Emergency Food Security and Early Recovery Manager

Background/Context

ActionAid’s Current strategy for Afghanistan Strategy for its Afghanistan program works along the Axis of Humanitarian interventions and DRR, Food Security and Women’s and Children’s Rights. Under its Humanitarian and DRR pillar ActionAid would implementing a multi sector project to promote Food Security, support SMEs ad generally promote market linkages for women led agribusinesses. The objective of the intervention will be to Enhance Food Security and resilience of Rural Communities in 10 Districts of Afghanistan through skills development and cash for work intervention with the following outputs:

Result 1: Households in high Poverty and high insecurity areas provided with basic income

Result 2: Local Level livelihoods and economies Sustained through Cash for work initiatives

Result 3: Local Private Sector development through technical and Financial Support

Result 4: Communities for peace and social Cohesion reinforced

The project has been envisaged for a period of 9 months but is likely to transit into an early recovery project.

Role Summary:

ActionAid is looking for Senior Manager for a period of 9 months with the following details. The position is open for both Nationals and International candidates that meet the below skills and expertise.

The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring integration of multiple technical competencies (Livelihoods and Food Security, Resilience building, Market linkage and reconciliation) and advocacy to achieve higher-level outcomes on durable food security and resilience solutions of the project Participants. The Project Manager will facilitate meaningful technical collaboration across sectors and clusters, carry out joint barrier/need assessments on different technical areas, joint holistic response planning, joint targeting and joint implementation by technical staff.

The Project Manager will be responsible for project management (ensuring the project is implemented in line with ActionAid’ Project Cycle Management (PCM) framework). The Manager is also budget holder of the project.

Job Requirements:

Responsibilities and Tasks

The Manager will coordinate the involvement of multiple towards the quality programming towards the common objective, which includes the following responsibilities:

• Compliance and adherence to ActionAid policies, guidance and procedures
• Supervision of programme staff dedicated to implementing the project.
• Responsible for effective management and implementation of the project in areas of operation.
• Management and overall coordination for the associated grant, including project implementation (activities, budget, documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
• Responsible for coherent implementation to recipients of the project‘s assistance.
• Contribute to fundraising for future evolutions of the project(s) and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports, based on technical standards and donor priorities.
• Develop and manage project budget in cooperation with the other programme and Finance departments.
• Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills.
• Provide regular progress reports to the Regional Managers, and HoP, promoting and sharing ideas for improvement and recommending necessary changes in activities.
• Liaison and collaborate with relevant local and national authorities and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with contractual donor commitments and that key learnings of the project on integration are extracted and incorporated into program strategy and staff development.
• Establish mechanisms and processes which facilitates integrated ways of working amongst individuals and teams related to the project.
• Ensure appropriate and predictable context understanding and its incorporation across the project.
• Support cross-cutting interventions including Safe & Inclusive Programming (SIP), gender, community-based approach and cash and market programming.
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection, explore and assess new and better ways to assist.

Education & Training:

Bachelor’s degree in business administration/Project Management or relevant fields.

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian/development/recovery context.

Technical Skills:

• Significant experience in any one area viz. Emergency Response, Livelihood or Resilience
• Experience with integrated programming and/or coordinating multiple sectors/teams
• Experienced working in complex and volatile contexts
• Report writing skills – including analysis, summarizing and copy-editing
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal
• Experience in managing province projects.
• Experience in dealing with Donors and Foundations will be an added advantage.
• Skills to facilitate consistency and alignment across interventions contributing to improvements across the whole response at strategic and operational levels.