Job Description
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Deputy Country Director
Garowe, Puntland
Background
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC seeks to protect refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights in general and to promote long term solutions to the problems of forced displacement. The Horn of Africa and Yemen region includes operations in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Yemen and Uganda and is based on the displacement axis of Somalis, South Sudanese as well as mixed migration flows.
The Somalia programme is the largest programme in the region, with over 20 field bases, approximately 275 staff, a team of senior technical staff, and a broad portfolio of programmes. Programmes range from emergency response activities (shelter/NFI, protection, livelihoods, and WASH, livelihood and food security, and community development programmes.
Purpose
The Deputy Country Director, reporting to the Country Director, will provide leadership and oversight of Danish Refugee Council’s programming across Somalia and is instrumental in donor engagement, liaison and fundraising. DRC Somalia. The DCD will contribute to strategic planning and lead in management of all technical experts within the Somalia programme. The incumbent will oversee and coordinate programmatic issues related to quality and delivery with a focus on program sector integration and collaboration. The DCD is responsible for high quality and accountable programme design and delivery. In DRC, the DCD retains a high degree of autonomy, within a clearly defined regional strategic framework.
The Deputy leads the development of new programming strategies and program reporting. He/she has a close working relationship with the CD and the Head of Finance and Administration as part of the executive management team. The below list of responsibilities is not exhaustive but other tasks maybe required to adapt to operational needs.
Management Responsibilities
- As Head of Programmes, provides leadership in the design, delivery and quality of DRC Somalia programme.
- Has the responsibility for managing and developing staff under his supervision and ensuring that the DRC values are in cooperated in the leadership and upheld.
- Serves as member of the SMT, including supporting the Country Director (CD) to lead the SMT toward the achievement of common goals, and, at times, serving as the Acting Country Director in the absence of the CD.
- Work closely with the Head of Programme for DDG to ensure complementarity of action and enhance synergies between the program sectors as appropriate.
- Supports the development of in country expertise in each sector as well as supporting the agenda for capacity building of national staff.
- Responsible for ensuring that the program is donor compliant and respects DRC accountability principles.
Fundraising and New programme development
- Assist with development of new programmes and activities as required to respond to critical needs or for strategic development of programme.
- Support fund raising from traditional and new donors and especially OFDA, ECHO, UN agencies and other sources’
- Support opening of new strategic locations for program expansion.
- Support the CD in fundraising through Consortia approach.
- Facilitate the technical teams to come up with a fundraising strategy for Somalia.
Programme Strategy:
To contribute to the Somalia programme strategy, within DRC’s overall country and regional and global strategic frameworks. Tasks include:
- Ensures all staff understand the regional and global frameworks,
- In collaboration with RO, manages a consultative process for local strategy development, plays a leading role in annual programme portfolio analyses,
- In collaboration with the CD is responsible for fundraising and donor contract management,
- Responsible for the coordination of quarterly meetings, project kick off and closure meetings, and the Annual Review and
- Facilitates synergy between DRC and DDG program activities.
Programme Delivery:
To be responsible for delivering a high quality and accountable programme in Somalia. Tasks include:
- Ensuring the local quality assurance systems are developed and followed,
- Providing staff with direction and input and prioritize technical expertise according to programme needs,
- Ensuring timely implementation and reporting,
- Ensuring all programmes have work plans which are in line with strategic priorities,
- Consulting with AMs and advice them on timely implementation of programs.
Quality and Accountability:
To be responsible for achieving programme compliance with the organisational quality and accountability commitments. Tasks include:
- With RO and Country programme, ensure that Programme Handbook is presented to all staff,
- lead process of developing and updating local HAF and Quality Management System (QMS),
- enabling programme reach compliance with HAF/CHS and follow QMS,
- ensure complaints handling mechanisms are in place for all programmes,
- promote accountability concepts and practices amongst humanitarian community
- supervise and prioritize M&E and learning section activities to ensure effective quality monitoring and evaluation for DRC Somalia programmes
- Support program teams in ensuring learning across the programs and replication of best practices.
- support to ensure that all programs are complying with standards and procedures in terms of HR and Administration; Safety; logistics, procurement and financial accountability
Representation Coordination and Stakeholder management.To ensure that DRC maintains excellent and productive relations with all key stakeholders, especially beneficiaries, local authorities, the humanitarian community and donors. Tasks include:
- representing DRC at relevant and senior forums/ meetings such as donor meetings, fundraising forums, HCT, field donor meetings,
- ensuring other senior staff under your supervision staff are appropriately representing DRC at relevant forums/ meetings,
- maintaining agreed profile of DRC at country/ programme level,
- conducting regular stakeholder analyses to ensure that DRC has good understanding of dynamics/ relationships in Somalia,
- Representing DRC Somalia in strategic forums on behalf of the CD,
- Engaging in coordination processes amongst key stakeholders particularly national and regional authorities and donors for Somalia). Taking lead in specific donors namely UNHCR, OCHA, UNFPA and GIZ.
Advocacy and communication.To lead the team’s advocacy in all DRC’s key and agreed messages. Tasks include:
- With Country programme and RO, preparing a programme advocacy and communication strategy,
- Guiding staff to advocate clearly, appropriately and strategically.
- Support the CD in the development of communication materials, including brochures, case studies as well as press releases.
Capacity BuildingEnsure that staff are continuously developing their ability to fulfill their job descriptions as well as the organisational requirements. Task include:
- With Country programme HoFA and RO, preparing a capacity building strategy and action plan,
- Securing resources to enable capacity building,
- Implementing a variety of capacity building techniques,
- Ensure EPRP training is carried out in all program locations and updated annually
- Review relevancy of requested training among the program staff.
Reporting ArrangementsThe Country Director will supervise the DRC Somalia Deputy Country Director The DCD will manage all technical staff in the DRC programme and is a member of the SMT.
Conditions:Contract: One year with possibility of extension, subject to funding. Salary and other conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates (available at www.drc.dk under Vacancies) This position is graded as A6; competitive salary and benefits under the national staff salary scale for Somalia as relevant to candidate.
Availability: September 2015
Duty Station: Garowe with frequent travel in other offices
GeneralCommitments: DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability committments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework
Qualifications Essential:
- A Master’s degree in a relevant field
- A minimum of Six years management experience, as head or senior member of humanitarian or development project.
- Good communicator and proven diplomacy with all types of stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to fundraise and build excellent relationship with current and potential donors
- Proven commitment to accountable practices and knowledgeable of quality assurance systems
- Hands on experience of managing staff in insecure locations
- Proven financial and human resource management skills.
- Experience of managing budgets and multiple donor contracts
- Knowledge of protection issues.
- Fluent and articulate in spoken and written English.
- Ability and willingness to engage with all levels of staff and stakeholder
Preferable:
- Experienced with conflict related displacement issues
- Experience of humanitarian advocacy.
- Operational experience from Somalia and/or Horn of Africa and Yemen
Application and CVOnly motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered.
DRC only accepts applications sent via our online-application form on www.drc.dk under Vacancies > Current Vacancies > Deputy Country Director, Somalia. Please remember to upload both a letter of application and your CV and do not attach any written recommendations.
CV-only applications will not be considered and email applications sent directly to the regional office will not be considered.
Please submit your application and CV in English
no later than 26 August, 2015.
If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please contact
job@drc.dk For general information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult
www.drc.dk This is a re-advertisement, candidates who applied previously need not re-apply.
