Technical Supervisor in Bunj – Maban County – Upper Nile State

GENERAL JOB CONDTIONS

Status Volunteer or Salaried upon experience
Salary Upon experience Duration Starting ASAP for 4 months
Advantages Social cover, repatriation insurance, housing, transport, R&R Working conditions Based in Bunj (Maban County / Upper Nile State) with regular travel to Juba and potentially new areas

NGO PRESENTATION

Handicap International is an independent and impartial international aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our action and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights.

Handicap International is a not-for-profit organisation with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation made up of a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects and implement its actions and social mission.

Through its Emergency Response Department (ERD), created in 2006 after the merge with Atlas Logistique, the organization is committed to:  Provide an adequate response to major natural disaster and conflict situations, anywhere in the world as much as possible within 72 hours;  Provide assistance to vulnerable groups (refugees, IDPs, persons with injuries, elders, children, etc.) affected by a crisis and maximize the number of beneficiaries. Within vulnerable groups, target especially PwD and meet their specific needs;  Constantly monitor chronic crises and/or conflicts to ensure preparedness for and rapid response to eventual emerging needs.

Directly linked to the Emergency Response Department of Handicap International France, the expatriate will be mandated for the following mission:

MISSION CONTEXT

Country situation overview (extract from the CAP Mid-Year Review 2012) The humanitarian situation in the first six months of 2012 has deteriorated, with increased border violence, internal insecurity, underlying vulnerability and rising food security concerns expected to generate continued high humanitarian needs throughout the year. Several key aspects of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) are still outstanding, including border demarcation, agreement on wealth-sharing, agreement on the political status of Abyei, and political settlements in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states. The process to resolve these outstanding issues collapsed in late March, raising fears of a return to unrestrained hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan in April. In an attempt to diffuse tensions, talks resumed between the two parties in early June to discuss border security, including a cessation of hostilities and the establishment of a demilitarised area along their common frontier. However, the talks were inconclusive.(…)

Currents events (beginning August 2012): At geopolitical level, new symbolic talks took place between the 2 presidents of SSD and Sudan in mid-July 2012, and the international pressure has been accentuated. The petrol issue has been declared to be solved the 6th of August 2012. The rest of the conflictive points are subject to a deadline from the UN Security Council, set before the 20th September 2012. The numbers of refugees as of August 2012 are about 70 000 in Unity State, and 105 000 in Upper Nile State, and their humanitarian situation is persistently worrying (cf assessment docs for more details).

HI in South Sudan HI has been working in South Sudan since 2005 in emergency in Jonglei state and then developed longer term activities up to now, mainly on rehabilitation, advocacy, and victim assistance, in Jonglei State and Juba.

Assessment on the 2012 Refugees Crisis Given the persisting crisis in Unity and Upper Nile States evolving since beginning of 2012, the HI Emergency Response Department (ERD) decided to conduct an assessment in regards with refugees’ health conditions and their specific needs. The assessment was coordinated by an evaluator deployed by the ERD in liaison with HI Development Program Director in South Sudan, and took place from 1st to 19th July 2012. Due to logistical constraints, the assessment team concentrated its efforts in Maban (however Bentiu, Unity, was visited), where the mission will start.

Considering HI’s mandate in emergency, as well as analyzed needs coverage by other actors, the assessment focused consequently more particularly on health issues, as well as on existing vulnerability analysis and identification mechanisms.

Main findings The assessment diagnosis quickly confirmed the pre-identified issues raised and revealed additional ones, summarized here below. Though the humanitarian presence and identification mechanisms have been respectively increased and improved since the beginning of the Blue Nile refugees influx, no specialized agency is currently acting in the field of disability neither through health or protection actions. Question marks are still significantly reported by key stakeholders about the most vulnerable persons, including persons with social, physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. Similarly and consequently, even though improvements and new assessments are being done since the last waves of arrivals (until July 2012), assistance still has to be provided quickly and with few possible adaptations related to specific needs, that are however also life-saving and/or protection connected.

DAU Strategy overview In terms of strategic planning, given the current emergency, HI wishes to initiate an action with the immediate objective to prevent and reduce specific critical health complications, and to improve the copying conditions of the most vulnerable conflict affected population. Based on the present regional conflict’s characteristics (political and economical), stakeholders concur to state that refugees from Blue Nile are not expected to come back before minimum 6 months, up to several years.
Afterwards, taking into account this observation, HI is willing to maintain its humanitarian effort eventually until the return of refugees, to be able to bring its added-value until that potential stage.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Main objective: To prevent and reduce critical health complications and impairments and to improve living conditions of conflict affected population through complementary actions and reinforcements towards the existing health and protection responses, including specific and holistic mechanisms in emergency in Maban County

The project will be based on 2 components, under the responsibility of the Head of Project:

Rehabilitation/Physiotherapy

It would be based on the current health needs and response, and include classical physical rehabilitation in emergency context. As the target population will mainly be severe malnourished children, stimulation and chest physiotherapy will be, for the beginning of this project, the main rehabilitation treatment that will be offered through: o Fixed and mobiles physiotherapy activities in relation with the Health Stakeholders (Bunj Hospital run by Samaritan’s Purse organization) and Camp Clinics (run either by MSF-B or H). o Follow up and referrals. o Provision of specific equipment to health facilities. o Education and distribution of assistive devices to individuals (adapted mobility aid and other specific items).

Protection/Inclusion

It would be based on the current protection needs and response, Inclusion/Mainstreaming and Protection mechanisms: o Identification of the most vulnerable persons at camp level, including PwDs and persons with reduced mobility (as elders potentially). o Distribution of other specific items related to protection. o Referral mechanisms with close follow-up and monitoring. o Mainstreaming / inclusion at soft level: awareness sessions in community and trainings to humanitarian staff.

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES OF THE EXPATRIATE

Under the responsibility of the Head of Project, In hierarchical link with the PT and psychomotricians working at clinics’ level under your responsibility, In functional link with the Protection/Inclusion Manager and his/her community workers team, You will be in charge of providing managerial and technical supervision on rehabilitation activities, practicing at hospital and camps levels ensuring quality, appropriateness and harmonization of services to the beneficiaries.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

REPRESENTATION AND COORDINATION - You participate actively to technical and information meetings (NGO coordination, etc.); and coordination upon HoP request. - When appropriate, you participate to the trainings to stakeholders and more specifically on rehabilitation matters. - You organize, if needed, information sessions for the medical staff on topics related to disability and physical and social rehabilitation; - You play the role of technical advisor for any topic related to rehabilitation on the mission (needs identification, strategies, new services to put in place, referral…).

PHYSIOTHERAPY ACTVITIES - Schedule and practice rehabilitation cares at Bunj hospital in collaboration with the health partner in charge (Samaritan’s Purse). - Train community workers, rehabilitation workers and psychosocial workers on different topics including disability, basic rehabilitation cares, distribution of assistive devices and appropriate follow-up to provide. - Develop individual intervention plan and provide directly physiotherapy treatment in Bunj hospital, Gendrassa Clinic and ATFC (Ambulatory therapeutic feeding center). - Create appropriate assessment forms and beneficiaries’ files in close collaboration with the Protection/Inclusion manager also in charge of the rehabilitation activities at camp level. - Ensure data collection: assessment forms, patient’s files and electronic, activities reports and compilation in close collaboration with the HoP and the data base officer.

TECHNICAL AND MANAGERIAL SUPERVISION - Organize the schedule of the teams under his/her supervision on the field. - Organize regular team meetings with the technical staff under his/her supervision to monitor achievements, challenges and support them with guidance. - Monitor technical abilities of the staff under his/her supervision and as per need, implement complementary trainings. - In link with the HoP, follow up the project’s indicators (qualitative and quantitative) with strong emphasis on the activities’ quality and implement necessary actions for improvements. - Ensure good quality and follow up of the activities in each ATFC and at Bunj hospital by developing appropriate monitoring tools and with regular field visits.

REPORTING - Provide weekly technical follow-up of activities to the HoP. - Submit monthly technical sitrep to the HoP. - Project and donors reporting contribution, including surveys and monitoring production. - Ensure the collection of data at the begin of the project (baseline) and on regular basis to run properly the surveys expected during the project. - Regular oral and written communication with the line manager (HoP). - Debriefing at HQ at the end of your mission.

SECURITY MANAGEMENT - Ensure the respect of the security guideline and recommendations adopted on the mission, by yourself and the team under your responsibility, as well as the good functioning of the relative tools and process and the correct use and acknowledge from all the members under your responsibility; - Ensure that every single incident you are involved in or witness of is reported as fast as possible through the appropriate channel.

PROFILE REQUIRED