Role Purpose

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners. Plan International has been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 80 years, and is active in 75 countries across the world.

UNHCR has awarded a project on Education (EiE) and Child protection (CPiE) to be implemented by Plan International Ethiopia in western regions, Gambella and Benshangul Gumuz, in all refugee camps. The project in Gambella will be implemented in partnership with Save the Children International (SCI) and Danish Refugee Council (DRC). The project will have a possibility of three years period from now on (2022 – 2024) that will be based on the yearly performance evaluation.

The PRM Project Consortium Manager is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the implementation of ECHO funded project among the implementing partners in Gambella and Benishangul Gumuz. He/she is responsible to coordinate the two operations program teams, provide technical support to the project staff, ensure the engagement of different stakeholders on implementation, monitoring and evaluation, maintain quality of project achievements and responsible to meet deadlines on periodical reports.

Dimensions of Role

This position is responsible for technical aspects the PRM Project Consortium Manager focusing on CPiE, EiE and adolescent programs in Gambella and Assosa refugee camps. It is responsible for physical activity and budget planning, timely implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting of the PRM Project Consortium Manager within the Plan International Gambella emergency response program.

S/he is expected to closely work with Plan International CPiE and EIE team in Gambella and Assosa, strengthen the capacities of co-ordinate with other sectors as well as PIE management to ensure timely and quality implementation, and reporting of the project. The project manager will be responsible for the overall physical implementation and budget utilization of the grant through a meaningful support of the field team

 Key End Results and Typical Responsibilities

The PRM Project Consortium Manager will have the below detailed roles and responsibilities;

1.   Quality and timely project management

-         Be responsible for overall project management at Gambella & Assosa level, including planning (monthly, quarterly and annual work plan and budget), budget management, donor reporting, and coordination with & relations with partners and other stakeholders, and monitoring of the project.

-         Understand in-depth the Child Protection in Emergency (CPiE) and Education in Emergency (EiE) strategies and working modalities of Plan and contribute to apply both to project activities.

-         Contribute to establish strong relationships with stakeholders’ networks operating in Education and Child Protection at local level.

-         Serve as a resource person for the organization and represent the issues of girls and children during programmatic and strategic meetings in the project areas.

-         Oversee all project level administration, financial management of the project at Gambella & Assosa level.

-         Be accountable for working with the project teams to produce and submit progress reports as per requirements.

2.   Planning and implementation management

-         Review project documents and develop the Detailed Implementation Plans (DIP) of the projects as guided by project document.

-         Provide technical input to project team/partners for timely implementation and strategies.

-         Ensure the quality of the project implementation using Girls and Child Centred refugee response approach.

-         Track program spending, analyze deviations and suggest and take corrective action as needed.

-         Monitor and update the project activities in Plan’s internal corporate system (SAP) and ensure management are regularly informed of the project spending status and any deviation

3.   High quality donor reporting

-         Ensure all Donor and other reporting is submitted on time and to high quality.

-         Write monthly, quarterly and end of terminal narrative project reports for Plan’s internal purpose, for donor and local authorities, and validate the reports against attached financial reports and other documentations required as per Plan’s, local authorities and donor guidelines.

-         Prepare project case studies related to the activities implemented to be submitted each quarter with the reports and/or whenever requested.

4.   Coordination and program collaboration

-         Build and maintain working relationship with the implementing project teams, other Plan’s teams, and other implementing partners, for achieving the project goals and creating proper synergies with other Plan’s activities.

-         Liaise closely with the Education and Child Protection teams in Gambella, Program Specialists in Addis Ababa.

-         Ensure activities remain on track and any learning generated from the project is documented and shared with colleagues.

-         When requested, contribute in developing new activities related to EiE and CPiE.

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5.   Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (in cooperation with the MEAL Coordinator and Plan’s MEAL Department)

-         Develop project level monitoring plan and monitor implementations of project activities.

-         Establish and update regularly database of project activities’ achievements.

-         Conduct monitoring of the project activities to feed into the M&E plan.

-         Ensure using SAAD (age, sex, Disability) principles for collection for all monitoring, reviews, reporting and documentation.

-         Ensure documentation of the lessons learnt and good practices from project experience for sharing and learning with other PIE teams and for recording of the organization.

-         Organize and attend periodic review and reflection workshops/meetings to review project plan and strategies and document learning and evidence.

-         Attend workshops/meetings organized by Plan and/or other stakeholders relevant for the goals of the project.

6.   Effective financial, logistics, administrative and HR management

-         Ensure that functional administrative systems are established and maintained according to the PIE systems

-         Monitor annual project budget and prepare periodic analysis and actions, and actively contribute to possible revisions of the budget as needed.

-         Prepare and update the annual procurement plan.

-         Collaborate with logistics and procurement departments for all the necessary logistic and procurement needs of the project.

-         Monitor that project teams respect organizational values and culture (Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy, Anti-fraud Policy, etc.).

-         Support PIE HR and administrative departments for whatever related to the project implementation

Job Requirements

Knowledge & Experience

• MA/ BA Degree in Social Sciences, Education, Child Development, Development Studies, Sociology, Social Work or other related sectors.
• Eight (8) years’ experience in which five (5) years minimum experience in Program/ Project management of NGOs, including in consortium programs. 
• Experience of managing complex and large project budgets (>50M).
• Experience in developing and implementing Child Protection & education projects.
• Knowledge of evidence based, best practice programming and standards for child protection and child participation (INSPIRE strategies, Minimum Standards for Child Protection & Education in Humanitarian contexts) 
• Good knowledge and understanding of humanitarian principles and established international child protection standards; SPHERE standards and the Red Cross/ NGO Code of Conduct.

   Skills

• Strong facilitation, negotiation, communication and representation skills.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Skills in monitoring, evaluation, Learning and reporting.  
• Analytical skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Requires general finance, administration, information management and telecommunication skills and proficiency in information technology/ computer skills (SAP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
• Fluency in English is essential.

How to Apply

he closing date for the application is 04 June 2022. Qualified candidates should submit their application with the below link.

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This position is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia.

Please note that: 

• Applications and CVs written in English will be accepted and
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Please note that we are not accepting CVs that are not sent through the indicated link.
• Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.
• Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.