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We are looking for a highly skilled Head of Emergency, to manage and provide technical oversight for the Emergency program funded by USAID/OFDA, ensuring effective systems and processes are in place for high-quality programming. Your knowledge and skills in emergency programming and your management abilities will ensure the delivery of high-quality emergency response that applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact for those we serve.

About Us

Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children. We ensure families can access clean water, food, training, and health care. We enable entire communities to be free from hunger. With more than 7,600 staff in over 45 countries, we have reached over 20 million people with funding over US$425M and responded to 37 emergencies in 2018.

About the Program

Action Against Hunger has been operational in what is now South Sudan since 1985 responding to both chronic and acute needs through a multi-sector strategy where nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene activities are integrated to have a meaningful impact on people’s resilience. Main objective of the country program is to continue building on Action Against Hunger’s reputation for nutritional expertise to deliver integrated Nutrition, WASH and FSL assistance in the high caseload states, while responding to emergency nutrition needs throughout the country. With central office in Juba, Action Against Hunger runs static program (nutrition, WASH, FSL) in Northern Bahr el Gazal (Aweil East), Warrap (Gogrial East and West) and Fangak (in Jonglei), as well as an emergency roving team that can intervene throughout the country. We have a country team of around 330 staff (20 international) and a budget for 2019 projected at 10 M US$. Our main donors and partners in South Sudan include USAID/OFDA, WFP, UNICEF, SIDA, ECHO, GFFO, BPRM, bilateral donors and private foundations.

How you will contribute

You will contribute to ending world hunger by…

Leading the multi-sector emergency response and nutritional surveillance in some of the most challenging areas of South Sudan, ensure coordination at capital and field level. You will represent Action Against Hunger in humanitarian meetings and consultations with partners and government authorities, analyze emergency trends and work closely with the heads of technical departments and the Country Director.

• Participate in the development and update of the country strategy by providing information relating to the humanitarian emergencies in South Sudan.
• Ensure implementation of the country strategy through Action Against Hunger’s emergency programmes in collaboration with the Programme Managers and Head of Departments.
• Represent Action Against Hunger Emergency Response Department and liaise with key stakeholders in country
• Oversee the overall implementation of Emergency Programs at Field level – coordinate the work of the SET and MET teams, working with the appropriate clusters to ensure rapid deployments to areas where humanitarian alerts have arisen. Work with program managers on effective implementation and budget follow-up
• Manage the team/Security at the field, facilitate and promote the smooth flow of information between teams in field deployments and country office, provide technical support to the team.
• Manage the team at field level; ensure compliance with the Action Against Hunger Charter, PSEA policy, and the zero tolerance for fraud, corruption, abuse of power; alert the Country Director in the event of fraud, corruption or abuse of power.
• Coordinating proposal development & reporting in collaboration with Programme Managers, Technical Head of departments and the Grants Manager

About you……

• You have a minimum of 5 years of field-based work experience in a program/project management position with an international NGO, with preferably at least 3-4 years working in emergency response programming.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Social /Development/Humanitarian studies or any other related field.
• Mandatory: You have worked with Action Against Hunger for at least one year during last 5 years.
• Mandatory: You have worked in South Sudan in a similar /Nutrition Role for at least a year in the past 5 years.
• You have an understanding the humanitarian principles, code of conduct and specific sub-sector work linked to NGO field and operations contexts.
• You have experience engaging with and building capacity of partner organizations.
• You are able to write high-quality emergency proposals as well as reports and strategy design. Familiarity with policies, procedures, and priorities of USAID/OFDA agencies and other donors preferred.
• You are able to gain a precise understanding of the various local, regional, country and international policies, operational positions and interactions, providing clear dynamic briefings and analysis of given and unfolding security and political situations when they occur.
• You have strong knowledge of emergency guidelines and standards.
• You are able to remain calm under pressure and can easily adapt to changing circumstances.
• You are ready and willing to integrate into hard working and fun team that believes in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
• You should be available to deploy immediately, within one week of conclusion of recruitment

Our core values.

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate Action Against Hunger-USA’s five core values.

Respect- we work with compassion and dedication, treating everyone the same way we expect them to treat us.

Integrity- we believe that being honest and fair is integral to every aspect of our work; conducting our work with a spirit of sincerity, truthfulness and transparency is imperative.

Creativity-we encourage new ideas, embrace innovative solutions, and create opportunities for meaningful and exciting ways to do our jobs and provide solutions to address the needs of the populations we serve.

Excellence– we strive to provide services that meet, and even exceed, the expectations of our stakeholders (populations in need, staff, communities and donors).

Empowerment- we are committed to fostering an environment in which our staff, partners and communities where we work have the space to grow, develop and feel confident about participating.- we are committed to fostering an environment in which our staff, partners and communities where we work have the space to grow, develop and feel confident about participating.

BENEFITS

Action Against Hunger-USA values its employees and offers a comprehensive remuneration and benefits package. These include but are not limited to: –

• Health Insurance
• R&R Breaks
• Paid annual leave (vacation)
• Context allowance
• Training opportunities

For an all-inclusive list of benefits check the Action Against Hunger-USA Website