Haiti: Project Manager (f/m)

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Organization: Austrian Red Cross
Country: Haiti
Closing date: 06 Jan 2015

For a comprehensive recovery projekt in Port au Prince – Haiti in partnership with the Italian Red Cross, the Austrian Red Cross Headquarters is looking for a

Project Manager (f/m)

who will be in charge of the revision and update of the livelihood component of the Italian Red Cross programme Village Haitien Solferino.

Your tasks:

  • Revision and update of the livelihood component of the VHS programme (see Terms of Reference annexed) in coordination with the Italian Red Cross headquarters and with the National Society, Haitian Red Cross.
  • Comprehensive Project implementation together with the National Society (HRCNS) and the staff that will be appointed.
  • Coordination with the Missionnaires de Saint Charles - ASCS (Associazione Scalabriniani per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo), partner and co-responsible for the implementation.
  • Coordination with all major partners in the country (IFRC, ICRC, PNS and other organisations)
  • Control of the budget, finance and administration
  • Narrative and financial reporting to be submitted to Italian Red Cross

Your profile:

  • EU-citizenship
  • Profound working experience in the field of livelihood and social inclusion Projects
  • Experience in implementing and managing RC/RC projects in the field
  • Experience in implementing and managing donor funded projects
  • Strong project management skills, particularly project cycle management and participatory methods
  • Very good knowledge of French, knowledge of English, Italian would be a strong asset
  • Excellent computer skills
  • Excellent physical and mental health
  • Readiness to work in remote areas
  • Ability and agreement to adhere to the Red Cross Red Crescent Fundamental Principles
  • Intercultural sensibility, engagement, flexibility and ability to work in a team

Salary:Monthly salary depending on qualifications and previous periods of employment of min.
€ 3.059,06 gross (All-In)

The project manager livelihood would be contracted by the Austrian Red Cross, but seconded to the Italian Red Cross programme in Haiti.

Austrian law is applied on taxes and social-insurance for this employment. Please note, that individual questions regarding the possibility of transferring retirement- and insurance-times into another country have to be clarified by the applicants themselves.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

FOR THE REVISION AND UPDATE OF THE LIVELIHOOD COMPONENT OF

VILLAGE HAITIEN SOLFERINO PROGRAMME

JUSTIFICATION OF THE PROGRAMME

The Municipality of Croix de Bouquets is located at 15Km away from the Capital City of Port au Prince, it is one of the five Municipalities which integrate the suburbs of Port au Prince, severely damaged by the earthquake of 12 January 2010.

The exact zone of intervention of the Program “Village Haïtien Solferino” is located in the community of Lilavois.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

“Village Haïtien Solferino” represents a Program aimed at developing 4 main components in an integrated way: housing, income generation, educational activities and community health. Because of the complexity of each component, the Program activities have been sorted in three different phases:

PHASE1 – Construction of a village of 53 houses, 6 productive structures, 1 school e 1 community centre, 1 well 1 football and 1 basketball courts and the functional/structural strengthening of the Medical Clinic of the Missionnaires de Saint Charles (completed).

PHASE 2 – Livelihood project: start of a community based organization process (creation of community committees, health campaigns and Psycho-social activities for children and adults, income generation activities etc… ) (to be started as soon as technical delegate will be appointed).

PHASE3 – implementation of the exit strategy to guarantee the Program sustainability.

PHASE 2 - LIVELIHOOD

The project is aiming to promote Community Organization within the Village Haitien Solferino programme of Italian Red Cross, dealing with main sub-components described below:

Sub-component 1: creation of community committees in order to promote participatory approaches (with people of different ages, gender, backgrounds and cultures) to focus on social change such as community empowerment, social cohesion, and leadership in order to reach a shared understanding of the community’s problems and needs. This process will have the primary goal to assist the community committees to strengthen the overall capacity of the new community to address its own health and social issues beyond the life of this particular project.

Sub-component 2: implementation of sensitization campaigns for the users of the Health Clinic as well as for the entire community of Lilavois, according to the CBHFA methodology adopted by the Haitian Red Cross as validated by the Public Health Ministry in Haiti (MSPP).

Sub-component 3: educational activities (formal and informal) implemented through the secondary school built by the VHS project, integrated by a community centre, a football field and a basketball court. Psycho-social support activities for adults and children participating in the educational and sport activities, as well as form the 53 families of direct beneficiaries. The PSP activities will be aimed at ensuring that the beneficiaries will be able to recognize themselves as “a new community” and “a new neighborhood” as perceived within the Haitian culture. Moreover the pupils attending the school and the sportive activities will receive “play therapy” to provide them with a proper support to their appropriate growth and development as human beings.

Sub-component 4: Through the Community centre, the purpose is to give children and young people, school support, activities related to sports, theater and musical training. it is expected to benefit directly children and adolescents of the neighborhood Lilavois-Santo, recycling-education program in order to raise awareness among inhabitants on environmental issues and waste management around the area


How to apply:

Please send your application until January, 6th 2015 via E-Mail topersonalentwicklung@roteskreuz.at

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