Area Manager- Kakuma Refugee Camp at Danish Refugee Council 216 views0 applications


Overall Objective:
Working under the Country Director (CD), the Area Manager (AM) is responsible for DRCs operations in Kakuma Refugee Camp. S/he is responsible for program design and implementation, security, support functions, personnel management, community relations, funding and budgetary functions.

Background:
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC has been active in Kenya since 2005. The Kenya Program provides services and support in the sectors of livelihoods, community development, protection and for refugees residing in Kenya and the resident hosting communities. DRC has operational offices in Nairobi, Kakuma and Dadaab implementing programs directly and in partnership with local NGOs.

Job Purpose:
The AM’s core function is to ensure development of programming that is efficient, accountable, need driven and based on best practices. The AM will lead strategic planning and program development, ensure that operations are implemented within DRC’s regulations, procedures, guidelines and strategies; enable a productive and accountable relationship with beneficiaries, members of the local and refugee community, relevant line ministries, L/INGOs and UN agencies. The AM is the overview manager for all staff based in Kakuma Refugee Camp and is responsible for ensuring a result oriented team. The incumbent will also ensure a safe environment for DRC staff, beneficiaries and assets through a proactive-acceptance approach using DRCs security framework.

Responsibilities:

Management

  • Enable an effective team through result oriented management systems, providing leadership, on-job capacity building and designing staff development strategies.
  • Provide direct management of senior program, support and security staff; provide overview management for the entire team.
  • Ensure programs are developed, implemented and evaluated within clear monitoring systems and against clear people/program/finance planning that meets DRC and donor regulations and humanitarian and HAP principles.
  • Provide on-site support through frequent visits to project sites

Security

  • Ensure a safe and secure environment for DRC staff, beneficiaries and assets through: operationalizing DRCs security procedures, providing safety and security analysis, recommendations and follow-ups.
  • Organize for regular staff training on the use of security systems.

HR, Finance, Logistics and Administration

  • Ensure compliance to DRC, donor and national policies, rules, regulations and systems in a timely, responsible, documented, accurate & appropriate manner; ensures that support services are cost effective and efficient.
  • Ensure a diverse and professional workforce through efficient, effective and transparent recruitment, evaluation and disciplinary processes.
  • Ensure procurement is carried-out in a fair, transparent, effective and well documented manner.
  • Supervising all financial reporting and financial procedures, including the monthly schedule for financial reporting, donor reporting and audits, cash flow and liquidity management

Program

  • Ensure that programs are based on user-identified needs and resources of the targeted population, are well coordinated with other aid actors (including actors in Somalia), address lessons learned (from DRC and other actors) and steered towards ensuring accountability to the people to whom the services/inputs are indented to serve.

External relations

  • Establishes and maintains open and productive dialogue with the county government, relevant line ministries, community leaders, power brokers and relevant aid agencies, private businesses and donors.
  • Attends and contributes to discussions, workshops, working groups and other forums where operations and other issues that may impact operations or the people DRC serves are discussed.

Skills & Qualifications:
Essential

  • Advanced university degree in relevant field (relief, development, recovery) with at least 5-years relevant experience; or basic university degree and at least 8-years relevant experience; at least 3-years’ experience managing large-scale multi-sector programming.
  • Proven experience in strategic development and program design & writing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Experience in livelihoods, community development, protection and relief highly desired.
  • Practical and extensive financial, HR and administration management experience with extensive knowledge of budget development/management and finance documentation, tracking and archiving; understanding of HR and administration principles and ethics. Experience with UNHCR, ECHO, European Aid, and BPRM guidelines will be an added advantage.
  • Result-oriented management experience of a large, diverse and dynamic team, and a commitment to good leadership. Must have a proven ability to foster teamwork and commitment to on-job training/support.
  • Practical and proven skills in negotiation and conflict resolution with a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Experience in security and safety management in highly dynamic security environments
  • Analytical and problem solving skills and an ability to work independently and as a team needed.
  • Proven excellent communication skills and fluency in written and spoken English essential. Excellent report writing skills is a must.

Preferable:

  • Past experience in East Africa.
  • Experience in a refugee setting and knowledge of refugee issues.

Core competencies
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate each of DRC’ five core competencies:

  • Striving for excellence: focus on reaching results in a fast paced environment
  • Collaborating: lead initiatives and processes by involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.
  • Taking the lead: take ownership and initiative while setting high standards
  • Communicating: listen to other stakeholders and staff; and you communicate concisely and persuasively
  • Demonstrating integrity: act in line with DRC’s vision and values.

Reporting: The AM reports to the CD and manages the department heads in Kakuma. S/he is supported by the Kenya Program and the Regional support departments and technical advisors in Nairobi.

Conditions
Commencement: Immediately
Duty Station: Kakuma, Turkana County, Kenya. Non-family duty station.
Contract: 1 year contract dependent on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Global Expatriates (available at www.drc.dk under Vacancies). This position is graded as A13. For qualified National staff the terms of employment will be in accordance with DRC terms for National staff.

Post-holder must be medically fit and able to adapt to isolated and potentially insecure environments.

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

How to apply:

Application Process
Qualified candidates are invited to submit their applications which should include a 1-page cover letter clearly stating their motivation and qualifications and a CV. Applications should include contact details of three professional referees who have supervised the candidate in the last five years. One referee must be the applicant’s most recent manager. Only applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications will be considered. Applications should be sent no later than: 9th May, 2017

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please contact [email protected]

Danish Refugee Council does not charge any kind of fee at any stage of the recruitment process nor does it use recruitment agents.

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The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing a broad range of activities relevant to conflict affected communities and persons. The activities are categorized in ten sectors:

Shelter and Non-food Items, Food Security, Protection, Income Generation, Coordination & Operational Services, Community Infrastructure & Services, Humanitarian Mine Action, Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Education.

Here you can read some short exemplifications of what types of activities the respective sectors include:

Shelter and Non-food Items: Provision of emergency shelter, emergency cash grants, rehabilitation of housing, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and provision of return and repatriation kits.

Food Security: Emergency food provision or food voucher programmes. Training and capacity development in agriculture, agricultural inputs (e.g. tools and seeds), agricultural grants.

Protection: Advocacy for the rights of displaced people in their context of displacement, child protection initiatives, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, legal aid, land & property rights, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, registration services for the internally displaced and refugees, monitoring of rights and rights awareness-raising, facilitation of return and repatriation processes.

Income Generation: Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation.

Coordination & Operational Services: Coordination and management of refugee and IDP camps, active participation in UN cluster coordination, humanitarian surveys and studies, facilitation of NGO Networks focused on displacement solutions, capacity development, training and support to local NGOs, secondment of experts to UN emergency operations worldwide

Community Infrastructure & Services: Provision of physical infrastructure like roads, bridges, community centres, irrigation systems or other community structures, facilitation and training of infrastructure management groups at community level, facilitation and funding of community development plans, initiatives for disaster risk reduction at community level.

Humanitarian Mine Action: Manual or mechanical mine clearance, clearance of former battle areas, education for affected communities – with special focus on children on how to avoid harm from mines and UXO, surveys of expected and confirmed mined or UXO areas, explosive ordnance disposal and stockpile destruction, capacity building of national demining institutions.

Armed Violence Reduction (AVR): Education in procedures for safe storage and safe handling of small arms and light weapons (SALW), capacity building of institutions for safety, local and community level conflict management and mitigation.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH): Emergency water supply, hygiene item distribution, hygiene information and education, construction of latrines, installation water points, wells and water storage. Water purification.

Education: Education grants and fee support, school feeding programmes, teacher training and support, school materials provision and construction or rehabilitation of school structures.

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0 USD Kakuma CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

Overall Objective: Working under the Country Director (CD), the Area Manager (AM) is responsible for DRCs operations in Kakuma Refugee Camp. S/he is responsible for program design and implementation, security, support functions, personnel management, community relations, funding and budgetary functions.

Background: The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC has been active in Kenya since 2005. The Kenya Program provides services and support in the sectors of livelihoods, community development, protection and for refugees residing in Kenya and the resident hosting communities. DRC has operational offices in Nairobi, Kakuma and Dadaab implementing programs directly and in partnership with local NGOs.

Job Purpose: The AM’s core function is to ensure development of programming that is efficient, accountable, need driven and based on best practices. The AM will lead strategic planning and program development, ensure that operations are implemented within DRC’s regulations, procedures, guidelines and strategies; enable a productive and accountable relationship with beneficiaries, members of the local and refugee community, relevant line ministries, L/INGOs and UN agencies. The AM is the overview manager for all staff based in Kakuma Refugee Camp and is responsible for ensuring a result oriented team. The incumbent will also ensure a safe environment for DRC staff, beneficiaries and assets through a proactive-acceptance approach using DRCs security framework.

Responsibilities:

Management

  • Enable an effective team through result oriented management systems, providing leadership, on-job capacity building and designing staff development strategies.
  • Provide direct management of senior program, support and security staff; provide overview management for the entire team.
  • Ensure programs are developed, implemented and evaluated within clear monitoring systems and against clear people/program/finance planning that meets DRC and donor regulations and humanitarian and HAP principles.
  • Provide on-site support through frequent visits to project sites

Security

  • Ensure a safe and secure environment for DRC staff, beneficiaries and assets through: operationalizing DRCs security procedures, providing safety and security analysis, recommendations and follow-ups.
  • Organize for regular staff training on the use of security systems.

HR, Finance, Logistics and Administration

  • Ensure compliance to DRC, donor and national policies, rules, regulations and systems in a timely, responsible, documented, accurate & appropriate manner; ensures that support services are cost effective and efficient.
  • Ensure a diverse and professional workforce through efficient, effective and transparent recruitment, evaluation and disciplinary processes.
  • Ensure procurement is carried-out in a fair, transparent, effective and well documented manner.
  • Supervising all financial reporting and financial procedures, including the monthly schedule for financial reporting, donor reporting and audits, cash flow and liquidity management

Program

  • Ensure that programs are based on user-identified needs and resources of the targeted population, are well coordinated with other aid actors (including actors in Somalia), address lessons learned (from DRC and other actors) and steered towards ensuring accountability to the people to whom the services/inputs are indented to serve.

External relations

  • Establishes and maintains open and productive dialogue with the county government, relevant line ministries, community leaders, power brokers and relevant aid agencies, private businesses and donors.
  • Attends and contributes to discussions, workshops, working groups and other forums where operations and other issues that may impact operations or the people DRC serves are discussed.

Skills & Qualifications: Essential

  • Advanced university degree in relevant field (relief, development, recovery) with at least 5-years relevant experience; or basic university degree and at least 8-years relevant experience; at least 3-years’ experience managing large-scale multi-sector programming.
  • Proven experience in strategic development and program design & writing, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Experience in livelihoods, community development, protection and relief highly desired.
  • Practical and extensive financial, HR and administration management experience with extensive knowledge of budget development/management and finance documentation, tracking and archiving; understanding of HR and administration principles and ethics. Experience with UNHCR, ECHO, European Aid, and BPRM guidelines will be an added advantage.
  • Result-oriented management experience of a large, diverse and dynamic team, and a commitment to good leadership. Must have a proven ability to foster teamwork and commitment to on-job training/support.
  • Practical and proven skills in negotiation and conflict resolution with a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Experience in security and safety management in highly dynamic security environments
  • Analytical and problem solving skills and an ability to work independently and as a team needed.
  • Proven excellent communication skills and fluency in written and spoken English essential. Excellent report writing skills is a must.

Preferable:

  • Past experience in East Africa.
  • Experience in a refugee setting and knowledge of refugee issues.

Core competencies In this position, you are expected to demonstrate each of DRC’ five core competencies:

  • Striving for excellence: focus on reaching results in a fast paced environment
  • Collaborating: lead initiatives and processes by involving relevant parties and encouraging feedback.
  • Taking the lead: take ownership and initiative while setting high standards
  • Communicating: listen to other stakeholders and staff; and you communicate concisely and persuasively
  • Demonstrating integrity: act in line with DRC’s vision and values.

Reporting: The AM reports to the CD and manages the department heads in Kakuma. S/he is supported by the Kenya Program and the Regional support departments and technical advisors in Nairobi.

Conditions Commencement: Immediately Duty Station: Kakuma, Turkana County, Kenya. Non-family duty station. Contract: 1 year contract dependent on both funding and performance. Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Global Expatriates (available at www.drc.dk under Vacancies). This position is graded as A13. For qualified National staff the terms of employment will be in accordance with DRC terms for National staff.

Post-holder must be medically fit and able to adapt to isolated and potentially insecure environments.

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

How to apply:

Application Process Qualified candidates are invited to submit their applications which should include a 1-page cover letter clearly stating their motivation and qualifications and a CV. Applications should include contact details of three professional referees who have supervised the candidate in the last five years. One referee must be the applicant’s most recent manager. Only applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications will be considered. Applications should be sent no later than: 9th May, 2017

If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please contact [email protected]

Danish Refugee Council does not charge any kind of fee at any stage of the recruitment process nor does it use recruitment agents.

2017-05-09

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