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JOB CONTEXT
The Ebola epidemic was confirmed in Guinea on March 2014. This is the first deadly outbreak in West Africa. This virus appeared in the forest area very close to the border with Sierra Leone and Liberia and, starting from March 2014, quickly spread to neighbouring districts in the two countries. The international response has been slow and the epidemic is still out of control today. According to estimates, 9,000 people have been affected by the epidemic since March and 5,000 lost their lives. It is impossible to know how many people will eventually be affected by the epidemic, and the number of 20,000 victims extrapolated by WHO is for resource mobilization purposes; research on treatments and vaccines is ongoing but there is no indication of concrete outcomes in the short term. Various factors contribute to the complexity of the situation: health, geography, culture, politics, economy and logistics.
The Handicap International (HI) "Mano River" programme that covers Liberia and Sierra Leone was implementing the following projects until the outbreak of the epidemic in these two countries early in the summer of 2014: Inclusive Education projects Mother and Child Health Project and Civil society support project. These projects have been stopped and their human resources assigned to the Ebola response.
The HI Ebola response focused on raising the awareness of persons with disabilities (approximately 15% of the general population) either through direct awareness or through the education of stakeholders (authorities, NGOs) to bring them to include disability issues in their campaigns. The Mano River team currently consists of 43 staffs, namely 3 expatriates based in Freetown, and 40 national staffs (34 in Sierra Leone and 6 in Liberia). Not all the national staffs employed are trained in emergency response. The programme is run by a Programme Director, assisted by a Support Service Coordinator, an Inclusion and Rights Coordinator, and a part-time Health / Rehabilitation Coordinator.
Given this HR set up and the magnitude of the epidemic which has significant health and humanitarian consequences, and in order to strengthen the emergency response of the programme, it has been decided to recruit an emergency coordinator to conduct assessments on the ground.
JOB DESCRIPTION
As emergency coordinator, you will be directly under the line management of the Programme Director. You will be in constant contact with West Africa Desk and Technical Advisors at the Technical Resource Division. Your general mission is to carry out the assessments and propose courses of actions. The potential areas of intervention clearly identified are awareness raising, addressing basic needs (food, livelihoods, distribution, WASH), and psychosocial support.
As such, your responsibilities will be divided into 4 parts: • Organize field surveys: development of survey tools and recruitment / training of survey offices, • Conduct assessments on the main intervention sites, • Prepare relevant responses, • Ensure security aspects: management of the technical support to the Programme Director in terms of the security and the monitoring of the changes in the humanitarian situation, implementation of security measures regarding interventions on the ground.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
You have: • Master degree in the field of evaluation, humanitarian assistance or international cooperation • An experience in evaluation and coordination in emergency contexts • An experience in writing and implementing emergency projects • Knowledge on the HI emergency response approach
• Proven expertise in project cycle and methodological tools in emergency projects. You are: • Recognized for your good team management skills • Known for your good analytical, synthesis and writing skills • Experimented in living and adapting successfully to multicultural environment • Able to work under pressure • Known to be field work oriented, flexible, objective, diplomatic and pragmatic.
• Proven expertise in project cycle and methodological tools in emergency projects. You are: • Recognized for your good team management skills • Known for your good analytical, synthesis and writing skills • Experimented in living and adapting successfully to multicultural environment • Able to work under pressure • Known to be field work oriented, flexible, objective, diplomatic and pragmatic.
REQUIRED LANGUAGE SKILLS: For this position, it is required to have a good written and spoken level in English.
JOB ENVIRONMENT
You will be based in Freetown office. • Living conditions / accommodation: There is a possibility of difficult living conditions. To reduce Ebola contamination risks, movements are restricted and gatherings are prohibited. The daily prevention measures (frequent hand washing and temperature checks...) can be quite restrictive. • Health: There exist some health risks: meningitis, malaria, Ebola, etc. For emergency cases, expatriates can, be hospitalized in Europe.
Because of the context and security concerns, the position is unaccompanied.
EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS Salary: 2200 - 2500€ gross salary/month + 457 Euros net/month expatriation allowance + 50% of the medical cover taken in charge by HI + repatriation insurance + indemnity for partner and children Or Volunteer: 750 or 850 Euros monthly indemnity + living allowance paid on the field + accommodation + 100% of the medical cover taken in charge by HI + repatriation insurance + indemnity for partner and children
How to apply:
Please send resume and covering letter with the reference DIR-AUT-URH-1335 By this link:http://hi.profilsearch.com/recrute/fr/fo_annonce_voir.php?id=663&idparte... Or by our website: www.handicap-international.fr
