Technical Head of Program

• Location: Kiev (with in-country travel)
• Duration: 12 months
• Starting: Mid-October 2025
• Closing date for applications: August 24th 2025 (rolling recruitment process: don't wait to apply)

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. At Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organisation. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities.

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JOB CONTEXT:

Since February 2022 HI has re-opened a Country Programme in Ukraine to respond to the humanitarian needs triggered by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. In 2024, HI pillars of interventions are: Health, Protection, Armed Violence Reduction, Basic needs and Humanitarian-to-humanitarian logistics (Atlas Logistique).

Ukraine's Program is a 2-year old program. One of the current goals is to stabilize the structure and operational strategy while increasing our capacity to implement activities in the country with a priority to the East and South East parts of Ukraine which are the most affected by the conflict.

HI has 3 hubs, one in the East (based in Dnipro with a sub base in Poltava), one in the North-East (based in Kharkiv), one in the South East (based in Mikolaiv) and the coordination is in Kyiv. HI staff is accommodated in guesthouses or in hotel (during business trips), usually near HI offices, restaurants, cafes, shopping centers within walking distance and near a shelter (the shelter is either in the building or easy to reach). Movements between sites can be made by car (HI drivers) or by train, depending of the region and time.

Under the responsibility of the Programme Director, the Technical Head of Programme contributes to the implementation of Humanité & Inclusion's mandate and 10-year strategy within his/her programme. He/she is the driving force behind the programmatic development of social missions within his/her technical scope, and ensures that the quality and impact of the projects implemented in the programme are optimised, in line with the priorities defined in the Technical Strategies.

The Technical Head of Program is responsible for a team of specialists (Technical Field Specialist, Business Developer, MEAL...).

Mission 1: Management

• Exemplary Manager: embodies HI's values on a daily basis, and is a role model.
• Meaningful manager: understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for the team, leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to each management action. Encourages inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice. Encourages innovation and risk-taking.
• Operational Manager: organises the operational management of his or her team, structures the work around identified processes, steers performance, and facilitates problem solving.
• Manager 1st HR&Coach: contributes to the development of its employees, creating the conditions to enable their commitment, their professionalism and their attachment to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct of institutional policies, the state of mind and the expected individual and collective behaviour.

Mission 2: Strategy and management

• Proposes the development of the programmatic framework of the programme's StratOp, based on an analysis of the sectoral context and following the StraTechs and Development Plans of the Emergency, Atlas and Impact-Innovation-Information divisions, in conjunction with the operational teams.
• Ensures the deployment of cross-cutting approaches within programming, promotes cross-sectoral synergies and intervention themes.
• Proposes the design and evolution of the programme's technical support, based on the skills of the technical specialists and technical profiles assigned to the projects, and according to the key priority sectors and the skills of the project managers.
• Contributes, at least once a year, (regarding its projects and data) to the annual monitoring of the StratOp and to the planning of the following year's programmes (i.e. support missions and evaluations).
• Ensures the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool.

Mission 3: Development of the social mission and programmatic vision

• Defines the programme's funding strategy for new themes or innovations in existing sectors, ensures the development of opportunities for each theme within its scope, proposes the geographical development of HI sectors, and ensures the conformity of the technical proposal with nexus issues.
• Provides support to the Programme Director and Area Managers in considering the development of new value propositions (including needs assessment, feasibility, strategic alliances, major contracts. ).
• Contributes to the development of the fundraising strategy, in coordination with the Country Managers / Operations Manager / Business Developer Officer, and support the affiliated countries in the development and implementation of their fundraising plans.
• Leads the transformation of financial opportunities into projects.
• Produces and drives the design of major projects (multiple countries, one or more themes) or new projects in the region.
• Identifies and develops regional or local partnerships and/or consortia with NGOs, institutions, companies on technical priorities or important themes in the region.

Mission 4: Quality standards and expertise with the MEAL and technical profiles of the Programme

• Controls and monitors the technical quality and relevance of HI activities within its scope:

• Ensures that project managers receive appropriate technical and methodological guidance and support from MEAL team members and specialists based at headquarters or at programme level.

• Ensures quality control of projects and the programme and raises alerts and recommendations.
• Follows up the implementation of recommendations from support missions, evaluation or audit, as appropriate.
• Ensures a local sectoral watch and collects good practices.
• In connection with the MEAL missions:
• Ensures the improvement of the quality of project management processes, as defined by the Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) policy
• Leads the improvement of HI's response, including the implementation of impact and effect measurement tools.
• Establishes mechanisms for accountability to beneficiaries.
• Ensures the appropriation of programmes and HI's frameworks and learning methodologies globally.

• Supports the monitoring of projects.

• Ensures that specialists develop a local professional channel/talent pool and contributes to the animation of the professional channel of the technical divisions and the MEALs.

• Ensures the development of research and innovation projects in the region, when appropriate.
• Ensures deployment and compliance with global frameworks, institutional policies and standards.

Mission 5: Ensure external representation and promotion of HI's expertise in its field

• Represents HI's expertise in all relevant networks (including clusters).
• Supports the specialists and the PD in the representation towards partners, institutional donors and authorities.
• Contributes to advocacy (including evidence-based) on specific issues, in line with the StratOp and federal advocacy priorities.
• Contributes locally to communication messages, in line with the StratOp and federal communication priorities.

Mission 6: Emergency preparedness and response

Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure a rapid and effective response from HI.

• Qualification: You hold a Master's degree in one of HI's technical sectors of intervention and/or in international cooperation and/or humanitarian development.

• Experience

• You have a minimum of 5 years experience in humanitarian development with experience in project management (multi or complex)

• You have a work experience(s) in providing technical support in one of HI's technical sectors of intervention.
• You have work experience in programming in multi-site, multi-sector programs, for humanitarian and/or development programs

• Experience in the field of inclusion of people with disabilities is welcome

• Competencies

• Experimented team management: You're are able to develop team members: developing the ability of staff to work independently.

• You how to position yourself
• You're able to manage stress
• You're flexible and have good problem solving skills
• Language: You are fluent in English

CONDITIONS:

At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission.

• 12 month International contract from mid-october 2025

• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:

• Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals;

• Pension scheme;
• Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution;

• Repatriation insurance paid by HI;

• Salary from 2986€ gross/month upon experience;

• Per diem: 604 € net/month
• Hardship Allowance: 500 euros net/month
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: according to the level of mission (currently 5 days / 8 weeks)
• Position: Unaccompanied

• Housing: Collective taken in charge by HI;

• If you are resident in the country: local package.

TO APPLY:

Applications will be processed on an ongoing basis, don't wait for applying

Only successful candidates will be contacted.