Background
On 12 November 2020 hurricane ETA hit Central America as tropical storm and on 18 November 2020 hurricane IOTA hit Central American countries again causing serious damages in Honduras and Guatemala. These damages are putting to a test a system and resilience of people that were already overwhelmed due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected, as ETA and IOTA have, the most vulnerable and excluded communities in Central America. Up to the writing of this TORs, Honduras has more than 3 million people affected while Guatemala already surpasses more than 1 million people.
The ChildFund working areas affected in Honduras are the department of Santa Barbara and the CONFIO project areas are Yoro and Cortes. In Guatemala, the ChildFund working areas are Alta Verapaz and Huehuetenango and San Marcos y Sololá for the CONFIO project areas.
ChildFund Initial emergency response has initiated in both countries through local partners supporting families in shelters with the provision of food baskets and hygiene kits.
The magnitude of the events will require a large emergency response in the upcoming months and will require a dedicated emergency response professional in order to: support the elaboration and implementation of a comprehensive emergency response plan and support the fundraising efforts in the elaboration of grants proposals for institutional donors.
General description of the role
The main role of the Emergency response consultant will be to lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of the Emergency Hurricane Response plan for Guatemala and Honduras, including: developing grants proposals for emergency response, identifying local and regional key partners and representing the organization in clusters organized by the humanitarian network of both countries. **
Duties and responsibilities
Program Management & Operations:
· Develop strategy, operational plans, and budgets in coordination with the SMTs members and local partners for the assigned locations that will ensure effective delivery of relief and implementation of program interventions.
· Coordinate rapid needs assessments in affected areas.
· Support the development of emergency response strategy and programmatic agenda by facilitating conduct of rapid and technical assessments, team- and community-level reflections, and program review and evaluations.
· Work along with the local Program team to coordinate programmatic discussions and analyze inputs from the field to identify and address critical implementation issues and concerns.
· Develop detailed staffing and procurement plans for the response, and ensure these are revised and updated regularly.
· Carefully monitor emergency response expenses vs. approved budgets, ensuring that shared costs are apportioned correctly between different funding sources and recommending adjustments where needed to avoid over- or under-spending.
· Consolidate detailed SITREPS, relief assessments and general appraisals, and other required reports for purposes of monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Grant Management:
· In close collaboration with Resource Mobilization team members from Honduras and Guatemala formulate projects that integrate technical and financial proposals to obtain complementary resources ensuring effective compliance with the different stages of the process until presentation to the donor.
· Identifies financing opportunities with cooperation agencies focused on emergency funds, presents them to Country Director for go-no-go decision with the respective risk analysis required by the organization.
· Leads the drafting and presentation of proposals, operational and financial reports in collaboration with the relevant Program, Resource Mobilization, and Finance staff; ensure best practice is communicated, followed, and shared in all aspects of grants management.
· Responsible for monitoring the submitted proposals and the status reports of the negotiations in order to generate reports or any other information required.
Partnership Management:
· Represent ChildFund International in the relevant cluster and other coordination meetings organized by the humanitarian networks in both countries.
· Develop partnership strategies to collaborate with local partners, government entities, and other key humanitarian actors for resource complementation and collaborative activities in support of the implementation goals and objectives.
· Lead and oversee sub-grant management of the select local partners, ensuring quality of program implementation through monitoring visits to partner organizations managing emergency projects
· Ensure timely reporting by the partner organizations, including both narrative and financial reports for emergency projects.
Other activities required by the emergency response.
Duration:
4 to 6 months assignment
Location:
ChildFund Country Office Honduras (preferred) or Guatemala
Reports to:
Country Director
Qualifications/Experience
· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant area required.
· Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing monitoring, and evaluating projects, especially in rapid-onset emergency situations.
· Demonstrated experience working in a senior project management role
· Knowledge of major donors’ requirements, applicable local regulatory and legal requirements.
· Knowledge of international humanitarian standards, such as Sphere and the Child Protection Minimum Standards
· Working experience with international agencies.
· Proven experience writing applications for emergency funds with international donors i.e. USAID/BHA, ECHO, UNICEF, others
· Proven excellent communication, networking, presentation, public speaking and interpersonal skills.
· Ability to work with a multi-disciplinary team for a successful achievement of proposal development
· Ability to work under pressure in a context of emergency
· Outstanding written and oral communication skills in Spanish and English required.
How to apply:
Applications only through link below:
https://childfundinternational.secure.force.com/careers/fRecruit__ApplyJob?vacancyNo=VN734