Overview
Ensure delivery of the NRC country strategy within their Area Office, focusing on programme delivery and interventions in their area of responsibility.
Key Responsibilities
- Line management responsibilities for directly reporting staff, including senior project staff and support functions.
- Responsible for key processes such as workforce planning, recruitment, staff induction and development, and ensuring Duty of Care for own staff.
- Ensure overall security and safety of staff in the area.
- Ensure that capacity building is provided to all staff in the area.
- Implementation of projects in the area, in compliance with contractual commitments and aligned to regional and global strategies.
- Assess needs, develop emergency response and implement response plans, including cash-based interventions and market-based programmes.
- Ensure optimal use of resources within allocated project budgets and CC strategies.
- Represent NRC and networking on area level.
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
- Member of the Country Management Group (CMG).
- Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
- Develop and lead the Area Management Team.
- Ensure participation of displacement- and conflict-affected people in decision-making processes and accountability loops.
- Proactively manage relationships with local authorities and institutions in the area of responsibility.
- Support delivery of NRC Sudan’s country strategy.
- Develop an area programme that annually assists at least 500,000 people in humanitarian need.
- Develop access protocols and engagement strategies to manage external relations and principled negotiations.
- Build a team culture of improvement and accountability.
- Ensure timely response to emergencies.
- Support the analysis of decentralized authority within the Area Office.
- Participation and representation of NRC in all relevant State and region-level coordination fora.
Required Experience
- Minimum 4-5 years of experience from working as a Senior Project Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context.
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Experience in implementing and managing cash-based interventions and market-based programmes as well as partnerships with national NGOs.
- Experience with high-risk contexts, access constrained operating environments, and hardship duty stations with limited amenities.
