Fragile & Humanitarian Affairs Lead (Maternity Cover)

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Position: Fragile & Humanitarian Affairs Lead (Maternity Cover)
Reports to: Director, Program Excellence & Impact Delivery
Position Term: Full Time Temporary (5-month Contract)
Primary Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type: Hybrid


Job Purpose
This position reports to the Director of Program Excellence & Impact Delivery and provides strategic leadership to enhance our credibility as both a thought leader and an effective implementer in Fragile Contexts and Disaster Management, placing strong emphasis on translating ideas into action and ensuring robust facilitation and monitoring of implementation in partnership with internal and external donors and stakeholders.

This role will work across Programs & Policy and also be the focal point contact for World Vision Canada in these areas. This role will maintain close contact with operations and travel to the field to be able to credibly carry out its influence role. This role will work closely with the leadership team of PX&ID, as well as Business Development and Advocacy & Government Engagement to drive deliverables, including quality management of CAT III emergency responses, as well as grants in fragile contexts.

Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership and direction to fragile context strategic initiatives
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to World Vision’s portfolio of fragile and emergency response programming including, but not limited to:
1. Nexus Accelerator Fund, including leadership of the quarterly NAF Steering Committee, the NAF Management Meeting, Knowledge Management and MEAL activities, as well as engagement with WVUS on Afghanistan implementation.
2. Leadership of WVC’s Fragile and Humanitarian Sync, and Community of Practice.
• Lead Fragile Context Business Plan strategic engagement with World Vision Partnership stakeholders, and implementation support as required, including revision of the Plan given the global funding environment and opportunities to streamline our approaches (FCPA and SHR or APA and FCPA).
Lead Emergency & Disaster Response Coordination
• Lead P&Ps response and support cross – organizational coordination, ensuring a fast and efficient response from WVC in High Profile Emergencies and Category III Emergency Responses in the first 6 weeks, including leadership of P&P’s CAT III Surge Team, as well as surge capacity during large scale responses.
• Maintain and update WVC’s Standard Operating Procedures in Emergencies for the whole enterprise in conjunction with the Product team. Representation on the internal Emergency Response Core Team.
• Participate and represent WVC in PETs for all active responses (PCTs will be represented by Functional leads or Program Managers). Responsible for liaising with DMT and the SO forum.
Support advocacy and policy analysis, positioning and research around themes related to fragility, disasters and the nexus, in partnership with Advocacy and Government Engagement
• Identify, develop and promote programmatic best practices and funding models, and influence government and funders policies. Support and MEAL colleagues in undertaking and socializing research and evidence curated from results of fragile and humanitarian context grants.
• Support segment leads in positioning WVC as a leader in fragile and humanitarian contexts as well as in disaster management to attract funding opportunities, especially with Global Affairs Canada.
• Stay abreast of current issues and debates related to fragile contexts, disasters and nexus, to ensure that WVC thinking is substantially framed in line with WVC’s strategic objectives. This is likely to include causes of fragility, disasters, and key approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
• Collaborate with Business Development team to monitor competitive humanitarian institutional donor landscape and identify changes in the sector particularly on nexus initiatives and work in fragile contexts, in addition to supporting prepositioning work with the team across various segments.
Represent WVC externally
• In partnership with the Global Affairs Canada Segment Lead, act as primary focal point for Director level and above with Global Affairs Cana