Deadline: Unspecified
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mercy Corps has opened applications for the role of Team Lead to lead the implementation of a three-year Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)-funded programme.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of a vision and strategy for the programme
- Play an active role in identifying and developing new initiatives that foster and/or improve strategic objectives of the programme
- Ensure consortium partners and FCDO have a common understanding of the programme’s strategy and vision and understand approach to reach that vision
- Ensure programme implementation is high quality and delivers desired impact
- Translate strategy into operational work plan and approach in collaboration with deputy team lead
- Provide leadership to ensure the programme remains agile and adaptive to shifting context/reality on the ground and responds to emerging evidence from programme successes/challenges
- Support in ensuring that the programme is implemented in an integrated approach across the consortium and sectoral interventions that holistically contribute to stabilisation
- Hold the programme to account to reach this goal
- Oversee programme start-up, management and administration
- Ensure programme implementation is on time, target and budget, using effective M and E systems to reach desired impacts
- Ensure that programme implementation is responsive to communities and partners and consistent with Mercy Corps’ relevant programme guidelines, principles, values, quality standards and strategic plan
- Confirm beneficiaries are effectively targeted according to transparent criteria
- Develop partnership frameworks, partner agreements/memorandum of understandings, and oversee partner capacity building
- Integrate community approaches, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate
- Certify all interventions adhere to Mercy Corps’ gender policy, do-no-harm principles, and beneficiary accountability standards
- Ensure programme strategies and activities represent global good practice for rural development in conflict-affected environments
- Supervise and/or review the work of programme consultants
- Coordinate with procurement, logistics, security, administration, and human resources teams to ensure operational systems support field activities
- security of all team members
- Ensure that programmes are designed and implemented with a clear analysis and understanding of security
- Carry out other duties
Requirements
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Development Studies, International Relations, Conflict Management, or other relevant fields
- Ten years, minimum, of relevant development experience, including work on peace, conflict and stabilisation programmes
- Five years, minimum, of experience in a senior management position with experience managing integrated, multi-sectoral programmes of a similar size and scope
- Experience with FCDO- funded programmes strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to build and foster an adaptive team culture and a record of accomplishment in strategic visioning, leadership, and inspiring teams
- Experience managing a consortium or operating within a consortium, ideally FCDO-funded
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organisations, and partners
- Experience managing complex programmatic and financial reporting requirements, preferable with FCDO
- Experience with FCDO rules, regulations and requirements is strongly preferred
- Experience working in Africa required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. French fluency is required
To apply and for more information, click here.
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