Calls for Applications: Various Positions

Calls for Applications

Various Positions

Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is one of the largest private aid organizations in Germany with a dual mandate in development cooperation and humanitarian response. WHH works in over 35 countries, implementing multi-actor, multi-country partnership programs across sectors. With an annual budget of approximately USD 300 million, WHH currently manages around 250 projects integrating humanitarian assistance, development, and research. For over 60 years, WHH has been committed to fighting hunger and poverty while fostering local civil society organizations to achieve sustainable development. WHH envisions a world where all people lead self-determined lives with dignity and justice, free from hunger and poverty. WHH’s work is guided by the Core Humanitarian Standard. We are firmly committed to the Localization Agenda. As a member of the Alliance-2015 network, we prioritize collaboration to achieve complementarity, synergy, and greater impact. Welthungerhilfe invests in early action, emergency preparedness and risk informed programming. Based on our humanitarian aspirations, the Welthungerhilfe Humanitarian Strategy 2021-2024 aims to further shape and sharpen our engagement in humanitarian assistance. Welthungerhilfe applies a systematic approach to resilience building and aligns with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction for disaster risk-informed programming. Since 2012, WHH’s Nepal country office has supported 37 projects with local partners. Currently, WHH Nepal is managing 11 projects worth €13 million in 11 districts across four provinces: Madhesh, Lumbini, Karnali, and Sudurpashchim. Our thematic focus encompasses food and nutrition security, right to food and empowerment, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), disaster risk reduction, early action and humanitarian response, early recovery. Through these interventions, WHH strives to enhance social inclusion by empowering marginalized and economically vulnerable groups to strengthen their resilience and realize their right to adequate food and nutrition.

WHH Nepal invites applications for the following positions for the proposal submission of anticipated project USAID BHA ER4. Kindly note that the CV’s will be submitted to USAID and recruitment will be contingent upon USAID approval, as well as project award and funding availability.

About the roles:

1. Chief of Party (COP)

The Chief of Party (COP) will lead the USAID BHA Early Recovery, Risk Reduction and Resilience Project. The COP will oversee all aspects of project management, representation, and strategy, ensuring alignment with WHH’s and USAID’s programme objectives.      

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of a humanitarian and DRR program aligned with national and international priorities. 
• Build and maintain relationships with government bodies, donors, development partners, private sector actors, and other relevant stakeholders to achieve program objectives.
• Oversee the full cycle of the Humanitarian and DRR program, including needs assessment, strategic design, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Act as the budget holder for the program, ensuring financial compliance with USAID and WHH requirement, timely disbursement, and quality expenditure monitoring for a program budget.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and capacity-building support to staff and partners, fostering continuous learning and improvement across the program.
• Represent WHH and the project to governments, donors, local partners, networks, alliances, and stakeholders.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills:

• Proven leadership skills managing projects of a similar size and scope in developing countries. 
• Prior experience effectively managing humanitarian and DRR activities involving implementation by multiple sub-awardees. Demonstrated experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff, as well as experience in managing programmatic and financial reporting.
• Prior experience working in South Asia, familiarity with Nepal’s DRR governance, social, political, economic, and cultural landscape, and demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organizations, and partners. 
• An understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
• Demonstrated experience in adaptive management and learning techniques is highly encouraged. Proven success serving in a leadership role for a project addressing issues related to resilience, emergency response, natural resource management, disaster risk reduction through nexus approach, preferably in South Asia.
• Master’s degree in development studies, international relations, or a related field. 
• Required minimum of seven years of progressively increasing management responsibility in international humanitarian and development projects, at least five years of which must be field- based.

2. Emergency Preparedness and response Manager

The EPRM will be responsible for providing leadership and vision for strategic decisions to leverage resources from other USG and non-USG programs in Nepal to enhance local-level preparedness and resilience to recurrent disasters. The EPRM will provide leadership in technical multi-sectoral analysis and response design, if disaster strikes during the life of this award. The EPRM represents humanitarian coordination groups and provides advisory support to Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority for coordinated and effective response in the targeted province(s).

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide vision and strategic leadership to leverage resources from both USG and non-USG programs in Nepal to strengthen local-level disaster preparedness and resilience.
• Lead multi-sectoral analysis and response design in the event of a disaster, ensuring the program's readiness to respond effectively during the award period.
• Represent the organization in humanitarian coordination groups and provide advisory support to Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority to ensure a coordinated and effective response in targeted provinces.
• Offer expertise and advisory support to align program efforts with Nepal’s national disaster risk governance framework and support coordinated disaster management efforts.
• Influence humanitarian and disaster risk management actors to foster collective action for effective disaster preparedness and response at national and local levels.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of disaster risk governance structures, resilience strategies, and global humanitarian architecture to enhance program effectiveness and support national disaster risk management efforts.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills:

• Master’s degree in a discipline pertinent to disaster risk management, humanitarian assistance, resilience, natural sciences, or a closely related field is required. 
• Strong understanding of the national disaster risk governance structure and global humanitarian architecture. 
• Demonstrated experience influencing broader humanitarian and disaster risk management actors for collective action and effective disaster management, prior to, and after disasters.

3. M & E Lead

The M&E Lead is responsible for developing and implementing an M&E system and plan, including a database to store and aggregate collected data. The M&E Lead will provide technical expertise and leadership to generate and analyze quality evidence and data through monitoring, assessments, and evaluations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and execution of comprehensive M&E systems that meet the needs of humanitarian response, early recovery, and DRR programs, ensuring alignment with program scale and complexity.
• Conduct and oversee quantitative and qualitative analysis, survey and sampling design, and reporting processes that support evidence-based program management, with a focus on impact and effectiveness.
• Strengthen and enhance monitoring systems by providing technical guidance and support to program teams, building capacity for consistent data collection, quality assurance, and data-driven decision-making.
• Integrate a deep understanding of systematically marginalized and vulnerable groups into M&E activities, assessing risk profiles and ensuring inclusivity in data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Apply extensive M&E expertise to build and refine frameworks, indicators, and data collection tools that reflect best practices in humanitarian and DRR programming.
• Utilize advanced academic knowledge in statistics, economics, or quantitative methods to inform rigorous M&E system design, analysis, and continuous improvement in alignment with organizational goals.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills:

• Master’s degree in statistics or economics; or a degree in a relevant field with substantial course work in quantitative methods.
• Minimum of five years of professional experience in designing and implementing M&E systems in the context of humanitarian response or DRR programs is required.
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems as they are practiced in the context of humanitarian response, longer-term early recovery and DRR programs of similar size and complexity.
• Demonstrated experience in building or strengthening monitoring systems, quantitative and qualitative analysis, survey and sample design, and effectively promoting evidence-based program management with a strong understanding of the risk profile across systematically marginalized and vulnerable groups.

Application Instructions:

Please submit your application, including a cover letter and CV, position applied for in the subject section, to hari.shrestha@welthungerhilfe.de  by November 20, 2024.

Welthungerhilfe is an equal opportunity employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women and members of marginalized communities are strongly encouraged to apply. Welthungerhilfe is committed to fighting terrorism in all its activities accordingly, and applicant who is offered employment will be screened against lists of known and suspected terrorists. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.