A specific unit within a programs department develops and co-implements programs in the areas of Supporting People on the Move and Promoting Safe and Resilient Communities. The unit is also responsible for upholding and promoting the humanitarian mandate through program and proposal development, resource mobilization, and grant management. It oversees, coordinates, and delivers impactful externally funded (multi-country) programs and projects and supports conflict sensitivity mainstreaming.
The unit will be the grant-holder and coordinate the implementation of a major donor-funded project for 15 months. The project aims to transform humanitarian logistics through capacity sharing and local leadership. The initiative is a global humanitarian initiative that strengthens supply chain and logistics capacity across the humanitarian sector, with a particular focus on local and national humanitarian actors (LNHAs).
It has evolved into an openly accessible platform, a community of practice, and a public good that promotes more effective, collaborative, and locally led humanitarian supply chains. The project builds on previous achievements to consolidate, scale, and institutionalize the initiative globally.
The project aims to strengthen locally led supply chain capacity, advance localisation as a system-level reform, promote the adoption of Universal Logistics Standards, and sustain the network as a globally connected and locally anchored community of practice.
Through peer learning, capacity sharing, standards development, and network stewardship, the project supports local and national actors to strengthen their leadership, authority, and operational capacity within humanitarian supply chains, while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the initiative and its resources.
What you do
- Lead the overall planning, implementation, monitoring, and successful delivery of the project, ensuring achievement of project objectives, results, timelines, and donor commitments.
- Coordinate and strengthen collaboration across consortium partners, consultants, project support functions, and external stakeholders to ensure programme delivery.
- Serve as budget holder, overseeing budget management, forecasting, expenditure monitoring, financial analysis, and donor financial reporting.
- Ensure full compliance with donor requirements, contractual obligations, reporting standards, and organisational policies.
- Recruit, manage, and support project staff and consultants, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
- Strengthen and steward the network as a globally connected and locally led community of practice, promoting meaningful participation and leadership of Local and National Humanitarian Actors (LNHAs).
- Represent the initiative in relevant humanitarian forums and partnerships, supporting advocacy, learning, sustainability, and the uptake of the Universal Logistics Standards.
What they ask
- Demonstrable experience managing complex humanitarian, development, or multi-stakeholder programmes, including planning, implementation, and risk management.
- Strong experience managing institutional donor-funded grants, preferably from major humanitarian donors.
- Proven experience overseeing programme budgets, forecasts, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting.
- Experience coordinating partnerships, networks, communities of practice, or multi-country initiatives involving diverse stakeholders.
- Excellent programme and project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
- Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder engagement skills, including experience working across different cultural and organisational contexts.
- Experience working with Local and National Humanitarian Actors (LNHAs) and a strong commitment to localisation and locally led humanitarian action.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify risks, make informed decisions, and adapt to changing circumstances.
- Excellent written and spoken English and the ability to represent the programme effectively with donors, partners, and sector stakeholders.
- Commitment to values and mission, including social justice, gender equality, women's rights, and feminist humanitarian principles.
- Able and willing to travel for project coordination and/or implementation.
- Strong cultural sensitivity and gender awareness.
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