Ambulance Platform Project Manager

 

You have/are:

• Project Manager diploma AND/OR Master in Humanitarian Assistance or similar with proven skills in project management cycle management, planning & monitoring tools
• A minimum of 2 years of experience as field coordinator in emergency context, or at least in big and complex project management.
• Experience in WASH project would be an asset.
• Proven skills in team management
• Strong coordination and negotiation skills
• Flexible, able to work in team and to work under pressure and autonomous
• Srong interpersonal and intercultural skills.

 

 

REQUIRED LANGUAGE SKILLS: Excellent written and spoken level in English. 

 

Handicap International is looking for : Ambulance Platform Project Manager – Short term mission
COUNTRY : SIERRA LEONE	CITY : Freetown
Starting date : 26th October 2015	Length of the assignment : until 31rst December 2015
Closing date for application : 23rd October 2015	Advertisement reference : DIR-SAN-SLE-2064

Handicap International is an independent and impartial international aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our action and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights.

Handicap International is a not-for-profit organisation with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation made up of a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects and implement its actions and social mission.

For more details on the association: www.handicap-international.fr and review our job offers: http://www.handicap-international.fr/emploi

 

JOB CONTEXT:

The Ebola outbreak hit Guinea in December 2013. This is the first time virus is rife in West Africa; previously, over twenty deadly but rather limited outbreaks occurred in Central Africa where the virus was identified in 1976. The Ebola virus appeared in the forest area very close to the border with Sierra Leone and Liberia and, starting from Dec 2013, quickly spread to neighbouring districts in the two countries. Despite repeated global warning from MSF, WHO and national authorities were slow to implement strong control plans and the International response has been slow to deploy.

 

Today the epidemic is still not completely under control, especially in Guinea & Sierra Leone.

Today reaching Zero case is the objective. The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) entered Sierra Leone during a positive momentum in the country's development trajectory. The EVD have significant direct and indirect impact on the economy and the society at large, which are rapidly reversing the gains Sierra Leone has made over the past decade. This situation still needs to be urgently addressed to reduce the humanitarian consequences of the epidemic, especially the disruption of health services and the fragile livelihood situation.

 

HI RESPONSE

The Handicap International "Mano River" programme that covers Liberia and Sierra Leone was implementing the following projects until the outbreak of the epidemic in these two countries early in the summer of 2014:

• Inclusive Education projects (1 in Liberia and 1 in Sierra Leone);
• Mother and Child Health Project (SL),
• Civil society support project (disability movement) in Liberia. These projects have been stopped and their human resources devoted to the Ebola response.

 

The HI response to Ebola focuses in Sierra Leone on:

• Ebola Ambulance fleet management in Western Area (Freetown and rural area): transportation of affected persons and home decontamination.
• Ebola awareness raising of vulnerable groups (persons with disabilities, sex workers, HIV/AID affected, etc...), either through direct awareness actions with these groups or through sensitisation of stakeholders in the field (authorities, NGOs in order to include the specificities of those groups in their awareness campaigns. Awareness campaigns realized during the first phase towards people with disabilities were accompanied by a distribution of hygiene products.
• Consortium with several INGOs, to support the identification and response to protection issues, particularly alerts related to Ebola context.
• Resuming the Inclusive Education project following the reprogramming process to adapt the activities to Ebola context.

 

Today, in Sierra Leone, HI is leader of the “special needs” sub-committee of the cluster “Social Mobilisation” (lead by UNICEF).

 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As Ambulance Platform Project Manager, you will be under the supervision of the Emergency coordinator and you will supervise 1 logistician, 1 administrator, 2 IPC Manager (Infection and Prevention Control). The total number of project staff is 250 persons

 

You will be responsible to:

• set up and ensure the continuous monitoring of the project; plan, monitor and identify potential obstacles to programmatic success in a timely fashion, and implement corrective actions as needed
• participate to the definition, planning and proposal writing of the possible next phases of the project
• properly manage the team under your responsibility (including regular meetings and guidance, development of individual action plans when necessary…)
• ensure a correct follow-up of the administrative and logistic aspects of the project
• supervise the project budget and the follow-up the expenses
• regularly report on the activities (statistics, review monthly objectives, situation report, PM box, etc.) as per requested by the Emergency Coordinator
• Ensure external coordination and partnership operational management
• Ensure external (Donor reports) reporting of the project
• Ensure a smooth coordination with the other HI projects (referral system and tools…)
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• JOB ENVIRONMENT:

  You will be based in Freetown office, in a guesthouse with other expatriates (no charges)

  There is no contact at all with Ebola patients for any expatriate positions.

   

  Because of the Ebola context and safety concerns, the position is unaccompanied.

   
   

  EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS:

  Salary: from 2015 to 2400€ gross salary/month (depending of the experience of the candidate)+ 457 Euros net/month expatriation allowance + high level cost of life allowance  +50% of the medical cover taken in charge by HI + repatriation insurance + indemnity for partner and children

   

  The last 21 days of the contract will be spent out of Sierra Leone (mainly in Europe) if the country is not ‘’Ebola free’’, to ensure the coverage of any health issue after the mission. If the country is ‘’Ebola free’’, the last 21 days of the contrat will be spent on fiels

  Rest and Recuperation (R&R) travel outside the country is provided every 8 weeks

   

   

  Please send resume and covering letter with the reference:

  By this link:http://hi.profilsearch.com/recrute/fr/fo_annonce_voir.php?id=1151&idpartenaire=142

• Or by our website: www.handicap-international.fr

  Please do not telephone