France: Project Manager Specific Needs (Psychosocial support) - Roving team - all countries

NGO PRESENTATION

There are two operations divisions at Handicap International:

• the Development Division (DAD)
• the Humanitarian Action Division (DAH), covering emergency response operations and mine action.

The DAH is currently running programmes in the following countries: DRC, Mali, Philippines, Nepal, Ukraine, CAR, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Chad, Libya and Cambodia. It employs 150 expatriate staff and a headquarters team of around sixty people.

For more information on Handicap International: http://www.handicap-international.fr/

JOB CONTEXT

In its emergency response operations, DAH seeks to:

• Provide an adequate response in situations of natural disaster and conflict anywhere in the world and, whenever possible, within 72 hours of the onset of a crisis
• Bring assistance to displaced populations, refugees and victims of conflicts and disasters, especially to the injured and disabled among them
• Keep a permanent watch on chronic crises and/or conflicts so as to be ready to make a rapid response to any emergency needs arising
• Campaign against the use of landmines and cluster munitions and work towards reducing risks and preventing accidents caused by conventional weapons.

To help it meet these objectives, DAH has created a Rapid Response team, made up of seven people:

• A head of mission
  -An administrative coordinator
• A logistics coordinator
• A field/operations coordinator
• A "basic needs” project manager, specialised in ensuring coverage of the essential needs of populations affected by a crisis
• Two “specific needs” project managers, specialised in ensuring coverage of the specific needs of vulnerable people.

In emergency situations, Handicap International commits to providing:

• Immediate means of subsistence: distribution of essential non-food items and/or setting up of cash transfer programmes
• Management and distribution of humanitarian aid (logistics platform): transport, storage, on-forwarding of essential materials or supplies
• Camp management
• Water, Hygiene and Sanitation
• Habitat and Community Construction: Emergency shelters, construction/rehabilitation of temporary individual shelters and accessible community infrastructure
• Physical and functional rehabilitation (physical therapy, technical aids, orthopaedic fitting (orthotic and prosthetic devices), etc.)
• Psychosocial support and mental health interventions
• Inclusion and accessibility interventions (advocacy and direct actions) to prevent vulnerable people -especially people with disabilities or injuries- from exclusion from services during humanitarian assistance operations.
  Members of the Rapid Response team are required to work:

1) in the field on the opening of programmes
2) in the field in support of existing missions
3) at head office between field missions on knowledge capitalisation, creating and updating tools and providing support to technical advisers according to the established terms of reference.

YOUR MISSION:

As part of the Rapid Response team, the Specific Needs/Psychosocial Support and Protection project manager oversees approaches and responses in the area of "Specific Needs", with a special focus on psychosocial interventions, mental health and protection, while keeping the global response to specific needs in view, which generally includes the Physical and Functional Rehabilitation sector. He/she also works on access to humanitarian assistance for the most vulnerable.

All Handicap International’s sectors of intervention are concerned by your mission which you shall always implement using an approach that is inclusive of all, especially people with disabilities and injuries (for example, through accessible infrastructures and the use of mechanisms for identifying people suffering from exclusion within an affected community).

Reporting to the Rapid Response Head of Mission and in liaison with HQ Specific Needs/Psychosocial Support and Protection technical advisers, you will be responsible for:

1. Conducting evaluations / initial diagnoses during field deployments on specific needs in general and mental health, psychosocial support and protection in particular, and designing projects for all the organisation’s sectors of intervention (directly or with the support of local actors)
2. Helping with the opening of a mission
3. Managing the launch of these projects, notably the “response to specific needs” component and especially in the mental health and psychosocial fields
4. Conducting support missions (training, mentoring, support, recruitment, internal audit and handovers) with missions in need of them and providing short-term temporary cover for posts according to the established terms of reference
5. Carrying out knowledge capitalisation work and helping to update the organisation's project tools.

SPECIFIC CONDITIONS OF THE JOB:

•Around 60% of working time spent in the field and periods between missions spent working at head office in Lyon
•Shared field accommodation paid for by Handicap International
•Repatriation insurance with SOS International
•25 standard paid leave + 22,5 days of R&R + 3 days of recuperation after each field deployment
•Meal vouchers (value of 8 euros) for the days spent in HQ
•Total mobility required, in accordance with legal provisions and the conditions put in place by Handicap International
•Specific working conditions in politically- and culturally-varied contexts
•Situations of stress inherent in emergencies

REQUIRED PROFILE

•You have a Masters in Psychology or training in social work
•You have been trained in the development and management of projects, and you have sound experience of project management
•You have considerable professional experience of emergency or post-emergency assistance as a project manager
•You have proven experience of team management and representation, and consider yourself capable of training your staff members
•You have good command of written and spoken French and English Arabic would be an advantage
•You are used to working with Microsoft Office
•You are able to assume a heavy workload under constant pressure
•You are responsive, flexible and have strong organisational skill
•A sense of humour is one of your qualities.

CONDITIONS

Start of the contract: ASAP

Status: 12-month renewable fixed-term HQ contract

Starting salary: 2,750 euros gross per month, according to experience

Monthly availability allowance of 620 euros gross

Monthly per diem paid in proportion of the days spent in the location

Hardship allowance paid in proportion of the days spent in the location (if existing in the country of assignment)

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