Resilience Programme Manager at Trocaire

Key responsibilities:

Programme Development and Management: 

• Manage and deepen the current portfolio of work on climate change and resilience programming that responds to the local context and contributes to a clear strategic country vision and theory of change in line with Trócaire’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025 and the Somalia Country Strategic Plan.
• Ensure that Trócaire in Somalia has a clearly identified climate change niche and that our added value contributes to our partners’ work.
• Ensure the community elders and leaders participate in and are aware of all initiatives related to programme design and implementation.
• Work in close co-ordination with the Head of Programmes (HOP) to ensure strategic coherence across programmes, MEAL, business development and partner capacity strengthening. 
• Ensure that different thematic areas of work are mutually reinforcing and contribute collectively to the achievement of country-level outcomes in view of an integrated programming approach and to ensure strong linkages between our humanitarian work, resilience/climate change work and our large health and nutrition programme.
• Ensure safeguarding and accountability are considered in programming.
• Ensure that the resilience programme promotes policy and advocacy work, research and innovation.
• Ensure that all programme effectively mainstreams gender and protection throughout the programme cycle.
• Identify learning priorities within the programme and facilitate the sharing of this learning with partners, across programmes, and externally as appropriate.
• Ensure regular communication with the Business Development and Grants Manager (BDGM) in country to identify new funding opportunities and guarantee the programme meets the requirements of back donors and that relevant support is given to Programme staff as needed to meet these requirements.

Specific to Programme Design:

• Provide technical leadership and ensure that the programme is designed, implemented, monitored and evaluated within the Trócaire Programme Management and Accountability Framework (PMAG).
• Undertake analysis (contextual/poverty/ power etc.) that informs appropriate programme strategies, location and target population.
• Ensure that team members have access to technical support required to carry out programme baselines and evaluations. This includes supporting the process of identifying appropriate consultants and other technical support, where necessary, and providing guidance to the MEAL team.
• Ensure that HQ-based Programme Teams are aware of and engaged in the programme design process in order to create synergies across country programmes.
• Specific to Programme Implementation and Monitoring:
• Ensure that the programme is being implemented within a clear engendered monitoring and evaluation framework that includes regular monitoring, supported by technical advice from the MEAL Coordinator.
• Through a regular programme review process with key colleagues, ensure that the programme is on track and challenges are dealt with.
• Assist is the delivery of high quality Annual Programme Reviews and donor reports that provide clear evidence of progress (or lack of) on an annual basis and that can be used for programme management, and ongoing learning and adaptation, as well as to highlight case studies for communication and advocacy.

Specific to Programme Evaluation:

• Ensure that the resilience programme is evaluated according to Trócaire’s evaluation policy and that learning from evaluations is incorporated into new programme design.
• Support the Deputy Country Director in establishing evaluation methodologies that foster internalisation of learning, and where possible promote elements of peer review and evaluation including with Partners. 
• Together with Programme staff, identify and encourage participation at relevant thematic working groups, cluster groups, networks and learning forums at regional, national (and possibly international) level in order to improve programme and advocacy impact.
• Human Resource Management
• Implement an effective performance management system for line managed stasff in line with organisational policy.
• Support, mentor and coach the team members as part of their professional development and to help them to be highly effective in their work.
• Ensure close coordination of finance staff with Programme Accountants and he Business Development and Grants Manager on all aspects of financial management and grants management.
• Establish a team approach to programming and partner capacity buildng, ensuring that programme staff work together to share learning and to exchange skills.
• Ensure regular team meetings for information exchange and strategic discussions as well as to facilitate rolling out of organisational programme processes and policies within the country team.
• Ensure that all programme staff complete an induction process that equips them to confidently and effectively deliver on their role.
• Financial and Admin Management
• Organise and maintain quarterly team meetings together with the finance and programme staff to have oversight of programme budgets and to review and monitor expenditure in close coordination with the Programme Accountant, FAM and the BDGM 
• Ensure regular visits by finance or programme staff to all programme partners to review systems and financial management and to provide support to partners in line with Trócaire’s Partner Governance and Finance Policy.
• Jointly with the BDGM ensure that finance/programme staff are familiar with internal, and where relevant external (e.g. back donor), financial management guidelines and policies, including fraud policies, and that these are adhered to.
• Support the CD, DCD and BDCM in identifying possible funding opportunities.
• Partner Relationships and Support
• Ensure that the Partnership Policy guides Trócaire’s engagement with partners in Somalia and that Programme staff are familiar with and implement the policy.
• Develop a Partner Capacity Building Programme with and for all partners in Somalia. This should be developed using the Trócaire Partner Capacity Building Framework and should have a corresponding monitoring and review element for each partner.
• Provide the necessary support to Programme Staff to ensure that all necessary capacity assessments are carried out and analysed prior to entering into any new partnerships.
• Provide leadership in the engagement with District Health Boards and other elders that ensures community ownership of Trocaire’s Programme and adequate access for all Trocaire’s programme work in Gedo.
• Policy, Advocacy and Communications
• Support programme staff to embed advocacy within programme strategies, and oversee country level advocacy initiatives led by Trócaire which complements desired outcomes of programme strategies.
• Support the team to ensure Trócaire communications channels (online, offline) are being used to promote/highlight Trócaire Somalia’s work in the area of Climate Change.
• Support the CD and Programme staff to respond to organisational needs for materials, or to host visits, related to organisational campaigns, fundraising and communications.
• Risk Management
• Take responsibility for Risk Management at a programme level, ensuring that Programme staff have the capacity to analyse and respond to risk at project and programme levels and that programme level risks are captured and managed as part of a country risk management strategy.
• As part of the SMT, support risk and security management.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• Represent Trócaire at relevant external fora.
• Provide the necessary support to Programme Staff to ensure that all necessary capacity assessments are carried out and analysed prior to entering into any new partnerships.
• Provide leadership in the engagement with District Health Boards and other elders that ensures community ownership of Trocaire’s Programme and adequate access for all Trocaire’s programme work in Gedo.
• Policy, Advocacy and Communications
• Support programme staff to embed advocacy within programme strategies, and oversee country level advocacy initiatives led by Trócaire which complements desired outcomes of programme strategies.
• Support the team to ensure Trócaire communications channels (online, offline) are being used to promote/highlight Trócaire Somalia’s work in the area of Climate Change.
• Support the CD and Programme staff to respond to organisational needs for materials, or to host visits, related to organisational campaigns, fundraising and communications.
• Risk Management
• Take responsibility for Risk Management at a programme level, ensuring that Programme staff have the capacity to analyse and respond to risk at project and programme levels and that programme level risks are captured and managed as part of a country risk management strategy.
• As part of the SMT, support risk and security management.
• Other Duties and Responsibilities
• Represent Trócaire at relevant external fora.

Essential Requirements

Qualifications:

• Third level qualification in Development, Humanitarian, or related field of study.
• Masters, or other post-graduate qualification in a relevant area, or significant progrmamme management experience beyond that outlined below. 

Experience:

• Minimum of three years experience in a similar management role.

Skills:

• Excellent leadership skills. Provides a clear sense of direction and purpose for the team.
• Proactively deals with and addresses conflict and disagreement to achieve a satisfactory resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and to develop and implement a clear resilience programme strategy aligned to the country and organisational strategy.
• Ability to present information and decisions related to Trócaire’s work and performance in a transparent and effective manner.