Director - Rohingya Emergency Response

Director - Rohingya Emergency Response

Bangladesh

About the role: This is a 6 month, new role with unaccompanied terms based in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh at Grade 5 with a salary range €43,230 - €48,034.**

You will report to the Country Director and work closely with Programme and Systems Directors and other staff.

We would like you to start as soon as possible.

Your purpose:

The Director - Rohingya Emergency Response will provide strategic leadership, direction and overall management of Concern’s Rohingya Emergency Response operations. The Director will represent Concern in Humanitarian Response Coordination mechanisms, Government representatives and donors to ensure the delivery of a high quality, coordinated response. The Director will provide overall oversight and guidance for Concern’s presence and implementation of programming in Cox’s Bazar, ensure the quality of the current response whilst also leading the scale up and sectoral expansion of Concern’s Rohingya Response. The Emergency Director will develop strategies to avail all available resources, provide overall oversight and guidance for Concern’s presence and implementation of programming in Cox’s Bazar, and will be expected to work effectively across the organization to deliver high-quality programs, advocacy and strategic engagement.

You will be responsible for:

Providing strategic leadership and coordination including, but not limited to:

• Representing Concern’s Rohingya Emergency Response and developing effective relationships with humanitarian response coordination mechanisms, the Government of Bangladesh, other humanitarian responders, Concern’s partners, Alliance2015 members (WHH & PIN), and donors so that all stakeholders are aware of Concern’s current Response and future directions.
• Ensuring alignment and coordination of Concern’s operations with the wider humanitarian response coordination mechanisms by ensuring Concern’s engagement, coordination and reporting with Sectors (Cluster) and at Camp Levels.
• Contributing towards the strategic direction of the response and sector strategies through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums.
• Leading and overseeing the implementation of a coherent and strategic emergency response by setting the strategic vision and direction for the team

Ensuring high quality delivery of Concern’s humanitarian response with maximum efficiency, quality, and professionalism, including, but not limited to:

• Providing overall oversight and management of Concern’s Rohingya Response in Cox’s Bazar.
• Managing multi-sectoral and multi-donor projects in accordance with the project plan; ensuring implementation is as per Sector strategies, Concern’s Global standards and guidelines, Core Humanitarian Standards, SPHERE standards, Government of Bangladesh national guidelines in the delivery of the activities. Continually reviewing ongoing implementation to ensure continued relevance and technical standards are being met.
• Leading Concern’s emergency preparedness activities to mitigate disaster risk arising from upcoming monsoon and cyclones threats in collaboration with others (Govt. and Sector), by maintaining an understanding of Concern’s preparedness for emergency, ensuring the team is trained, informed and ready to respond as per the Standard Operating Procedures for disaster response in Cox’s Bazar.
• In coordination with the Emergency Response Programme Manager and M&E Officer, ensuring effective internal monitoring & evaluation systems, the preparation of all reporting on activities in compliance with Concern, sector and donor requirements and contributing towards sector and donor evaluations.
• Ensuring effective execution of all our policy and procedures in all our programmes and that systems are in compliance with Concern’s standards and efficiency.

Expanding Concern’s humanitarian response in Cox’s Bazar, including, but not limited to:

• Providing detailed strategic analysis of the humanitarian context, identifying where unmet humanitarian needs persists, ensuring high quality assessments and coordination with sectors to identify gaps and developing recommendations for new programme design, resource and funding requirements.
• Developing, establishing and broadening Concern’s partnerships with existing national partners, Alliance2015 members and other humanitarian organisations in order to develop and implement large scale, multi-sector response programmes that leverage the comparative advance of partners and develop.
• Identifying, designing and preparing new initiatives for expansion Concern’s Rohingya Response, coordinating the process of developing high quality concept papers and proposals and leading the presentation and negotiation of proposals to donors for funding.

Operations management and security, including, but not limited to:

• Overseeing the running of the Field Office, coordinating all operational aspects with support from Country Office and HQ.
• Ensuring the implementation of Concern’s Cox’s Bazar Security Management Plan and procedures are in place and continually monitor the safety and security situation and ensuring the update of all plans and Security Tree as required in collaboration with the Director of Systems.
• Overseeing effective functioning of logistics and procurement systems to procure, store and distribute stock, supplies and services for the timely delivery of project objectives at national level.
• Planning, identifying and resourcing appropriate and effective structure & staffing needs for the response, as per Concern’s Global Policies and national laws.
• Ensuring the team have a strong understanding of safeguarding of beneficiaries as per Concern’s P4 policy.

Financial management, including, but not limited to:

• Ensuring the proper financial management of Concern’s resources through appropriate budgeting, expenditure and monitoring processes.
• Working closely with Concern’s Country Finance team to ensure compliance with all internal and Govt. legal compliances and submit accurate reports to all our donors on time.
• Providing timely and effective oversight of the financial position of the country program including identification and implementation of required changes to match funding levels.
• Monitoring and identifying appropriate sources for match fund requirements and coverage of funding gaps.

Your skills and experience will include:

Essential:

• At least 5 years senior management experience in working in complex, protracted emergencies in a challenging work environment.
• Strong knowledge of humanitarian principles, standards and system (IHL, Core Humanitarian Standards, IASC, Cluster System, Civil-Military relations) and key relief sectors.
• Experience of organisational representation, advocacy and coordination with the humanitarian response coordination mechanisms, including other NGOs/UN agencies and donors.
• Strong leadership and management of multi-sector teams in an emergency setting, with skills in guiding, mentoring, coaching and training teams and staff.
• Experience of leading, transitioning and scaling up first phase emergency responses into stabilized, multi-sector large scale emergency response operations.
• Operational experience of new programme design, participatory programme planning, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, including application of SPHERE standards and the Core Humanitarian Standards.
• Experience of managing multi-donor funding (Institutional, Appeal, Private) and multi-site programmes.
• Experience in working with partners (NGO/GO) and multi-sectoral stakeholders.
• Proven aptitude to inspire creative growth, innovation and learning.
• Experience in vigorously advocating to stakeholders for resources, responses and recognition of complex humanitarian and development problems.
• Strong human resource management skills including capacity building and mentoring.
• Experience supervising and managing a multi-disciplinary team in a cross-cultural setting.
• Previous budget and fiscal oversight responsibilities.
• Ability and personal resilience to work in fast paced, dynamic and pressurised environment.
• Well-developed written and oral communications skills in English with high level experience in representation and negotiation.
• Ability to work, live and thrive in a complex environment.

Desirable:

• Experience working in Bangladesh or Asia
• Experience of working in previous ‘L3 Emergencies’

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date. CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.

Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer posts before the closing date.

C**oncern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.**