Position Start Date: ASAP (15.12.2023)

Type of contract: CDM

Working time: 100%

Duration: 3 months (with possibility of extension)

Status: Non-accompanied

Location: Gaza, oPT Palestine

Terre des hommes does not set closing dates for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled.

Tdh:

Tdh has been working in Palestine for 50 years and has current partnerships with 10 local organizations in Gaza and five local organizations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with a primary focus on protection (including MHPSS, child protection and GBV), education, cash for protection and Multipurpose Cash Assistance. Today, Terre des hommes is committed to offering support to the population of the Gaza Strip suffering from the ongoing hostilities.

Tdh in Gaza, oPT Palestine:

The Gaza Strip faces a severe humanitarian crisis, with 1.5 million internally displaced persons due to ongoing hostilities, seeking refuge in UNRWA facilities, hospitals, churches, public buildings, and schools. Overcrowded conditions prevail in UNRWA shelters, notably at the Khan Younis Training Centre, hosting 22,100 IDPs, exceeding its capacity tenfold. More than 15% of IDPs have disabilities, but shelters lack necessary equipment, prompting medical issues. Water and sanitation suffer from 120 wells and one desalination plant shutting down due to fuel shortages, leading to a significant drop in water consumption. Food stocks, estimated to last seven days, are hindered by fuel and water shortages. Resource scarcity, security concerns, and closed banks impede access to basic needs, while humanitarian actors struggle to respond due to shortages of electricity, fuel, water, medicine, and essential items. The Gaza Strip experiences a significant reduction in internet access, hampering information transfer. Urgent comprehensive humanitarian response is crucial to alleviate suffering and meet the needs of conflict-affected individuals, particularly children, youth, and pregnant or lactating women.

Responsibilities:

1/Assisting the Emergency Base Coordinator in the definition and follow-up of logistics activities in the project, in conjunction with other project managers in order to identify and give a response to the needs of the targeted population.

2/Ensuring and monitoring the implementation of logistics/technical activities in the base including the following:

WASH: implementation of water, health, and sanitation activities

Supply: implementation and maintenance of an appropriate supply chain for the project, including:

Human resources: In collaboration with HR department:

• Participating in the HR associated processes of logistics staff (recruitment, training, briefing/debriefing,)
• Coaching to logistics staff under his/her responsibility. Ensuring all staff in the base is properly briefed about use of communication tools
• ensure both the adequate sizing and level of knowledge/skills required to correctly perform all logistics activities.

ICT: Provide first line ICT support (internet, network, printers, back-ups, software, and virus protection upgrades, and first line trouble shooting).

Fleet Management: Maintain overall responsibility for condition of vehicles in fleet. Maintain overall responsibility for proper security procedures before and during movements.

Security:

• In collaboration with the Emergency Base Coordinator, define and update the project security SOP, implementing the technical aspects of the risk reduction policy and the technical feasibility of the evacuation and contingency plan, to ensure people’s security, maintain responsibility for applied security at the office, guesthouses, and any other structures managed by Tdh for the project.

Budgeting and Reporting:

• Contribute to budget decision moments in collaboration with Emergency Base Coordinator by compiling expected expenses for all logistics and supply activities.

The full job description will be shared with the selected candidates to participate in the recruitment process.

Profile:

• At least 3 years technical diploma or technical university degree, preferably as an engineer.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in a similar position
• Significant experience of working in emergencies and conflict zones in NGO
• Fluency in Arabic and English is essential.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite
• Able to work in unstable, uncertain, or potentially dangerous environments, independently and in a team.
• Management capacity and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong cross-cultural communication and resilience skills.
• Strong sense of confidentiality, conflict management and promotion of a healthy work environment
• Able to establish and maintain effective working relations with people of different cultural backgrounds.

Conditions offered:

• Swiss contract
• Gross monthly salary between 4200 CHF and 4900 x13,36 months
• Insurances: sickness, accident, repatriation
• Annual leaves: 25 days/year
• Flights to duty station and back
• Housing allowance or in Guest House

Child Safeguarding Policy:

• Raising awareness within the Foundation on violence against children
• Providing guidance to employees and others and defining expectations when it comes to preventing, raising, denouncing and responding to issues of child abuse
• Reducing the risk of child abuse by selectively recruiting employees and others
• Reducing the risk of child abuse by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children

We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.

Are you interested? Do you want to face this challenge?