Consortium Management Consultancy Assignment

Purpose of the assignment

To lead on the management of the Consortium and its Coordination Unit in close consultation with Christian Aid Management and in line with the Consortium’s strategy including managing donor and government relationships in Bangladesh and managing the Consortium’s budget and programmes in partnership with the CCU team and member agencies and representing the Consortium at national.

Key Deliverables and Responsibilities

Planning and Strategy Development

1. Coordinate / develop / update agreed project related activities with consortium members and partners action plans for the cluster/sector

2. Involve all relevant partners in site needs assessment and analysis

3. Identify gaps and duplications – assess, verify, and map emerging assistance needs and protection issues

4. Develop exit/transition strategy for communal settings

5. Conduct contingency planning based and most likely scenarios of population movements

6. Enact environment protection and mitigation of negative impacts on ecological habitats

7. Where possible, support the national government/authorities in implementing their activities and upholding them to their obligations that meet the identified priority needs

8. Ensure integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in needs assessment, analysis, planning, monitoring and response.

9. Ensure gender sensitive programming.

10. Ensure the CCCM Cluster/sector maps out the operational requirements for a CCCM response; and identify and establish standards and guidelines that facilitate interoperability.

Application of standards

1. Adapt relevant policies and guidelines and technical standards to context of crisis

2. Ensure that cluster/sector members are aware of policy guidelines and technical standards

3. Ensure that responses are in line with existing policy guidance and technical standards and relevant government, human rights, and legal obligations

Monitoring and Reporting

1. Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place to review impact of the sector and progress against implementation plans

2. Ensure adequate reporting and effective information sharing amongst all partners and clusters disaggregating data by age & gender

Protection Capacity

1. Organize affected population’s participation in communal setting governance and community mobilization, with particular emphasis on women’s decision-making role and on persons with specific needs (such as the elderly and disabled)

2. Ensure transparent governance of communal settings and effective access to justice for residents that conforms to relevant human rights standards.

Preparedness and Training Capacity

1. Promote and support relevant training for partners, local government officials, camp managers and members of displaced and host communities

2. Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of the national authorities and civil society;

Coordination

1. Ensure appropriate coordination with all humanitarian partners as well as with national authorities and local structures.

2. Ensure the establishment/maintenance of appropriate sectoral coordination mechanisms, including working groups at the national and, if necessary, local level Define the nature and extent of overlap and coordination between CCCM and other clusters/sectors particularly Shelter, Protection and WASH.

Planning and Strategy Development

• Coordinate / develop / update agreed project related activities with consortium members and partners action plans for the cluster/sector

• Involve all relevant partners in site needs assessment and analysis

• Identify gaps and duplications – assess, verify, and map emerging assistance needs and protection issues

• Develop exit/transition strategy for communal settings

• Conduct contingency planning based and most likely scenarios of population movements

• Enact environment protection and mitigation of negative impacts on ecological habitats

• Where possible, support the national government/authorities in implementing their activities and upholding them to their obligations that meet the identified priority needs

• Ensure integration of agreed priority cross-cutting issues in needs assessment, analysis, planning, monitoring and response.

• Ensure gender sensitive programming.

• Ensure the CCCM Cluster/sector maps out the operational requirements for a CCCM response; and identify and establish standards and guidelines that facilitate interoperability.

Application of standards

• Adapt relevant policies and guidelines and technical standards to context of crisis

• Ensure that cluster/sector members are aware of policy guidelines and technical standards

• Ensure that responses are in line with existing policy guidance and technical standards and relevant government, human rights, and legal obligations

Monitoring and Reporting

• Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place to review impact of the sector and progress against implementation plans

• Ensure adequate reporting and effective information sharing amongst all partners and clusters disaggregating data by age & gender

Protection Capacity

• Organize affected population’s participation in communal setting governance and community mobilization, with particular emphasis on women’s decision-making role and on persons with specific needs (such as the elderly and disabled)

• Ensure transparent governance of communal settings and effective access to justice for residents that conforms to relevant human rights standards.

Preparedness and Training Capacity

• Promote and support relevant training for partners, local government officials, camp managers and members of displaced and host communities

• Support efforts to strengthen the capacity of the national authorities and civil society;

Coordination

• Ensure appropriate coordination with all humanitarian partners as well as with national authorities and local structures.

• Ensure the establishment/maintenance of appropriate sectoral coordination mechanisms, including working groups at the national and, if necessary, local level

• Define the nature and extent of overlap and coordination between CCCM and other clusters/sectors particularly Shelter, Protection and WASH.

Education Qualifications and Experience

• University Degree in one of the following field: social sciences, Public administration, humanitarian sector and other any development sector.

• Relevant experience of managing consortiums in emergency programmes

• Knowledge and experience on the application of Sphere standards, Red Cross Code of Conduct, and Humanitarian Accountability Partnership standards.

• Experience of working with and monitoring budgets and using spreadsheet for financial analysis and management.

• Must have a knowledge of the local area context

• Fluency in English and (Bangla desirable) language required.

This assignment is open to individual frelance cnsultants only. To apply for this assignment please submit your updated resume at : snabi@christian-aid.org with cc to *at bangladesh-jobs@christian-aid.org* before 5:00 PM, 20 March 2018. Please use "Consortium Management" in Subject line.