Area Manager – SAFCER Full-Time

Purpose of position:

On 14 March 2019, Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall near Mozambique Beira City, leaving devastating loss of life and large-scale destruction of assets and infrastructure in its wake. In the following days, some entire villages were submerged as flood waters rose across the central region of the country in the provinces of Sofala, Zambezia, and Manica. An estimated 1.85 million people have been affected by the cyclone and the subsequent floods within the three provinces. World Vision has established an Emergency Management Structure based in Beira (Sofala Province) for the Mozambique response in order to effectively coordinate efforts across multiple levels of the organization and through the

UN Cluster system. The Mozambique Response Plan aims to reach 150,000 affected people through the provision of support in the following sectors: WASH, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition, Food and NFIs, Livelihoods, Protection and Education.

The Area Manager (AM) Southern Africa Floods and Cyclone Emergency Response (SAFCER) – oversees/leads the Project Managers and respective Field Coordinators for the following sectors: WASH, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition, Food and NFIs, Livelihoods, Protection and Education and District Field.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to the implementation of World Vision response activities in Sofala Province, ensuring representation within wider humanitarian response coordination meetings, ensuring strong links between National Office (NO) and Response programming, and provide support to response operations;
• To coordinate and provide leadership for timely and relevant information management within the response at the area level, working with M&E to ensure effective and efficient donor reporting and support to response communications;
• To ensure that WV is accountable to all partners and that all work is of the highest standard, cost effective, and adheres to standards and policies of World Vision International and its donors;
• To support the Operations Manager with operational oversight to World Vision’s emergency response activities in response to the cyclone Idai. Key areas include providing technical support to the response, supporting the teams on project implementation, information management with M&E, partner liaison and administrative tasks as required;
• Ensure effective and efficient coordination and collaboration between District project teams, M&E unit staff, sector specialists and key NO staff to ensure high quality program implementation and field impact;
• Ensure field needs, assessment and data analysis, local context, internal and external funding and donor priorities, are all properly integrated into WV SAFCER strategic planning;
• Ensure Response Information Management processes are maintained and Tracking Systems/Tools are effective and efficient in coordination M&E staff and respective function focal points;
• Facilitate programme planning process with all functions to ensure alignment with context, humanitarian needs;
• Identify and provide timely reports to the Operations Manager and seek rapid solutions for any areas of conflict, overlap or inefficiency in the organizational structure for Programs and technical sectors, and response field operations;
• Provide leadership and coaching in maintaining positive, constructive and supportive communication with all teams;
• Ensure implementation of World Vision’s performance management standards and principles for direct reports and their teams;
• Coordinate response field operations in support of Operations Manager and support project implementation team(s) in a manner that facilitates a high performance culture, openness, strong relationships, mutual support and respect, integrity and decisiveness;
• Ensure relevant platforms for regular information sharing, dialogue, communication and working together as one team for field operations and Programs including technical advisors team;
• In collaboration with the Operations Managers, initiate and maintain regular contact with other non-governmental organizations and donor representatives;
• Ensure response project tracking including providing information for grants finance to maintain the response budget;
• Support internal and external reporting requirements by supporting field operations and Programs teams with information management;
• In collaboration with the Operations Manager that World Vision’s security policies and protocols are implemented and monitored at the Aria level;
• Ensure Stewardship of financial resources.

Knowledge skills & abilities:

• High degree or Diploma in relevant field Essential. Bachelor’s degree in a field related to humanitarian leadership, international development, engineering, economics, rural development or similar desirable.
• Expertise in a technical sector, particularly WASH or Livelihoods is desirable;
• Sound decision-making skills and risk management;
• Strong planning and organizational skills and ability to prioritize;
• Fluency in written and spoken Portuguese and English language is desirable;
• Must be able to represent World Vision within humanitarian coordination meetings;
• Proven experience with development or relief programme management;
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English and skills in Portuguese.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• A full commitment to World Vision’s core values and humanitarian mandate;
• Adherence to World Vision Child Protection, Code of Conduct, and Conflict of Interest policies;
• Full adherence to security protocols;
• Understanding of WV operations and strong field acumen;
• Familiarity with Herat Province context; understanding of agriculture and livelihoods and WASH ideal.

Work Environment/Travel:

• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 50% of the time.