South Sudan: Camp Officer - South Sudan

Background on ACTED

Since 1993, as an international non-governmental organization, ACTED has been committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity, while co-creating longer term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential.
ACTED endeavours to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential.
We go the last kilometre: ACTED’s mission is to save lives and support people in meeting their needs in hard to reach areas. ACTED develops and implements programs that target the most vulnerable amongst populations that have suffered from conflict, natural disaster, or socio-economic hardship. ACTED’s approach looks beyond the immediate emergency towards opportunities for longer term livelihoods reconstruction and sustainable development.
With a budget of 164 million EUR in 2014, ACTED is active in 35 countries and implements more than 450 projects a year reaching over 8 million beneficiaries with 400 international staff and 4,300 national staff.

II. Country Profile
Capital Office: Juba
National Staff: 500
International Staff: 50
Areas: 10
On-going programmes: 8
Budget: 2.9 M €

In 2012, ACTED has undertaken an expansion of activities in South Sudan. A Juba level coordination office was opened in 2011, and in 2012 the capital office has expanded to provide additional support to our field offices that opened in Bentiu, Unity State, and Malakal, Upper Nile State. The rapidly changing situation in South Sudan over the past months has led ACTED to up-scale its emergency response capacities, while also continuing to provide basic services in the traditional areas of intervention.

Since January 2012, ACTED has been providing refugee and IDP assistance in Unity and Upper Nile states. In Maban County, this assistance has focused on the life-saving assistance to refugees from Blue Nile State, Sudan. ACTED as camp manager for Jamam refugee camp has strived to provide the basic needs for the population including shelter, waste management, livelihoods, and construction of community infrastructures.
Additionally, ACTED has responded to the new refugee influx in May with the provision of shelter and emergency latrines at transit sites while providing transportation assistance to refugees relocating to permanent settlements. In Unity state, ACTED has focused on the provision of livelihoods assistance to refugees in Nyeel and Pariang refugee camps.
ACTED also continues to build on its traditional areas of intervention, focusing on food security and livelihoods in Western Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap, and water, sanitation and hygiene in both states as well. Tonj North in Warrap was also a new area for ACTED where a Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) project is being implemented in the underserved area. All of these interventions continue to provide both basic and live-saving assistance to vulnerable populations throughout South Sudan.

III. Position Profile

Main responsibilities:
 Establish and ensure a transparent system of management including the coordination of services and other activities.
 Supervise the mobilization and the participation of the population allocated in the management system of the camp, with a focus on the insertion of the women
 Supervise the maintenance of the infrastructure of the camp.
 Set up an information management system in the camp, including the collection and the supply of data and the transparent sharing of the information.
 Follow-up the supply of services in all the sectors of the camp according to the agreed directives, the standards and indicators.
 Identify the gaps, estimate and analyze the needs of the camp to avoid the duplication of services and gaps in the help and the protection of the displaced population.
Specific responsibilities:
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 Set up committees of camp in all the sectors, and make sure that equal access is made for men/women, boys/girls.
 Follow-up and ensure that the committees of camps act and behave according to the agreed Code of conduct.
 Favor the self-sufficiency of the population of the camp and the empowerment in decision-making in the camp management.
 Organize and execute, and\or oversee the follow-up of the recording of the population of the camp, update the data of the population of the camp.
 Make the link between the various communities and the groups living in the camp and favor a peaceful coexistence.
 Protect the interests of the population of the camp towards the authorities of the camp, the service providers and the stakeholders.
 Ensure liaison between the population of the camp and the service providers and the stakeholders
 Ensure liaison between the national / local authorities, the state institutions, the civil society and the other relevant stakeholders. Ensure the effective coordination and the information exchange with them.
 Supply services needed in the technical sectors, if necessary.
Secondary responsibilities:
 Implement a system to record and collect data
 Design a progressive withdrawal of the camp and a strategy of closure from the beginning of the existence of the camp.
 Evaluate the environmental impact of the camp and the hosting community : assess the negative impacts on environment as well as activities which could prevent or reduce such impacts.
 All the main technical skills / requirements relative to the management of the camp

IV. Qualifications:

 Master Level education in a relevant field such as International Relations or Development
 Project management experience (management, planning, staff development and training skills) in development programmes
 1-2 years previous work experience in a relevant position
 Proven capabilities in leadership and management required
 Excellent skills in written and spoken English
 Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills, and flexibility in cultural and organizational terms
 Ability to work well and punctually under pressure

V. Conditions:

• Salary defined by the ACTED salary grid; educational level, expertise, hardship, security, and performance are considered for pay bonus
• Additional monthly living allowance
• Free food and lodging provided at the organisation’s guesthouse/or housing allowance (depending on contract length and country of assignment)
• Transportation costs covered, including additional return ticket + luggage allowance
• Provision of medical, life, and repatriation insurance + retirement package

Please send, in English, your cover letter, CV, and three references tojobs@acted.org

Ref : CO/SSUD/SA