Background
TeamUp is a non-verbal psychosocial intervention of structured group activities based on play, movement, and body awareness for children aged 6-18. Children are often exposed to stress and traumatic experiences during their journeys to safety and often their social and emotional needs are not met - both during their journey and at their (temporary) destination. TeamUp aims to improve their psychosocial wellbeing through strengthening their sense of safety, sense of social connectedness, positive outlook and self-regulation.
The intervention is facilitated according to a regular and non-linear structure session and in a non-verbal modality, enabling children without a common language or cultural background (such as refugees and host communities), and as they are available and willing, to participate. Every TeamUp session has a specific socio-emotional or psychosocial theme, such as dealing with anger, stress and/or interacting with peers. This allows children to build on a range of social and personal skills and to find support from others in the group, leading to an increased sense of safety, confidence, social connectedness, and self-regulation among children. TeamUp is developed and initially implemented by a consortium of War Child Holland, Save the Children and UNICEF Netherlands.
Your Challenge
As Programme Director (PD) TeamUp you will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and management of the program to achieve positive impact at scale on the psychosocial well-being of children and youth affected by conflict. This role involves overseeing the planning and implementation of the global program, scaling initiatives, strategic partnership development, consortium partnership and ensuring quality assurance.
Your Responsibilities
Vision and strategy
- Translate strategy into concrete multi-annual implementation plans and budgets, ensuring continuous improvement, long-term sustainability, program quality and delivery
- Develop resource mobilization strategy to enable multi-annual plan implementation.
- Monitor strategy and multi-annual plan implementation, evaluate implemented projects and make proposals for improvement to ensure program success and impact.
Support framework for scaling up
- Identify business models and develop TeamUp service offerings for the end-state of replication.
- Lead & motivate the TU Global team to define, design and coordinate plans for each programme component in line with quality standards, timeline, detailed budgets and milestones.
- Oversee the development of processes, tools and guidelines to ensure smooth program management and implementation.
- Establish and maintain quality assurance mechanisms to monitor program effectiveness and impact.
- Manage global programme operations, including finance management, logistics and procurement in line with programme and organisational parameters and policy.
Network
- Identify and drive forward collaboration opportunities with strategic partners for scaling.
- Ensure buy-in, take up, adoption and support for the programme from a diverse set of national and global stakeholders as well as of external partners and donors.
- Foster sharing and learning from program experience within War Child, the consortium, (scaling) partners and the broader MH/PSS and child protection sector.
- Represent the TeamUp consortium and War Child in relevant (inter)national events, networks and sector groups.
Mobilise funding
- Secure the necessary multi-donor portfolio to support scaling ambitions, including developing strategic donor relationships in collaboration with War Child and the wider consortium fundraising teams.
- Actively seek and pursue funding opportunities and coordinate the proposal development process in line with program scaling strategy and funding needs.
- Document and share program results and the potential for replication and scaling-up with relevant stakeholders, including potential donors.
- Ensure development of TeamUp service offerings based on identified business for adoption and scale up by partners.
Your Profile
- Considerable knowledge and proven work experience in humanitarian contexts, preferably in MH/PSS, child protection or education sector.
- Extensive knowledge of (humanitarian) innovation and scaling.
- Experience in having worked on developing a product/service, or responsible for creation and execution of a program implementation strategy.
- Extensive knowledge of the evidence base of MH/PSS or child protection programs and the key players in these fields in developing countries.
- Experience with developing a multi-organizational trainer pool.
- Experience with advising on research is a plus.
- Experience in leading and managing multi-donor and multi-stakeholders/ consortium programs.
- Experience in developing resource mobilisation strategies and running fundraising initiatives.
- Demonstrable social and communication skills, able to deal effectively in a variety of cultural and political contexts.
- Strong strategic and analytical skills for effective risk management coupled with problem solving and a can-do attitude.
- Result-based management: demonstrated capacity to plan and drive results in a structured manner.
- Strong leadership skills: demonstrated capacity to take decisions regarding operational and personnel matters.
- University degree, preferably in general management, development studies, humanitarian studies or related fields.
- Fluent in English and preferably Dutch, French, Spanish and/or Arabic.
Location
Any country where War Child has its offices. The successful candidate must be eligible to work in that country. Preference will be given to local candidates.
Contract
War Child standardly offers an initial 1-year contract with the intention to switch to a permanent contract after that.
Depending on the duty station, a local contract with salary and secondary labour conditions based on the local salary scale and T&C will apply.
The Organisation
War Child is a dynamic organization. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our office, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused, and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child Holland offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply before 6th August 2023. Make sure to upload your English CV (maximum of two pages) and cover letter
N.B. War Child will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserves the right to close the vacancy if a successful candidate is identified prior to the closing date.
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Safeguarding
War Child is committed to humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.
Equal opportunity
War Child has a dream that every child lives in peace - no matter who or where they are. That’s why we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We promote diversity and belonging in everything we do and select our potential new colleagues without regard to gender, race, colour, religion, nationality, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Application process
To ensure that we spend as much of our resources on the support of children and youth, War Child needs to operate as efficiently as possible. This means we can only process job applications received through our websites.
If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, the vacancy will be removed from our websites. In this case, any responses received after removal will not be processed. Sometimes the closing date of a vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.
