Humanitarian Programme Coordinator - Somalia
Trócaire, Somalia

Trócaire supports communities in over 20 developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to bring about lasting change. Trócaire is also one of the leading INGO’s operating in Gedo region of Somalia with over 25 years’ experience of delivering health, nutrition and education projects in a context of a protracted crisis.

Trocaire is now recuriting a Humanitarian Programme Coordinator (HPC). The HPC will work with the Humanitarian Programme Manager (HPM) and the operational and technical teams to deliver and manage a humanitarian response under the overall direction of the Humanitarian Programme Manager.

• The HPC is primarily responsible for ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of a significant donor funded response in Gedo in accordance with relevant quality standards and sectoral norms within a specific period of time.
• The HPC is also responsible for setting priorities and commitments on technical standards in the response with an additional focus on protection mainstreaming and accountability.

Reporting to the Humanitarian Programme Manager (HPM) for Somalia, this is a 1 year contract renewable and is based in Gedo.

Safeguarding[1] Children Policy:

The successful applicant will be expected to sign up to and adhere to Trócaire’s Safeguarding Policy.

Key Duties amp; Responsibilities

Programme Design:

• Undertake the necessary analysis (e.g. contextual, power, poverty), to inform appropriate programme strategies, geographic location and target population.
• Ensure that the programme design phase has included a gender analysis that is documented, and that issues emerging from this analysis are clearly addressed in your programme.
• Undertake, where necessary, a programme baseline ensuring that the indicators identified are aligned to the organisational programme indicators and that both quantitative and qualitative data have been captured in the process.
• Ensure that the programme has disaggregated data for programme participants and that indicators (where possible) are gender sensitive.
• Work with the Programme Accountant to develop a programme budget that shows value for money and clear timeframes for spending.

Leadership and Management

• Take responsibility for the overall implementation of specific donor funded humanitarian responses, with an emphasis on ensuring the timely and high-quality achievement of project goals.
• Manage, coordinate and monitor activities on an ongoing basis, ensuring timely implementation and compliance with project deadlines
• Oversee all financial management, logistics and administrative tasks for the project
• Work with Trócaire’s Finance staff to monitor expenditure against the budget and ensure that any necessary corrective actions are taken in a timely manner
• Ensure that Trócaire and donor finance guidelines and administrative procedures are adhered to, and that grant finances are kept in an exemplary state jointly with the HPM, the Business Development and Grants Manager and the Programme Accountant
• Line manage at least one Humanitarian staff colleague, and coordinate closely with other relevant staff for the effective delivery of project objectives.
• Organise and facilitate project visits, including head office and/or donor visits, as necessary and ensure that Trocaire’s work in professionally and widely disseminated.
• Ensure close coordination and communication with the Humanitarian Programme Manager, the BDGM and the Programme Accountant on project progress and compliance issues.
• Consolidate and strengthen relationships with Trócaire’s other key stakeholders, including CRS, other international organisations, UN agencies and other stakeholders
• Represent Trócaire at Cluster and other in-country coordination.

• Coordinate closely with the HPM on strategic humanitarian operational and technical issues in the implementation of the strategy.
• Maintain an up to date understanding of the humanitarian situation in Somalia and ensure that country programme teams have access to relevant, up to date information.
• Ensure the HPM is provided with strategic and relevant information and knowledge to facilitate timely and accountable decision-making in relation to operational/technical dimensions of the response.
• Facilitate and participate in coordination mechanisms and networks, in order to guide project work.
• With the support of the BDGM, ensure that the donor reporting requirements are met in a timely manner
• With support from Trócaire’s Mamp;E Coordinator, ensure that effective monitoring and evaluation (Mamp;E) systems including the use o

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