Team Leader- Hurricane Maria Response

Strategic and Operational Management (70%):

• Assume overall oversight of the Puerto Rico emergency response in collaboration with the VP, Department of Humanitarian Response and other relevant senior response staff.  With SC senior humanitarian response staff contribute to the development and ongoing review of the agency response strategy and vision, and ensure budget and operational accountability.
• Serve as SC’s senior manager in Puerto Rico with donors, government representatives, partners, community members and others as necessary and ensure effective communication of SC’s mission and programs.
• Exercise effective and efficient decision-making responsibility on response related matters that are consistent with the response strategy and with Save the Children principles.
• Ensuring strict compliance of program activities with Save the Children national and global policies and procedures and with relevant donor regulations and agreements, SPHERE guidelines and the NGO code of conduct
• Lead on country level strategic planning for the humanitarian response to ensure an effective emergency response in all of its phases of delivery
• Responsible for oversight over the development of relevant master budgets aligned with the Response Strategy objectives, for the duration of the response and for multiple sites and multiple sectors where appropriate. S/he will take overall leadership on the implementation of the Response relevant national level budgets, while keeping relevant stakeholders informed and ensuring any corrective actions are taken where required.
• In coordination with relevant (E) SMT level members from both the Response and HQ teams, s/he will ensure the preparation of a timely program delivery and submitting the donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SCI requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Ensure that the relevant project monitoring plans and systems for identifying and tracking the indicators and develop processes/procedures and forms to support monitoring and inform learning are established and implemented.
• Ensure optimal safety and security management procedures and practices are in place for the emergency response program and continually monitor the safety and security situation, adapting staff safety and security procedures accordingly in collaboration and cooperation with the Country Security Manager.
• Oversee effective functioning of logistics systems to procure, store and distribute stock, supplies and services for the timely delivery of project objectives at national level
• Ensure strong accountability to beneficiaries
• Plan, identify and resource appropriate and effective structure & staffing needs for entire response; In liaison with the HR Director ensuring that personnel policies are in accordance with national laws)
• Oversee the development & implementation of staff well-being (policy) and ensure appropriate staff well-being and R&R policy and processes in place

Capacity Building (10%):

• Ensure that capacity building plans and performance management systems are in place to develop the requisite competencies in staff to ensure ongoing sustainability and quality of response
• Coach and mentor staff and link in to wider organizational talent development mechanisms.

Representation & Advocacy & Organizational Learning (15%):

• Represent Save the Children’s emergency response on a national, regional and international level to donors, the media and members of the humanitarian community.
• Help shape broader sector strategies through influence of and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed
• Regularly undertake high-level representation and advocacy with Government partners and officials as well as donor representatives. Establish systems for communication with local Government partners, relevant line departments and community representations in the project area(s).
• Lead on organizational level operational practice, innovation and learning in consultation with Humanitarian team. 
• Ensure SCI response review framework is implemented and lessons learnt / recommendations followed up

General (5%):

• Ensure effective communication on response related to matters to SC senior staff members including the VP, PHR, the VP, DHR as well as the heads of technical business teams as appropriate.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• You have a strong Level of technical and/ or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to lead a Unit or Team, or provide the technical advice, guidance and direction related to various size programs and grants
• Extensive experience of working within a senior management role and within a complex country program in an emergency response or fragile state setting; and/or extensive experience of setting up responses in out of area contexts (either where no SC presence or CO presence); and/or extensive experience of working in high income contexts
• Previous experience of managing program teams in large-scale/complex, first phase emergency response is essential
• Degree or equivalent field experience
• Experience of managing multi-donor, multi-site program of $5m+ in a first phase response at regional or country level
• Multi-site security management in insecure environments
• Experience of international level representation with key stakeholders, and co-ordination with other NGOs/UN
• Experience of international media representation and advocacy
• Experience of M&E and beneficiary accountability systems in large complex program
• Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors
• Proven ability to influence change at an operational and strategic level
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• A high level of written and spoken English
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent in Spanish

What’s In It for You

• Meaningful work, with a knowledge that you are changing the lives of children all around the world
• A family friendly work environment
• Highly collaborative and innovative teams
• Generous paid vacation days, holidays, family leave days, and sick time
• Healthcare plans including medical, dental, and life insurance
• Retirement savings account with matching company contributions
• Structured and formalized management development and coaching programs for mid and senior level managers
• Extensive e-learning opportunities on a variety of topics offered through our affiliation with several prestigious universities and with the American Management Association, as well as language learning opportunities