Emergency Team Leader-Idelb-SYNAT-SYRIA at GOAL Syria (View all jobs)

Emergency Team Leader-Idelb-SYNAT-SYRIA

at GOAL Syria (View all jobs)

North Idleb, Syria.

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in North West Aleppo both through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, and provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) through support to Water units, as well as emergency support to recently displaced households.

Job purpose:

A key function A key function of this position is to lead a team of 3 to perform emergencies program activities including but not limited to needs assessment, distributions (in-kind & cash) related activities, market related activities, redemption activities, trader activity.

Duties, objectives and competencies

The post holder will be responsible for the following duties in relation to emergencies programme activities:

• Effective and constant communication with local councils and communities, providing a basic information about Goal and its program in Syria as needed.
• Registering the relief committees as needed.
• Conducting a Rapid need assessment prior to emergency response window.
• Inform relief committees about GOAL program and any details as needed.
• Assist DPM to develop daily and weekly Plan.

• Provide leadership/ supervision to other members of the team in each stage of any of program activities, including:

• Coordinating with the relief committees about all matters related to the planned activities in advance.

• Make sure that all required papers are present and correct

• Identify tasks for all his team members

• Full supervision of the work team and follow up performance and commitment to work procedures

• Permanent coordination during the activity period with the relief committee to deal with any difficult might arise.

• Ensure that all documentation resulting from the activity performance is correct and completed

• Submit a report to the DPM containing all that is necessary to inform him of the result of the achieved activities.

• Transport: be ensure that driver/ transport is available when needed by the team.

• Security: be ensure in advance that security situation is suitable for doing activity via asking villagers and committee on any updated security information.

• Provide the program management with a daily update at the end of each day on the following:

• Security situation in the GOAL villages and neighbouring villages.

• Program progress made during that day compared to the plan.

• Any difficulties encountered and how they were overcome.

• Community complaints or relief committee complaints.

• Inform the program manager what documents from your team are not yet updated on database.

• Observations about other organisations doing relief/ humanitarian work in the villages where GOAL works.

• Other tasks assigned by supervisor.

Requirements (essential)

• University Graduate (this should be essential for DPM, I moved it from desired to here)
• At least three years’ experience in one of the following (Emergency response, NFI & Food distribution, vouchers, and/or hygiene).
• Has a knowledge and believing in humanitarian principles
• Flexible about working long hours, at night, and in unsecure situations
• Availability to travel for up to 80% of the time, work and stay overnight in programme areas when needed
• Fluent in Arabic (writing, reading and conversations)
• Familiar with chat applications
• Some computer skills (MS Word and Excel)
• Hard working, On time, & Details oriented.
• Respectful of the community and other staff members
• Thorough in maintaining documents
• Represents GOAL in a professional manner.
• Has a high communication skill.

Requirements (desired)

• Previous experience in cash distributions.
• Good English writing and reading skills.

Interested? Then apply for this position via clicking on the “apply now” button and fill out the application form. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

· Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.

· Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.

· Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

Application deadline is: 26^th October 2020.

Thank you.