Specific Responsibilities
Program Planning and
Implementation:
- Develop comprehensive program/project
plans, including detailed activities, budgets, timelines, and resource
allocations to ensure successful implementation.
- Monitor early warning systems to come up
with anticipatory action aiming at using weather, climate, and
impact-based forecasts.
- Work with the community to save lives and
livelihoods from disasters through strengthening early warning systems and
alerts.
- Continuously supervise program/project
performance against stated goals, deliverables, and budget forecasts.
- Conduct routine risk assessments and
develop mitigation strategies to address potential challenges or delays.
- Ensure strict compliance with donor
regulations, organizational policies, and industry best practices
throughout the program lifecycle.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date program
documentation, including workplans, budgets, reports, and contract files.
- Develop work plans for specific
activities e.g., Cash and voucher Assistance (CVA) and be responsible for
the direct implementation and monitoring of activities.
- Coordinate closely with cross-functional
teams, including finance, operations, and align program activities.
- Identification and mapping of partners
for Anticipatory action activities.
- Carry out project plans as per agreement
made with the donor, ensuring to meet the planned activities.
- Work closely with flood committees,
child-led Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) clubs, community leaders, and
develop individual work plans.
Coordination &
Representation:
- Nurture and maintain strong relationships
with key program partners, including NGOs, government agencies, and
research institutions.
- Collaborate with partners to develop and
align detailed work plans, budgets, and monitoring frameworks for
respective program components.
- Facilitate regular communication and
coordination with partners to ensure seamless program implementation.
- Provide input into advocacy and lobbying
approaches, outreach, and products, particularly those directly related to
anticipatory action programming.
Reporting:
- Lead the preparation and submission of
high-quality, comprehensive program reports according to donor schedules
and requirements at different reporting intervals.
- Gather input data from other contributors
to synthesize into clear and compelling reports.
- Analyze program data and performance
metrics to identify trends, challenges, and areas for improvement in
reporting and overall implementation.
- Respond promptly to information requests
from donors, IRC leadership, and other partners.
- Develop and implement strategies to
continuously enhance reporting efficiency, accuracy, and quality.
Program Monitoring:
- Coordinate closely with M&E and data
staff on targeting, data collection, data systems and information
management.
- Work with M&E focal point on baseline
and end-line assessments. Ensure data analysis and activity overviews are
written clearly for use in reporting.
- Knowledge management for the anticipatory
action program, ensuring Box structures and filing are up to date and
applied.
Other:
- Other duties as assigned by the
supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.
Desired Skills:
- Project Management:
Ability to plan and lead projects, ensuring effective deliverance and
maintaining humanitarian principles, standards, and procedures.
- Data Collection and Analysis: Proficiency in collecting reliable information about risk
and vulnerability, and planning resources to act based on forecasts.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Ability to carry out monitoring of early warning systems and
anticipatory actions.
- Partnership and Collaboration: Ability to work with various partners, including government
authorities, NGOs, and community leaders.
- Communication:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills for report writing and
coordination.
- Computer Proficiency:
Proficiency in computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and internet.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business
administration/management, Community Development, International
Development, Environmental Science, Disaster Management, or any other
relevant field with demonstrated experience in Cash based programming
preferably with an International NGO.
- Minimum of 3 years of professional
experience in program/project management, preferably in an international
development or humanitarian context
- Demonstrated experience managing
partnerships, subcontracts, and working with institutional donors.
- Excellent project management skills,
including planning, budgeting, forecasting, expenditure tracking, risk
mitigation.
- Outstanding written and verbal
communication skills for effective cross-cultural collaboration.
- Personal qualities: promotes teamwork and
coordination within and across teams, comfortable in a multi-cultural
environment, very flexible and adaptable, ability to contribute across
multiple activities and departments.
How To Apply