Somalia: Emergency Coordinator - Somalia

Background

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. Using a protection of human rights framework, DRC has mainly focused on Somalis who are displaced by conflict. Programmes include protection, food security and livelihoods, shelter/NFIs, and water and sanitation. In Somalia, DRC operates in several regions and set up operations in Doolow in October 2012. DRC under a 3 year DANIDA funded SOMREP (Somalia Resilience Program) seeks to build household and community resilience to drought and other related risks (including animal health and diseases, flooding, market disruptions and price fluctuations, new influxes of Internally Displaced Persons into communities, climate change and environmental degradations) in Somalia.

Purpose

To co-ordinate, integrate the emergency programme, and ensure high programme quality and effective coordination with stakeholders at the national level.

Key responsibilities

The Emergency Coordinator will be responsible for all emergency programmes in Somalia for IDPS and host communities.

This position will primarily focus on DRC emergency programming in terms of ensuring best practices, maximum impact, and quality programming. In addition, the Emergency Coordinator will support a consistent integration of HAP and M&E principles and practices into all programmes activities.

· With support of the Food Security and Livelihoods Manager, provide technical emergency support to field programmes in designing appropriate programmes for emergency and early recovery, in line with the DRC Food Security and Livelihoods Strategy and Country Strategy.

· Support emergency response for the Kenya/Yemeni returnees into Somalia with appropriate response.

· Ensure that DRC ways of working and gender equity and humanitarian principles are mainstreamed throughout the programme.

· Ensure the Emergency Programme has a strong analytical base, including contributing to policy analysis for programme design and influencing.

· Guide the teams in developing tools for day-to-day implementation and ensure compliance with established guidelines and standards including Emergency Minimum Standards for IDPs and Host Communities.

· Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager and with programme staff to strengthen monitoring, evaluation, learning, accountability and reporting of the emergency programme in Bosasso as well as field level.

· Ensure that accountable approaches to working with communities and partners are incorporated into the programme and clear visions for exit strategies planned from the onset.

· Provide a professional and technical lead to the team, managers and partners for programme planning and implementation. This will include budgeting, development of logical frameworks and appropriate indicators, development of project proposals and project reporting.

· Share and document best practices with the programme and partner teams, ensuring that the strategy is implemented to the highest quality standards and is integrated with other sectorial interventions in the programme.

Preparedness:

· Act as the key lead in the emergency team for DRC contingency planning and humanitarian preparedness and response efforts.

· Lead assessments where required and support the development of new responses as appropriate.

· Lead in the development of Emergency and preparedness contingency plans.

Reporting Arrangements

This position currently reports to the Technical Manager for Food Security and Livelihoods in Somalia.

General

Commitments: DRC/DDG has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability committments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework into the work of DRC/DDG.

Personal Specifications

Essential:

· Bachelor’s degree in social sciences and rural development or other relevant field.

· A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a senior programmatic capacity with emergency programming, and livelihood and/or disaster risk reduction (namely drought) programs with international NGOs.

· Experience working in emergencies

· Demonstrated experience in rapid emergency assessments and integration of emergency programming with other sectors.

· Knowledge and experience in participatory approaches and tools.

· Experience working in insecure environments, preferably Sub-Saharan Africa.

· Proficiency in written and spoken English is required;

· Extensive operational knowledge of donor guidelines and procedures (logical frameworks, proposal development and report writing).

· Experience in capacity building of national staff and communities.

· Good command of computer programs and applications.

· Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and demonstrated ability to establish effective working relations with various stakeholders.

Preferable:

· Good negotiator in working with local NGOs and local authorities.

· Social science, agriculture, livestock or rural development graduate or alternatively someone with 7 years of experience.

· Experience in livelihoods, micro enterprise, agriculture, or livestock management project

· Previous experience of working in Somalia is an added advantage.

· Ability to speak and write Somali language.

Terms and Conditions

Terms and conditions are in accordance with DRC Somalia national salary scale and HR policy

This position is for Somali Nationals only.

Interested candidates who meet the required qualifications and experience should send their applications, including CV and 1-page cover letter, by email only to drcjobs@drcsomalia.org no later than 5 September 2015.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.