SOS Children’s Villages Malawi is a non-governmental social development organization which started its operations in Malawi in1991after its first establishment in 1949 by Hermann Gmeiner in Austria, operating in 133 Countries with a mission of building families for children in need, helping them to shape their own futures and sharing in the development of their communities. SOS Children’s Villages Malawi is currently operating in 4 SOS Children’s Villages Program in Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Ngabu. SOS Children’s Villages Malawi supports children who have lost parental care and those at risk of losing parental care through its Child Development Program to develop within a caring family environment to their full potential as contributing members of their respective societies.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
The National ERP Coordinator will be expected to lead SOS Children’s Village Malawi’s Emergency Response Project implementation, monitoring, evaluation and contextual analysis of the food shortage situation in Malawi. S/he will be responsible for regular project reporting to the National Director and to donor, and must ensure effective coordination of project activities with the relevant Local Government departments and address other emerging needs in consultation with the National Director. National ERP Coordinator will be expected to ensure technical collaboration with the National Family Strengthening Program Coordinator and will supervise four ERP officers in Mzuzu, Blantyre, Ngabu and Lilongwe.
In June 2016, SOS Children’s Villages Malawi launched an emergency appeal to address the crisis of food shortage in Malawi, especially in the four program areas of Mzuzu, Blantyre, Ngabu and Lilongwe. The program will support to provide food aid to vulnerable identifies in the four locations according to the developed project proposal from January to March 2017. It is in that context that SOS Children’s Villages Malawi invites suitably qualified candidates to fill the position of National ERP Coordinator.
Detailed roles and responsibilities include;
- Represent the organization’s emergency program at national level and ensure a positive collaboration and working relationship with government institutions, local administration levels and other organizations in emergency response networks.
- Responsible for the implementation of the emergency activities, closely monitor and evaluate their evolution, final results and achievements to ensure that objectives are achieved.
- Responsible for monitoring and analyzing the emergency situation related to food shortage and floods across the country through established contacts with key persons/institutions.
- Represent the organization’s emergency program at national level and ensure a positive collaboration and working relationship with government institutions, local administration levels and other organizations in emergency response networks.
- Actively participate and coordinate in the various drought response clusters with NGOs, UN agencies and government offices.
- Conduct field visits at all locations to assess the situation of food shortage in the country.
- Lead on situation analysis and program proposal development.
- Overall Plan, organize supervise all procurement process according to SOS Procurement Guidelines.
- Lead, manage and motivate the team, ensuring that they have clear objectives, work-plans and receive meaningful and regular feedback on their performance.
- Build the capacity of National office and location staff in emergency response programming through creation of emergency response technical teams.
- Responsible for organizing training of project staff in use of new technologies (LMMS) and supervise the use of these technologies on the field.
- Guarantee a rational use of means and resources to carry out the project activities and ensuring field staff comply with accepted integrity and compliance principles.
- Ensure all project activities are conducted in accordance with agreed work-plan and proposal.
- Coordinate the process of development beneficiary criteria, updating and verification of beneficiary lists, sending updates to donor, through the National Director.
- Responsible to ensure information flow and reporting to and from National Director, IOR and IO - Global Emergency Response (GER) Unit and Project Coordinators. Work in close collaboration with other members of the SOS Children’s Villages’ team, sharing information and designing and implementing program activities.
- Ensure adherence to SOS Children’s Villages’ policies such as the Code of Conduct, Child Safeguarding Standards and others as well as the minimum standards of humanitarian relief (ICRC Code of Conduct, Sphere, HAP).
Requirements:
• University degree in Disaster Management or Development Studies, Social Sciences, Rural Development or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in humanitarian aid and/or development work in a Non-government organization. • Experience and knowledge of emergency project management including emergency needs assessment, project design, development and implementation • High level analytical skills and ability to think strategically and implement • Excellent organizational and problem solving skills • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Competent to work with significant levels of autonomy and as a team player • Ability at being flexible and adapt to changing situations • Excellent English language skills verbal and in written • Knowledge of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Minimum 3 years of experience in humanitarian aid and/or development work in a Non-government organization. • Experience and knowledge of emergency project management including emergency needs assessment, project design, development and implementation • High level analytical skills and ability to think strategically and implement • Excellent organizational and problem solving skills • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Competent to work with significant levels of autonomy and as a team player • Ability at being flexible and adapt to changing situations • Excellent English language skills verbal and in written • Knowledge of MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
HOW TO APPLY:
If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed application and curriculum vitae with three traceable referees to:
The Human Resource Manager
SOS Children’s Villages Malawi
P.O Box 2359
Lilongwe
Please ensure that you include your full contact details including telephone numbers and email address. Closing date receiving applications is 15 December 2016.
