Interim – Humanitarian Programme Manager

Starting Salary: £43,461 – £46,819 (inc. London weighting)

Contract: 3 – 6 Months

Location: Home-based (UK only) or London, Hybrid working with a minimum of 40% of your time in the London Office.

Job Profile

An interim opportunity has risen in the Emergency Support & Response Team to provide strategic, programme, and operations support and management capacity to strengthen CAFOD’s ability to support countries in crisis. The post holder will help to ensure an integrated and partner-led approach in our crisis response as determined by CAFOD’s’ Strategy Our Common Home and Integral Ecology approach, which aims to better integrate response, recovery into ongoing development.

The scope of the post falls into the following objectives:

1. Provide operational management and ensure capacity to respond quickly and effectively to new, ongoing emergencies across our current humanitarian portfolio.
2. Support the implementation and maintenance of systems and procedures for ensuring good practice and meeting sectoral standards on accountability and programme quality.
3. Provide CAFOD with surge management capacity across our response and recovery programmes in line with CAFOD’s organisational, Humanitarian strategy and context response plans.

Key Responsibilities

Capacity and Operational Management

Provide operational management and ensure capacity to respond quickly and effectively to new, ongoing emergencies across our current humanitarian portfolio.

• Monitor new and ongoing crises: Stay informed about global and regional humanitarian crises, identifying potential emergencies that may require CAFOD’s response.
• Ensure readiness to respond in both humanitarian and development context: Collaborate with relevant country teams to ensure that emergency preparedness plans for all high-risk contexts are developed and up-to date, ensuring they align with CAFOD’s humanitarian strategy and Our Common Home commitments.
• Offer technical guidance and support to country and regional teams in developing and implementing emergency response programmes.
• Support in managing cross-organisation deployable capacity which will draw on skills and capacities from across the organisation to partners and country teams.
• Identify opportunities for scaling up CAFOD’s humanitarian work and support the Humanitarian Funding Team in the development of proposals for institutional funding and reporting to donors.
• Providing surge technical assistance to prioritised large-scale response and recovery programmes in the areas of programme management, systems approach and humanitarian innovation.
• Strategically engage with humanitarian policy and advocacy to inform and contribute to priorities in our crisis response.

Programme Quality

Support the implementation and maintenance of systems and procedures for ensuring good practice and meeting sectoral standards on accountability and programme quality.

• Work with CAFOD’s Programme Quality and Support Team to ensure that technical areas of work and key cross-cutting themes are appropriately incorporated into our humanitarian responses.
• Engage with the External Communication and Fundraising & participation teams to ensure CAFOD’s communications and fundraising for humanitarian programmes is coherent, effective, and efficient
• Work with the Program Quality Team on capturing, sharing and responding to humanitarian knowledge and learning. lead on learning reviews and evaluations of prioritised response programmes to contribute to organisational learning/decision making and support dissemination and follow-up of findings and

Surge Management Capacity

Provide CAFOD with surge management capacity across our response programmes in line with CAFOD’s organisational strategy and Our Common Home.

• In collaboration with Head of Humanitarian, contribute to management and coordination of CAFOD’s global emergency response capacity, ensuring capacities are effectively utilised and deployed across programmes
• As required hold programme management and oversight of a particular response which could also include country or multi country management for time bound periods.
• As required coordinate/lead emergency meetings in the initial phase of major emergency responses and coordinate with relevant stakeholders.
• Deploy at Country Representative or Head of Program level for short period of time in response programmes and provide vision and direction for the implementation of CAFOD’s strategy in the country of placement, ensuring shared vision with staff and partners, and in line with CAFOD’s vision, mission and values, specifically ‘Our Common Home’ (OCH) Corporate strategic framework and ‘Integral Ecology Programme Model’ (IEPM).
• Participate in some external strategic engagement where required such as DEC, Caritas, START.

Reporting:

Reports to the Head of Humanitarian. Other key stakeholders to engage with include

• Heads of Region – On relevant regional issues, needs and priorities aligned with the objectives, support in engaging country teams to move forward agreed priorities.
• Head of Institutional Funding and Business Development – support in achieving Humanitarian Funding ambitions
• Head of Programme Quality – Delivery of Programme Quality, innovation and learning ambitions in Humanitarian response programmes.
• Head of International Finance and Business Support – Compliance with Financial policies and procedures in Humanitarian programmes
• Head of Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy – Delivery of policy and advocacy strategies in Humanitarian programmes

Safeguarding

All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.

Job Specific Competencies

Technical Skills

• Education & Expertise:
  • Postgraduate degree or equivalent in social sciences, management, international relations, or other development-related fields
  • Expertise in emergency preparedness and response
  • Strong knowledge of the international humanitarian system
• Programme & Financial Management:
  • Substantial experience in international programme roles with increasing responsibility
  • Proven success in working with partner organisations for humanitarian programme delivery and capacity strengthening
  • Strong financial management skills, including budgeting and reporting
• Security & Risk Management:
  • Proven experience in implementing security policies and protocols
  • Ability to provide appropriate direction and support to teams in critical incidents
• Language & Mobility:
  • Fluency in English and Spanish/French, both written and spoken
  • Ability and willingness to travel for up to 4 weeks at a time, sometimes at short notice

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behavior as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.