• Job number: SRH05579
• Status: Employee
• Position: Missions
• Country: Yemen
• Contract Type: Short term contract

About us

Desired start date: 02/01/2024

Location: Taizz

Contract : Short term – 9 months

SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association which, since more than 40 years, has been providing assistance to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs for food, water and shelter. Particularly committed to the fight against diseases linked to unsafe water, the leading cause of death in the world, SI’s interventions provide expertise in the field of access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion, but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in some twenty countries, the SI teams – 2500 people in total, made up of expatriates, national staff, permanent staff at HQ, and a few volunteers – intervene with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultural norms.

About the mission

SI opened its mission in Yemen in 2017, establishing its coordination in Aden. Since then, SI expanded the geographical scope of its intervention, and established offices in Al Turbah and Al Mokha in Taizz Governorate and operational presence in Hodeidah, Lahj, Dahle, Marib and Abyan Governorates

The mission has a forecasted budget of about 13M Euros for the year 2023. It operates from Aden, where the coordination is based, and 2 operational field bases located in Al Turbah and Al Mokha. The mission is composed of approx. 19 expatriates and about 120 national staffs. Objectives for the mission for 2023 is to build on its Emergency Response capacity to expand in hard to reach areas, and develop qualitative interventions responding to emergency and protracted needs, while enhancing resilience.

In Al Mokha, SI implements emergency and resilience WASH programs, funded by ECHO, CDCS, and SDC and Dutch MOFA. WASH activities entail water trucking, rehabilitation of water network, construction of emergency latrines and showers, distribution of hygiene kits, hygiene promotion, and cleaning campaigns; and a 3-years resilience project looking for more innovative, sustainable and resilience focus wash activities. Under its FSL portfolio, SI distributes unconditional, multi-purpose cash to IDPs.

SI has been one of the first humanitarian actors to access the West Coast, and remains as of today positioned in hard-to-reach areas close to the frontline of Hodeidah and Maqbanah. SI aims at maintaining this positioning and further expanding its presence. After a significant scale up in financial and operational volume on the West Coast in 2019, SI is expecting to maintain a similar portfolio in the area for 2023.

About the job

General objective:

• Context and security understanding and management
• Base management
• Coordination of Programmes implementation in the area
• Orientation of SI strategy in Taizz

Issues and specific challanges :

Taizz is a base located in close proximity to the frontlines, within a town cut in half by the frontline itself. Security management is complex and requires experience and skills. Humanitarian programming in frontlines areas (especially in rural areas out of town) remains pertinent and necessary, while at the same time programming in urban areas and agricultural districts can evolve towards more durable types of interventions, in line with a general orientation by UN/donors towards “Area based approaches”. The FC is expected to take the lead in orientating the strategy around programmes in the area. In addition to that, Taizz has a vibrant civil society and university, and SI is expected to evolve its partnership portfolio in the area. Finally, increasing cost-efficiency pressure from donors shall translate into rationalization of costs, which the FC is expected to lead locally

Priorities for the 2/3 first months:

• Ensure leadership and support on the implementation of the current programmes portfolio
• Expand the partnership portfolio, with support from Grants and Programmes departments
• With support from Grants/Programmes, lead in the development of new programming opportunities, especially on the resilience end

Your profile

Education / academic background:

– BA minimum

Specific skills and experience:

• Knowledge of humanitarian programming
• Strong knowledge of security management
• Knowledge of resilience programming is a plus
• Advanced analytical skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Advanced communication and negotiation skills and capacity to work under stress

Language:

• Fluency in written and oral English mandatory
• Arabic is an asset

SI will offer you

A salaried position:
According to experience, starting from EUR 3080 gross per month (2800 base salary + 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly) and a monthly Per Diem of USD 750.

SI also covers accommodation costs and travel expenses between the expatriate’s country of origin and the place of assignment.

Breaks: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of 7 working days every three months (with a USD 850 break allowance, allocated by Sl). To these breaks periods, SI grants one (1) additional rest day per month worked.

Insurance package: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which refunds all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.

LIVING CONDITIONS:

The base in Taizz is comfortable and spacious, with individual rooms with bathroom, good outside/rooftop space and gym material. Taizz has supermarkets providing basic items and several restaurants (although food cannot be eaten there on the spot). There are a few other INGOs with international staff in town (MSF, Mercy Corps). The main constraint remains security, which allows only for very limited movements in the town.

Security constraints :

Taizz is a base located in close proximity to the frontlines, within a town cut in half by the frontline itself. Security management is complex and requires experience and skills. Teams’ movements include remote areas in proximity to frontlines. Besides clashes, the area is interested by internal political strife and tensions. International staff are very limited in their movements.

Application process

Do you recognize yourself in this description? If yes, please send us your CV and cover letter!

Please note that CV-only applications will not be considered, and that the vacancy may close before the deadline.

Thank you for your understanding.

To learn more about Sl: www.solidarites.org

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Solidarités International (SI) is determined to prevent and fight all type of abuse – all act of exploitation, abuse and/or sexual harassment (SEAH) against members of beneficiary communities or collaborators, fraud, corruption, violation of persons and/or property, funding of activities harmful to human rights – that could be perpetrated in the frame of its interventions. SI implements a zero-tolerance policy regarding acts of abuse, notably acts of SEAH.

Solidarités International is an equitable employer committed to find all forms of discrimination. SI will ever ask for any remuneration to take part in a recruitment process.