Ukraine Job Openings
World Vision Perú
Ukraine Crisis Response Director
FULL TIME
August 7, 2024
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Asignación Internacional - Plazo Determinado (duración determinada)
Job Description:
UKRAINE CRISIS RESPONSE DIRECTOR
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Ukraine Crisis Response Director leads World Vision’s humanitarian response to the crisis in Ukraine ensuring effective scale up and delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected vulnerable people in Ukraine, and Moldova, and other countries if required in the future.
The Response Director oversees all aspects of the response from strategy to implementation including team management, partner relations, risk management and relations with a wider range of local and international stakeholders in a complex, fluid and challenging humanitarian context with a high level of global interest and engagement.
World Vision is looking for a senior, experienced humanitarian leader with a strong track record in complex crises and fragile contexts, and excellent team leadership, communications, risk and relationship management skills.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy & Planning
- Lead the development of the Ukraine Response strategy and ensure strategic and operational alignment of all functions to meet humanitarian needs as well as alignment with the overall World Vision Global Strategy, Our Promise.
- Monitor appropriateness and implementation of strategy and operational plans while considering operational feasibility and technical quality
- Working with Resource Development, Finance and Operations to ensure proper cost recovery in all grants and other funding streams.
- Ensure that clear scenario plans are established for each of the country programs (direct and with/through partners) in Ukraine and Moldova within the Response as required.
Leadership & Management
- Promote World Vision’s vision, core values and key global Partnership standards and practices across offices and partner agencies.
- Lead the Senior Leadership Team in a manner that facilitates a high performance culture.
- Ensure an organizational structure that results in optimal efficiency and effectiveness, minimizing duplication and leveraging synergies between program offices.
- Model a high standard of Christian leadership, maturity and integrity as an example to staff, and provide overall spiritual leadership for the Response.
Collaboration & Networking
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships and partnerships including prioritizing high level external engagement with donors, Agencies, humanitarian community, other NGO’s and INGO’s, Support offices and other stakeholders to stimulate resource acquisition, maximize impact, foster coordination and partnering and profile raising for WVI.
- Ensure a strong advocacy capacity, aligned with WV Ukraine Response strategy and organizational priorities
Ministry Standards/Accountability
- Ensure each country’s program development and implementation are meeting World Vision priorities and standards and are of the highest quality and impact possible within the context.
- Ensure that feedback and complaint mechanisms for beneficiaries, communities, other stakeholders and World Vision staff are in place.
- Ensure that all programs are implemented, well-coordinated, monitored and evaluated according to agreements with donors, partners and other stakeholders.
Finance & Compliance:
- Ensure financial resources are managed according to agreements with donors and standards approved by World Vision.
- Ensure efficient and effective organizational practices that would result in successful financial and operational audit scores.
- Exercise good stewardship over all resources by maintaining sound internal controls, risk register, procedures and records according to WVI accountability standards.
Human Resources (People & Culture)
- Ensure that the quality of staff recruited and retained is at a level to meet the organization’s overall performance expectations.
- Ensure P&C establishes a staff care function and mechanism that supports staff well-being
Security
- Ensure that World Vision’s security policies and protocols are implemented and monitored on an ongoing basis
- Ensure the ongoing monitoring of the external security environment.
Reporting & Knowledge Management
- Ensure that all internal and external reporting requirements are planned for, and quality reports are submitted on time. This will include regular reporting on the situation, potential impact and risk, progress and development of the programs.
- Ensure internal coordination & information sharing mechanisms result in improved staff awareness and performance.
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
- A minimum of 7 years in leadership roles in the humanitarian and development sector, including in major INGOs.
- At least 5 years’ senior management experience in humanitarian responses within complex, fragile and conflict related contexts
- Demonstrated understanding of humanitarian principles, standards and best practices.
- Excellent communications and relationship management skills
- University degree in humanitarian, development, international relations or relevant field. Master’s degree preferred
- Proven track record of leading multi-cultural teams in complex, culturally and politically sensitive contexts
- Extensive experience in program management and implementation of multi-sectoral emergency response projects
- Experience working in high pressure, rapid response environments with multiple risks
- External engagement at senior level with governments and multilateral agencies
- Ability to analyse and make decisions in challenging situations in the absence of specific guidance and/or full information
- Effective in written and verbal communication in English
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted
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