Belgium

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Medical or paramedical with field experience (min 2 years) and experience in nutrition in developing countries (experience with MSF is desirable).
• Specialisation or experience in paediatric nursing/medicine is an asset.
• Languages: knowledge of French and English essential, other international languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Arab ...) are an asset.
• Training: Ability and motivation to train field staff.
• Flexible for regular field-visits
• Management & organisational skills
• Good writing skills
• Good team-spirit
• Familiarity with Excel and Epi-info are an advantage.
• Adhere to our managerial values: Respect, Transparency, Integrity, Accountability, Trust, Empowerment

CONDITIONS

• Full time contract over ONE YEAR - based in Brussels
  • Available to perform regular field visits
  • Hospital Insurance (DKV) - Pension plan – Canteen at democratic price - 100% reimbursement for public transportation costs
  • Starting position 01/10/2018

Deadline for applications: September, 28th 2018

Interested candidates should send a cover letter and curriculum vitae stating Nut Advisor in the title, by e-mail to Caroline Maes - caroline.maes@brussels.msf.org

CONTEXT

Nutrition is part of the core activities of MSF. It is a transversal topic and our focus is not just for our malnourished patients but for every one of our patients and many of our patient’s caretakers too. We must also continue to improve the medical management of complicated acute malnutrition in order to adapt our practice and training of medical staff. We will also keep putting focus on the importance of the community aspect of nutritional support, striving for new and innovative ways to reach populations in need in a sustainable way. Introduction of nutrition care in other hospital departments (surgery, ICU…) needs continual support and evaluation. We also need to constantly improve our monitoring of food security and surveillance systems and have this integrated into our project planning.

JOB PROFILE

Development and follow-up of nutritional activities in our missions (40%).

To ensure efficacy and quality of our nutritional interventions, the nutrition adviser: Provides technical support and advice to field teams, operation department, emergency pool for the nutritional / food security evaluations or surveys, development of strategies, and planning of nutritional services. Helps to estimate resources needed and to develop protocols for setting up activities. Follows Early warning Systems (FEWS, FAO, Sahel...). Carries out field visits: project evaluation (general organization, quality of care, results and functioning indicators...), technical support for implementation (revision of protocols, coaching, bedside teaching etc.) with written reports of the visits including recommendations.

• Reads and comments on documents written by field teams.
• Answers technical questions specific to nutrition or food security coming from the field or headquarters.
• Monitors projects: helping to collect and analyse nutritional data from the field with regular feedback.

Technical Advice/Focus on Nutrition (30%)

To disseminate and guide missions on our nutritional strategies and guidelines, the nutrition adviser:

• Carries out literature searches and establishes technical files on specific subjects (e.g. micronutrients, breast feeding, hospital feeding …).
• Follows the evolution of research in the field of nutrition by following scientific publications and participating in existing networks of nutritionists and specialists in food security in the world as well as insuring regular contacts with institutions like WHO, UNHCR, WFP, FAO and other organizations concerned by nutrition.
• Supports new and existing research in nutrition.
• Participates, when required, in the MSF international working group meetings and discussions.
• Participates in thematic circles, medical meetings, Medco/Hom coordination week.
• Participates in building briefing tools.

Training and follow-up (25%)

To ensure that national staff, field expatriates and HQ members get the appropriate and updated tools to set-up nutritional activities, the nutrition adviser:

• Continues to support, develop and implement training sessions (PMR training, FLMT, PSP, retrospective and nutritional surveys, nutrition module in diverse trainings (log, HIV, SRH…).
• Supports MSF staff undergoing nutritional trainings with respect to answering technical questions and giving general guidance
• Does briefing / debriefing of medical & field coordinators, project medical referents, and sometimes medical doctors + nurses.
• Follows with pool managers, the evolution of expatriates with a nutrition profile.

Communication (5%)

To ensure a correct dissemination of information on our nutritional activities, the nutrition adviser:

• Supports the communication department in the development of communications concerning our nutritional activities and programs.
• Disseminates internally and externally documents / reports concerning our projects and strategies (nutrition surveys, nutrition projects)

Reference person

• The Medical Director
• You will work in close collaboration with the paediatricians, vaccination team and SRH team and on an ad-hoc way with the other experts from the medical department.
• The post's objectives, activities and functioning will be updated regularly with the medical director.

EXPECTED PROFILE

• Student in Human Rights, Development or Social Science
• Strong interest for fields of inclusion of discriminated groups, inclusive governance and capacity development, human rights promotion and monitoring, advocacy and community mobilization, inclusive public policies
• Strong analytical skill, strategic thinking and writing skills
• Autonomous, rigorous, reliable and able to work with many different interlocutors
• Fluent in English both in writing and speaking
• Good knowledge of IT tools and processes for knowledge management, Graphic design knowledge is an asset
• Committed to the values of equity and inclusion

INTERNSHIP 'SUPPORT TO CIVIL SOCIETY'

Are you looking for a motivating job while working in a challenging environment?

Handicap International is an international humanitarian organisation operating in 60 countries with headquarters in Brussels and Lyon. Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity.

 

BACKGROUND

The overall goal of this position is to support the quality of HI’s work on strengthening persons with disabilities’ participation in decision-making process from grassroots to international levels, support the capacity development of Civil Society Organizations (including Disabled People’s Organisations) to better represent their members and promote an inclusive society and access to services for all.

The intern will be part of the Operations Divisions and will belong to the Social and Inclusion Technical Direction, working with a team of three Technical Advisors and one Manager providing technical expertise in several fields such as : support to Disabled People’s Organizations, Inclusive policies, Inclusive Local Development, Disability rights and monitoring, Access to justice and political participation, Disability data and statistics, etc.

 

OBJECTIVES AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

1.    Support the definition of HI approaches in services linked to citizenship, access to justice and political participation of persons with disabilities 

• Contribute to the development of coherent positioning and related tools on strengthening global HI framework on political participation 
• Identify needs and develop practical tools to support projects and activities in political participation
• Gather training contents and materials on the topic
• Capitalize, identify good practices, relevant networks and lessons learnt thanks to some interviews with various stakeholders involved (Technical Advisors, operational teams, Desks, partners etc.) and internal/external evaluations

2.    Development and animation of Knowledge Management tools for the unit

• Creation and facilitation of the new Support to Civil Society section within HI intranet
• Support the creation of a common classification system and exchange platform within unit’s members (Dropbox or others)
• Make inventory and classification of existing tools, curriculum and training on areas related to Support to Civil Society from different HI missions

3.    Support the team of Technical Advisors and Manager in daily activities

• Support of the draft of the 3-year plan of the Civil Society/Inclusive Governance sector and the Social and Inclusion technical Direction, including key performance indicators and annual objectives
• Support to the coordination between the 3 Technical Advisors and Manager in defining strategic tools, standards and operating framework of the unit in line with the STRATECH of the Technical Direction
• Support to the team as per request

 

CONDITIONS

• Internship with monthly allowance from 640,70€ (18 years) to 781,30€ (21 years and above), under eligibility of the “Convention d’Immersion Professionnelle”.
• Duration: 6 months, to start ASAP
• Localization: Brussels 
• Working language: English, French desirable

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. If you think you can fulfill this job requirements please contact us via l.goupil-barbier@hi.org. Deadline: 21 septembre 2018

 

www.handicapinternational.be

 

Profile 

Education

• Qualifications: University degree in Finance/Economy
• Languages: fluent French and English.

Experience

• Professional experience in the financial field of minimum 3 years, experience in the NGO sector being an asset
• Good command of the Windows environment (very good command of Excel, knowledge of Navision being a plus)
• Experience in the donor contract financial management as well as in the financial management of consortium and is a strong asset

Other

• Team working
• Work in a multi-cultural environment
• Autonomous in his/her area of responsibility
• Good communication skills
• Solution oriented
• Motivation for the NGO sector
• Agree with HI’s vision and social missions.

Handicap International is looking for a

Financial Controller

HQ – Federation Handicap International (Humanity and Inclusion)

  

Main Job description

The HQ finance department is in charge of the accounting management, the treasury management and part of the financial control of the Brussels operations which include 2 separate legal entities Federation Handicap International and Handicap International ASBL/VZW.

Together with the HQ Finance Manager, this position will reinforce the overall Finance department including the financial control of HI’s global Advocacy department (based in Paris and Brussels) for a transitional period (leave of the person currently holding the job). The HI advocacy department is working on policy changes at global level on issues such as protection of civilians against armed violence, access to humanitarian assistance, access to services for persons with disabilities. These activities are funded by several institutional donors and in partnership with other organizations.

  

Responsibilities

1-    Financial control of the Advocacy department

For the contracts he/she will follow and for the activity generated by the Advocacy department

• Financial advisor to the Director of the Policy Unit and the overall operating team 
• Budget, revised BU, rolling Forecast and 3-year plan calculation and overall reporting to the Federation
• Quarterly financial/budget follow-up of the ongoing contracts, update of the corporate reporting tool (NAVISION) with contractual and financing information and follow-up of the status of the contract
• Preparation, consolidation and control of the financial information included in the intermediate or final reports to the Donors according to the signed agreements.
• Coordination, control and follow-up of donor contracts, in stand alone or in consortium with other partners
• Support for raising new institutional funds on the financial part of development of proposals
• Closure of the books: coordination of the closure of the Advocacy department (twice a year) with the accounting team in Lyon and Brussels, revenue recognition calculation and posting.
• Audit Coordination: coordination, planning and preparation of the audits,

The job holder will be the focal point for the Advocacy team‘s financial issues. He/she will also be expected to bring proposals, expertise in order to improve and structure working processes and tools.

 

2-    Support to Brussels finance department (Brussels Operation Center) 

Within the Finance department, he/she will be responsible for:

• Supporting finance related projects within the simplification initiative in various fields: Treasury, Accounting, Management Control and Reporting for instance,
• The Financial follow-up of other social missions within the perimeter of the Brussels operations (National Belgian association or Brussels Operation Center) including process improvements and contract follow-up.

He/She will be interacting with the management of the Policy Unit and its overall operational officers, the Brussels and Lyon finance staff, external auditors and donors as well as the team responsible for Institutional Donor relations in Brussels or Lyon.

Location: Brussels

Department: HQ finance Department

Team: 5 people / 4.5 FTE

Title: HQ Controller

N+1: HQ Finance Manager

N+2: General Secretary – Humanity and Inclusion (Lyon)

Team management: None

Contrat: 12 months contract – Full time. From the first of October 2018

Package including: Chèques repas, Pension, Medical insurance

Business Trips: Regular travels to Paris or Lyon (France).

 

 

If you think you fit this profile, do not hesitate, contact us via

jobs.belgium@hi.org 

 

www.handicapinternational.be

•  Diplôme universitaire (Master au minimum) en sciences sociales, éducation et formation, pédagogie, emploi, économie ou assimilé ;
• Au minimum 10 ans d’expérience pertinente dans le domaine spécifique de l’enseignement et la formation professionnels (formation, financement, appui au développement de stratégies en matière d’EFP et d’emploi, implication du secteur privé, appui à l’emploi, inclusion, assurance qualité, développement de programmes d’études EFP,…) ;
• Au minimum 5 ans d’expérience pertinente dans la gestion de projets et la coordination d’équipe dans le domaine de la coopération au développement, en ce compris la coordination des partenariats multi-acteur.

 

Financé par l’Union Européenne, le projet « VET Toolbox »  vise les objectifs suivants :

• améliorer l’efficacité des réformes dans l’Enseignement et la Formation Professionnels (EFP, ou VET en anglais) dans les pays partenaires européens (en Afrique, en Amérique latine, en Asie et dans le Pacifique) afin qu’elles soient davantage axées sur la demande et répondent mieux aux besoins du marché du travail, et qu’elles facilitent l’accès à l’(auto-)emploi, y compris pour les groupes défavorisés ;
• fournir aux pays partenaires un savoir-faire, des outils et des conseils afin d’améliorer la réactivité au marché du travail des réformes, stratégies et plans d’action de l’EFP, en particulier ceux soutenus par l’Union Européenne (CE et États membres de l’UE), avec une attention particulière pour l’inclusion des groupes défavorisés.

 

La Commission Européenne a demandé à un consortium de cinq agences de développement bilatéral de mettre conjointement en œuvre la VET Toolbox (AFD, British Council, Enabel, GIZ et LuxDev).

Une unité de coordination du projet basée dans les bureaux d’Enabel à Bruxelles assure la liaison avec les agences bilatérales chargées de mettre conjointement en œuvre les activités.

 

Responsabilités principales du chef d’équipe de l’unité de gestion du projet :

 

• Gestion de projet : planification opérationnelle et financière, suivi de l’atteinte des résultats ;
• Coordination du projet : coordonner les activités exécutées par les agences, et veiller à une exécution optimale et qui respecte les orientations données par le Comité de pilotage du projet.
• Expertise: qualité des outputs techniques et amélioration permanente de celle-ci ;
• Gestion des connaissances : coordonner le développement d’une approche programme basée sur les connaissances pour faire de la VET Toolbox un véritable centre de connaissances et d’expertise ;
• Animation du partenariat : être catalyseur et facilitateur du partenariat entre les agences de mise en œuvre, l’union européenne et les pays partenaires dans lesquelles les activités du projet se déroulent ;
• People Management : diriger l’équipe afin d’avoir du personnel qualifié et motivé ;
• Communication : garantir une communication et une représentation appropriées de la VET Toolbox à l’ensemble des parties prenantes.

 

 

Votre profil

 

• Diplôme universitaire (Master au minimum) en sciences sociales, éducation et formation, pédagogie, emploi, économie ou assimilé ;
• Au minimum 10 ans d’expérience pertinente dans le domaine spécifique de l’enseignement et la formation professionnels (formation, financement, appui au développement de stratégies en matière d’EFP et d’emploi, implication du secteur privé, appui à l’emploi, inclusion, assurance qualité, développement de programmes d’études EFP,…) ;
• Au minimum 5 ans d’expérience pertinente dans la gestion de projets et la coordination d’équipe dans le domaine de la coopération au développement, en ce compris la coordination des partenariats multi-acteur.
• Très bonne maîtrise de l’anglais et du français tant à l’oral qu’à l’écrit ;
• Compréhension étendue et approfondie de tous les aspects liés à la coopération au développement ;
• Connaissances et expertise avérées en EFP, emploi ou appui au secteur privé ainsi que dans la préparation de documents techniques ou stratégiques dans ce domaine ;
• Excellentes aptitudes en matière de gestion et d’organisation ;
• Expertise en capitalisation et gestion des connaissances.

 

 

Nous vous offrons

 

Un contrat d’environ 45 mois (en fonction de la date de démarrage) basé au sein de notre siège social.

Nos bureaux sont situés à Bruxelles, dans l’agréable et vivant quartier des Marolles, facile d’accès en transport en commun ou en train.

 

Salaire mensuel brut : (classe 7 HQ) : 5.143,71 euros pour xx années d’expérience. Le salaire sera calculé en fonction du nombre réel d’années d’expérience pertinente.

Chèques repas, assurance hospitalisation/soins de santé, assurance de groupe, ETHIAS-Assistance 24 h/24, 13e mois, double pécule de vacances.

 

 

 

Intéressé?

 

Vous vous retrouvez dans ce profil et êtes enthousiaste à l’idée de contribuer à un large projet européen?

 

Alors n’attendez plus et postulez avec votre CV actualisé et une lettre de motivation, au plus tard le 19/09/2018 via notre site web:

 

https://www.enabel.be/fr/content/jobs