Consortium Coordinator 

Specific Objectives:

Objective 1: Ensure good governance, animation, and coordination of the project implementation in Sierra Leone.

The Consortium Coordinator is responsible for:

• Ensure compliance with the project’s operational governance specifications, ensuring a balanced and inclusive representation of all stakeholders and guaranteeing a localized partnership approach and governance;
• Define and lead a framework for operational functioning, steering, and governance between implementing partners – according to the defined program vision;
• Coordinate and facilitate information sharing between stakeholders (partners, authorities, beneficiaries, teams);
• Coordination and facilitation of communication between implementing partners to ensure harmonized and coordinated management of activities;
• Create a collective team dynamic and a sense of belonging to the NUCAMPS project;
• The understanding and ownership of the project and its context of intervention by the implementation teams;
• The integration and cooperation of all project components in the overall implementation strategy for NUCAMPS;
• Participation in the national strategy by reporting on issues and good practices in its area of intervention;
• Take into account the recommendations made by technical experts (Pool office and country office) in connection with the NUCAMPS project.
• Prepare and lead operational and district steering committees;
• The promotion of local partnerships (civil society, NGOs, authorities, technical state partners, private sector) and strengthening their capacities;
• The implementation of the project’s partnership approach (building balanced partnerships, its monitoring and regular evaluation);
• Being the focal point for the preparation of missions by project stakeholders and liaise with the team and implementing organizations.

Objective 2: Support the implementation and ensure reporting of the project.

The Consortium Coordinator is responsible for:

• • Planning and monitoring the national implementation of the project activities, its evaluation and its internal and external accountability – by putting in place the necessary mechanisms for project planning and management (meetings, tools, etc.);
  • The implementation of the territorial approach of the project and the good coordination and integration between and within the project components;
  • The contribution of the Country Implementation Unit and related organizations to programming exercises initiated by the head office: capitalization, evaluations, cross-border workshops, etc.;
  • Feedback of information, bottlenecks, and issues in its area of intervention to the country implementing organizations and the regional office; 
  • Validation of key milestones and implementation methodologies, in coordination with the implementing partners;
• Timely consolidation, review, and validation of internal (quantitative/narrative) and donor reports, as well as project adjustments with the contribution of the implementing teams and NGOs;

• The consideration of cross-cutting themes, particularly gender, throughout the process of project implementation;
• In liaison with the Consortium MEAL Specialist, ensure the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation framework: monitoring of activities (collection, centralization, feedback, and verification of data), measurement of results (baseline surveys) and impacts, iterative evaluations, etc. ;
• More specifically, the implementation and budgetary monitoring of activities under its direct responsibility in relation to the teams of the component concerned.

Objective 3: Ensuring Quality and Accountability of the Project

The Consortium Coordinator is responsible for:

• Undertake field missions/visits to assess the conditions of implementation of activities;
• The technical compliance of the project with the international technical rules, guidelines, and standards defined jointly by the country office and regional office experts;
• Encourage the overall quality of project implementation in order to maximize impact, in particular by supporting the deployment of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) within the project with partners;
• Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle;
• Reporting to the DCD-P and PMU any major difficulties encountered in implementing the recommendations and/or the necessary adaptation measures.
• Ensuring, with the support of relevant staff and partners, that functional and accessible complaints and response mechanisms are in place and that feedback and complaints are well received and addressed;
• With the support of the Consortium MEAL Manager, create favorable conditions to ensure the implementation of the continuous capitalization and learning process within the project (exchanges, lessons learned, management of the knowledge produced), under the guidance of the head office.

Objective 4: Communication, advocacy, representation, and external coordination

The Consortium Coordinator is responsible for:

• Ensure the timely development and operationalization of the project’s advocacy and communication strategy, with the support of the regional office, and in consultation with the implementing organizations;
• Coordinate the collection of information and testimonies at the country/district level to feed national advocacy and communication; 
• Ensure communication with project stakeholders in coordination with the implementing organizations and according to the defined operating framework;
• Ensure representation of the project (directly or via implementing organizations) at relevant public events/activities and coordination forums and report back to relevant organizations on key decisions and outcomes;
• To ensure the continuous mapping of key actors within the scope of the project (geographical and thematic) and to promote the coordination/complementarity of the project with other actors as well as experience sharing;
• Promote territorial consultation frameworks, with the support of the Field Coordinators and Thematic Specialists, and according to the intervention context;
• Develop and maintain a network of good external relations with local and traditional authorities, sectorial ministries at District level (and National level if relevant);
• Identify and propose operational, academic, institutional or private partnerships to implementing organizations.

Objective 5: Human resources, training and capacity building  

The Consortium Coordinator is responsible for:

• Participate in the recruitment and integration of project staff, in consultation with the implementing organizations;
• Plan, with line managers, the induction and briefing of new project staff;
• Manage staff under direct supervision within the Consortium Coordination Unit to create an enabling environment for the effective implementation of project activities.
• Ensure operational supervision of the project’s senior staff and contribute to their evaluation and action plan – in consultation with the implementing organizations;
• Contribute to the overall design of a capacity building plan for the staff involved in the project in consultation with the implementing organizations;
• The efficient composition of the Human Resources of the project implementation unit;
• Encourage gender mainstreaming during all recruitment processes for partner staff and during project implementation.

WORK CONDITIONS

STARTING DATE: 15TH February 2025 

REPORTING TO:  Deputy Country Director – Program

 DURATION OF CONTRACT: Twelve(12) Months (Renewable) 

LOCATION: Bonthe-Matrue Jong with, possible travels to  other field areas  

HOW TO APPLY:

 Send Motivation Letter, CV saved in your name – for example (Joe Blue CV) for your CV, and (Joe Blue Motivation Letter) for your motivation letter, with names of three (3) referees by EMAIL, under the Subject “Field Coordinator” to  

recruitment@sl-actionagainsthunger.org

Deadline for the receipt of applications is Sunday, 19 January 2025.

Due to the urgency of this position, applications may be sorted on a rolling basis.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for a written test and oral interview.

Please state the position applied for on the subject line of your email.

Action Against Hunger is committed to Safeguarding Policy and safer recruitment.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply