Program Manager, Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs

About this position

Full-time Temporary, Approx. 1 Year
 
Job Description:
 
As World Vision Canada's (WVC's) primary point person for the Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) work in specific non-sponsorship humanitarian context countries and regions, the HEA Program Manager will provide support to National Offices through emergency and grant proposal development assistance, program and project funding, project implementation support and monitoring, sharing of information between key external and internal WVC stakeholders, strategy development and provision of analysis to relevant stakeholders.
 
The HEA Program Manager will enhance field level program quality through direct support to country offices (field offices):

• Direct project management of institutional grants, with accountability to donors.
• Point person for national emergency responses.
• Involvement in the development of National HEA Strategies that align with Partnership standards (Model of Ministry) and strategy as well as integrative programming.

• Support to implement WV approved Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) processes.
• Review and feedback on HEA project documents (plans, reports, and evaluations for grants and privately funded projects).
• Provision of field office funding including capacity building funds to support staff development in DME and other key sectors.

• Accountability for appropriate targeted resourcing of field programs and projects.
• In alignment with WVC and regional and national strategies. This includes grants, institutional donors, other donors and private funding acquisition (proposal development and management).

• Provide strategic, technical (where appropriate) and analytical support (quality assurance) to relevant stakeholders including within HEA, Public Relations, Marketing, Finance in regard to country and / or technical specialization.
• Collaboration with other teams within WVC to support effective program / project implementation in line with development programming, field office and regional HEA strategies.

• Provide surge capacity either in field deployments to emergency response and/or support to WVC HEA portfolio management while other team members have deployed.

• BA in International Development or related.
• 5 years of experience in designing successful proposals and managing proposal development teams to ensure timely, high quality inputs from all team members.
• Skills and experience in grant management.
• Skills and experience in writing and producing quality proposals for various donor audiences.
• Thorough understanding of donor requirements, guidelines and priorities (Global Affairs Canada, European Union, and some knowledge of Multilateral Institutions an asset).
• Excellent ability to work cross-organizationally with multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment and realization of strategic objectives.
• Skills in cross-cultural communication and experience working with remote teams.
• Identifies and analyzes situations and / or issues related to the acquisition management process, considers options, develops solutions, recommends and monitors appropriate solutions.
• An expectation of international travel of approximately 4-6 trips per year, to ensure realization of high quality outputs from each of the specific accountabilities.
• Excellent communication and listening skills are critical.
• A demonstrated ability to take initiative with confidence and sound judgement.
• Ability to perform under stressful and time bound contexts.
• Ability to manage several moving parts simultaneously.

About us

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization. We partner with children, families and their communities to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.   Inspired by our Christian values, World Vision is dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.

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