Team Leader for DanChurchAid’s Humanitarian Programme Support Team
Copenhagen
- Organization: DCA - DanChurchAid
- Location: Copenhagen
- Grade: Junior level - Junior
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Occupational Groups:
- Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
- Administration/Finance
- Project and Programme Management
- Closing Date: Closed
Do you thrive in an environment with a multitude of tasks and changing contexts? Are you motivated by tight deadlines, and the need to joggle between the role as a facilitator, motivator, supporter and coordinator? And can you maintain an overview and instil clarity on processes?
As the Team Leader for our Humanitarian Programme Support Team you will be responsible for a team of 4-5 professionals all dedicated to support the country teams responsible for the 8-10 larger humanitarian operations. The team leader will be based at DCA’s Headquarter with frequent travels to DCA programmes.
The DCA Humanitarian Response and Mine Action (HRMA) Unit currently consists of 23 employees including 4 roving experts based outside DCA HQ in Copenhagen. The unit consist of three teams each with a team leader managed by the Head of Unit. The humanitarian programmes include strategic interventions in areas of humanitarian mine action and protection, cash-based programming and risk education, emergency livelihoods, psycho-social support, risk mitigation and capacity building of local actors.
The focus for HRMA is to find comprehensive responses to crisis and development challenges leveraging DCA’s multiple mandates and competences that cut across the humanitarian-development nexus to strengthen long term thinking in humanitarian response to increase resilience in protracted crises and address structural inhibiters to solutions. The Unit provide advise, support and QA to humanitarian operations in which DCA is doing direct, co- or partner led implementation. The team leader and the team will ensure coordination of the support provided to the humanitarian operations including back stopping support on fundraising efforts, grant managements, monitoring of budgets and project/programme implementation and compliance to donor requirements.
The successful candidate for this job is a facilitator with good sense of overview and planning of processes.
Key tasks and responsibilities (in cooperation with the team and country offices):
Personnel Management:
Manage and coordinate a smaller team of staff responsible for support on programme coordination and grants management
Make sure that staff stays motivated and engaged, also during times with high workload
Ensure that resources (people and budgets) are utilised effectively and efficiently in coordination with other teams in the HRMA Unit and the wider organisation
Coordination and Support
Act as the primary focal point in HQ for Country Directors and ensure that knowledge and developments of relevant country context and country programmes are maintained and monitored within the team
Coordination and planning of support requested from country programmes towards HQ
Ensure that programmes and projects are timely implemented in accordance with Programme Strategies and project documents
Provide guidance to programme staff during the entire Programme/Project Management cycle
Monitoring of budgets and programme budget overviews together with the Financial Controllers and Technical Advisors
Disseminate lessons learned and ensure recommendations are considered/implemented
Undertake regular monitoring visits
Manage DCA stand-alone partner implemented projects (Iraq, Somalia, Lebanon, Darfur)
Grants management and fundraising
Support Country Programmes in development of humanitarian response and humanitarian mine action projects in coordination with GPDR (DCA fundraising unit)
Ensure high quality donor proposals through QA and dialogue with programmes (including DANIDA requirements)
Ensure that relevant technical capacity is involved in design of all humanitarian proposals
Ensure that programme documentation is timely produced, including Reports to document outputs and outcomes
Where no DCA Country Office exists, ensure that project applications are developed with partners and submitted
Accountability and M&E
- Ensure that all humanitarian programmes including CO and partners have established procedures in line with the Core Humanitarian Standards
Key Competencies
The successful candidate will have a broad range of humanitarian competencies and experiences. While a specific sectoral expertise is not required, a broad and substantial knowledge of humanitarian and mine action response as well as sector coordination is essential. The successful candidate knows about the key sectors to be able to critically engage with sectoral experts, and to be able to identify which needs are the highest priority.
Experience with people management is essential for this position
Communication skills and the ability to get along with others in stressful situations are imperative
Experience with and good knowledge of one or more of the humanitarian sectors (e.g. Protection, Mine Action, Livelihood in Emergencies cash-based programming and Mobile Monitoring Technology)
Experience from working and living in field operations abroad, preferably with a national or international NGO or the UN system
Strong analytical skills
Above all, this person is robust, a strong team player and an excellent communicator both verbally and in writing
Minimum Qualifications
A minimum of 7 years of experience managing humanitarian aid/mine action programs in complex environments, preferably with a widely-recognized NGO or the UN humanitarian system
Experience in all phases of project cycle management in humanitarian response programs and/or Mine Action programmes and a demonstrated, general good understanding of humanitarian programming
The ability to travel 45 to 60 days per year
Fluency in oral and written English and a working knowledge of French. Knowledge of Arabic is an advantage.
Prior experience with and good understanding of working with key humanitarian donors (BPRM, DFID, EU/ECHO, Danida, USDOS) including their priorities
Proven excellent communications skills – written and oral
DCA offers:
Contract starting as soon as possible
Good colleagues in a rewarding and empowering work place
Salary based on DanChurchAid´s collective agreement - an attractive pension scheme and insurance scheme will apply.
Work time is 37 hours per week including lunch break.
An interesting and challenging experience addressing humanitarian needs
Contact and Application
If you have questions regarding this position, please send them to Jonas Nøddekær, International Director jno@dca.dk or call +45 29699121
Please upload your motivated application and CV no later than 12 August, 2018. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applications received by email will not be considered. We anticipate having interviews in w/o 13th August.
All interested and qualified candidates, regardless of race, age, gender, religion, or ethnicity, are encouraged to apply. Please read the minimum qualifications of this position carefully. If you do not meet the minimum requirements for this position, please save your time and ours and refrain from applying.
To apply online, please go to "Join us" at www.danchurchaid.org
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