Protection & Orphans Welfare Projects Manager
Secours Islamique France
FUNCTION
Protection & Orphans Welfare Projects Manager
CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND
Founded in 1992, Secours Islamique France (SIF) is a non-governmental organization for international solidarity with a social and humanitarian mission With a presence in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, Secours Islamique France assists the peoples through its emergency aid, development and orphan sponsorship programs in over 30 countries wherever humanitarian and social needs exist, without regard to race, religion or gender.
SIF Gaza Strip (GS) Mission in the Palestinian Territory (PT) was established in 2008, and since then has developed a comprehensive knowledge of the local context and understanding of local needs. SIF GS is a member of the Food Security, including Agriculture, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Health & Nutrition and Shelter/NFIs cluster since many years and play an active role in all cluster meetings. SIF GS also works in coordination with many local and international and humanitarian organizations in the GS and local NGOs to assess, share information and coordinate project implementation with The Palestinian Authority (PA) to obtain authorizations.
ORGANIZATION CHART
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION
The Protection & Orphans Welfare Projects Manager is responsible for the correct implementation of all protection projects and participates and elaborates of all winning proposals under the supervision of the MEAL & Programs Coordinator and in functional link with the Projects Officer of POMA as well as having the responsibility of the protection team under him/her.
Need assessment and proposal writing
- Elaborate appropriate questionnaires; identify needs for the different Projects.
- Responsible to analyze and evaluate the data collected by the team in order to articulate adequate proposals.
- Assist in completing the need assessment for the strategy;
- Draft Logical framework, project organigram chart, chronogram and proposal for new projects.
- Participate to the elaboration of the project budgets.
- Participate to the elaboration of the Country Strategy according to her / his sector of intervention under the guidance of the MEAL & Programs Coordinator and the Head of Mission.
Supervision of the implementation of projects activities
- Supervision the smooth implementation of all protection projects activities that defined by the MEAL & Programs Coordinator.
- Conduction of field visits to monitor the progress in implementation of activities and to give appropriate directions to the field team.
- Plan activities according to the expected progress of the project.
- Close monitoring of the key phases of the projects (opening, modifications, evaluations, closure).
National coordination
- Establish and strengthen local partnerships to enhance visibility of projects activities.
- Coordinate activities and sensitize local partners in the field: organize and participate in review meetings with partners, follow the partnership outputs in order to capitalize the lessons learnt and contribute to the elaboration of new strategies.
- Maintain regular and substantial contact with relevant national and international NGOs and represent SIF in the Protection Cluster.
- Conduct the coordination meetings and working groups in absence of MEAL & Programs Coordinator.
Projects team management
- Participate to the recruitment of the newly employees.
- Plan and organize the team work of the team.
- Capacity building of the team if needed.
- Proposing trainings and workshops.
- Evaluations of the team on a regular base.
Monitoring and evaluation of the projects
- Ensure the implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of SIF’s protection projects under the guidance of the MEAL & Programs Coordinator;
- Assure a good internal follow-up of the projects in accordance with the project cycle, logical framework, timeframe, reporting and the general objectives already fixed.
- Evaluate and up-date project needs (HR, financing, logistics), ffollowing the directions of the MEAL & Programs Coordinator.
Reporting, project analysis and reorientation
- Ensure on time reporting to the MEAL & Programs Coordinator;
- Assure that his/her hierarchical link is fully aware of eventual changes or/and other important facts about the project.
- Prepare institutional donors reports under the supervision of the MEAL & Programs Coordinator.
- Analyse and build on past experiences in order to share the lessons learnt.
- Propose new directions for the project.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES
- University degree in international cooperation, humanitarian action or social sciences or related field.
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in an international organization or INGO;
- Well-skilled in project cycle management and logical framework methodology;
- Previous experience of minimum 3 years in project management and working with national partner organizations;
- Experience of conducting and managing research and data analysis.
- Ability to write clear, well founded and substantiated project reports and assessments in English;
- Proven financial management skills;
- Good command of procurement procedures and practice;
- Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English & Arabic;
- Flexibility and capacity to work effectively beyond working hours;
- Strong interpersonal, organizational and supervisory skills;
- Commitment and punctuality;
- Qualities: team spirit, patient, flexible, open minded, sociable, approachable.
Desirable
- Knowledge of protection, childhood protection, orphan welfare, community based interventions, social cohesion and gender sensitive programs;
- Experience of M&E and beneficiary accountability;
- Experience in proposal writing;
- Driving license;
Conditions
- Location: based in Gaza Strip Palestine
- Duration: 1 year.
- Starting Date: As Soon As Possible
- Protection & Orphans Welfare Projects Manager: (Ref #: 2017/03/ POWPM)
APPLICATIONN INSTRUCTION
Interested candidates are requested to send their CV & letter of motivation with the Ref # of the post (as indicated above) and two professional references for their last two employers no later than 02:00 p.m. on 15th May, 2017 to the following e-mail address:
Faxed CV’s or emails without the Post Title & Ref # will be neglected.
Only candidates possessing relevant experience will be considered.
Secours Islamique France is an equal opportunity employer.
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