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BE CAPABLE Global Project Manager (humanitarian preparedness and response capacity building)

Contract type: 18 months

Salary & Benefits in Thailand: competitive salary and benefits (Contract 18 months)

Application closing date:  6 Feb, 2018

Introduction to VSO

VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.

It’s an exciting time to join VSO! 

Role overview

The Project manager will manage the delivery of VSO’s EU Aid Volunteers funded BE CAPABLE Project - Building Capacities in Asia & Africa for Preparedness And Better humanitarian effectiveness through Local Engagement and volunteering project. Key is you’re working collaboratively with 9 VSO International country programme teams and VSO Netherland to manage the project and grant to achieve the outcomes within budget and agreed timeframe. Working closely with VSO Resilience Lead Advisor, professional volunteers and consultants, you will provide technical humanitarian and resilience capacity building support and influencing the organisational development in building resilience.

The Be Capable project aims to strengthen the organizational and technical capacity of hosting organizations within the VSO network in 9 countries in disaster preparedness, resilience building and volunteer management. This will be achieved by working towards three specific objectives:

1. To improve volunteer recruitment and deployment standards and procedures in 9 prospective hosting organizations (PHOs)
2. To increase the knowledge and skills of 9 PHOs’ staff in resilience and humanitarian aid.
3. To strengthen capacity of 9 PHOs to develop disaster preparedness and management plans that will enable more efficient decision-making and effective deployment of volunteers. The project will   support 9 PHOs to enhance their volunteer recruitment and deployment policies and practices, while simultaneously building their capacity to ensure greater resilience and disaster preparedness within their programs.

Thus, the Be Capable project will benefit PHO staff and community members through stronger more resilient programs with identified areas for volunteer support.

The project will take place over 18 months across 9 countries in Asia and Africa: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and Uganda, selected for their susceptibility to multiple hazards and the impact that increased capacity in resilience and disaster preparedness would have on their programs.

Join us in this new exciting project! 

Skills, qualifications and experience

Experience

• Management of £300,000+ per annum projects from inception to completion
• Grant management and donor reporting with institutional donors, preferably including the European Commission
• Supporting participatory, evidence-based humanitarian/resilience-related programming, preferably in a role that involved capacity development/ skills transfer.

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to prioritise and schedule a demanding and varied workload with the ability to move flexibly within tasks. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English 
• Proven ability to manage partnerships and relationships with a range of stakeholders up to a senior level and geographically dispersed across Asia, Africa and/or Europe. 
• Knowledge and understanding of core humanitarian standards, humanitarian preparedness/contingency planning approaches and risk assessment to operate safely and securely in a pressure environment.
• Ability to use coaching, mentoring, facilitation, training and accompaniment skills to develop others.
• Demonstrates leadership with understanding of humanitarian values and principles, and motivates others to achieve results in complex situations, independent of role, function or seniority.
• Understand the role and values of volunteering in humanitarian context.

Other

• The role will involve frequent travel to 4 countries in Asia and 5 countries in Africa (expected to include week-long monitoring/training visits to each country per annum)
• Commitment to VSO mission, values and People First principles, mainstreaming social accountability, social inclusion and gender into all areas of the project’s work

This is a national hire post under national terms and conditions. RIGHT TO WORK IN THAILAND IS REQUIRED. We will not be able to obtain visa and work permit to non-Thai nationals.

Due to the urgent need of this role, we reserve the right to review and interview candidates before the closing date.

How to apply

If you're interested in applying for this role, please download the job description to read more details about the position and the skills and experience we're looking for at https://www.vsointernational.org/about/careers/jobs/be-capable-global-project-manager-humanitarian-preparedness-and-response-capacity-buidling-a0md000000bru9jiav

To submit your application, click on “Make an application” and complete all relevant fields on the online application form. 

Before you apply, please download and read the job description for full details of the roles and person specification and application guidelines available on our website. 

VSO is committed to a policy of equal opportunities, values inclusion and seeks to have a diverse workforce.

Interview/Assessment date(s):  TBC
Start date:  ASAP

Industry

Nonprofit Organization Management

Employment type

Full-time

Experience

Expert

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