Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 30 Oct 2016
About us
Christian Aid has a vision of a better world free from poverty. At the heart of this vision is tackling the root causes of poverty, empowering people to have a brighter future, and saving lives during emergencies.
In South Sudan, Christian Aid exists to bring lasting change for all the people of South Sudan, so they live in peaceful coexistence, with dignity and security, taking a full part in the society and the economy; irrespective of their identity.
Christian Aid is responding to the South Sudan humanitarian crisis in a way that will lay the foundations for a broad based recovery, working with local and national actors to provide emergency and resilient livelihoods support to disaster-affected populations.
This is why we are looking for a dynamic, highly skilled and motivated individual to lead and drive forward our Humanitarian work in South Sudan.
About the role
As the Emergency Programme Manager for South Sudan, you will develop, lead and mobilise resources for Christian Aid’s humanitarian, resilience and disaster risk reduction programme. You will play a key role in strengthening the capacity of Christian Aid staff and partners to prepare for, mitigate against and respond to crises, and in ensuring best practice in our humanitarian response.
You will manage Christian Aid’s humanitarian programme and partners in South Sudan. Specifically, you will take the lead in humanitarian programme design, fundraising, implementation, monitoring, and partnership development. You will work collaboratively with humanitarian, advocacy, fundraising, and communications and media colleagues in the region and headquarters.
You will have an external facing role, helping Christian Aid engage in the right networks, increasing the profile of our humanitarian and resilience work with donors and other stakeholders, and opening up opportunities for new productive humanitarian collaborations in South Sudan.
About you
To make this happen, you will have considerable experience of managing a range of humanitarian programmes, including FSL and WASH. You will have a passion about working with local and national actors and putting affected populations at the centre of our work.
You will have a good knowledge of emergency relief, rehabilitation and development issues including capacity building tools and techniques. You will have considerable experience of hands on grants management, working with local partners, and proactively dealing with challenges as they arise.
You will take responsibility for fundraising and leveraging resources, writing well and being systematic in your approach to system and processes. You will be an excellent communicator with the ability to develop cross-organisational relationships and be confident in engaging with external networks and donors.
You will have a broad range of technical and professional skills around programme cycle management, including proposal development, grant management, and donor reporting. Above all you will have management competencies and be strategic and proactive in developing humanitarian programmes.
How to apply:
Further information
Please express your interest to this post by applying through Christian Aid’s online recruitment system on the website www.christianaid.org.uk/jobs using the reference: Emergency Program Manager, reference 0916.
This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based. South Sudanese nationals are highly encouraged to apply.
We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balance.