Vacancies at Danish Refugee Council

The overall purpose of the role:

Reporting directly to the Regional Advocacy and Communications Manager, the Regional Communications Specialist is part of the Regional Advocacy and Communications Unit and will be responsible for pushing forward the implementation of DRC EAGL’s communication strategy and further develop DRC’s communications work.

The Regional Communications Specialist will be responsible for leading on and supporting the design and delivery of external and internal communications products for DRC EAGL and supporting country offices in the region in their communications work.  This will include the development of a range of products to reach identified targets including (but not limited to) the donor community, public in donor countries, public in the region, decision-makers in the region and globally, and staff across the organisation. 

Responsibilities

Strategic communications and development of communications products

• Collect case study stories, photos, and videos from DRC programmes across the EAGL region as part of regional communications initiatives and to support country programmes where necessary, including through regular visits to DRC operations.  Ensure that approaches to informed consent and ‘do no harm’ approaches to communications are followed.
• Ensure that the Regional Communication Strategy is developed, reviewed, updated, and monitored as necessary, and aligns with relevant global and regional strategies.
• Design factsheets and regional programme profiles in support of advocacy, business development, and external representation engagements.
• Support the Business Development Coordinator in the design of outward-facing products, including concept notes and proposals, ensuring they all adhere to branding guidelines.
• Commission consultants where necessary to provide technical expertise or additional capacity on regional communications initiatives and manage the consultancy contracts.
• Adapt content to be shared across multiple different styles of external communication e.g. long-form blog posts and short-form social media channels
• Lead and otherwise contribute to the development of communications standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Monitor how communications products are engaged with and utilise feedback to adapt future communications initiatives.
• Ensure that visibility requirements linked to regional products are met; where regional projects involve working with partner organisations, ensure that partners are equitably included in design and delivery of communications strategies and work; and are promoted equally alongside DRC.
• Ensure there is appropriate age and gender awareness and considerations in all DRC EAGL communications.
• Ensure that DRC brand guidelines are followed across all DRC EAGL communications, including ensuring all country programmes are familiar with and following brand guidelines.
• Build solid relationships with the media and handle media requests.
• Regularly update DRC intranet with content from DRC EAGL.

Support to country programmes.

• Regularly engage with communications leads in DRC country programmes across the EGAL region to provide ad-hoc support, support in the development of communications strategies, and identify training needs. 
• Support country programmes in providing communications capacity strengthening to national and local organisations and ensuring that communications strategies are co-designed equitably with partner organisations.
• Ensure that country programmes are effectively utilising funds for visibility contained with programme grants, ensuring they are put to strategic use in support of communications objectives.
• Ensure that all DRC sign-off procedures are followed.
• Where necessary and requested, provide additional support to country offices during significant communications moments e.g. the organization of public events

About you

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Experience and technical competencies:

• A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience in communication, journalism, project or programme management, campaign management and advocacy within INGO or NGO sector
• Bachelor’s degree in communication, Journalism, Public Relations and Advocacy ; Master’s degree in communication, public relations, journalism (print, broadcast, media) or social sciences (human rights, gender/women's studies, international development) or a related field would be an added advantage.
• Relevant experience of delivering a range of communications products, including physical and online content. Desirable experience working in the aid sector.
• Demonstrated Experience in generating content and storytelling with an understanding of the protection risks and ‘do no harm’ approaches and ability to capture programmes impact through photography and video and share via relevant platforms.
• Have experience and hands on knowledge on planning and designing of communication activities and communication media (print or electronic or social media).
• Excellent oral, written and copyediting skills and demonstrated ability to write and develop strong communication and advocacy materials.
• Experience in photography and handing a professional camera and accessories.
• A great storyteller and content creator with the
• Expertise on computers, graphics designing and MS Office software packages, and English composing and typing skill in computer.
• Full proficiency in spoken and written English. French is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel to all project locations.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign).

Behavioural competencies:

• A passion for communications and humanitarian outcomes.
• Good attention to detail.
• High level analytical and strategic thinking skills.
• Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people.
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure.
• Excellent planning, management, and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills, with experience in coordinating multicultural teams.
• Commitment to Danish Refugee Council values.

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Overall purpose of the role

Based in Nairobi with regular travel to field locations and reporting to the Chief of Party, the Project Officer will be responsible for providing project and operational support to the BORESHA-NABAD consortium, led by DRC. The selected candidate will be responsible for coordinating field operation needs, filing, recording minutes of meetings, organizing meetings/workshops, organizing field travel, and liaising with consortium agency field teams to ensure timely support to operational locations. The Project Officer will also help with the coordination of high-level visits to the project, tracking partner reports by following up various actions, and disseminating information to PMU and consortium staff.  The incumbent will work closely with PMU and consortium staff to coordinate tasks and support project delivery.

Responsibilities:

Consortium and Team Support

• Ensure timely and accurate execution of the day-to-day project requirements by ensuring project master work plans are followed, handling information requests and inquiries, advising visitors, scheduling meetings, and support on completing project documentation, among other related tasks.
• Support the COP in coordinating activities including trainings, kick-off and program review meetings, field visits, and internally and externally organized workshops. This role will also include taking meeting notes for those meetings/workshops attended, preparation of materials for programmatic meetings, and compilation and distribution of meeting minutes and relevant information.
• Communicate with implementing partners as advised by the COP on thematic tasks.
• Organize and coordinate visits by donors, government authorities, country team members or headquarter staff.
• Liaise regularly with staff in other departments, field offices, consultants, partners, and other external contacts to ensure effective information flow and timely actions.
• Maintain an effective filing system to include key correspondence, organization/project reports, financial information, and other relevant documents.
• Responsible for day-to-day project correspondence, information sharing and filing, ensuring that appropriate follow-up actions are taken for on behalf of the COP.
• Maintain records and track the status of action points arising from Project Steering Committee, Technical Working Group and other BORESHA-NABAD meetings. 
• Ensure compliance with financial processes and financial records according to DRC and donor rules, regulations, policies, and strategies.

Programme Implementation Support

• Support project implementation processes as directed by the COP . With support from the M&E Coordinator, Finance Coordinator, Partnership Coordinator and other PMU and consortium member staff, play a focal role in the coordination of deliverables including work plans, budgets, office space, staffing etc. are in place for project start-up activities.
• Collection, analysis, and presentation of information for identification of areas for support and program formulation/ implementation
• Develop talking points, background, and briefing materials for meetings, publicity, and advocacy in collaboration with the communications staff of DRC and other consortium members.
• Develop monthly activity implementation tracking tools and ensure that all key program documentation is filed and easily accessible and retrievable.
• Monitor and check project management reports for compliance with activities, expenditures, and work plans.

• With support from DRC Administrative Unit, make logistical arrangements for programme staff and guests, flight bookings and accommodation.

About you

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Experience and technical competencies:

• Minimum 2 years of relevant program and/or administrative experience is required.
• Excellent knowledge of Project Management and Support is required.
• Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
• Ability to perform a variety of standard tasks related to programs management, including screening, and collecting of project documentation, project data entering, preparation of revisions, filing, provision of information.
• Flexible, with ability to work handle multiple tasks and meet strict deadlines.
• Strong planning, organization, and problem-solving skills with ability to work hands-on, independently, and within team in a difficult work environment.
• Excellent report writing skills in English.
• Strong communication (written & spoken) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively with staff from diverse cultures.

Education

A University Degree in Social Sciences or any other related degree

Language

Fluent in spoken and written English and Kiswahili.

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Overall purpose of the role

The BORESHA-NABAD Programme is looking for an experienced Inclusive Market Systems Coordinator who will provide targeted and high-quality strategic guidance, capacity strengthening and technical leadership to the Program’s consortium team with the aim of promoting and reinforcing the program’s and its local partners’ leadership and expertise in building self-reliance and resilience for conflict-, climate- and displacement-affected populations in the Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia Border areas. In particular, s/he will be working in environments where interventions may need to continue to address immediate needs whilst working towards and/or protecting development gains.

Due to the complexity of cross-border programming, the Coordinator will need to be able to adapt to working creatively within thin, nascent and distorted markets systems. They will seek to promote the use of holistic intervention strategies utilizing a combination of market-based programming and market systems development interventions in parallel to navigate the nexus challenges of working in such fragile contexts.

This role will be on the frontier of driving MSA within BORESHA-NABAD Consortium in all the program target locations and the candidate must be comfortable with working through this transition and adapting, as required, to navigate organizational constraints whilst attempting to showcase the potential of new ways of working

Responsibilities:

Technical Design, Strategy and partnership

• Provide technical advice and quality assurance to the BORESHA-NABAD Consortium team on application of Market Systems Approaches methodology and principles across the programme lifecycle including activity design, sector selection, market systems analysis, intervention design and planning (sequencing, layering, integrating), partner identification and engagement strategy, facilitation, MEAL using theories of change and results chains, and adaptive management techniques.
• Collaborate closely with other technical leads within DRC offices as well as counterparts across the EAGL region (notably Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding, Protection, Climate Change / Environment, etc.) to explore options and maximise opportunities for integrated programming.
• Provide technical knowledge / expertise in at least some of the following thematic domain areas:
  • System vulnerability analysis or PCMA and system resilience (particularly being able to respond to displacement needs or mitigate risk of displacement due to climatic events and/or conflict)
  • Use of CVA in emergency response and preparedness (as crisis modifier)
  • People-centred or human-centred design to systems
  • Self-reliance programming for the forcibly displaced
  • Financial inclusion: expansion of access to savings, loans and insurance beyond VSLAs to include banks, insurance companies and other FSPs who can spread and deepen financial inclusion beyond the scope of donor funded interventions.
  • Agro-pastoral livelihoods: improvement and diversification of agro-pastoral livelihoods in the context of adaptation to climate change and the need to build long term resilience.
  • Livestock value chain development: support to pastoralists to improve long term productivity and income from livestock through adaptation and switching to alternative livestock value chains.
  • Business development and SME start up / expansion: growth of grassroot businesses through access to financial services and linkages to private sector companies and investors.
  • Youth and women’s economic empowerment: supporting youth and women to acquire new skills and opportunities to generate independent income, particularly in displacement contexts and with an urban focus.
• Advise on opportunities and risks with respect to achieving programme outcomes through local actors engagement strategies e.g. direct delivery vs. partnership vs. facilitation in line with DRC and donor regulations.
• ToR development and line management of technical consultancies and service providers for delivery of livelihoods and financial access project components for the Programme, in compliance with DRC  and donor regulations.
• Exploration and development of new partnerships with local NGOs, private sector service providers and research organizations that can add value to the programme’s portfolio of existing and planned activities in the inclusive markets sector.

Capacity Strengthening of DRC staff and local partners

• Identify technical and/or programmatic gaps and provide training, mentoring and capacity building as required, and specifically for the programme staff on the front line of programme delivery.
• Build capacity of partners and relevant programme staff (including DRC Country Office support services staff) on their role in facilitating the application of MSA in programming to design advanced and modern marked-based program models for livelihoods, financial inclusion and food security interventions. This will include providing support / capacity building on:
  • appropriate proposal design,
  • sector selection and participatory market systems analysis (appropriately selected for Response Framework e.g. EMMA for emergency response vs in-depth market systems analysis for durable solutions vs PCMA for crisis preparedness and resilience building / informing EPRPs)
  • modality due diligence and selection, intervention co-design and planning (sequencing, layering, integrating) 
  • local actor identification and engagement strategy,
  • partnership and facilitation tactics
  • MEAL using theories of change and results chains, and
  • adaptive management techniques

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Design and monitor economic recovery and livelihoods interventions for BORESHA-NABAD, particularly including indicators for MSD and ways of measuring and tracking system level changes that are relevant for progarmme’s target communities.
• Technical monitoring of BORESHA-NABAD and partner project implementation and hands on guidance about how to adapt their programming to the changing context and emerging risks and opportunities.
• Ensure learning is captured and disseminated effectively across the programme teams, both successes and failures and feedback from beneficiaries and other key stakeholders
• Quality assurance & compliance: follow up and report on the implementation of project level M&E commitments as well as compliance with BORESHA-NABAD minimum standards for Economic Recovery programming.
• Support organisational risk management related to MSA and for core Economic Recovery activities.

About you

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Experience and technical competencies:

Professional technical experience evidencing and demonstrating ability to deliver against the above-mentioned responsibilities:

• Minimum of 8 years international or regional field experience with well recognized humanitarian and/or development organisations, and demonstrable experience working on Economic Recovery programming in contexts of complex and nascent market systems.
• Previous experience in non-humanitarian or development role using similar technical expertise welcomed to support innovation in DRC.
• Experience and demonstrated expertise in market systems programming in fragile contexts with evidence of conducting market systems analysis
• Strong knowledge of livelihoods programming (including urban livelihoods, SME start-up and scale-up, and modern agriculture/livestock-based livelihoods) and/or proven ability to apply MSA methodology from other sectors e.g. WASH, Shelter, Energy to livelihoods programming using a market systems approach
• Relevant practitioner knowledge of and experience with financial inclusion and at least three of the other specific areas of focus listed above.
• Familiarity applying facilitation techniques and innovative business/financing models to local actor engagement
• Experience of working in Kenya and the wider Horn of Africa, and strong knowledge of livelihoods zones across the region.
• Experience delivering targeted and high-quality technical training and capacity building, including in remote management settings.
• Substantial experience in both a technical advisory role and with hands-on programme management and implementation across the project/programme cycle.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to determine priorities and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and coordination skills, including working with different groups, partners and nationalities.

Education

• Bachelors in Social Sciences, Economics, Development Studies or other relevant field

Language

• English (fluent)
• Swahili or Somali (desirable)

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Overall purpose of the role

Reporting directly to the Regional Advocacy and Communications Manager, the Executive Support Specialist is part of the Regional Advocacy and Communications Unit and will provide high-level support to the Executive Director, Senior Management Team and Senior Leadership Team.

Responsibilities

Administrative Support to Executive Director

• Proactively manage the Executive Director’s calendar, prioritizing and scheduling appointments with key partners (Donors, Local Partners, Board Directors, etc). meetings, and travel arrangements to optimize the Executive Director time, ensuring a strategic allocation of resources to high-impact activities.
• In collaboration with the Regional Advocacy and Communications Manager, prepare thorough briefing materials, agendas, talking points and minutes for executive meetings to ensure seamless facilitation, information flow and decision-making.
• In collaboration with the Regional Advocacy and Communications Manager, support Country Offices ahead of the Executive Director’s visits, ensuring the development of a detailed and relevant agenda with clear advocacy and engagement goals.
• Attend to and monitor urgent enquiries and issues, ensuring that they are brought to the Executive Director’s attention and, where relevant, referring matters on to appropriate staff for response.
• Maintain an effective and confidential filing system for the Executive Director including preparing replies to routine and basic correspondence on behalf of the Executive Director.
• Develop & maintain the Executive Director’s contact database for relevant donors, partners and other stakeholders.
• Screens documents for approval of the Executive Director, and certifies they are completed with compliance before presenting them for approval in ensuring that the process went through the right channels and financial verification are in place.
• Be an informed key contact for the Executive Director Office and handle internal and external enquiries in a professional manner liaising with key contacts across DRC (HQ, RO, CO) and other networks
• Coordinate complex domestic and international travel arrangements, accommodations, and itineraries to optimize the Executive Director travel, minimizing disruptions and ensuring efficient use of time.

Coordination of Regional Office Events / Meetings/ Visits

• Take a lead role in organizing regional meetings and events involving the Executive Director, in liaison with other departments.
• Take full responsibility for scheduling timings and venues, communicating arrangements to participants and coordinating with Administration and Supply Chain team to organize transport, booking facilities, and hiring service providers as required. Develop the agenda and materials as needed in collaboration with the Senior Management Team and ensure action plans are tracked, followed-up on and reported back to the following meetings.
• In consultation with the Executive Director, develop and maintain a regional annual events calendar and disseminate it to RO staff and Country teams.
• Coordinate high level field visits and accompany visitors as necessary to field visits. Prepare visitors itineraries and send required pre-arrival information, arrange logistics and assist visitors in their visit schedule as required.

Senior Management Team Operation Support

• Maintaining and ensuring that key EAGL Regional office information (organogram, sitreps, maps, etc.) is accurate, in a format to share with external partners, board members and also accessible on SharePoint for DRC EAGL staff.
• Support SMT meetings through agenda setting, detailed note taking, pro-actively ensuring that requisite actions are taken, ensuring that key decisions and action points are captured, following up with relevant focal points when necessary. Ensure that meetings notes are circulated after and ahead of meetings.
• Provide specialized project management support to specific and/or defined programmes to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established by Senior management Team.
• Maintain an efficient filing system for the Senior Management Team and Senior Leadership Team, ensuring that relevant documents, including action points, are easily available and centralized in one location.
• Assists with the collection and analysis of data as well as preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing, responding to queries, knowledge management, planning and decision making.
• Organizes Senior Management Team meetings and conference calls/videoconferences, including the preparation and distribution of documents and providing the necessary technical devices.
• Develop, maintain and track internal systems and procedures to ensure strong work flow and sustainable processes within Senior Management Team, including ensuring central access to key documents .
• Provide relevant information and data to assist the SMT in making informed decisions. This may involve data collection, research, and report preparation.
• Contribute to coordinating specific projects or strategic initiatives, ensuring that deadlines are met, and objectives are achieved.
• Help with special administrative projects as assigned. This may include data gathering, fact-checking, record keeping, convening partners or staff members, to assist in decision-making.
• Securely manage confidential information and sensitive data of the organization, ensuring protection against unauthorized access.
• Manage special administrative project close-outs including after-action reviews and lessons learned.

Other duties as may be assigned by the Executive Director.

About you

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Experience and technical competencies:

• At least five (5) years of experience in administration, programme or project administration, or equivalent role in an INGO in areas of humanitarian/development sector supporting top-level executives in a multicultural and complex organization.
• Experience working with senior executives and ability to synthesize complex topics into actionable and decision ready analysis fit for that audience and then cascade decisions for action.
• Experience developing workplans including breaking down complex projects into tasks, processes, and timelines.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines.
• Proven experience in project coordination, administration, or related roles, preferably in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as collaboratively within a team environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively convey information and collaborate with diverse teams.
• Detail-oriented mindset with a focus on quality and accuracy in project deliverables and documentation.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive and solutions-oriented approach
• Demonstrated ability to manage processes and maintain accurate records.
• Ability to work independently and to maintain flexibility in working hours.
• Energetic and flexible with high sense of responsibility and excellent organizational, planning and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate tasks to meet deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills; ability to work in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
• Ability to write in a clear and concise manner and to communicate effectively orally.
• High level of integrity and able to maintain strictest of confidentiality
• High competence in handling situations with tact and diplomacy
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

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Overall purpose of the role

The Consortium Programme Manager is the senior most field-based position for the BORESHA-NABAD programme and will be responsible for day-to-day implementation and coordination of activities across the Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia field offices. As a Senior member of the Programme Management Unit, the Consortium Programme Manager will support and provide strategic guidance to the Chief of Party in the overall planning, implementation, and management of the programme

Responsibilities:

• As the senior most person at the field level, contribute to the overall leadership and management, and general technical direction, for the design and implementation of project activities across the different programme target locations.
• Responsible for the overall coordination and compliance of all consortium member activities at the field level and ensuring a shared project vision and ‘theory of change’ amongst staff and across all implementing agencies.
• Responsible for day-to-day design, delivery, and progress against agreed targets of the project across all implementing agencies, including timely and quality completion of all programme's technical and financial deliverables and reports in accordance with EU guidelines.
• Manage and work with respective project coordinators to identify implementation gaps and provide on-site support through frequent visits to project sites.
• Serve as a liaison with and build effective working relationships with government counterparts, local partners, communities, power brokers, relevant development agencies, private businesses, donors, and other relevant stakeholders at the field level. 
• In close coordination with finance and supply chain teams, support financial and administrative management of the programme at the field level, ensuring compliance with DRC, EU, and national policies, rules, regulations, and systems in a timely, documented, accurate & appropriate manner; ensures that support services are cost-effective and efficient.
• Support the establishment and implementation of effective project reporting, monitoring and evaluation, financial management, and procurement mechanisms.
• Develop partnership and activity sequencing and layering plans with other humanitarian and development cross-border programmes, and private sector actors at the local level and coordinate with authorities in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia Government levels.
• Lead  Technical Working Group meetings at the field level and ensure implementation of corrective measures.
• Promote sustainability of project activities with effective networking, linkages to other programmes, capacity building of key project staff, and strengthening community-based organizations and mechanisms.
• Participate in the hiring, professional development, and evaluation process of PMU staff, ensuring the achievement of project results by setting specific goals and providing continuous performance feedback. 
• Attends and contributes to discussions, workshops, working groups, and other forums where operations and other issues that may impact operations or the people DRC serves are discussed.  
• Ensure programmes are developed, implemented, and evaluated within clear monitoring systems and against clear people/programme/finance planning that meets DRC and donor regulations.
• Ensure that the DRC Dynamics (ERP) system is fully used in managing Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and Grant Management at the field level.
• Closely work with the other PMU team members and ensure guidance from the Steering Committee and other working groups is implemented across the programme areas.  
• Ensure a safe and secure environment for DRC staff, beneficiaries, and assets by operationalizing DRC's security procedures, and providing safety and security analysis, recommendations, and follow-ups.

About you

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Experience and technical competencies:

• Proven experience in strategic development and programme design & implementation, monitoring, and evaluation at least for 5 years. Experience in Resilience, Market Systems, and Stabilization Programming is highly desired. 
• At least 3-years’ experience managing large-scale multi-sector programming.
• Practical and extensive consortium management experience with extensive knowledge of activity design, budget development/management, and documentation, tracking, and archiving. A demonstrated track record of experience with EU-funded projects is desired.
• Result-oriented management experience of a large, diverse, and dynamic team, and a commitment to good leadership. Must have a proven ability to foster teamwork and commitment to on-the-job training/support.
• Practical and proven skills in negotiation and conflict resolution with a wide range of stakeholders including working with government and private sector stakeholders in fragile contexts.
• Experience in security and safety management in highly dynamic security environments.
• Experience living and/or working in Mandera, Dollow, or Dollo Ado is strongly preferred.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as a team is needed.
• Proven excellent communication skills and fluency in written and spoken English essential. Excellent report writing skills is a must.
• Experience managing complex activities involving coordination with multiple project partners

Education

• Advanced University degree in relevant field (development studies, peacebuilding, and Social Sciences)

Language

• English
•  Somali– Fluent