Mission 1: Management

 a.        Exemplary Manager: embodies HI's values on a daily basis, and is a role model.  

b.        Meaningful manager: understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for the team, leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to each management action. Encourages inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice. Encourages innovation and risk-taking.  

c.         Operational Manager: organizes the operational management of his or her team, structures the work around identified processes, steers performance, and facilitates problem solving.  

d.        Manager 1st HR&Coach: contributes to the development of its employees, creating the conditions to enable their commitment, their professionalism and their attachment to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct of institutional policies, the state of mind and the expected individual and collective behavior.  

Mission 2: Strategy and management

a.        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.

b.        Ensures the deployment of cross-cutting approaches within programming, promotes cross-sectoral synergies and intervention themes.

c.         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, and according to the key priority sectors and the skills of the project managers.  

d.        Contributes, at least once a year, (regarding its projects and data) to the annual monitoring of the StratOp and to the planning of the following year's programmes (i.e. support missions and evaluations).

e.         Ensures the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool.

Mission 3: 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. 

1. Provides support to the Programme Director and Area Managers in considering the development of new value propositions (including needs assessment, feasibility, strategic alliances, major contracts. ).
2. Contributes to the development of the fundraising strategy, in coordination with the Country Managers / Operations Manager / Business Developer Officer, and support the affiliated countries in the development and implementation of their fundraising plans. 
3. Leads the transformation of financial opportunities into projects. 

1.  Produces and drives the design of major projects (multiple countries, one or more themes) or new projects in the   region.
2. Identifies and develops regional or local partnerships and/or consortia with NGOs, institutions, companies on technical priorities or important themes in the region.

Mission 4: 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.

a          Ensures quality control of projects and the programme and raises alerts and recommendations.

b         Follows up the implementation of recommendations from support missions, evaluation or audit, as appropriate.

c          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. 

Mission 5: Ensure external representation and promotion of HI's expertise in its field

• Represents HI's expertise in all relevant networks (including clusters/working group).
•  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.

Mission 6: 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.   

• Develops and monitors the emergency preparedness action plan
• Ensures the definition and monitoring of minimum emergency preparedness measures (MPM) on the program
• Ensures the implementation of a capacity-building action plan for teams on these subjects.
• Support Country Managers in deploying emergency responses

Inclusive Humanitarian action

• Ensures the control & monitoring of the technical quality and the relevance of HI’s activities in the Programmes under his/her scope

• Ensures compliance of the technical proposition with nexus stakes:
• Contributes to the development of research and innovation projects in the region when relevant, in his/her sectorial scope
• Contributes to the Technical Divisions professional channel animation

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Professional capacity building

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Intervention strategy - Field project management

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Public relations / representation / internal-external communication - Global programme management

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Learning lessons from experience and continuous learning - MEAL

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Project evaluation - MEAL

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Strategic Analysis - Institutional Partnerships

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Safe programming: Risk management - Protection  

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Norms, legal frameworks, references related to disability - Inclusion  

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Operational partnerships - Field project management

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Emergency response 

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Emergency watch and preparedness 

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Frameworks and references 

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Office and collaborative tools 

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Stress management 

Working in a global organisation 

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