Organization: Handicap International
Country: Philippines
Closing date:
31 Mar 2015NGO PRESENTATION
Handicap International is an independent and impartial international aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our action and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights.
Handicap International is a not-for-profit organisation with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation made up of a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects and implement its actions and social mission.
Through its Emergency Response Department (ERD), created in 2006 after the merge with Atlas Logistique, the organization is committed to:
- Emergency livelihoods : Essential Household Items (EHI)/Non-food items (NFI) kits distribution and/or cash transfer programs
- Management and distribution of humanitarian assistance (logistics platform) : land transportation, storage, post-shipment of essential items or food supplies;
- Camp management (provision of aid to refugees and internally displaced persons – IDPs, setting up of transitional shelters) and arrangement of the voluntary repatriation of these people;
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) : access to drinking water (catchment – treatment – storage – distribution), to sanitation (latrine construction, waste management …) and hygiene promotion (disease vector control, awareness-raising on good WASH practice, hygiene kits distribution);
- Shelter and community construction: emergency shelter and settlement, accessible community infrastructure and individual transitional shelters construction/rehabilitation;
- Functional and physical rehabilitation (rehabilitation, provision of technical aids, of Prosthetics & Orthotics devices …);
- Psychosocial support (one-on-one sessions, support/focus groups, therapeutic mediation groups
- Inclusion and accessibility (advocacy and direct actions) to ensure the needs of persons excluded from services, and in particular the needs of persons with disabilities (PwDs) or persons with injuries (PwIs), are better addressed in the provision of humanitarian assistance.
Directly linked to the Emergency Response Department of Handicap International France, the expatriate will be mandated for the following mission:
MISSION CONTEXT
On the 8th of November 2013, “Haiyan” (locally known as “Yolanda”), the most violent typhoon of the year, hit the Philippines with wind speeds reaching 300km/h in some areas. More than 6,000 people were killed and hundreds remain missing. Estimates by the national government show that over 13 million people across 14 provinces were affected by
the typhoon. The strong winds and the subsequent 5-7 meter storm surges also damaged public buildings, infrastructures and road systems, toppled power and telephone lines, uprooted trees and destroyed thousands of houses.
The immediate aftermath of the disaster saw a severe shortage of food, potable water, shelter and medication among communities, as many local and international humanitarian aid agencies had to deal with damaged transportation systems that made logistical deployment of aid extremely difficult. Damaged communication systems also made it hard for humanitarian actors to accurately and rapidly assess the damages and needs of affected households, especially those in remote locations whose access to health care and other social services were also compromised.
As such, coordinated efforts of both the international aid community and local authorities focused on providing basic and specific needs of typhoon-affected communities. In particular, HI was able to carry out emergency aid distributions, provide temporary shelters and cash-for-work opportunities for vulnerable households. Vulnerable individuals with specific needs were also provided with mobility and assistive devices, rehabilitation services and first psychosocial aid.
Nearly a year after the typhoon, the context has changed from emergency response towards recovery and rehabilitation. Debris has been removed, roads are open and reconstruction is in full swing. The resilience of the community in general is remarkable.
However, the long-term negative impacts of Haiyan are still felt keenly, especially in terms of shelter, livelihood and social protection of vulnerable households. The typhoon totally damaged over a million houses and displaced over 4 million people, with thousands still residing in bunkhouses or temporary shelters. As such, the reconstruction of shelters remains as a top priority, especially with the onset of this year’s cyclone season which exposes the population to even more risks.
Given this situation, Handicap International has launched shelter reconstruction programs in various municipalities of Leyte and Capiz and is providing trainings on Build-Back-Safer principles and techniques for local builders to enable them to re-build and repair stronger houses that are better equipped to withstand future disasters.
Typhoon Yolanda also caused severe damage to the local economy. Destruction of markets, infrastructure, local food sources, market areas, homes, livestock, and livelihood assets was devastating and the recovery will be long, even though local resilience is high. The loss of income and employment is one of the most difficult challenges preventing affected households from recovery—especially those vulnerable families from the informal sector wherein the loss of livelihood assets could have devastating consequences.
HANDICAP INTERNATIONL IN TACLOBAN
Following Typhoon Haiyan, the global HI response aims to provide immediate relief by distributing core life-saving items and by optimizing and enhancing humanitarian response in the affected areas.
To date, HI has provided:
Logistics facilities (trucks) to municipalities in Region VIII for relief assistance delivery and debris removal;
Direct distribution of essential relief items (emergency shelters, essential household items, kitchen sets);
Water filter donation, installation, and training;
Emergency physical and functional rehabilitation for persons with injuries and distribution of assistive devices;
Identification and referral of the most vulnerable individuals in Tacloban city and surroundings.
In response to the continuing need to help affected populations recover in the aftermath of Haiyan, HI’s current projects focus on providing shelter and latrine reconstruction, as well as emergency livelihood asset restoration for the most vulnerable households in various municipalities of Leyte. Hi is actually running a construction program for 200 Shelters and another programming for 700 shelters is underway.
In 7 municipalities of Leyte, Handicap International is running a livelihood program by distributing assets the typhoon affected Household that lost their income generating means. The ongoing program targets 800 Beneficiaries that will benefit as well from trainings and follow-up.
In addition, an inclusion technical unit (ITU) is set up to guarantee that every stakeholders take into consideration the most vulnerable people in their emergency response, with a special focus on people with disabilities and their immediate assistance. Handicap International is running a Program along 25 Child Friendly Space aiming to train of a holistic management of children with disabilities. The ITU is as well insuring internally and externally that the programmings are inclusive and respect the accessibility requirements. Through that HI does provide some assistive and Mobility devices to the targeted beneficiaries in need.
HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL IN PANAY
In response to the massive devastation of Typhoon Haiyan, Handicap International immediately conducted an initial rapid assessment November 18th to November 20th in four Municipalities of Iloilo province. Guided by the immediate needs of the affected communities as well as its own organizational capacity, Handicap International was able to launch an intervention for the distribution of emergency shelters for 3,500 people in the Municipality of Batad in Iloilo.
Due to the widespread presence of both humanitarian and government actors providing aid in the coastal municipalities of Iloilo, Handicap International decided to focus on other inland municipalities that received little or no humanitarian or government assistance after the typhoon. After a second assessment, the Municipality of Sigma in the province of Capiz was selected as the main area of intervention due to the following
-Location: Sigma is an inland municipality, with several barangays located in hard-to-reach, remote areas
-Population density and level of destruction: Sigma had a high population density severely affected by the typhoon.
At present, Handicap International is conducting projects focused on the provision of cash grants and technical support for shelter reconstruction of the most vulnerable households in Sigma. Cash-for training sessions on inclusive Build-Back-Safer techniques are also provided for local builders while community sensitization sessions on the importance of building back better will target beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
MAIN RESPONSABILITIES OF THE EXPATRIATE
Under the responsibility of the Head of Mission in your area of assignment, you will be responsible for:
- Ensuring the global coordination of the program implemented in your area of responsibility (may it regards strategic, operational, human, material or financial aspects);
- Representing Handicap International towards local authorities and partners at field level;
- Ensuring application and respect of logistics, accountability and financial procedures, based on the direct supervision and support of Admin and Log Manager or the Admin/Log Manager;
- Ensuring the operational management of the team placed under your responsibility (expatriate and national staff);
- Ensuring the security of the staff members, operations and means related to the area under your responsibility, in coordination with the designated field security officer (from logistic department);
- Ensuring smooth and regular reporting towards your line manager.
MAIN TAKS OF THE EXPATRIATE
Under the responsibility of the Head of Mission in your area of assignment, you will be responsible for:
FIELD REPRESENTATION
?You are the main interlocutor of Handicap International towards local authorities, humanitarian actors and partners;
? You participate actively to coordination and information meetings (clusters, NGO coordination, etc.);
? You represent the organisation, its activities and programs during delegation visits;
ADMIN, HR AND LOGISTICS SUPERVISION
?Through the supervision of the Admin and the Log Manager, or the Admin/Log Manager, you ensure compliance of all activities with internal regulations and procedures;
? Through the supervision of the Admin and the Log Manager, or the Admin/Log Manager, you ensure provision on a monthly basis a cash request to the coordination team;
? Through the supervision of the Admin and the Log Manager, or the Admin/Log Manager, you ensure provision on a monthly basis an update budget forecast to the coordination team.
OPERATIONNAL MANAGEMENT
?Bring support to the project team (methodology of project follow up, implementation of tools, etc);
? Supervise the partnerships from an administrative, operational and strategic point of view;
COORDINATION
?You ensure smooth operational coordination between the different components and projects;
? You coordinate all activities carried out by HI ERD in your area of responsibility;
? You organize weekly coordination meetings with your team and provide your line manager with minutes of meeting.
SECURITY MANAGEMENT
?The Field Coordinator is the FSO (Field Security Officer) in his/her area, and linked directly to the HoM and the logistic coordinator on that matter;
? You monitor of the security situation, and warn the appropriate persons in case of incidents;
? You suggest adjustments of security rules (curfew, etc.) and implement sensitization of all the team to basic security rules;
? You ensure and consolidate the telecommunication process, Participation in Security meetings, and transfer the information to whom it may concern (PM, HoM, FSO other bases, etc.);
? You provide weekly reports about the situation and incidents.
TEAM MANAGEMENT
?You ensure strict application and respect of the Internal Regulation by your related staff. The IR could be modify/adjust to the specific context of the Philippines mission (security, social life, leaves, etc.);
? You define, with each member of your staff, his action plan and delay for reaching defined goals (IAP);
? You support and advise your team in the implementation of their IAP;
? You ensure feed back towards your team about issues potentially raised by them;
? You ensure a good communication – coordination – information level of each member of your team through regular coordination meetings (or other if needed);
? You are concerned and aware on the personal and professional evolution of each member of your staff, and its development within the mission : individual interviews, oral and written evaluations;
? You ensure conflict resolution (personal and professional) within your team and inform the head of mission;
? You propose relevant needed adaptation to the organizational chart of the mission and contribute to its implementation (job descriptions, etc.), in collaboration with the head of mission;
? You support your staff in their management duty: coordination meetings, individual interviews, etc.
REPORTING
?You provide a monthly situation report (SITREP) by providing relevant data related to your position;
? You provide regular reporting on your activities to your line manager upon his/her solicitation (coordination meeting, workshop meeting, etc.);
? You provide the desk officer with a mission report and/or handover document at the end of your contract;
? Debriefing at HQ at the end of your mission (and during Home-Break).
JOB CONDITIONS
? Status: salaried contract, based in Tacloban
? Start : ASAP
? Duration : 6 months
? Living conditions: guesthouse shared with other expatriates (no charges)
? Social insurance: 100% covered
PROFILE REQUIRED
Experiences/ training
? Minimum 2 or 3 years in the humanitarian field
? Experience in emergency and post-emergency contexts.
Languages
? English mandatory (oral and written)
Personal Qualities:
? Professional sense of security and confidentiality
? Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills;
? Motivation to work in a volatile and unsecure environment;
? Pro activity and flexibility.
How to apply:Please apply online by following this link : http://hi.profilsearch.com/recrute/fr/fo_annonce_voir.php?id=607&idpartenaire=130
