ACF recherche un chef adjoint du parti, H/F, Monrovia, Libéria
Description :
Action Against Hunger-USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network, which provides humanitarian relief in over 45 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security. Action Against Hunger-USA, an independent NGO, currently manages operations in 7 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Haiti and Somalia. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $75 million in programs, and approximately 1,500 staff based in in the various country offices, Head Quarter in New York City and Operational Centre in Nairobi. Additional growth is anticipated.
Summary of position
Action Against Hunger USA seeks an experienced Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP)/Technical Director (TD) for the USAID/Liberia Countywide Sanitation Activity. Under this activity, USAID/Liberia seeks sustainably eliminate open defecation in five counties (Montserrado, Bong, Nimba, Lofa, and Grand Bassa), moving everyone in those counties who currently practices open defecation to at least a basic level of sanitation.
This position is contingent upon award and will be based in Monrovia, Liberia.
Purpose
The DCOP/Technical Director will be responsible for technical leadership of the project. The DCOP/Technical Director will have deep technical experience in sanitation programming including two or more of the programming areas of the project of governance, behavior change, market-based sanitation, and financing. While the Chief of Party (COP) will be responsible overall management and operations of the USAID Activity, the DCOP/Technical Director will be responsible for the overall technical excellence of the project. This role will lead a team of technical experts who maximize the impact and effectiveness of the project by responding to the needs of the implementing team and maximizing integration across the project’s strategies and approaches. The DCOP/Technical Director guarantees that the project is guided by global best practices as well as current health research, community engagement and advocacy for healthier lives within the Liberian context.
Engagement
The DCOP/Technical/Research Director, eporting directly to the Chief of Party (COP), s/he will provide technical leadership in the development, management and support of a cohesive, technically rigorous project theory of change and work plan.
Delivery
The DCOP/TD will be responsible for ensuring sound programmatic design and efficient and effective implementation of all workstreams and deliverables.
Mission
- Provide technical leadership to increase sustained adoption and practices of appropriate key sanitation behaviors;
- Provide technical leadership to increase health literacy and demand for cleanliness and private household latrines;
- Provide technical leadership in the development and/or use of innovative delivery approaches, programming standards, guidance, tools and training on key sanitization behaviors and financial behaviors interventions to maximize program impact;
- Provide technical leadership that strengthen and improve community and household health outcomes through advocacy for improved open defecation free (ODF) as a social norm;
- Provide technical leadership that ensures household and enterprise financing options are increased to invest in sanitation activities to sustain OFD investments;
- Provide technical leadership of community mobilization efforts and interventions including the development of innovation grants, loans, incentives and other initiatives that further empower communities to seek a healthier life;
- Responsible for finalizing the technical publications, briefs, donor reports and resources developed by the project;
- Establish and implement capacity strengthening strategies for local organizations to influence and advocate for responsive health systems and services;
- Collaborate with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director for the documentation and sharing of knowledge and emerging lessons from the application of high impact practices focused on vulnerable populations exposed to shocks;
- Ensure robust representation of Action Against Hunger in national and sub-national level coordination groups, forums and initiatives, including technical forums of relevant communities of practice;
- Be accountable to the COP on the delivery of strategic program objectives, with regular reporting on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis;
- Be accountable to community leaders, local government and other key stakeholders ensuring continuous engagement and information sharing, as well as building capacities in use of evidence base to inform decision making;
- Represent or carry out any duties that may be assigned by the COP.
Expériences / formation
Profile
- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience, with progressively increasing responsibilities and duties in fields related to the successful implementation of projects, WASH technical assistance, local governance, and/or private sector engagement and capacity building for improvement of WASH services in developing countries is required;
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field of study (e.g. environmental or civil engineering, business administration, governance, or environmental health etc.) is required (Master’s degree preferred);
- Relevant management, supervisory, and technical experience working with programs that are of a similar scope and scale to this program;
- Good technical knowledge of sanitation, approaches to ODF, and approaches to expanding access to basic sanitation;
- Good technical knowledge of sanitation governance, policies, regulations, and monitoring and evaluation;
- Good technical knowledge with behavior change theories, community engagement and sustainability models/approaches;
- Proven experience in developing programs that enhance social mobilization for essential health and sanitation services and resources;
- Proven experience that fosters increased accountabilities and responsiveness to community health needs, such as strengthening platforms for community advocacy and provider accountability;
- Demonstrated work fostering gender equities both in the participant communities as well as in the mentorship of the Countywide Sanitation Activity project team;
- Demonstrated experience working with disadvantaged, marginalized or otherwise under-represented communities, including internally displaced persons, women and girls;
- Extensive experience in working in developing countries, preferably in West Africa. Experience working in Liberia and with the Liberia WASH sector, specifically sanitation, is highly preferred;
- Excellent spoken and written communication and presentation skills in English.
- Willingness to support Action Against Hunger’s Mission;
- Ability to work and reside in Liberia highly preferred;
Responsibilities
Oversee a team of technical advisors who design and implement social behavior change strategies to address barriers to risk reducing behaviors. Gender Equality Commitments
- Foster an environment that supports values of women and men, and equal access to information;
- Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance;
- Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion. race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status;
- Value and respect all cultures. Fiscal Responsibility
Along with the Finance and Administrative Director, the COP will oversee the project budget, track progress against spending, and ensure compliance with USAID rules and regulations.
Salaire
Physical Demands
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions. Must be able to proofread own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on an infrequent basis;
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as to infectious diseases.
Comment postuler
All candidates should apply online at https://careers.actionagainsthunger.org/ Action Against Hunger-USA provides all staff with an attractive salary & benefits package.