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Consortium Manager

Beirut

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Beirut
  • Grade: Mid level - Mid level
  • Occupational Groups:
    • External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
    • Other
    • Managerial positions
  • Closing Date: Closed





The
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation
helping people forced to flee.


We protect displaced people and support them as they build a new future. We started our relief efforts after World War Two.
Today, we work in both new and protracted crises across 31 countries. We
specialise in six areas: food security, education, shelter, legal assistance,
camp management, and water, sanitation and hygiene.

We stand up for people forced to flee.
NRC is a determined advocate
for displaced people. We promote and defend displaced people's rights and
dignity in local communities, with national governments and in the
international arena. NRC’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva is
a global leader in monitoring, reporting on and advocating for people displaced
within their own country.


We respond quickly to emergencies. Our expert deployment capacity, NORCAP,
boasts around 1,000 experts from all over the world who can be deployed within
72 hours. Our experts help improve international and local ability to prevent,
prepare for, respond to and recover from crises.


Around 6,000 men and women work for the
Norwegian Refugee Council.
Most of us are hired locally
to work in the field, and a small number are based at our head office in Oslo.
Many of our colleagues were once themselves fleeing their homes.








Rights Respected, People Protected

In 2015, NRC’s operations in Lebanon provided assistance to more than 300,000 beneficiaries 

Although Lebanon is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, it has the highest number of refugees per capita in the world. The estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees and 270,000 Palestinian refugees amount to over a quarter of Lebanon's total population.

NRC opened our offices in Lebanon in 2006 and through our Lebanon programme, we support everyone affected by displacement – refugees as well as host communities. We help them fight for their rights and overcome the everyday hardships they face.  We focus on providing legal assistance and shelter, and advocating for refugee rights inside the country, regionally, and internationally. NRC has offices located in Beirut, Tyre, Tal Abbas and Zahle.  Because refugees in Lebanon live side-by-side with the Lebanese, we also work to serve the local communities hosting displaced people.  In all NRC projects, our experts work together to maximise the impact of our activities.

Background

The H2All consortium comprises the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Oxfam, World Vision International (WVI) and Gruppo di Volontariato Civile (GVC) who have joined together to implement Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programming (H2All) funded by the EU Madad Trust Fund.

The proposed project undertaken by the consortium will contribute to effective, sustainable and multi-level water governance in crisis affected Lebanon, through empowering local and regional authorities and demonstrating cost effective system for water service provision. The project will target vulnerable Lebanese and Syrian refugee communities in the Bekaa.

This position will be hosted by the lead agency, NRC, which has been working Lebanon since 2006. Although hosted by NRC, including in terms of organisational procedures such as logistics, finance and security, there will be a degree of separation and independence of the Consortium Manager and consortium management, as NRC is also implementing within the consortium.

Generic Responsibilities:

  1. Ensuring delivery of the project’s objectives and accountability to consortium partners and the donor;
  2. Further develop and improve the consortium project to respond to needs of beneficiaries
  3. Leads the coordination between consortium partners on a day-to-day basis as well as convene and provide reporting to steering committee meetings.
  4. Recruiting, hiring, and managing consortium-specific staff, consultants, and sub-contractors as needed to carry out activities; 
  5. Line Management responsibility for staff as per summary table and others as necessary.
  6. Represent consortium with in-country donors, Government Ministries, NGOs, build relationships and actively participate in the coordination of the response.
  7. Develop a multi-year funding strategy, programme forecasts and identify funding opportunities, taking particular account of changing donor priorities as the crisis becomes more protracted.
  8. Develop project proposals in collaboration with relevant consortium member staff and coordinate input for reporting to donors.
  9. Accountable for compliance in relation to grant management and project cycle management processes.
  10. Responsible for quality control of donor applications and reports, for content and timeliness.
  11. Responsible for full grants and proposals management;
  12. Ensure that all grant files are up to date and that copies are kept in the field and sent to HQ in a timely manner;

Specific Responsibilities:

  • Under the guidance of the Consortium steering committee and reporting to Head of Programmes the  Consortium Manager will manage the multi-INGO consortium.
  • Overseeing the overall programmatic and financial performance of the consortium, including project planning and budget follow-up; 
  • Working closely with the consortium’s Steering Committee consisting of consortium partners to ensure that each partner delivers their parts of the project;  
  • Incorporating technical inputs from the consortium’s Technical Working Group to maintain a high level of project quality; 
  • Engage with related policy and advocacy work to advance the objectives of the consortium.

Our Ideal Candidate:

Minimum 4 years’ senior project management position working in consortia, partnerships or equivalent structures, with responsibility for programming in a humanitarian/protracted crisis or development context, and experience working in a complex/ volatile context.

Experience of working with EU (DevCo) funding mechanisms. Expertise in WASH is an advantage.

We are seeking a diplomatic, confident, and representative candidate who can represent the organization at national or international levels. In addition to very good negotiation skills.

Strategic thinking skills, and interest in working and coordinating with different donors and actors to achieve efficiency.

Some knowledge of the context in Lebanon is an advantage.

Additional Information:

Contract period: 12 months

Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions

Duty station: Beirut with up to 5% travel.

Approved health certificate will be requested before contract start

NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners and to check that its partners have not been involved in illegal activities.

NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.

NB: Please enter the geographical location in the "Company name" field for both company and location on your application.

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