Technical Head of Program

Under the responsibility of the Programme Director, the Technical Head of Programme contributes to the implementation of Humanité & Inclusion’s mandate and 10-year strategy within his/her programme. He/she is the driving force behind the programmatic development of social missions within his/her technical scope, and ensures that the quality and impact of the projects implemented in the programme are optimised, in line with the priorities defined in the Technical Strategies.

The Technical Head of Program is responsible for a team of specialists (Technical Field Specialist, Business Developer, MEAL…). In this context, his/her missions are as follows:

Management:

• Embodies HI’s values on a daily basis, and is a role model.
• Understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for the team, leads the necessary changes.
• Organises the operational management of his or her team, structures the work around identified processes, steers performance, and facilitates problem solving.
• Contributes to the development of its employees, creating the conditions to enable their commitment, their professionalism and their attachment to HI.

Strategy and management:

• Proposes the development of the programmatic framework of the programme’s StratOp, based on an analysis of the sectoral context and following the StraTechs and Development Plans of the Emergency, Atlas and Impact-Innovation- Information divisions, in conjunction with the operational teams.
• Ensures the deployment of cross-cutting approaches within programming, promotes cross-sectoral synergies and intervention themes.
• Proposes the design and evolution of the programme’s technical support, based on the skills of the technical specialists and technical profiles assigned to the projects.
• Contributes, at least once a year, to the annual monitoring of the StratOp and to the planning of the following year’s programmes (i.e. support missions and evaluations).
• Ensures the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool.

Development of the social mission and programmatic vision:

• Defines the programme’s funding strategy for new themes or innovations in existing sectors, ensures the development of opportunities for each theme within its scope, proposes the geographical development of HI sectors, and ensures the conformity of the technical proposal with nexus issues.

 Quality standards and expertise with the MEAL and technical profiles of the Programme:

• Controls and monitors the technical quality and relevance of HI activities within its scope:
• Ensures that project managers receive appropriate technical and methodological guidance and support from MEAL team members and specialists based at headquarters or at programme level.
• Ensures quality control of projects and the programme and raises alerts and recommendations.
• Follows up the implementation of recommendations from support missions, evaluation or audit, as appropriate.
• Ensures a local sectoral watch and collects good practices.
• In connection with the MEAL missions:
• Ensures the improvement of the quality of project management processes, as defined by the Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) policy
• Leads the improvement of HI’s response, including the implementation of impact and effect measurement tools.
• Establishes mechanisms for accountability to beneficiaries.
• Ensures the appropriation of programmes and HI’s frameworks and learning methodologies globally.
• Supports the monitoring of projects.
• Ensures that specialists develop a local professional channel/talent pool and contributes to the animation of the professional channel of the technical divisions and the MEALs.
• Ensures the development of research and innovation projects in the region, when appropriate.
• Ensures deployment and compliance with global frameworks, institutional policies and standards.

Ensure external representation and promotion of HI’s expertise in its field:

• Represents HI’s expertise in all relevant networks (including clusters).
• Supports the specialists and the PD in the representation towards partners, institutional donors and authorities.
• Contributes to advocacy (including evidence-based) on specific issues, in line with the StratOp and federal advocacy priorities.
• Contributes locally to communication messages, in line with the StratOp and federal communication priorities.

 Emergency preparedness and response:

• Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure a rapid and effective response from HI

Requirements:

• With a master’s degree in one of HI’s technical sectors of intervention and/or international cooperation and/or humanitarian development, you have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in humanitarian development with experience in project management (multi or complex) and experience(s) in one of HI’s technical sectors of intervention.

Source: https://apply.workable.com/hi-jobs/j/7FAB52AC91/