About The IRC
We are, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international Non-Governmental organizations, providing relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 30 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in six regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.
Job Purpose
IRC, the project lead and consortium partners is seeking for a consortium Senior Consortium Project Manager for a three-year project, “Promoting stability and strengthening basic service delivery for host communities, refugees and other displaced population in Gambella Regional State (GRS) of Ethiopia”, funded by EUTF. This project aims to enhance access to and higher quality of health care services, including sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence services, and trauma healing, and promotion of peace-building, conflict prevention and reconciliation for host communities, refugees and other displaced people in GRS. Under this project, IRC is leading agency to manage the consortium project and activities will carried out by partners (ZOA and OSSHD) and intervenes in public service provision across the two sectors (health, and peace-building).
The Senior Consortium Project Manager will be responsible for the overall coordination and management of the EUTF funded project and serve as the consortium focal point. The Senior Consortium Project Manager will ensure quality program implementation, including providing strategic guidance to consortium staff and being responsible for budget management, performance management, M&E, partnership management, and relationships with external actors including government authorities, humanitarian working groups, and project partners. S/he will be responsible for maintaining regular contact with all consortium partners and the donor and will be acting a lead focal point for the project’s governance various bodies (steering committee, technical working group and others) and supervising programming quality and accountability to beneficiaries, and taking the lead on all external partners' engagement.
S/he will report to the IRC’s Gambella Field Coordinator (FC) and will receive technical guidance from an in-country Assistant health Coordinator/Health Coordinator Addis IRC’s Health Technical Unit.
Key Job functions/responsibilities:
Coordinate consortium partners for implementation of the project
Provide overall leadership and coordination for the Consortium partners and project
Complete and coordinate external representation and advocacy
Ensure quality of programming and accountabilities
Other tasks as required
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