Location: Menongue, Angola

Hours:  Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent Term

Reports To: Country Director

Direct Reports: Head of Capability/Field Officers/ Unit Commanders

Key Internal Contacts/Relationships: Projects Team, Department Heads, Operational Management and Transformation Group

Key External Contacts/Relationships:  ANAM, CND and other MA NGOs

Job Purpose: This role provides the strategic lead for all humanitarian mine action right across the Angola programme, leading and managing the operations and providing direction, visible leadership and oversight to all operational management. A critical member of the programme senior leadership team, the post holder will develop and own the Angola Operational Strategy, operational safety and innovation. 

About HALO:

HALO is the leading global NGO addressing the impact and drivers of conflict in 30 countries and territories, with over 8,000 staff. Most of our staff are local employees and include a growing number of women.

Our primary duty is to serve people affected by conflict, clearing landmines and the explosive remnants of war that threaten lives and livelihoods long after fighting has finished. We make land safe where war has ended, while also assisting those affected by active conflict and endemic violence.

HALO addresses human suffering caused by armed violence in some of the world’s most fragile places, securing weapons and ammunition and working with both state and community actors to reduce the prevalence of armed violence.

HALO’s work in Angola focuses on reducing the impact of landmines and explosive remnants of war, improving safety, enabling access to land, and supporting long-term recovery and development.

About the role:

HALO is seeking a proactive, experienced leader who can support technical specialists through robust and sustainable planning, clear direction, and strong operational leadership. The individual will be experienced in HMA, but able to step back from the tactical day to day and lead on operational planning, performance measures and donor reporting on behalf of the department, often thinking and operating on a timeline of 12-18 months. Collaboration will be key, ensuring that technical specialists and unit commanders are aligned and resourced to deliver Angola’s operational priorities. The role will be focused not just on mine clearance, but on broader compliance, safety and legislative requirements, ensuring that HALO can operate sustainably, safely and effectively.

 Responsibilities:

Operations Management

• Line management of the operational management team in all respects, including recruitment and appraisals, with a strong focus on wellbeing and welfare.
• Provide senior management leadership, ensuring operational strategy and clearance priorities are represented at programme level.
• Lead and support change programme wide change management projects.

Work Planning

• Work with the Head of Capability, ensuring the effective integration of survey, training, QA, EOD, R&D, accident and incident investigation, and remote sensing functions into operational planning and delivery. Improving our efficiency.
• Own and lead on the operational capability, performance monitoring and donor reporting, as well as internally working alongside finance and donor relations peers to ensure a ‘joined-up’ approach.
• Own the Team to Donor tracker, ensuring that we are utilising our people as best we can and are achieving maximum impact for beneficiaries and donors. Ensure an effective feed in from the Unit Commanders, so information is accurate and achievable on actual and forecast performance.
• Coordinate with Unit Commanders to produce and review annual clearance work plans across the programme, in accordance with national procedures and prioritisation standards and cross referencing with donor contracts and targets.
• Ensure a full suite of programme operational department policies and operating procedures are in place and are managed and published appropriately in line with global standards.
• Ensure that casualty evacuation procedures are maintained, and that regular exercises are conducted.
• Promote best practice in operational safety within clearance teams, ensuring IMAS compliance and continuous improvement of technical procedures.

Data Management

• Regularly review statistics provided by the Units to monitor progress and performance against project targets.

Liaison and Relationship Management

• Support the Country Director on operational-related donor reporting and technical engagement with ANAM and other stakeholders.
• As required host visits from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring positive interactions with local authorities.

Donor Management

• Work closely with both Donor and Finance teams to ensure that effective proposals, through grant and end of grant plans and reports, are completed within associated timelines.
• Oversee contract management, coordinating with contract leads to ensure donor expectations are met.
• Monitor and report on progress related to donor funding targets, proactively addressing any issues that arise.

Logistics

• Advise on logistics requirements for operational capacity for current projects and when designing proposals and conduct periodic inventory checks at storage locations.
• Conduct inspections of explosive stores, reporting any inconsistencies to logistics and senior operations staff.

Personnel Management

• Line manage and mentor the Head of Capability, Unit Commanders and Field Officers, ensuring operational standards, safety, and clearance outputs are delivered in line with programme priorities and donor requirements. Caring for their professional development and wellbeing.

General:

• Uphold HALO’s core values and standards, promoting its ethos and mission statement.
• Ensure familiarity with and adherence to all HALO policies and procedures, especially the code of conduct and safeguarding

Requirements

• Strong leadership and decision-making skills in challenging environments.
• Critical thinking and analytical abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proactive approach to personnel management and mentorship
• Demonstrable experience of providing direction and leadership to a diverse technical team.
• Willingness to adapt and work in remote and often challenging conditions.
• HALO International Operations Training.
• Experience in minefield clearance management.
• Proficient in strategic decision-making related to minefield management.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications.
• Fluent in English.
• IMAS EOD Level Three

Desirable Requirements:

• Understanding of the Angola context and culture
• Experience of remote management of technical teams
• Fluency in Portuguese (or a strong willingness to learn)
• Working experience in areas such as Project Management, Finance, Logistics, HR

To Apply:

Please submit a CV (no more than 2 pages) and a cover letter (no more than 1 page) outlining how your experience matches the key skills and competencies required by 4/08/2026.

Applications without a cover letter tailored to this position will not be considered.

We reserve the right to amend the closing date depending on the number of applications received.

The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

The HALO Trust is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining talented individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

The HALO Trust is committed to ensuring that it provides a safe and trusted environment which safeguards and promotes the welfare and wellbeing of anyone who comes into contact with, or is part of, the Charity, with a zero-tolerance approach to behaviours which challenge this.