Contexte :
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Handicap International (HI) Armed Violence Reduction Technical Unit is looking for a dynamic, creative and bilingual (French and English) Armed Violence Reduction (AVR) specialist to build and grow HI’s technical support to Humanitarian Mine Action and Armed Violence Reduction projects worldwide.
The position will be based in Lyon, France or Brussels, Belgium, with on average 3 travels to field missions yearly.
Description :
This position has two main missions: support field missions in developing a comprehensive approach to Armed Violence Reduction and ensure quality programming is a guiding pilar in our field work.
The AVR Quality Management Framework refers to this as ‘complementarity’, also referred to as synergies, within the sector and with other sectors. HI being a multi-mandated organization facilitates these synergies through collective comprehensive programming within the AVR sector and beyond, facilitating maximized impact.
Our Quality Management aims at improving AVR operations’ quality and making targeted decisions based on evidence:
• Seeking to better articulate the catalytic contribution of HMA to armed violence reduction
• Ensuring coherence with and furthering our contribution to broader humanitarian and development objectives
• Demonstrating our mandate: addressing effects, root causes and long-term impacts of armed violence
OBJECTIVES:
Under the responsibility of the AVR Technical Director, the AVR specialist is an expert who ensures strategic technical guidance, support and control in his/her scope of expertise (quality management, comprehensive approaches to AVR). He/she provides standards and methodologies, provides advices, on the job training and distance mentoring.
– Ensure and control application of HI AVR technical quality framework to guarantee optimal outcomes and impact of projects.
– Support and train teams to deploy quality-oriented programming and comprehensive approaches.
– Ensure synergies within the sector, identify and foster synergies outside.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Expert, you will:
• Set framework and standards on the technical know-how under his/her scope (NORMS)
• Provide strategic technical guidance (OPE SUPPORT)
• Ensure the control of the technical quality and the relevance of HI’s activities under his/her scope (OPE SUPPORT)
• Contribute to the improvement of technical know-how through the development of lessons learnt, research and innovation projects under his/her scope when relevant (in close link with 3I Division) (NORMS)
• Facilitate the Technical Division professional development
Influencer you will contribute to the international prestige and influence of HI’s expertise in his/her sectorial scope (in close link with the Policy and Development Officer if existing)
Business Developer you will contribute to the development of major opportunities or new projects under his/her sectorial scope, in line with the Technical Director, the Policy and development Officer, and the Institutional Funding team.
DESIRED PROFILE:
• You hold a University Degree, preferably Master’s Conflict/Security issues, International Development, International Relations or other relevant subject.
• You have experience in Humanitarian Mine Action or Armed Violence Reduction sectors
• You master project and program management
• You have an excellent knowledge of project / program cycle mecanisms and main monitoring and evaluation tools and methods
• You demonstrate high capacities in professional development
• You are fluent in French and English; (ability to speak and write in other languages Arabic or Spanish at an advanced level is an advantage)
• You are known for your interpersonal skills in an intercultural context and your ability to adapt quickly
CONDITIONS OF THE POSITION:
Open ended contract
Salary according to profile and experience
Additional benefits: luncheon vouchers and health insurance
Working hours: Executive status (34 paid vacation days and 13 days of rest)
Advantageous telework agreement
How to apply
Only online by joining a CV and cover letter via the following link:
http://www.jobs.net/j/JfASkdWJ?idpartenaire=136&jobdetails=true
Applications will be processed on an ongoing basis, don’t wait for applying!
Only successful candidates will be contacted.