ACT Alliance is looking for an experienced Global Humanitarian Coordinator to lead its international humanitarian work. The position is Geneva based with an expectation for up to 25% international travel.

Major functions

The Global Humanitarian Coordinator leads the ACT Alliance work in emergency preparedness and response and advices ACT’s humanitarian policy and advocacy agenda. This involves regular interaction with humanitarian directors of ACT Alliance members, representing ACT on relevant policy issues and managing an effective emergency preparedness and response, including fundraising for major humanitarian appeals.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures alliance-wide emergency preparedness
• Coordinates the ACT Alliance response to an emergency and leads the programme on humanitarian response
• Develops partnerships and fundraises for joint member-led initiatives, including the emergency appeals
• Represents ACT Alliance in global humanitarian coordination
• Ensures adequate policies, tools and guidelines in support of effective emergency responses
• Advises ACT’s humanitarian policy and advocacy agenda and in coordination with the Global Advocacy and Policy Coordinator supports the implementation of the global advocacy strategy
• Leads the ACT secretariat humanitarian team and supports staff based in regions
• Supports the ACT Alliance working bodies relevant to humanitarian response, humanitarian policy and advocacy work
• Communicates internally and externally on issues relevant to ACT Alliance’s humanitarian engagement
• Supports the General Secretary, the Director and Head of Strategy and Partnerships in external representational roles pertinent to the role

Competences

Committed:

• Committed to the values of the ACT Alliance and is sensitive to expressions of faith across cultures and denominations
• Takes pride in delivering on agreed priorities according to the highest standards individually and as part of a global team

Personal Effectiveness:

• Proactively finds innovative and creative solutions, is efficient and reliable, adapts to change and uncertainty, is decisive and acts with integrity

Working with others:

• Builds effective internal and external relationships, involves others when solving problems and treats others with consideration and respect in an alliance where faith is a key ingredient of people’s lives

Passionate:

• Passion for building and developing core skills for the role and contributes knowledge outside of immediate own role

People leadership:

• Team player who effectively motivates, influences and develops others, drives high performance, inspires people to follow them and acts as a role model

Working relationships

• Engages with ACT members and ACT forums engaged in emergency preparedness and response
• Liaises with the external stakeholders (UN agencies, governmental representations, INGO networks and INGO peers), particularly those based in Geneva
• Advises and supports regional staff in humanitarian response

Skills and experience

• A minimum of seven to ten years of relevant work experience including first-hand field based emergency response experience in a management role
• Excellent understanding of key issues for local and national responders and specific role and added value of churches and other faith based actors in humanitarian response
• Highly developed interpersonal and communications skills including influencing, negotiating and coaching
• In-depth knowledge of humanitarian principles and standards; good knowledge on major global actors as well as humanitarian coordination mechanisms
• Ability to analyse rapidly changing operational contexts and policy developments and to see opportunities emerging
• Ability to engage effectively and flexibly in a multi-stakeholder, faith based, membership working environment
• Relevant academic degree with excellent communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of English language, working knowledge of French or Spanish an asset

Deadline for Applications:
Kindly submit your application (letter of motivation and CV) to recruitment@actalliance.org by Wednesday 28 September 2016, 5pm CET.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Department for World Service (DWS), is looking for a mature, qualified and experienced PMERL Consultant to strengthen the capacity of the LWF Country Program teams in the francophone countries in Africa. The consultant will closely collaborate with the Quality Assurance and Accountability team in the headquarters in Geneva who will supervise and backstop the consultant in close collaboration with the Country Programs.

Terms of Reference and application can be made by clicking on the following link:

https://lutheranworld.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk06ook

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Department for World Service (DWS), is looking for a mature, qualified and experienced PMERL Consultant to strengthen the capacity of the LWF Country Program teams in the francophone countries in Africa. The consultant will closely collaborate with the Quality Assurance and Accountability team in the headquarters in Geneva who will supervise and backstop the consultant in close collaboration with the Country Programs.

Terms of Reference and application can be made by clicking on the following link: https://lutheranworld.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk06oox

Programme Manager develops and leads the new ACT Alliance programme on Access to Rights and Protection for those who are forcibly displaced.

Duties and responsibilities

• Leads the development of the ACT Alliance programme on Access to Rights and Protection /Forced Displacement
• Coordinates and implements where appropriate the global level components of the programme, including its advocacy components
• Identifies and builds internal and external partnerships for the programme including works with and develops strategic relationships with WCC, LWF, ACT EU, CCME and other relevant ecumenical organisations
• Engages actively with UN, its member states and broader civil society where relevant
• Fundraises for the programme
• Supports the regional teams, other colleagues and the broader alliance on the implementation of the programme
• Communicates on the outcomes of the programme with internal and external stakeholders
• Reports on the implementation of the programme

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About us

Brot für die Welt, Christian Aid, Church of Sweden, ICCO Cooperation and Norwegian Church Aid, as part of the ACT Alliance, are taking a new, energetic approach to our work tackling inequality and poverty in Southern Africa. We are looking to recruit a manager for the initial phase of the change process as we move towards closer ways of working.

About the role

The purpose of the role is to facilitate the process of developing a new entity for ACT in South Africa and to provide organisational development support during the initial phase of the pilot. The role is for 12 months, with the possibility of extension. The position is based in the joint ACT office in Pretoria, South Africa. You will find more details about the change process, the pilot and the role in the terms of reference attached.

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THE ORGANIZATION

ICCO is a global organization with roots that go back to 1964.

The mission of the organization is to work towards a sustainable society in which poverty, inequality and injustice have been eradicated, and men, women and children can live in dignity and secure livelihoods.

With approximately 300 employees (75% non-Dutch) and revenue of some 40 million euros, ICCO operates from a coherent theory of change and it designs, manages and implements programs for inclusive development with focus on inclusive markets, food and nutrition security and responsible business. Gender, climate and the rights of marginalized groups are cross cutting issues. ICCO offers also brokering services for public/private partnerships. The organization is experienced in working with a wide range of financial tools.

ICCO’s operations consist of a Global Office in The Netherlands (Utrecht) and 5 Regional Offices around the globe, the largest of which is the Regional Office for Central, Eastern and Southern Africa (RO CESA) in Kampala, Uganda. We are looking for a Regional Manager (M/F 100%) for this Regional Office.

The Regional Office covers Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Burundi, Malawi Madagascar, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Regional Office employs some 60 FTE’s in the region. Each of the offices, are headed by Country Programme Managers, who report to the Regional Manager in Kampala, Uganda. Programmes are deployed in 12 countries at this moment.

The Regional Manager has some 12 direct reports and around 50 indirect reports. The direct reports consist of country managers, finance and some project officers. The Regional Manager is also responsible for the strategic partnerships in the region. The present budget is between 12-15 million euro. In 7 of the countries local fundraising is under way. Looking at the region, the focus of the programmes is food security and economic empowerment.

Since 2010, like every region within the ICCO, the RO CESA has a Regional Council consisting of regional leaders in civil society, which advises the Regional Office on strategic policy issues.

THE ROLE OF REGIONAL MANAGER

As the Regional Manager, you report directly to the Executive Board in The Netherlands and are part of the Management team of the organization. Your role is to initiate innovation, show leadership and promote entrepreneurial behaviour in the region. As manager you have the responsibility for a large group of people with a divers background on a lot of different locations. You develop, implement and consolidate ICCO programmes and ensure and maximize the resources available for these programs in the region.

Also, you are responsible for regional strategy development, as well as for program development, implementation and evaluation in the region.

You represent ICCO in the CESA region towards governmental officials, embassies/consulates, international and national organizations, donor representatives as well as the national and international media.

You develop and implement strategies for targeting and obtaining funding and other resources, to ensure the continuation of existing programs for the mid and longer term, and the implementation of new programs in the region. You ensure that budgets are spent in accordance with donor proposals and regulations and within the appropriate timeframe.

You maintain constructive and effective relations with the Regional Council, which includes the facilitation of the biannual 3-day meeting, and good and timely communication with the Council.

Close cooperation with the Global Office in The Netherlands with regard to policy and thematic issues, as well as with ICCO’s relations in The Netherlands and the EU, is mandatory for your success as Regional Manager.

As a member of the ICCO Management Team, you will meet twice a year with the rest of the Management Team during a week’s conference in The Netherlands with the Executive Board, the Regional Managers of the other Regional Offices and the Heads of Department in the Global Office. Regular MT meeting (monthly) are conducted via teleconferencing.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

With your inquisitive mind you create new working approaches, new forms of cooperation and new networks and projects in the region.

Because you are familiar with the region and have worked there during a considerable time, you are aware of the social, economic and political situation and the important role of religion and churches in the region

As a seasoned people manager, you easily establish and maintain effective working relations with staff, partners, coalitions, networks and sister agencies.

Your empathy and social flexibility ensures access to and progress in the different program countries in the region, and the right tone of voice towards the complex set of stakeholders. You lead by example and people are happy to work with you; therefore you bind people to the cause and to ICCO. These management skills will ensure getting the best out of people and out of the relationships in the region. Your approach is transparent and open-minded with an eye for people, while at the same time you have a business-like approach in achieving the goals of the programs. You strongly promote the concept of entrepreneurial innovation towards your staff and partners and towards the region as a whole.

Paying close attention to safety and security of staff is important to you, and your management style encourages true empowerment of your co-workers. This delegation of responsibilities is needed to be able to manage this Region.

Given the vast territory of the region, you are able to manage “at arm’s length” without losing touch with individuals or your connection with the various program countries. Your work involves extensive travelling in the region. You are willing and able to travel very frequently in the region. (50% of your time)

You work and think at an academic level, and you have excellent language skills in English and Dutch. Active knowledge of French is an advantage. You are willing and able to move to Kampala in the summer of 2016.

REMUNERATION

The remuneration is in accordance with the ICCO International Terms of Employment (salary scale 14).

Leaders Trust, (Executive Search and Leadership Consulting, Boulevard 17, 3707BK Zeist), in the Netherlands, is coordinating the search for the new Regional Manager.

For more information, you can call Leaders Trust.

Leaders Trust:

• Emmy Raaff, raaff@leaderstrust.nl or call direct on +31-652734934
• Albert Froom, froom@leaderstrust.nl or call direct on +31-654945184

Finn Church Aid (FCA), is looking for a Project Manager – Based in Bangui, with frequent field trips to Ombella M’Poko - Central African Republic (CAR)

Areas of Responsibility:

• Overseeing the implementation of construction works of the specific project maintaining appropriate monitoring of progress of work according to contract schedules, specifications and project plans.
• Supervising technical staff and consultants assigned to project, and evaluating their performance on their assigned duties.
• Implementing an FCA construction-education project and providing support in planning and carrying out activities related to other FCA projects in CAR.
• Monthly Reporting and reporting to donors.
• Final reports and handover at the end of the Contract.
• Responsible use of project budgets and budget monitoring.
• Ensuring that procurement is done according to FCA guidelines and accountability principles.
• Supporting the implementation of construction and WASH components in other FCA projects in CAR if needed.
• Quality control of activities.

Competence and Personal Requirements:

• Master’s degree in a relevant field of specialization, Degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline is an asset.
• 4-5 years proven site experience.
• Previous experience on large scale mixed development projects.
• Ability to effectively manage site programs and associated schedules to required deadlines.
• Proficiency in project budget control and planning techniques.
• Excellent record keeping skills coupled with the ability to effectively deal with designed issues.
• Experience of implementing Education in Emergencies projects in a post-conflict setting.
• Strong planning, monitoring and evaluation skills.
• Strong skills in data collection, analysis and report writing.
• Good understanding of humanitarian approaches and standards and gender issues.
• Experience in cooperating and networking with LNGOs, INGOs, Governmental Institutions, Local Authorities, UN Agencies.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office package.
• Proficiency in English and French.
• Proven team orientation skills and ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical staff.
• Excellent inter-personal and inter-cultural skills.
• Flexible and capable of working and living in challenging conditions in a multicultural environment.
• Valid international driving license is required.

Apply before 22 April 2016.

For further information, click here.

Finn Church Aid (FCA) is looking for a Program Officer, Right to Peace – based in Central African Republic (CAR).

Duties and responsibilities:

• Contributing to country program planning and country strategic planning from R2P point of view.
• Planning and implementing activities related to conflict resolution and reconciliation on local and national level.
• Preparing conflict analysis and analysis of political developments related to the conflicts in CAR.
• Ensuring national networking with relevant peace support actors.
• Theme related local and international fundraising.
• Coordinating with the Network of Traditional and Religious Peacemakers locally.
• Participating in other program related activities and tasks in CAR.

Competence and Personal Requirements:

• Master’s degree in Development Studies, International Relations or related field.
• Related professional experience, including conflict resolution, peace building, reconciliation or similar.
• Experience working in complex projects in CAR or similar challenging environments.
• Technical expertise in two or more of the following areas: peacebuilding, conflict mitigation and institutional strengthening.
• Experience in managing Internationally funded programs.
• Proven team orientation skills and ability to work effectively in a multicultural team environment.
• Fluent French and English language skills.
• Excellent networking and communicating skills.

Apply before 25 April 2016.

For more information, click here.

“Liberated by God’s grace, a communion in Christ living and working together for a just, peaceful, and reconciled world.”

This is the vision statement adopted by the Council of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) for
the LWF strategy 2012 - 2018.
Working for dignity and justice with compassion and commitment, the LWF as a global communion of churches respects diversity, in culture, history, theological understandings, perspectives on moral and ethical questions, and practice of ministry, mission and service, as a richness of God’s creation.

Position: Program Officer (Asia) in the Department for World Service
Place of Assignment: Geneva, Switzerland
Starting Date: To be negotiated
Duration of Contract: Initial contract of 5 years

The Department for World Service is the international humanitarian and development arm of the
Lutheran World Federation (LWF) . World Service works with local and international partners to alleviate suffering, combat injustice and poverty, and lay the foundation for a life in dignity for all. More
than 5,000 committed staff persons work for World Service in remote areas and often insecure
situations, touching the lives of over 2 million people across 33 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin
America and the Caribbean.

Required Qualifications:
 Master’s degree in humanitarian or development work, and/or other related social science.
 Several years of professional experience in emergency response or development in a
management role. Experience working with NGOs, UN agencies or faith based organizations.
 Experience in the supervision of staff and ensuring compliance and quality of the work.
 Fluency in English and proven working knowledge of languages relevant to the Asia region.
 Strong organizational, relational and enabling management skills, with diplomacy, respect and
a supportive approach.
 Strong computer literacy and interpersonal, verbal and written communication.
Candidates for this position require a Church Endorsement.

Closing date
Applications (including motivation letter, detailed curriculum vitae in English, church endorsement and
copies of diplomas and work certificates) with the names and e-mail addresses of three references (two
professional from present and/or previous employers/supervisors and one character reference) should
be sent by 30 April 2016 to:

Ms Aline Ritchie
Head of Human Resources
The Lutheran World Federation
P.O. Box 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland
E-Mail: lwf_hrapplicants@lutheranworld.org

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The overall goal of the post is to see tangible improvements to the conditions facing refugees coming to - or already in – Europe, as a result of policy and practice changes by the EU member states and institutions. The advocacy is regarded as a core and necessary part of the activities funded by the ACT Alliance European refugee crisis humanitarian appeal

More information about the vacancy here

ACT Alliance (ACT) is seeking a 3-person Evaluation Team to carrying out the external evaluation of ACT Appeal Program NPL151 – Nepal Earthquake Response. The lead consultant should have the following competencies:

• o Proven evaluator with the ability to design and apply programme evaluation methods.
• o Excellent in English
• o Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• o Clear task management/co-ordination and consultative decision making.
• o Process facilitator with excellent interpersonal skills; diplomacy and tact in communication.
• o Ability to make a context-sensitive analysis of a humanitarian assistance programme.
• o Participatory style of working to ensure effective engagement with key resource people
• o High level of operational experience in humanitarian interventions; experience and respect for faith based organisations and what drives them.
• o Knowledge of Nepal preferable
• o Proven knowledge of gender issues in emergencies
• o Sound knowledge of humanitarian principles, HAP or CHS frameworks, Red Cross/Red Crescent and NGOs Code of Conduct and humanitarian accountability mechanism.

Find more information here

ACT Alliance is recruiting a Head of Strategy and Partnerships

Major functions summary

Head of Strategy and Partnerships leads the ACT secretariat team which supports the alliance’s humanitarian, long-term development and advocacy work with a focus on developing and strengthening strategic partnerships to enhance this work.

Duties and responsibilities

• Leads the development and strengthening of strategic partnerships for the alliance to enhance the scope, scale and funding for the work of the alliance
• Leads the implementation of the alliance fundraising strategy
• Enables the ACT Alliance relevant secretariat colleagues to broker strategic partnerships and access funding opportunities within the area of their work, including the General Secretary and the Director
• Support the alliance in overall strategy development
• Leads the ACT secretariat policy and programmes team which supports the alliance in humanitarian, long-term development and advocacy work
• Works closely with the secretariat’s regional representatives in developing regional networks and partnerships that will enable furthering the alliance’s work as well as identifying funding opportunities
• Ensures close ties between the policy and programmes team and the communications team in order to ensure adequate “packaging and marketing” of content-related work aimed at external donors

Competences and behaviours

• Committed to the values of the ACT Alliance and takes pride in delivering on agreed priorities according to the highest standards individually and as part of a global team
• Proactively finds innovative and creative solutions, is efficient and reliable, adapts to change and uncertainty, is decisive and acts with integrity
• Builds effective internal and external relationships, involves others when solving problems and treats others with consideration and respect in an alliance where faith is a key ingredient of people’s lives
• Passion for building and developing core skills for the role and contributes knowledge outside of immediate own role
• Effectively motivates, influences and develops others, drives high performance, inspires people to follow them and acts as a role model

Key working relationships

• Brokers strategic partnerships with key external organizations
• Liaises with external stakeholders (UN agencies, governmental representations, INGO networks and INGO peers) particularly in Geneva and New York and supports the Regional Representatives to do the same in regions
• Leads the ACT secretariat policy and programmes team and liaises with other staff as relevant, particularly the General Secretary on external relations and Regional Representatives to ensure a coherent global approach with regional variations
• Liaises with ACT members and ACT forums on policy and programmes issues, through secretariat staff or directly
• Is member of the ACT core management team and the global management team
• Facilitates the Alliance Advisory Group on Fundraising and its linkages to other advisory groups
• Reports to Director/COO

Supervises:

• Global Advocacy and Policy Coordinator
• Global Humanitarian Coordinator
• Sustainable Development Policy & Practice Coordinator

Technical skills and experience

• A minimum of ten years of relevant work experience, including significant management, partnership brokering and fundraising experience
• Demonstrated and proven track record related to brokering strategic partnerships and tapping into funding opportunities as well as demonstrated access to networks relevant to ACT Alliance
• Ability to analyze changing operational contexts and policy developments and to optimize and take advantage of emerging opportunities, particularly for fundraising
• Ability to turn strategies into plans and actions
• Highly developed interpersonal and communications skills including influencing, negotiating and coaching
• In-depth knowledge of issues relevant to the mandate of ACT Alliance including a good understanding of the role of faith-based organizations in emergency response, long-term development and advocacy
• Ability to manage and lead in networked working environment
• Relevant academic degree with excellent communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of English language, working knowledge of French or Spanish an asset

Location to be confirmed:

ACT secretariat offices are located in Geneva, New York, Amman, Nairobi, San Salvador and Bangkok. ACT Alliance EU is based in Brussels. Location in one of these offices or elsewhere will be negotiable.

About ACT Alliance

ACT Alliance is a coalition of more than 140 churches and faith-based organisations (FBO’s) working together in over 100 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality. ACT Alliance is supported by 25,000 staff from member organisations and mobilises about $1.5 billion for its work each year in three targeted areas: humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy. ACT Alliance is deeply rooted in the communities it serves. It has earned the trust and respect of local people long before large international interventions scale up, and remains steadfast in its grassroots commitments for many years after world attention has shifted elsewhere.

For more details about the general work of ACT, please click on this link: https://actalliance.org/

How to apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and a cover letter, in English and by email only, to recruitment@actalliance.org by Friday 18 March 2016. Please put “Head of Strategy and Partnerships” in the subject line.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.