General Information

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial international aid organization working in poverty and exclusion, conflict, and disaster situations. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our actions and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions, and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights. Humanity & Inclusion is a not-for-profit organization with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation comprising a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects, and implement its actions and social mission.

Depending on new humanitarian context developments, response needs and the organization’s consortium project management modalities, the Chief of Party (CoP) is under the responsibility of the Head of Programmes. The Chief of the Party contributes within the area where he/she is based to the implementation of the mandate and the 10-year strategy of Humanity & Inclusion. He/she is in charge of implementing the consortium project under his responsibility. He/she ensures optimal quality and impact of the project, through a delegation system with appropriate control mechanisms. He/she shares with all HI managers the responsibility of a sound management and the successful functioning of the global organization

Missions/responsibilities (*)

Mission 1: Management 
Responsibility 1: Be the manager (direct report) of the project team:
•    Foster a team spirit and team functioning guaranteeing synergies and exchange of good practices between the project staff.
•    Recruit and contribute to the professional development, autonomy, and well-being at work of the project staff: set formalized individual objectives, ensure coherence between HI’s needs and competencies and motivation of his/her teams, develop and monitor competence development plan, evaluate individual performance, contribute to career evolution.
•    Acknowledge individual and collective efforts and performance.
•    Embody and transmit HI values, ensure compliance with the code of conduct and institutional policies, ensure the expected mindset and individual and collective behaviors, and take disciplinary measures when necessary.

Responsibility 2: Contribute to steering organization transformation, in particular through managerial and work practice change and continuous improvement of working processes:

Mission 2: Standards and expertise

•   Ensures deployment and compliance with HI’s global frameworks, institutional policies,s and standards. This includes but is not limited to: mandatory frames of reference (such as HI’s mission and values or HI’s Theory of Change: access to services), all HI institutional policies (Security/Code of Conduct and Protection/Anti-Fraud and Corruption/PME and Project Quality Framework/Age-Gender-Disability), all institutional guidelines and processes; delegation thresholds; security levels.

Mission 3: Operational management

• Responsibility 1: Ensures the proper implementation of the project, in collaboration with the consortium member organizations, relevant services and in line with general standards and procedures:
  •    Ensures the proper planning, implementation, and reporting of the project, by the logical framework and the allocated budget.
  •    In liaison with the MEAL Unit, ensures that HI’s quality standards (including technical ones) are applied in the project and follows up the implementation of recommendations resulting from evaluations, support missions, and audits.
  •    Ensures compliance with the donor’s rules and respect of contractual commitments: consolidation, control, and reporting to his/her line manager of operational and organisational elements (management charts, corrective measures, consumption of own funds, beneficiaries’ data, etc.)
  •    With the support of the MEAL Unit, deploys and implements all appropriate tools to enable project monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning in compliance with HI policies and frameworks.
  •    Facilitates internal audits (operational, financial, and organizational) and ensures the implementation of their recommendations in his/her area of responsibility.

Responsibility 2: Ensures data management of the project:

•  Ensures that the appropriate data collection and management tools are in place for the project and are in line with global standards.
  •    Ensures that data related to the project is collected and compiled in the project database.
  •    Carries out regular verifications and makes any necessary corrections in the activity database.

Responsibility 3: Coordination & partnership management:

• Responsible for setting up and implementing the governance schemes for his/her project (ARCI and coordination mechanisms/tools).
• Facilitates internal coordination between his/her team and all relevant services (Operations Managers, Shared Services, Technical and MEAL Teams).
• Ensure external coordination with all relevant partners of the project/members of the consortium including donors and facilitate effective communication mechanisms; including the exchange of good practices between the project staff as well as the consortium member organizations.
•  Ensures the overall management of partnerships/consortium partners and related contractual documents (partnership agreements, MoU, amendments, report).

Mission 4: Influence, communication and advocacy

• Develops HI’s external influence (forums, operational & strategic alliances, etc.) and the organization’s external representation (events, media) in its area of responsibility.
• Can represent HI vis-à-vis local, national, traditional, political, military, and diplomatic authorities and bodies; and international organizations and coordination mechanisms & systems.
• Relay messages of HI global advocacy to all relevant external parties.
• Contributes to HI’s external influence by participating in relevant networks
• Communicates on the project to partners, authorities, and stakeholders when relevant

Mission 5: Emergency Preparedness and Response Responsibilities

• Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response.