*Country location to be determined based on response.
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The Response Programmes Director oversees/leads the Sector Programming Team, including Program Officer(s), DME, Humanitarian Accountability and Information Management. The Programme Director supports the Response Director and Operations Director in designing the response strategy and operations plan and works in close coordination with both.
The Response Programmes Director is responsible to manage grant acquisition, assessments, monitoring and humanitarian accountability and liaises with Support Offices (SOs), international donors.
Response Programmes Director is part of the Response Senior Leadership Team. Response Programmes Director will coordinate/advise with Response Director (RD)/Senior Leadership Team (SLT) “go” or “no go” for proposals.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Establish, lead, resource and staff the programmes unit to meet response needs:
- Lead team/individual development and provide direction and support as needed to enable effective performance.
Lead the programme planning process to ensure alignment with context, humanitarian needs, response strategy as well as operational feasibility and technical quality:
- Support development of operational intent plan to align with funding allocations ensuring operational feasibility and technical quality.
Oversee donor liaison and advocacy is undertaken to resource operations plan to address humanitarian needs:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the GAM team undertake the following activities:
- Monitor and analyse donor opportunities to ensure they align with operational intent.
Support Finance in the allocation and tracking of response funding to ensure response strategic priorities are funded & effective leveraging of available funding:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the Programme team undertake the following activities:
- Support mapping of all funding sources with Finance.
Oversee development and submission of project proposals to donors to resource operations plan:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the GAM team undertake the following activities:
- Develop project proposals with Operations, Advocacy, Finance and relevant Support functions and ensure stakeholders have the opportunity to review proposals and raise issues prior to submission to donors.
Ensure support for Finance to establish grant management system to ensure fulfillment of donor requirements:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the GAM team undertake the following activities:
- Support finance to conduct grant orientation or grant start-up workshops for relevant staff.
Design programme based on response strategy, context and humanitarian needs:
- Review NO Strategy, context analysis and assessment findings for design recommendations.
Oversee implementation of the programme monitoring system:
- The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the DME team undertake the following activities:
Ensure implementation of baselines, evaluations, reviews and learning events for continuous improvement:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the DME and HA teams undertake the following activities:
- Conduct real time evaluation (RTE) during the first phase of the response.
Ensure establishment of response information management system to meet response needs:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the Information Management team undertake the following activities:
- Assess programmatic information needs of internal and external stakeholders.
Oversee development and implementation of community consultation and information provision mechanisms:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the HA team undertake the following activities:
- Design and implement community consultation processes to ensure understanding of World Vision’s role and planned interventions and provide opportunities for input and feedback into programme and project designs.
Establish and support implementation of complaint and feedback mechanisms:
The Response Programmes Director will ensure that the HA team undertake the following activities:
- Inform communities regarding their right to be consulted, make complaints and provide feedback to World Vision.
KNOWLEDGE,SKILLS & ABILITIES:
Required:
- A minimum of 3-5 years in leadership role in the humanitarian assistance and development sector, with a significant portion of this in INGOs.
Preferred:
- Previous experience working in complex emergency/rehabilitation settings.