Consortium Head of Programs

Action Against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action Against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation.

Action Against Hunger is recruiting for its Jerusalem office a

Consortium Head of Programs

6 months maternity replacement

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

• Provide overall technical supervision of the West Bank Consortium Operations (WBPC).
• Ensure good coordination among Consortium partners and externally with other stakeholders within oPt humanitarian architecture.
• Profile the work of the WBPC in oPt.

KEY ACTIVITIES

Objective 1: Technical and Strategic Programmatic Coordination

• Act as an advisor to consortium partners to address technical and strategic programmatic issues and provide neutral facilitation to solve potential technical issues between partners as well as ensure a good flow of information and efficient communication between partners.
• Lead consortium partners to address technical issues and facilitate the solution of technical issues as well as ensuring a functional good flow of information and efficient communication between partners.
• Lead the technical coordination between consortium partners on a day-to day- basis as well as convene and provide reporting and attend part of the steering committee meetings on a regular basis and additional ad hoc meetings as required.
• In collaboration with the Consortium Representative and the Data Analyst coordinate the strategic development of the project, in particular the integration between advocacy and operations.
• Work closely with the consortium advocacy working group to contribute to linking the consortium advocacy work with the field work.
• Responsible for co-chairing and facilitating the work of the Consortium Management Unit (CMU) composed by Thematic Technical Focal Points of each Consortium Member.
• Ensure that the desired harmonization of tools, SOPs and else within the consortium and potentially with other stakeholders does take place in a timely and efficient manner.

Objective 2: Quality and development

• Further develop and improve the consortium project to respond to needs of beneficiaries.
• Ensure timely submission of consortium proposals/ modifications (if requested)/reports to donor agencies .
• Ensure proper risk mapping of consortium activities and, with the other consortium partners develop and implement mitigation measures.
• Lead on assuring the continuous quality and improvement of the overarching Integrated Protection Approach of the Consortium in coordination with the Partners Technical Focal Points.
• Manage the monitoring and evaluation of the project and provide feedback to the consortium and suggest with other consortium partners programmatic changes in response to results of monitoring and evaluation.

Objective 3: External stakeholders’ engagement

• In coordination with the Consortium Representative and Country Directors represents the Consortium on technical issues with National Authorities and in relevant humanitarian/crisis response mechanisms, events, and fora, as well as in the humanitarian/ crisis response community.
• Coordinate the activities of Partners to assure the mobilization of actions complementary to the Consortium, to provide integrated protection response to beneficiaries.
• Support the Consortium Rep in the regular coordination of project partners within the cluster system, and with the broader humanitarian coordination structure**.**

Objective 4: Consortium steering committee engagement

• Report on day-to-day operations to the Consortium Representative, and overall, at the Steering Committee meetings in a proper and timely manner on all relevant matters as per the ToR.
• Attend part of the Steering Committee meetings on a regular and ad hoc basis in coordination with the Consortium Rep. During those meetings, he/she will report on:
• Implementation progress of the signed agreements.
• Technical issues faced and suggested solutions to overcome them.
• Overall program development prospects.
• Representation and public relations matters.

CANDIDATE DESCRIPTION:

• Background studies: International Relations, Political Science or any related fields
• Experience and/or Familiarity with OPT – West Bank context and Middle East.
• Experience in multisectoral responses (E.g., WASH, Shelter, Education, Protection), with overarching protection objective.
• Excellent skills in Report and Proposal writing.
• Familiarity with the humanitarian coordination system (HPC, Clusters/Sectors) required.
• Experience within ACFIN is an asset.
• Experience in public relations, 5 years relevant experience in humanitarian context/protracted crisis, managing large scale humanitarian operation with complex programming.
• Liaison experience on the humanitarian sector (UN, INGOs, Donors, Diplomats)
• Familiarity with donors’ regulation and management procedures (e.g., ECHO, AECID, DGD, UN HRP cycle).
• Strong knowledge of humanitarian situation in West Bank (oPt) .
• Strong staff management skills.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking capacity.
• Excellent reporting writing skills, both for language and content.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English, Arabic is a plus.
• Fully proficient in MS-Office, Outlook and Skype.
• Ability to travel in West Bank and stay overnight.