Somalia: Field Project Manager

Reporting to the Country Coordinator the post holder will support the delivery of a UK-funded project to promote dialogue aimed and addressing gender based violence in South Central Somalia including providing technical support to partners, coordination of activities, research and data collection, liaison with local and regional authorities, accompaniment of activities across South Central Somalia and providing financial and monitoring & evaluation support to the country program. He / She will ensure that International Alert’s network among other NGOs and donors is established and maintained.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Ensure effective project implementation**

· Lead the design, planning, execution and monitoring of project activities

· Develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation plan

· Line-manage project officers and supervise consultants, including recruitment, work planning and performance management

· Develop an effective working relationship with the project team based on a clear understanding of respective roles, as well as a collaborative approach

· Monitor and continuously assess the operating context and the project activities, and recommend changes in approach accordingly

· Conduct relevant contextual needs assessments in line with International Alert’s pathways, to support the development of coherent and viable follow up projects.

· Coordinate activities between two regions of work in South Central Somalia

· Provide narrative progress reports as requested

· Ensure compliance with Alert operational policies and with local laws

2. Establish and operate appropriate systems and procedures for the good management of the project resources

· Develop spending projections and budgets

· Monitor expenditure against budgets

· Authorise project expenses based on project plans

· Design proposal budgets based on the context and general programming needs and priorities

· Ensure that grant audits and evaluations are organised in a timely fashion and that timely and accurate financial reports are submitted to the donor

· Provide timely and accurate financial data for purposes of planning, reporting and audit

· Ensure compliance with security policies and help update as necessary

· Monitor the context for security threats to inform implementation plans and ensure safety of project staff, partners mad beneficiaries

3. Manage the project’s relationship with local partners

· With support from other team members, ensure a regular and adequate representation of International Alert in all relevant coordination bodies meetings (GBV working group Somalia, Somalia NGO consortia, INSO etc.)

· In coordination with other programme staff, raise awareness of the programme among the international community and help to implement International Alert’s pathways.

· Maintain good relations with International Alert’s partner organisations and communities, and develop relations with other relevant actors within the sector including donor governments

· Involve partners in planning activities

· Monitor partners’ work against agreed work-plans; identify any problem areas or support needs

· Oversee partner assessments (including financial assessments)

· Identify partner training and support needs

4.Contribute to Africa Programme (AP) and wider organizational goals and objectives

· Proactively participate in and contribute to AP activities and events including regional meetings, plans and report and ensure that linkages are created and maintained between Somalia and other AP work

· Contribute to advocacy initiatives of the AP and Alert as required

· Determine and agree on the need for and timing of technical assistance from within the AP and the wider organisation, and fully support visits by Alert colleagues

· Contribute to team-wide communications and knowledge management, and participate in organisation-wide events and discussions on related topics/projects

· Ensure documentation of activities and examples of impact

Travel requirements

This position is based in Mogadishu, with occasional travel to other regions of Somalia and to Nairobi, Kenya.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential requirements

Talents

At Alert, we have introduced Talent Management to our business model as we believe talented people are crucial to the success of our work. We believe all individuals are talented and success comes in matching the right talents to the right roles. For this role, the skills, qualifications and experience listed below are important, but we believe that to be successful in this job you will have the following talent: You will be flexible and able to maintain a positive attitude to work even when under stress. You will have a ‘can-do’, solution-oriented, customer-focused attitude with excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written). You will be well organised and with a good attention for detail, able to lead a team to operate efficiently and at improved professional standards.

University degree in relevant subject

At least 5 years of experience of working in South-Central Somalia

At least 3years of NGO project management including responsibility for project design, staffing, admin/finance issues, contract management and donor relations

Experience of financial management gained in an (I)NGO or a business

Excellent working knowledge (spoken, written and read) of English

Ability to work in a non-partisan manner, sensitivity to ethnic and cultural differences

Experience of working in complex and politically-sensitive contexts, and excellent political judgement

Capacity to interpret trends and events impacting on the programme

Experience of and willingness to travel to different parts of Somalia

Report-writing and editing skills

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS

Post-graduate degree in a relevant subject

Proven track record of successful project design and fundraising

Experience of leading peacebuilding-related programmes, and familiarity with conflict-sensitive approaches to development

Familiarity with gender and development concepts, and experience of implementing gender-sensitive programmes

Experience of networking and advocacy in Somalia

To apply, please send a completed application form and equal opportunities form tokenya@international-alert.org, both of which can be found onwww.international-alert.org**/jobs** under ‘Downloads’.

Please specify which role you are applying for in the email subject line. The Job Description for this position can be found onwww.international-alert.org**/jobs**

Please note we do not accept CVs.

All job applicants must already have the right to work in Somalia.

Closing date: 22^nd May at 5pm EA time

Alertreserves the right to extend or close this position depending on application numbers.