the overall programme’s design and plan; implementation plans, monitoring and evaluation, including close coordination with the WASH component.

 

Programme Management:

  • Oversee the day to day management of the implementation of the Shelter activities
  • Provide management support to the Shelter team ensuring that they have up to date job descriptions, clear objectives and identify and facilitate training when required.
  • Take a lead role in ensuring that all the necessary resources are in place to deliver on the Shelter activities (staff, logistics, consultants, finances etc.)
  • Monitor programme budgets and management accounts to ensure that relevant activities are being implemented in accordance with agreed budgets
  • Participate in contract design, tendering and contractor performance as required for the implementation of interventions
  • Ensure that all Shelter-related activities are documented and reported and shared as necessary with colleagues, and donors
  • Take the lead on Shelter  M&E activities and providing updates and reports as necessary
  • Ensure that best practice and international standards are applied to the Shelter and other programme activities as relevant.

 

     Engineering

  • In conjunction with the logistics function, ensure the procurement of all necessary materials for the programme and plan effectively to allow implementation in accordance with seasonal constraints
  • Provide technical solutions to Shelter issues facing refugees and contribute to the sector wide development of standards in Lebanon
  • Ensure technical standards and designs are applied consistently throughout the project.

 

 

People Management:

  • Lead and manage staff, contributing to their capacity building and career development
  • Provide structured and informal capacity building to a local counterpart who could take over this role in the future
  • Provide technical support and on-going on-the-job training and coaching to staff, including in particular a thorough induction at the start of their contract
  • Ensure that all positions have accurate job descriptions
  • Ensure that each member of the team fully understands outcomes which are expected of them, by setting SMART objectives, and that they are aware of the success criteria relating to their work
  • Ensure that all staff are aware of and comply with Concern’s policies and procedures
  • Monitor and review performance and hold staff accountable for meeting the success criteria; give corrective feedback where required and take decisive action in the case of poor performance
  • Carry out on-the-job training and other capacity building measures for national staff
  • Ensure that staff and contractors are compliant and fully understand their obligations when signing the program participant protection policy (P4) and where non-compliance is suspected, to inform a member of the CMT so that the appropriate action can be taken by the Country Director.
  • Be fully compliant with P4.

 

 

Representation:

  • Represent Concern Worldwide at any Shelter coordinator meetings as necessary as possible
  • Ensure that Concerns Shelter activities are coordinated with other actors and stakeholders in the programme area.

 

 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL

Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:

  • Degree in Civil Engineering or other related qualification
  • Minimum of three years post qualification experience in or closely related to construction
  • Fluency in English
  • Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams and knowledge of integrated programming
  • Experience of participating in programme design
  • Empathy with Concern’s goals and a commitment to capacity building, protection and participation.

 

DESIRABLE

Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:

  • Construction site management experience
  • Previous Concern experience
  • Experience of programme start-up operations
  • Experience of refugee and/or IDP programming, including Shelter projects
  • Experience of working/living in insecure and sensitive environments
  • Knowledge of Arabic and or French an advantage
  • Experience of funders such as DFID, Irish Aid, ECHO and CHF

 

Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements:

  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated training and capacity building skills
  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Flexible and adaptable approach to working
  • Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
  • Ability to contribute to a small team environment
  • Experience with AutoCad.

 

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date…. CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.

Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer posts before the closing date.

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

 

Concern has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behaviour expected of them.  In this context staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment.   By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.

 

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year.  Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on Concern ensuring that the names of any new employee or volunteer do not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).  Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will not be made pending a clearance check being conducted on the applicant.  For additional information please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office.

 

Concern Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                               

 

COUNTRY& ROLE SPECIFIC INFORMATION (AS PER PREVIOUS JOB REQUISITION)

 

Brief outline of country programme:

Conflict broke out in South Sudan in December 2013 and to date has displaced over 1 million people. Up to 4.9 million people need some form of humanitarian assistance. Concern has worked in South Sudan since 1998, primarily in Northern Bahr el Ghazal. Our emergency response work focuses on Unity State and Juba.

 

There are 37,291 IDPs living at two UN compounds in Juba — 21,371 in Tongping and 15,920 in UN House. Concern is working in Tongping and UN House, focusing on General Food Distributions (GFD) and NFI/Shelter distributions in UN House and Nutrition in both sites. Overcrowding is a problem, in particular in Tongping, and it is underway to decongest to a new Protection of Civilians (PoC 3) site at UN House. Concern is conducting a NFI/Shelter response in preparation for the rehabilitation in a dry season. For Nutrition, Concern is running three Outpatient Therapeutic Programme (OTP) sites (two static and one mobile) to treat children under five with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), and one Stabilisation Centre to treat children under 5 with SAM and medical complications.The Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) component is integrated into Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) with a focus on counselling mothers who are having breast feeding difficulties. Since the crisis began, Concern has screened 10,766 children in Tongping and UN House for malnutrition.

 

In Bentiu UNMISS PoCs there are now approximately 52,000 IDPs registered. Concern is leading a WASH response within the PoCs and dealing with Nutrition response in the POCs. Concern is responding in Bentiu UNMISS PoCs, alongside its partner Welthungerhilfe (WHH) on shelter and NFIs. In WASH, Concern is operating and managing three Boreholes in PoC 2, 3 & 5, building latrines and showers, and promoting hygiene through community mobilisation in the same POCs. It is estimated that Concern is responding to 33,000 people residing in the three POCs. Currently, the water supply is 12l/person/day, which is below the Sphere standards. It is planned for next year to find alternative sources of water supply among them is the installation of rain water harvesting plant. The months of July to October have high rainfall, if harvested can be utilised to complement BH water supply. The latrines coverage is low to average of 78 per drop hole, which is very low below the humanitarian minimum standards. The congestion of the POCs and floods has limited increase of latrines construction in the PoCs. It is planned next year to increase the coverage by building more latrines to approx. 230 to ensure reaching sphere standards. Hygiene promotion and solid waste management led by the hygiene specialists. Regular campaigns of collection of solid waste and garbage in collaboration with other WASH agencies working in PoC 4 & 6 are carried-out. Concern is a lead in hygiene promotion, it organise the campaigns to commemorate the global hand-washing day.

 

The WASH PM will be responsible for the overall management of Concern’s WASH Emergency response and recovery programme in Bentiu PoCs, Unity State and will cover any future activities we may undertake in the Unity state. This position is based in Bentiu, UNIMISS compound, subject to change depending on the security situation and accessibility to new areas in Unity state.

 

As Concern looks to expand programming the WASH PM will be an integral part of project design, implementation and monitoring of any and all future WASH programmes in Unity. In collaboration with Area coordinator, she/he will generally be responsible for assessment all new interventions in the state and any aspects of the emergency response and recovery programme including project cycle management (planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring etc. Key responsibility will also include the supervision, coaching and capacity building of national staff and relevant Local government staff associated with WASH preparedness and response

Brief outline of political situation:

Following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) by the Government of the Republic of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in 2005, and a subsequent referendum in which 98.83% of voters voted in favour of independence, the Republic of South Sudan (RoSS) became the world’s newest nation in July 2011.

 

However, despite significant optimism that independence would bring peace after decades of civil war, and despite the country’s vast natural resources, South Sudan continues to face significant economic, social and political challenges in 2014. An outbreak of violence in Juba on 15th December 2013, which followed President Salva Kiir’s dismissal of vice-president Riek Machar in July of that year, spread quickly throughout the country and took on a strong ethnic dimension. It has since exacerbated conditions in an already-impoverished context, sharply exposing the fragile nature of the nation’s institutions, and generating a deepening humanitarian crisis.

 

By the end of August 2014, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 1.3 million people were internally displaced, while a further 449,000 had fled to neighbouring countries. In the short-to-medium term, addressing widespread insecurity and averting war is a major concern, along with the cessation of violence. While it is encouraging that a ceasefire agreement was reached between the two warring parties on August 25th, the situation remains extremely volatile.

 

Given the nascency of South Sudan’s formal institutions, as well as the disruptive effect of the conflict, reliable and current data on the social and economic context is sparse – the country was not included in the 2013 Human Development Index for this reason. Moreover, the outlook remains unpredictable. While the World Bank’s most recent estimate (2009) suggests that 50.6% lived below the poverty line, it is likely that this number will have increased dramatically as a result of the conflict and displacement.

 

It was projected that the resumption of oil production in 2013 would generate GDP growth of up to 40% for 2013/14. However, as a result of the civil strife, and associated cuts in oil production levels, this growth has not materialised. Given the government’s dependence on oil, which contributes around 70% of GDP, potential expenditure on basic service delivery has been significantly undermined.

 

South Sudan is a difficult environment in which to operate, and programming remains very much affected by the lack of capable, accountable and responsive systems and institutions, the precarious security situation (particularly in Bentiu), and the absence of a reliable and wide-reaching road network. While infrastructure coverage is generally poor, the rainy season exacerbates conditions, and many areas become unreachable by road.

 

Description and location of accommodation:

The staff will be based in Bentiu, UNMISS compound where basic shared accommodation in the containers of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) will be provided. The containers are installed with air conditioners. The washrooms are shared with other Aid workers. While in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, shared accommodation (common living room with private bed room) or hotel accommodation will be provided.

 

Description and location of workplace:

Bentiu POCs are located in the UNMISS conscripted areas very low-lying area of the floodplain and it is known to be not the best place to be in. Drainage is difficult even under the best of conditions and the black cotton soil presents an additional challenge as it is extremely slippery when wet. There six PoCs with approximately 52,000 IDPs fled from Bentiu town during the war of April & May 2014.

The project office and accommodation are in the same UNMISS compound having more than 10 humanitarian agencies, peace keepers battalions from Mongolia, Ethiopia and Ghana, and a UN police force from India. The compound accommodates more than 150 staff of humanitarian agencies.  There are limited leisure activities because there accessibility out of the UNMISS is limited. In Juba an 8pm curfew applies. There is internet access at the compound with difficult at peak hours (afternoon), when many of humanitarian staff and UN forces are accessing internet. The Concern Country office is in Juba. Juba offers limited social opportunities, restaurants and bars are available. In the Juba office and houses air conditioning has been installed. Since the power supply is provided by generators, intermittent switching off at 5pm to 8pm and then 12pm to 8am. However, charged batteries provide electricity when generators are switch off, but can’t run the air conditioners. At Bentiu, generators are running throughout day and night.

 

General comments: N/A

 

Off duty transport available:

There is off duty transport offered in Juba but not in Bentiu.

 

Required documentation for visa/work permit:

Concern office in South Sudan has to apply an entry permit before arrival to get the visa at the airport. Or otherwise a visa should be obtained before arrival. Expats need to apply for visa and for this the following is needed:

  • Valid passport
  • 2 passport photos
  • Letter of invitation by Concern South Sudan
  • School certificates
  • Curriculum vitae

 

Anticipated wait for visa/permit: A three months visa can be obtained in a day.

 

Why expatriate necessary:

 

Skilled local staff with experience in WASH emergency interventions and training and capacity building are not available

 

National counterpart to be trained: Yes, the WASH assistant

 

Any health, safety & security risks associated with this post:

 

Health risks: Malaria, general tropical diseases and diarrhoeal diseases are the main health risks

 

Safety risks: Road accidents are the main safety risks

 

Security risks: Carjacking, Crossfire, Armed Robbery, Banditry and Death Threats have been identified as main security risks in South Sudan. A Security Management Plan and Standard Operating Procedures to mitigate those risks are currently under revision.

 

Resulting preparation/training required: Concern Induction

 

Project funding confirmed: Yes

 

From whom: UNICEF & CHF are the main donors

 

For what period: 2014 to date

 

Government approval: Concern is registered as NGO in South Sudan

 

If not, when anticipated: N/A

 

Recommended pre-departure training: Concern Induction

 

Recommended pre-departure research:

It is important the candidate will get familiar about South Sudan’s political, economic and cultural context before starting the position. This information can easily be obtained via internet.

 

Languages(s) required: Fluency in English

 

Pre-departure language training required: No, fluent English is most essential

Any other relevant information: N/A

 

 



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