As a member of the Senior Management Team, provide leadership and strategic direction to all programmatic aspects of Save the Children humanitarian and emergency response in Somalia. The role holder will focus on advocacy, representation, policy, proposal and budget development, categorization of emergencies and support the field teams in expediting the implementation of humanitarian response projects.

The role holder will directly work with the Deputy Country Director – Operations and the Operations Director, Area Reps and collaborate with the other departments to ensure timely and efficient response that is integrated with pre-existing programming in the 3 Area Offices.

Responsibilities for the Humanitarian Director Job

• Provide leadership to the humanitarian unit of the Somalia Country Office
• Lead on emergency response in country and advise SMT on strategic planning for emergency preparedness and response in Somalia
• Liaise with humanitarian backstops to ensure contingency funding and backstop support.
• Support the development of an organisational culture that reflects our dual mandate values, promotes accountability and high performance, encourages a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation, and frees up our people to deliver outstanding results for children and excellent customer service for our Members and donors
• Ensure that all required support is provided promptly, at scale and in line with the rules and principles of the emergency humanitarian categorization framework Help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with: host government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGOs including strategic interaction at the most senior levels of management in UN, INGO, National NGO and government agencies

Humanitarian Director Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required, Masters degree preferred
• Recommended minimum of 8 years’ experience in humanitarian programme management, preparedness and response in several fragile or complex contexts
• Significant experience of managing logistics, security and operations
• Understanding of international humanitarian aid systems and agencies
• Experience of working in insecure environments
• Ample knowledge of humanitarian response and transitional program concepts, policies, frameworks, strategies and components, as well as development concepts and frameworks
• Extensive on the ground experience in multi-sectoral humanitarian response, including food aid programs
• Experience in logistics management
• Solid budgeting skills and knowledge of key donor regulations
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Commitment to Save the Children’s practices and procedures and ways of working with children
• Willingness to work and travel in often difficult and insecure environments
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written
• Competency in local language is preferred but not required
• Commitment to Save the Children values

How to Apply
Interested candidates are required to submit a CV and mandatory cover letter quoting the Job Title and Vacancy Announcement No. SCI/SOM/01/17 on the subject line. The file name of the CV and attachments must be the applicants name and sent to Somalia.vacancies@savethechildren.org. For more information please visit www.somaliangoconsortium.org
Applications close on 30th January 2017