Bolívar base chief At Action against Hunger Spain

You will contribute to ending world hunger by…

The Base Chief’s objective is to ensure the programmatic, technical, financial and logistical development of Action Against Hunger (ACH) actions in the State where the actions are carried out, in accordance with the strategic criteria of ACH in Venezuela, the ACH and donor internal processes and regulations.

The main activities you will perform are the following:

Contribute to the implementation of the national Action Against Hunger strategy on the ground and serve as a liaison with local partners, authorities, United Nations Agencies and NGOs present in the territory.

• Identify the presence and strategic orientations of other partners on the ground with the purpose of improving coordination and effective work.
• Participate in humanitarian coordination activities on the ground.
• Identify and build the network of contacts for effective implementation and coordination with other actors in the implementation area of ​​the base projects.
• Coordinate with other actors, including local partners, NGOs, the UN and the government present in the area.
• Actively participate in coordination mechanisms at the local, municipal and departmental levels and mediate decisions when necessary.
• Ensure continuous communication with local, municipal and departmental authorities to guarantee the adequate operationalization of actions in the territory.
• Define action plans with partners and regularly monitor their implementation
• Report possible conflicts, problems and suggestions for correction, necessary for the proper execution of projects in the territory to the corresponding sectoral management and coordination (Health and Nutrition, Food Security, WASH). 10.Collaborate in other activities assigned by the Action Against Hunger management.

Ensures support and monitoring of project managers and those in charge of operational management of contracts to be implemented on the assigned basis, ensuring maximum quality and efficiency.

• Ensure the articulation of all operational management areas (Technical, MEAL, FSL, WASH, Gender and Protection) for the sending of information on time and in quality in accordance with the established parameters and process map designed for the different moments of the project cycle management.
• Participate in the SFIN-OPE meetings of the production unit, giving clear and relevant information on the implementation of projects that are implemented on its basis that allow decision making (support in the preparation and determination of shock plans, report of alerts, among others).
• Lead activity planning meetings in the field in coordination with project managers.
• Together with the Project Managers, follow up and establish an action plan on the alert reports of underexecution of critical contracts from the Internal Monitoring Tool (HMI), FMTh and others, reporting in the monthly monitoring meetings, to Deputy Country Director, and other coordination.
• Actively participate and in coordination with MEAL, JdP and technical coordination in the planning and methodological definition, and ToR of the internal and external evaluations and lessons learned from the contracts and integration of the CHS standard (Core Humanitarian standart) and ensures its implementation in the times and with the required content and archive, in addition to its dissemination on mission and with required actors

Security, Risk, Protection and Access Management.

• Monitor the security environment (networking, information collection and analysis).
• Maintain an effective network, with local input, on context and security issues, information collection and analysis to establish risk and context analysis.
• Ensure the application of security procedures when alerted by Logistics Coordination.
• Manage any safety and security incidents at the base level and report to management.
• Participate in the development of the security plan and validate it from the base level for sending to logistics coordination and Action Against Hunger management for subsequent validation at Headquarters.
• Attend all field safety meetings.
• Inform the Action Against Hunger team about the local context and security. 8.Participate in the monitoring and analysis of the security situation in the territory.

Does this description fit you?

• Professional in social, administrative, political, health and other sciences.
• Desirable experience of 5 years in the international cooperation sector.
• Knowledge of main donors in the country.
• Previous knowledge of the terrain in international cooperation organizations.
• High leadership in planning and project cycle management.
• Experience in management and leadership of work teams.
• Upper-intermediate level of spoken and written English (desirable). Mastery of the Office package. Knowledge in the use of tools such as: Kobo, Power Bi, Qgis. Availability for high mobility in the country with trips to the implementation areas or other areas of the country or region.

Our remuneration package:

In Action Against Hunger you have the possibility of joining a multicultural, professional and innovative organization and the possibility of participating in projects with high social impact. You will also have:

• Competitive remuneration based on the candidate’s experience.
• Professional career in the Humanitarian sector.
• Continuous training in both technical skills and soft skills.

At Action Against Hunger we are firmly committed to diversity and gender equality. Our calls are open to people who belong to Indigenous peoples and people with a disability or condition with the purpose of seeking inclusion and diversity in all our actions.

We reserve the right to close the call early, if in the selection process the vacancy is filled before the established deadline.

Action Against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work, including sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial malpractice; We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment and share our code of conduct and other related policies as only those people who share our values ​​and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.