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.

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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.

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“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.

Background

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) started its Caribbean program in 1983 and has been registered in Haiti since 1995. The current strategy, covering the period 2015 – 2020 is entitled “Building Resilience in Haitian Communities” and focuses on the four strategic areas of intervention: Emergency-preparedness and response, Sustainable livelihoods, Human Rights / Rights-Based Approach and Organizational Effectiveness. The implementation is done with and through local civil society partners, and geographically, the work is concentrated in the Grand’Anse and West departments.

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH) is in Haiti since 2007.  The role of the office is to support local partners with the implementation and monitoring of humanitarian projects.  The majority of the projects take place in the department of the South-East, with some others in the South and North-West.  The main interventions in Haiti are about emergency preparedness and response planning, immediate response, food security and disaster risk reduction.

In 2015, DKH and LWF decided to integrate their organizational structures in Haiti, to tackle the triple challenge of covering operational costs, reduced funding and increased needs in the country, and to take advantage of synergies and complementarities. While both organizations will continue to adhere to their respective mandates in Haiti, they operate in one office under a joint Country Director, governed by a Cooperation Agreement. Processes to harmonize procedures, regulations and standards are underway. An initial review of respective programs and partners has been launched, and the process of aligning strategies and programs will take place in 2016.

In this context, DKH and LWF are looking for an experienced Program Manager.

More information here

Major functions summary

ACT Alliance has recently proposed a revision to its Humanitarian Response Mechanism, which will require a significant overhaul of existing tools and policies. The Humanitarian Officer will be responsible for ensuring the creation of these tools and policies, as well as manage the implementation of the reform of the mechanism, including training, pilot phase and evaluation and full implementation at both the Secretariat-level (Geneva and Regions) as well as across the forums. In line with the key ambitions of ACT Alliance, the revised mechanism places a specific importance on the role of local and national responders to communities in humanitarian crises and emergency relief responses.

The position will work closely with the Secretariat regional teams, ACT Alliance forums at the country-level, as well as with the ACT Alliance Humanitarian Policy and Practice Advisory Group, a group made up of experienced humanitarian professionals from across the Alliance. The position will be line managed by the Global Humanitarian Coordinator.

Duties and responsibilities

• Supports the Global Humanitarian Coordinator by leading the development of the new Humanitarian Response Mechanism, including networking with other humanitarian agencies, donors and relevant UN agencies to understand best practices for emergency response
• Develops and manages timeline and implementation plan
• Ensures creation of relevant tools, policies and frameworks related to the Humanitarian Mechanism
• Ensures inclusion of the perspectives of ACT members and forums and ACT secretariat staff on policies and procedures relevant to humanitarian response and dissemination to the same
• Trains and advises ACT members and forums and ACT humanitarian staff in the regions in the implementation of the revised mechanism
• Ensure regular reporting to the Global Humanitarian Coordinator, the Core Management Team, as well as the ACT Alliance Governing Board on the development and implementation of the revised Humanitarian Mechanism

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

Working relationships

• Reports to Global Humanitarian Coordinator
• Liaises with Humanitarian Policy and Practice Advisory Group
• Engages with forums, Secretariat regional teams
• Supports the Secretariat regional teams and forums

Qualifications, skills and experience

• At least five years of humanitarian or emergency response experience (preferably a combination of field and HQ programme management experience)
• Excellent knowledge of humanitarian issues, humanitarian principles and standards, major global actors and humanitarian coordination mechanisms
• Good knowledge of major back donor requirements for funding, or a willingness to seek out the relevant information
• Ability to work flexibly and independently in a networked working environment
• Excellent writing skills and an ability to communicate clearly and respectfully; superior time management and organisational skills
• Excellent knowledge of English language, working knowledge of French or Spanish an asset

Other

• This is a 2 year contract
• Some travel required, up to a maximum of 20% (primarily to Regional Secretariat offices)

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 08 January 2016. Please put “Humanitarian Officer” in the subject line.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

This is a local hire, and only candidates with a valid Swiss working permit will be considered.

ACT Alliance is recruiting a Logistics/Operations Officer

Major Functions:

The Logistics and Operations Officer plays an imperative role in delivering on of the strategic aim of the ACT Alliance: “A Robust Alliance”. The position supports delivery of operational functions related to logistics, governance liaison as well as the IT strategy for a decentralized Secretariat. In addition, this position also ensures HR support to the Head of Finance and Administration. The position will report to the Head of Finance and Administration and will entail some travelling.

Main duties and responsibilities:

The main duties and responsibilities related to this position are divided in three main categories:

a) Coordination of planning and logistics for meetings

• Plan and organize the big annual meetings of the Secretariat such as the ExCom meetings, the Governing Board meetings and the Advisory Group meetings and other ad-hoc meetings that might take place.
• Review and costing of venues
• Preparations and management of agenda in liaison with COO/HoFA/HoP
• Coordinate the preparation and distribution of relevant documents
• Work with the Office assistant to ensure logistics preparations for major meetings
• Liaise with Board members as necessary

b) Coordination of Operations

• Coordination of operations related to a decentralized Secretariat
  • Coordination of requirements for various stakeholders
  • Liaison with service provider
  • Follow up on configuration including testing
  • Be the key account manager of IT hosting/infrastructure service provider
• Coordinate administrative and operational issues of decentralized offices.
  • MoU revisions
  • Office issues
  • Office equipment incl. IT
  • Coordinate with the HoFA the implementation project of a collaborative IT platform
• Focal point for ACT hosts in regions (WCC, CWS, NCA, LWF)
• Other operations coordination as necessary in support of the core management team

c) Coordination and support to the Human Resources Function of the Secretariat

• Preparation of consultancy contracts
• Preparation of employment contracts
• Coordination of service providers related to salary and benefits (insurance, pension, work permits etc)
• Manage recruitment process including filtering applications and provide recommendations on initial shortlisting.
• Other HR support as required

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

Working relationships

• Liaises with ACT Governing Board and ExCom members for preparation of governance meetings.
• Engages with the ACT secretariat programme’s team and liaises with other staff as relevant
• Liaises with the Director/COO, Head of Finance and Administration, Head of Programmes on relevant operational issues
• Reports to Head of Finance and Administration
• Technical skills and experience
• A minimum of five to seven years of relevant work experience in an international environment
• Highly developed interpersonal and communications and negotiation skills
• Ability to achieve in highly networked environment and to turn strategies into plans and actions
• Relevant academic degree, management, business administration
• Excellent knowledge of English and French, working knowledge of Spanish an asset

The position is recruited locally and for candidates with a valid work permit in Switzerland. If you are interested kindly submit your CV, application letter and information about three potential references via email to recruitment@actalliance.org by  Wednesday December 9. Kindly put Logistics/Operations Officer as a reference.

Der/die Referent/in trägt zur Konzeptionierung, Strategiebildung und Positionierung der Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe in Grundsatz- und Policyfragen der Humanitären Hilfe und des Humanitären Völkerrechts bei.

Er/sie vertritt die Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe im Bereich humanitärer Policy- und Grundsatzfragen gegenüber öffentlichen Institutionen/Gremien, in nichtstaatlichen Fachverbänden/Netzwerken, bei Veranstaltungen/ Foren sowie Kooperationspartnern auf deutscher, europäischer und internationaler Ebene.

Das Aufgabengebiet umfasst:

• Analyse und Positionsentwicklung zu übergreifenden Policy- und Grundsatzfragen der Humanitären Hilfe sowie des Humanitären Völkerrechts und seines Umfelds
• Analyse und Positionsentwicklung zu gewichtigen humanitären Katastrophen/Krisen und ihres Umfelds, insbesondere in friedenspolitischer und -ethischer Hinsicht
• Beratung und Unterstützung des Vorstands, der Programmabteilung Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe und anderer Arbeitseinheiten bei der Entwicklung entsprechender humanitärer Policy, humanitärer Hilfsmaßnahmen und Lobby- & Advocacystrategien
• fachliche Unterstützung bei der Einbeziehung von Trends, Erfordernissen von Querschnitts- und Grundsatzthemen in das inhaltliche Qualitätsmanagement der Humanitären Hilfe
• Beratung ausgewählter internationaler Partner des Werkes in humanitärer Policy, in humanitärem Völkerrecht und ihrer Umsetzung in Hilfsmaßnahmen
• Vertretung in internen Veranstaltungen und Arbeitsgruppen

Sie erfüllen folgende Voraussetzungen:

• abgeschlossenes sozialwissenschaftliches oder juristisches Hochschulstudium
• Nachweis der Fähigkeit zu eigenständigem wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten durch Promotion oder Veröffentlichungen wäre wünschenswert
• umfassende Kenntnisse im Bereich der internationalen Politik, der Humanitären Hilfe und des Humanitären Völkerrechts, sowie der Friedenspolitik inkl. Kenntnis des jeweiligen aktuellen Forschungsstandes dazu
• umfassende Kenntnisse und belastbare Kontakte in der nationalen und internationalen politischen Institutionalität und der weltweiten zivilgesellschaftlichen und ökumenischen Strukturen
• mehrjährige qualifizierte internationale Berufserfahrung im Bereich der Humanitären Hilfe
• Fähigkeit zum strategischen Planen und Steuern
• Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit zu Teamarbeit
• Selbstbewusstsein, Entscheidungsstärke, Belastbarkeit, Lernbereitschaft
• Souveränität bei der Außenvertretung des Stabsreferats und der Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe
• eloquentes und sicheres Auftreten, hohe Kommunikationskompetenz
• sehr gute Sprachkenntnisse in Englisch und mindestens einer zweiten relevanten Fremdsprache
• gute Kenntnisse der gängigen MS-Office Programmen
• Tropentauglichkeit und Bereitschaft zu Dienstreisen

Für Rückfragen steht Ihnen der Stabsreferatsleiter Herr Dr. Thorsten Göbel (Tel.: 030 / 65211-1839) gerne zur Verfügung.

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