Emergency Coordinator - SIERRA LEONE

You have a Master in humanitarian assistance You are experienced in coordinating emergency projects (minimum 3 years) You have a strong experience with external coordination and representation, including with donors. You have to be adaptable, to be able to build relations with the various partner associations and institutions of HI SL / Liberia and with people at all levels. You should be prepared to work under pressure, and to be spirit of initiative. Good interpersonal and listening skills REQUIRED LANGUAGE SKILLS: For this position, it is required to have an excellent written and spoken level in English. Applying directly on the website is compulsory : http://hi.profilsearch.com/recrute/fr/fo_annonce_voir.php?id=921&idpartenaire=142 This advertisement is permanently open allowing continuous recruitment for this position.

The Emergency Coordinator will ensure Handicap International emergency strategic program development in accordance with humanitarian needs identified as well as financial opportunities to be raised in the frame of Handicap International’s mandate and expertise; NGO PRESENTATION 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: http://www.handicap-international.fr/en/s/index.html MISSION CONTEXT According to the latest World Health Organization update on February 1st, 2015, a total of 22,495 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola and 8,981 deaths had been reported as of February 1st from the three West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) where transmission has been widespread and intense . Total case counts include all suspected, probable, and confirmed cases, which are defined similarly by each country. HI 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. Today, in Sierra Leone, HI is leader of the “special needs” sub-committee of the cluster “Social Mobilisation” (lead by UNICEF).  Consortium with several INGOs, to support the identification and rapid response to protection alerts for Ebola Affected persons (Freetown Area). The Handicap International "Mano River" programme that covers Liberia and Sierra Leone (based in SL) 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. JOB DESCRIPTION As Emergency Coordinator, you will directly report to the Program Director (Country Director), and you will be in charge of coordinating and developing the HI emergency and recovery strategy (except for inclusion and social mobilization projects currently on going and under the Inclusion and Rights Coordinator supervision). MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES • Ensuring strategic programs development in accordance with humanitarian needs identified in the frame of Handicap International’s mandate and expertise; • Monitor, in coordination with the Programme Director, the evolution of the humanitarian situation, particularly through information gathering, participating in meetings with emergency and recovery stakeholders, and representing HI in relevant forums; • Oversee the implementation and ensure relevancy and quality of emergency/recovery response projects, as well as cross cutting between the different projects and thematic; • Supervise the on-going needs assessments (supervision of the service provider in Freetown); • Ensuring the operational management of the team placed under your responsibility (expatriate positions: Protection and Ambulance project managers); • Identify resources to be mobilized for new interventions and support proposal writing when relevant; • Participate in the management committees of the programme; • Ensuring the smooth coordination with the Inclusion coordinator; • Ensuring smooth and regular reporting activities to the Program Director; MAIN TASKS OF THE EXPATRIATE Under the direct responsibility and support of the Program Director and in link with the Ebola Program Officer in HQ, you will be responsible for: REPRESENTATION • You participate actively to coordination and information meetings linked with the emergency and recovery response (clusters, NGO coordination, etc.); • In coordination with the Program Director, you represent the organization, its activities and programs during emergency delegation visits; • In coordination with the Program Director, you may respond to media solicitations; STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROGRAMS • You regularly follow up humanitarian needs, donors strategies, financing opportunities in Sierra Leone linked with the emergency and future recovery phase; • You regularly update programs strategy suggestions for Handicap International in the country; • You support the project managers to ensure proposal and reports writing (renewal of projects or new projects); • You discuss proposal submitted towards potential donors and negotiate related budgets in collaboration with the Program Director; SUPERVISION AND MONITORING • You ensure the coherence and the homogeneity of all projects under your responsibility (methodologies, indicators and results follow up); • You organise and animate team coordination meetings as frequently as possible; • You inform your manager of any relevant issue related to the projects implementation; TEAM MANAGEMENT • You define, with each expatriate under your responsibility, his action plan and delay for reaching defined goals (IAP); • You support and advise your team in the implementation of their IAP; • You ensure feed back towards your team about issues potentially raised by them; • You ensure a good communication – coordination – information level of each member of your team through regular coordination meetings (or other if needed); • You are concerned and aware on the personal and professional evolution of each expatriate under your management, and its development within the mission : individual interviews, oral and written evaluations; • You ensure conflict resolution (personal and professional) within your team and inform your manager; REPORTING • You receive and take acknowledgment of technical sitreps sent by your team • You write the emergency department monthly sitreps, and send them monthly to the Program Director • You regularly update partners on the organisation activities (especially in relevant coordination meetings) and send activities reports when accurate; • You regularly update donors on projects follow up (through contractual demanded or ad hoc reports); • You provide a mission report and/or handover document at the end of your contract; • Debriefing at HQ at the end of your mission (and during Home-Break if needed). JOB CONDITIONS • Status: French salaried contract (from 2200€ gross salary/month + 457 Euros net/month expatriation allowance + High level life cost allowance) • Start: Summer 2015 regarding availability • Duration: 3 months renewable (+21 days) • Living conditions: guesthouse shared with other expatriates (no charges) • Social insurance: 100% covered + Repatriation insurance • A Rest and Recuperation (R&R) travel outside the country is provided every 8 weeks. • The contract length includes 21 extra days that the expatriate will spend out of Sierra Leone (in Europe), to ensure the coverage of any health issue after the mission. • Because of the safety concerns, the position is unaccompanied. • There si no contact at all with Ebola patients for any expatriate positions.