Avis de recrutement : Conseil Danois pour les Refugiés recherche un.e Gestionnaire de projets (Amérique latine) en Colombie.
About the job
The LA Projects Manager is overall responsible for ensuring the timely and compliant delivery of DRC’s programme activities in the field for multi-country and cross-border projects as outlined in programme documents and sector strategies, and in line with the programme technical guidelines.
A key member of DRC LA regional capacity, the Projects Manager works collaboratively with technical experts of the regional capacity office to ensure sufficient technical guidance and support is available to implement regional projects effectively (Protection, Emergency and Early Recovery). The LA Projects Manager also works collaboratively with the Support Services team to ensure that processes to enable smooth delivery of operations in the field are being consistently applied and improved (e.g. HR, Admin, IT, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.).
Country offices, Area Managers and Project Managers are primarily responsible for the timely and quality implementation of multi-country operations in their countries and regions. The LA Projects Manager works in support of Country Programmes, and Area Managers where regional and/or multi-country grants are implemented. In addition, in countries where there is no DRC presence, DRC operates in partnership with Civil Society Organizations (CSO), the LA projects manager is responsible for the implementation in these locations (Peru, Guatemala, Honduras in 2023). The LA Projects Manager ensures technical support in grant management and project cycle management to partner CSO, and S/he supervise the timely implementation of activities in these areas.
Role and Responsibilities
Management:
- Supervise, monitor, and evaluate multi-country projects implementation by Country operations and partners.
- Manage the LA projects team (10 -15 people) including a protection unit, partnership team, a 4MI team, an IM team and a support services unit.
- Develop multi-country project management tools between countries and LA regional capacity.
- Support Country teams in planning operations and activities, contribute to their training plan and capacity building, and develop toolboxes to improve operations planning and monitoring.
- Ensure close cooperation with technical and support teams in the regional office and in countries.
Partnerships:
- Supervise and develop strategic partnerships for LA projects.
- Support Country teams in managing partnerships at local level.
- Develop tools for partnership management in the region.
Accountability:
- Champion a positive approach to gender and diversity mainstreaming in DRC’s LA projects.
- Support the roll out of accountability processes in LA Projects.
Representation:
- Represent DRC LA in relevant forums at regional and Country level as requested by the Operations Director for LA or Country Directors when LA activities are concerned.
- Assist the Operations Director for LA in representing DRC in meeting with regional projects financial partners and donors.
When manageable, the LA Projects Manager may be asked to carry out other duties requested by the Regional Operations Director.
As Manager the post-holder is responsible for the following:
- Accountable for achieving DRC strategic goals and objectives within the area of responsibility.
- Accountable for making significant decisions on what the unit does: its purpose, functions and role, and for making commitments and decisions that require the expenditure of significant unit resources; and accountable for ensuring DRC´s compliance procedures are in place at all levels.
- Accountable for people management of direct reports. This includes hiring & firing, objective setting, probation, performance appraisal, development of staff, managing performance, including poor performance, etc.
- Accountable for making sound decisions based on DRC policies, MOPs, standards, and the advice of technical experts in DRC.
Roles reporting to this position: protection team, IM team, 4Mi Team Leader, Partnership manager, support officers.
Reports to: Operations Director for Latin America.
About you:
To be successful in this role we expect you to have minimum ten years’ management experience in emergency/development contexts as head of programs/senior manager of a humanitarian or development organization or similar, moreover, we also expect the following:
Mandatory:
- Relevant university degree (Master or Postgraduate) in international relations and/or development, political science or similar field
- Min. 5 years’ experience overseas in complex humanitarian emergencies and development, preferably with refugees and/or IDPs
- Substantial project management experience in NGO, including in consortia and leading strategic programming and planning, implementation, monitoring, and learning
- Substantial experience in managing and developing partnerships with local and international organizations.
- Experience in managing HR, administration, finance, grants, and donor relations.
- Ability to transversal management with multidisciplinary teams, large workload and multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
- Good understanding of displacement issues and related international standards/frameworks
- Team player with excellent communication and strong participatory leadership skills
- Excellent written and spoken Spanish and English
- Excellent Computer Skills (MS Office, Internet)
Desirable :
- Previous experience in LA;
- Previous experience en Disaster Prepardness.
Required Skills & Qualities
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:
. Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process
. Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback
. Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation
. Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly
. Demonstrating integrity: Upholding and promoting the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment
- Ability to work in a multinational and multicultural environment
- Proven analytical and critical thinking skills
- Team-oriented & good sense of humor.
Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to www.drc.ngo under Vacancies. For questions regarding the vacancy please contact: [email protected] . Applications sent by email will not be considered.
More details & application process
Closing date for applications: 14/05/2022 at 23.59 GMT-5