Operations Manager – Humanitarian Mine Action

Responsibilities

• Plan, monitor and evaluate all aspects of HMA activities.
• Ensure the highest possible standards of safety and security are maintained in all operations.
• Maintain and develop SOPs, work plans and other relevant operations documentation and implement changes within the programme accordingly.
• Exercise responsibility for safes storage and handling of explosives, including within warehousing structures.
• Ensure that the prioritisation set by the Ethiopian Mine Action authorities (EMAO) and UNMAS are taken into consideration in the planning and implementation of operational activities.
• Manage, monitor, and supervise the HMA EORE/NTS Managers and Technical Field Managers (TFMs), ensuring that they carry out their duties and responsibilities in accordance with their job descriptions and as tasked.
• Work closely with the local partner organisation and coordinate joint activities of the consortium partners.
• Monitor and analyse productivity achieved and recommend methods and practices to enhance productivity, ensuring cost effective operations to be conducted in the programme.
• Lead the planning and monitoring of training and competence building of national operational employees, with a specific objective of nationalisation of posts.
• Assist support service managers in developing appropriate plans for operational support (e.g. procurement planning).
• Report operational outputs to Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding in Copenhagen HQ on a monthly basis, based on input from TFMs and PMs.
• Responsible for the internal Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA).
• Conduct regular QC/QA visits to all teams and ensure the EORE/NTS Manager, TFM, Team Leader and the teams are carrying out drills in accordance with SOPs.
• Keep a record of all training carried out by all employees together with the TFMs.
• Promote a culture of safety, and safe and effective methods of munitions clearance and disposal.
• Collection and retention of technical information on munitions as well as the maintaining of the information library on such munitions. S/he is under no circumstances to carry out, or permit others to carry out, forensic work or similar to gain insight into weapon functionality.
• Support the grants management team as required with deliverables required by the donor.

Required Skills

Requirements

Candidates should possess relevant experience in this field. Ability to work in a team environment, strong problem-solving skills, and effective communication capabilities are required.

How to Apply