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Posted on: 08/04/2015
Desired start date: 15/06/2015
Duration of the mission: 5 months TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT
Location: Based in Yangon; up to 30% in time in field, capital, and in Regional trips (Bangkok).

MISSION:

You can find all the information about the Solidarités International (SI) Myanmar’s mission here:http://www.solidarites.org/en/nos-missions/myanmar

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Head of Mission is the Solidarités International official representative in country.
S/He is in charge of the smooth running of the mission.
S/He proposes mission strategy, according to the geopolitical and humanitarian context, and ensures its implementation once it has been validated.
S/He monitors projects, ensuring that they are progressing in accordance with the Solidarités International charter and complying with internal and contractual procedures.
S/He mobilizes the material and financial resources necessary for the programs to run effectively and supervises the administration of these resources.
S/He coordinates the teams in place and ensures their security on the mission.
S/He is the direct liaison for Solidarités International HQ.

Main tasks:

  • Coordination and strategic orientation
  • Relevance and operational quality / operations monitoring
  • Resource management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Security: Kachin is a war zone even if INGOs are not a target. Rakhine is the most complex context of the country. The safety of staff is not at high risk but the level of constrains, dilemmas and the constant instability of the context consumes most of the time and energy for the coordination. Chin and Dry Zone are stable contexts.
  • Relationships with financial donors / fund-raising
  • Internal and external communication
  • Representation: numerous meetings with humanitarian actors, donors, high diplomats and politicians requiring a clear position from SI regarding mandate and principles

Specific context of the post:

In 2014, SI Myanmar mission works with 112 000 beneficiaries with 5.5 million Euros budget. SI has 4 bases across the country with over 300 national colleagues and approximately 18 internationals. The SI coordination team is based in Yangon, with an additional 4 bases in Rakhine, Dry Zone, Kachin State and Chin State. Each office is operational with a field coordinator or Base Manager and between 20-200 colleagues in each.

PROFILE

Education: Preferably a Master Degree in Political Science or any relevant studies regarding the implementation and/or the analysis of humanitarian operations. Or a relevant Bachelor’s Degree is the minimum plus additional years of experience.

Experience:

  • Minimum 5 years of humanitarian experience preferred with a minimum of 1 year in a similar role.
  • Experienced in the representation of a humanitarian INGO and its humanitarian principles.
  • Experience in managing big expatriate teams
  • Experienced with country-wide humanitarian short, mid-term and long-term operations management, including finance, HR, communications, logistics, proposal development, security, procurement.
  • Experienced with humanitarian context analysis and variety of challenging humanitarian operations (including humanitarian access, advocacy, external communication).
  • Experience in dealing with bilateral and multilateral institutional donors.
  • Experienced in working within stressful organisational and contextual constraints
  • Experience in Crisis communication is an asset

Languages: Fluent in English (the mission is an English speaking /writing mission). French and Burmese are added assets.

LIVING CONDITIONS

This post is based in Yangon where the security and safety are not a concern. Violent crime is unheard of, and foreigners are rarely ever a target. It is a fair family location with international schools (English and French), international standard supermarkets, good clinics, and parks and some leisure activities (sailing, swimming, tennis, football, etc.).

CONDITIONS

Salaried post: According to experience from 2300 euros gross per month, plus 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly, and a monthly Per Diem of 500 USD

Possibility of a family package, including plane tickets, insurance, housing contribution, full spousal Per Diem and 50% Per Diem for each child.

Solidarités International will cover accommodation and travel expenses from the expatriate’s home country to the site of the assignment.
- Social and medical cover: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which reimburses all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.

- Vacation: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of one break every three months. For a one-year assignment, the expatriate will have a 7-day break during the 3rd and the 9th month (with 500 euros allocated by Solidarités). He or she will also be entitled to go back to his or her home country for a 14-day period after six months spent on the mission (Solidarités will cover travel costs).

During the assignment, the expatriate is entitled to R&R every three months: one week at three and nine months (with a 500 euro allowance) and two weeks at six months (with a plane ticket back home covered by Solidarités).

CONTACT : Pauline CARTERY, Recruitment & Follow Up Officer

 

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