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Camp Manager

Various Field Location

  • Organization: DRC - Danish Refugee Council
  • Location: Various Field Location
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Operations and Administrations
  • Closing Date: Closed

We are looking for highly qualified, self-motivated Camp Managers able to work with diverse teams of both national and international staff as well as local government authorities, UN agencies, I/NGOs and other partners under difficult, stressful and sometimes insecure conditions.  
 
 
Who are we? 
 
The Danish Refugee Council has been in South Sudan since 2004 working with refugees, internally displaced people and returnees. In 2012, DRC opened its operations in Upper Nile State (Maban County) to respond to the large influx of refugees coming from Blue Nile State in Sudan and in early 2013 DRC expanded its operations to Unity State and is currently managing a refugee camp (Ajoung Thok) for new refugees from South Kordofan. In additional DRC is responding to the current humanitarian crisis of internal displacement. DRC is the camp manager of several camps in the northern states of South Sudan and has also been working closely with humanitarian partners in relation to the coordination of humanitarian assistance and advocacy issues. DRC also has activities in the sectors of community services, protection, GBV, livelihoods, shelter and infrastructure and logistics in the IDP/refugee areas. In returnee areas DRC is implementing food security and livelihood activities to support durable solutions.  
 
 
About the job 
 
Currently, DRC employs over 500 contracted national staff, more than 50 international staff and hun-dreds of refugee incentive workers and casuals in 6 locations including Juba. Each of the five loca-tions or areas of DRC’s operation implements 3-4 sectors (AVR and Mine Action are mainly coordinat-ed from Juba). An area is headed by an Area Manager/Team Leader overseeing a team of national and international staff. The camp manager is one of the sector managers operating at area level and is responsible for CCCM activities in the area.  
 
The aim of camp management is to ensure that the camp residents enjoy full access to services within a protective environment until a durable solution is achieved in consultation with the camp communities. To this end, coordination and information management play a crucial role and are therefore Camp Management’s core components.  
 
DRC will ensure that essential information is widely available to partners, local authorities and benefi-ciaries thereby ensuring a coordinated response where gaps in essential services can be quickly iden-tified and addressed and social cohesion and self-reliance among the refugee/IDP and host communities are promoted. CCCM implementation shall be done in a sensitive manner, taking into account the principle of “Do No Harm”. 
 
The camp manager is responsible for Coordination of Assistance, Protection and General services delivery at camp level. S/he ensures the establishment of effective and representative camp govern-ance structures and promotion of beneficiary participation in decision making and implementation of camp affairs; ensures sound information management incorporating monitoring and feedback sys-tems; facilitates effective communication with camp population, and oversees operation, care and maintenance of relevant camp infrastructure. S/he liaises closely with Sector Managers within DRC and develops and sustains strong partnerships with all stakeholders operating in the camp. S/he su-pervises a team of DRC camp management staff – contracted national staff and large teams of casu-als and/or incentive workers. 
 
Duties and Responsibilities 
To achieve the objectives of the position, the Camp Manager will perform the following tasks under 6 key responsibilities or functions: 
 
 
1. PROMOTE BENEFICIARY PARTICIPATION IN CAMP AFFAIRS 
 
  • Create awareness to the population on democratic representation and facilitate elections of camp leaders and representatives. 
  • Facilitate establishment of camp committees whose members are representative of the camp population, with a specific technical or cross-cutting sector focus and cutting across agencies: Protection, Shelter, WASH, etc. and ensuring that representation takes into account Persons with Special Needs –Elderly, Youth, Living with Disabilities, etc 
  • Facilitate and coordinate formal meetings and dialogue sessions with both community representatives and elected leaders. 
  • Develop the capacity of camp leaders, committee members and Interest groups through training, Focused Group discussions, peers sessions and dialogue sessions. 
  • Ensuring that camp management feedback procedures and complaints mechanisms are in place, and forums are developed for the camp population to contribute and be lis-tened to. 
 
 
2. PROMOTION AND FACILITATION OF CAMP SERVICES  
 
  • Facilitate the establishment of and support the running of Youth Recreational Activities in-cluding sports. 
  • Promote and facilitate community development and enjoyment Cultural Activities  
  • Facilitate peace and reconciliation initiatives among camp residents and/or camp resi-dents and host community. 
  • Coordinate in General Food and NFI distribution as may be required  
  • Facilitate communities in conducting peaceful burials for their departed family members and loved ones. 
  • Facilitate community celebration and enjoyment of global events and public events 
  • Encourage community self -sustenance through neighbourhood watch schemes, care groups for persons with specific needs and promotion of Income Generation Activities  
 
 
3. MONITORING AND COORDINATION  
 
  • Ensure gaps in assistance to beneficiaries are filled and avoid duplication of activities by con-ducting regular and systematic monitoring of service delivery in the camp, drawing the atten-tion of stakeholders and partners to overarching needs. 
  • Conduct service monitoring across sectors in the camp to gain and share a holistic under-standing of services and standards in the camp.
  • Work with the CCCM cluster lead to advocate for adherence to greed upon minimum standards of services among stakeholders and partners. 
  • Identify and formalize roles and responsibilities between agencies providing services in the camp as a crucial function to addressing gaps and helping to avoid misunderstandings. 
  • Reporting to and coordinating with the CCCM Cluster Lead 
  • Working with integrated missions (such as UNMISS) through the Refugee Coordinator or Civil Affairs Department 
 
 
4. MANAGING INFORMATION AND FACILITATING COMMUNICATION 
 
  • Receive, conduct and/or facilitate registration of new arrivals in the camp (or validation of existing residents) in order to provide baseline information on the characteristics of the population to inform, additional assistance programmes and the effective coordination of distributions. 
  • Liaise with Protection Department to identify and register people with special needs (child headed families, unaccompanied orphans and minors, the elderly, people living with disabili-ties, etc.) in order to facilitate their timely and convenient access to services. 
  • Liaise with CCCM Sector Lead, UNHCR/OCHA and Local Authorities in establishing and maintain an up to date camp population database reflect births, deaths, arrivals, departures and other fluctuations in the population. 
  • Operate information dissemination boards and other channels of communicating information between agencies and the camp residents. 
  • Coordinate with other camp partners including Inter-news radio on dissemination of public an-nouncements and messages.  
 
 
5. CAMP PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE OF CAMP INFRASTRUCTURE  
 
  • Oversee the installation and/or maintenance of DRC operated structures such as reception centres, community centres, access bridges, and play grounds. 
  • Liaise with Shelter Sector in site planning and demarcation of residential blocks and institu-tional facilities such as schools and hospitals. Where another agency is responsible for gen-eral infrastructure development such as civil works, drainage and waste disposal facilities, roads and institutional facilities, the camp manager shall liaise with the counterparts in plan-ning. 
  • Coordinate with UNHCR and the Local Government department on Environmental protec-tion matters in and around the camp. 
 
 
6. ADMINISTRATIVE, FINANCE AND PROCUREMENT FUNCTIONS 
 
  • Supervise camp management team of contracted staff, refugee incentives and casuals, ensuring effective staff deployment, performance planning and appraisals for supervisees. 
  • Disburse and track expenditure of camp management budget component, flagging any over and under expenditures in a timely manner. 
  • Prepare project procurement plans and order for materials in a timely manager. 
  • Manage casual staff contracts and camp service contracts. 
  • Coordination with counterparts in sister agencies and UNHCR/OCHA 
  • To achieve the objectives of the position, the Camp Manager will perform the following tasks under 6 key responsibilities or functions: 
  
 
About you 
 
To be successful in this role you must have: 
  • Post-graduate degree in political/Social Sciences, Management, development studies, Inter-national development or equivalent degree qualifications; Undergraduate with extensive expe-rience could substitute.  
  • At least 3-5 years camp management experience of which at least 2-3 years should be at in-ternational level and in South Sudan or in geographic and a conflict context similar to South Sudan 
  • Excellent human resource management skills, interpersonal skills, cross-cultural communica-tion and ease in managing a multi-ethnic team. Patience and understanding to work with and grow the capacity of national staff. 
  • Ability for rapid analysis of very complex issues, strong decision-making, and translation of programmatic learning and priorities into operational strategies  
  • Experience delivering programs to tight deadlines  
  • Experience with budget management and procurement planning  
  • Experience with systems and concepts for monitoring and evaluating project performance  
  • Good Computer and IT skills. fluency in written and spoken English with excellent writing skills 
  • Ability and willingness to work in remote and isolated location with ever changing security sce-narios and  
 
Desirable qualifications  
  • Additional Training in CCCM  
  • Good understanding of SPHERE Shelter and NFI guidelines  
  • Knowledge of local governance in post-conflict contexts, and of gender and inclusion strate-gies  
  • Prior experience in South Sudan an added advantage 
  • Self-motivated and able to work with a minimum of guidance and supervision 
 
Commitments: DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework (http://www.drc.dk/HAF.4265.0.html)  
 
All DRC staff must be committed to the Red Cross Code of Conduct, as well as the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership Standard in Accountability and Quality Management.  
 
 
We offer 
 
Contract: 6 months contract with possibility of extension (subject to funding and performance) after a successful probation period.  
 
Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s new Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to www.drc.dk under Vacan-cies. This position will be placed at level A14. In addition, we offer 5 days of remunerated R&R (Rest & Recovery) leave every 6 weeks for field based staff.  
 
 
Application process 
 
Interested? Then apply for this position by clicking on the apply button.  
All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (No longer than 4 pages). Both must be in English. CV's longer than 4 pages will not be considered.  
 
If you have questions or are facing problems with the online application process, please contact job@drc.dk  
 
Applications close 5 June 2016.
Please note, as this position is urgent, appli-cants may be shortlisted and interviewed prior to the closing date.  
  
 
Need further information?  
For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website www.drc.dk   
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