Team Leader – Chad

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Description

Title: Team Leader – Chad 

Department: Africa & Asia Region 

Location: N’djamena Chad, with travel to Eastern region

Duration: 3 months with possibility of extension

Reporting to: Africa and Asia Regional Director   

Direct reports: TBD 

Budget responsibility: Not Applicable

About Relief International.

Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries globally to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and chronic poverty.

RI combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact and resilience. We focus on health/nutrition, education, economic opportunity, and water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) programming while integrating protection, environment/climate change, and conflict mitigation in partnership with the communities we serve.  We empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

RI includes the three corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, and MRCA/RI-France. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.

About our Programs

RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.  Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.

RI employs about 5,000 staff and auxiliary workers

97% of staff are local nationals and there are about 90 international (expat) staff.

2023 programs budget is about $125M

RI receives funding from a broad range of institutional donors – US, UK, Europe, and the UN, to delivery life-saving and resilience building programming with communities and local and international partners.  RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.

Context.

Relief International (RI) seeks a Team Leader (TL) to support RI’s assessment, program development and setting up a Chad focused operation in response to the humanitarian needs amongst Chadian host community and Sudanese refugees in Eastern region of the country. RI Sudan team has a presence already in the region, focusing on the cross border supply chain operation, and this role would be working in close coordination with the team, but will primarily focus on program development inside Chad. The TL will be based in country (N’Djamena, Chad) and will be deployed to the eastern region for assessments, establishing an RI presence and position for response and early recovery interventions.

Primary objectives of the team are:

• To position RI as ready and available for response / early recovery interventions with donors and peers
• To identify partnership opportunities for RI to engage and deliver in Eastern Chad
• To engage with authorities in matters related to access, set up, response planning as needed
• To explore the operational landscape, map barriers and propose mitigation plans
• To provide risk assessment of operational areas and advise RI on ways to address the risks, enabling program implementation
• To identify any significant gaps in the overall response to the crisis and determine if RI can establish a response program focused on primary health care, nutrition, MHPSS, integrated WASH and/or other identified response within RI’s core sectors required on the ground amongst host community and refugee camps
• To gather a solid first-hand, and up-to-date understanding of the overall humanitarian and development context, needs (including conducting or leading  in needs assessments), response plans and funding opportunities
• To identify the existence of any potential funding opportunities for establishing a new health / emergency response program in response to the crisis and explore potential partnerships
• To make overall recommendations for management on if, how and where RI should launch a response
• Lead on program design for concept note and proposals to be submitted for funding

Position Summary.

The TL will have overall responsibility for the program development, including assessments, positioning, local hires and delivery of team objectives. Under supervision of Sudan / Chad CD and Regional Director, the TL will closely engage with regional and global support offices. The TL will provide managerial and technical direction, as well as fulfilling representational roles with key donors and other organizations.

Key Responsibilities and Duties.

• Provide overall leadership as RI representative in country,
• Lead and manage assessments and determine final assessment recommendations for RI responses.
• Lead strategic analysis of humanitarian context, actors, response and opportunities for RI, making assessing feasibility of and potential areas of intervention for RI.
• Maintain oversight and quality assure PD process, concepts notes and proposals, in close coordination with program team and wider RSO/GSO PD teams.
• Represent RI in meetings and engagement with humanitarian actors – donors, UN agencies, (I)NGOs and officials.
• In close coordination with security focal point and RSO/GSO teams, maintain ongoing surveillance of developing situation and adjust activities and flag risks accordingly.
• Prepare overall recommendations to RI leadership for engagement in Chad, outlining response plans, interventions and partnerships.
• Maintain oversight of operational functioning of the in-country team, including safety and security, travel, logistics, finance and field visits.
• Other duties as required for this role.

Safeguarding and conduct 

• Uphold and promote RI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve.
• Consistent with RI’s safeguarding and protection policies, contribute to ensuring that all those who come into contact with Relief International staff and the communities we serve can be trusted to work safely with them
• Support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents sexual exploitation and abuse and promotes the implementation of the Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies.
• Work collaboratively with the Global Safeguarding Manager to advocate for the inclusion of safeguarding activities and resources within program
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of donor requirements of safeguarding standards and protection from exploitation and abuse.

The Job Holder will provisionally be working from N’Djamena, but RI’s base of operations may adjust as the situation and response evolves.

Role requirements.

Experience and skills required for the role.

• Substantial professional experience in leading, managing and implementing emergency response programs.
• Operational experience in Chad / Sudan preferred.
• Fluency in French and English essential.
• Demonstrated managerial and representational skills, including strong donor engagement and funding mobilization including specific experience of working with BHA programs.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and planning skills required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and tasks efficiently.
• Excellent time management skills and resourcefulness with strong attention to detail.

RI Values.

Guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, as well as “Do No Harm,” Relief International Values:

We value:

• Integrity
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Inclusivity
• Sustainability

How to apply.

Research shows that women and those from marginalized ethnic groups are less likely to apply to jobs, unless they meet every single requirement. If you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align with every criteria described, we encourage you to apply anyway, you could be exactly what we need!

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Please upload a CV and Cover Letter.  The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long and explain why you are interested in this post with Relief International and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.  Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

This role will require advanced pre-hire checks and includes criminal records self-declaration, references, and other pre-employment checks, which include police and qualifications checks.