Consortium Manager Sudan (Based in Nairobi) at Norwegian Refugee Council

What you will do:

Some of your generic responsibilities include:

• Provide overall direction and leadership of the Consortium to ensure seamless operations, leveraging complementarity among partners
• Coordinate with consortium members to ensure high quality implementation of activities, compliance with donor and consortium rules, and accountability to beneficiaries.
• Oversee day-to-day management of the project, including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and budget spending, ensuring project is always on scope and schedule
• Represent the Consortium towards relevant stakeholders, including national authorities, donors and counterparts, promoting the best interests of Consortium partners
• Line Manage and supervise the work of the Consortium Management Unit; carry out any needed recruitments, including for consultants
• Lead the consultations, design and preparation of the next phase of the Consortium based on evidenced needs, donor expectations and drawing from partners’ diverse expertise
• Contribute to fundraising initiatives to diversify the Consortium’s portfolio, actively seeking new relationships with donors and developing funding proposals
• Oversee and monitor the consortium partners ‘spending including the management of the consortium management unit budget 
• Ensure effective coordination and communication among consortium members, steering and technical committees, programmatic and finance/support teams across partners.

Some of your specific responsibilities include:

• Support decision-making processes within the Consortium by promoting productive discussions where partners reach agreements in line with the Consortium’s strategic objectives 
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, donor’s strategy, requirements and expectations and guarantee donor reports and other Consortium products are developed in time and with quality
• Ensure the project adapts to changes in the context and donor requests as relevant, integrating lessons learned to better respond to beneficiary needs
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure that consortium interventions are complementary to national response mechanisms and to the interventions of other actors present in target areas.
• Facilitate the development and implementation of the Consortium´s communications and advocacy strategy 
• Cultivate and strengthen positive, productive relationships with all stakeholders and guarantee the Consortium’s participation in relevant coordination forums at the various administrative levels. 
• Develop project proposals in collaboration with relevant consortium member staff and coordinate input for reporting to donors.
• Responsible for quality control of donor applications and reports, for content and timeliness.
• Responsible for full grants and proposals management;
• 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;
• Lead and/or facilitate consortium committees meetings as per the consortium governance which includes steering committee, programme committee, technical working groups, etc.

What you will bring:

• Minimum BA in relevant areas preferably. 
• Minimum 5 years of humanitarian experience across multiple context with at least 2 years’ experience of youth programmes. 
• The candidate must have expetience managing Consortia. 
• At least 3 years project management experience of managing multi-million (EURO) projects.
• Experience in consortium management or extensive involvement in a consortium, with a multi-year duration.
• Experience developing training tools, manuals, information management systems for humanitarian action and accountability to affected people.
• Self-motivated and confident communicator, with experience in giving briefings and presentations. 
• Strong inter-personal skills, working well both in teams and independently.
• Able to work under pressure and good at timely decision making.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Preferred experience or knowledge of Sudan context.
• Previous experience or strong knowledge of Sudan.