Project Manager - Protection (ECHO) at INTERSOS

Job Code: SR-49-1004
Location: Maiduguri, with frequent travels to Monguno and Kukawa
Contract Duration: 9 months
Starting Date: 01/07/2019
Reporting to: Head of Base
Supervision of: About 20 local staff

General Context of the Project

• PUI, ACTED/REACH, INTERSOS, SI, and TDH will join their efforts to comprehensively address the needs of the most vulnerable populations affected by the conflict in North East Nigeria following a holistic, evidence-based, principled and integrated multi-sector approach. Significant added value to the quality of the intervention will be enabled through the leverage of the complementarity between the different organizations' technical expertise, and the different stage of experience in the targeted areas of interventions.
• Most importantly, the creation of the consortium is born from the joint analysis that after 8 years of protracted crisis, the humanitarian response in North East Nigeria suffers from major shortcomings in terms of coordination, evidence-based analysis of the needs, integrated approach and resources rationalization. By providing an integrated approach, consortiums' partners aim at ensuring an optimized and comprehensive coverage of the most critical needs of the affected population, particularly in hard-to-reach areas where the humanitarian response is little developed. With REACH, a multi-sector needs assessment was conducted that highlighted critical gaps in three LGA of Borno State: MMC, Kukawa and Mobbar LGA.
• Along with an integrated response, the consortium will ensure protection mainstreaming and will address cross-cutting protection needs (Gender-based violence and Child protection). The objective of this action will be both the delivery of essential services and the strengthening of a protection focused response as a whole, in order to provide the basis for a principled comprehensive intervention, increase sustainability of actions and enhance synergies among implementing partners. In parallel and emergency preparedness and response has been planned, particularly in reaction of epidemic outbreak.

General Purpose of the Position

• The Project Manager - Protection will technically oversee the protection activities INTERSOS will carry out in the framework of the whole project, ensuring operations quality. S/he must be able to motivate and lead his/her staff.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks
Project Management:

• Supervise implementation of protection activities in a timely manner
• Develop and manage the implementation of/adherence to work plan and M&E plans
• Contribute to ensure that reports are submitted to the leading agency as per the agreed reporting schedule
• Ensure data is collected regularly to respond to agreed indicators
• Contribute to develop project proposals for the GBV sector in Borno State, in close coordination with the technical team, protection focal point and under the supervision of the Coordination of INTERSOS Nigeria;
• Carry out rapid assessments to investigate further programming opportunities inside Borno State;

Programme Quality:

• Contribute, in strict collaboration and under the supervision of the protection coordinator, to build capacity of INTERSOS in GBV sector, to meet minimum standards for GBV programme in Emergency, including training and mentoring of the staffs with the technical support of the Advisors.
• Technical support for GBV activities throughout the programme providing insights to national and international staff on the standards including tools and methodologies.
• Contribute, in strict collaboration and under the supervision of the protection coordinator, to strengthen the INTERSOS Nigeria protection sector

Coordination:

• Contribute, in strict collaboration and under the supervision of the protection coordinator, to ensure 5W matrices are submitted to the State Clusters as per the agreed reporting schedule
• Contribute, in strict collaboration and under the supervision of the protection coordinator, to represent the program with national authorities, non-state actors, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, etc. in Borno State and in Abuja;

Human Resources:

• Recruit and train national staff as required to achieve the project protection objectives.

Education

• Relevant degree and/or equivalent GBV/Protection-related working experience.

Professional experience:

• Relevant working experience of at least 3 years and previous experience in humanitarian context.

Professional requirements:

• Strategic vision, leadership, people management, teamwork and flexibility, ability to work under pressure in a highly complex emergency context
• Excellent organizational skills in highly complex emergency operation
• Able to ensure quick quality delivery in stressful environment
• Previous experience with ECHO is considered an asset
• Problem-solving orientation
• Excellent ability to establish inter-personal relations and good negotiation skills
• Good knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Good knowledge of the international standard on GBV and Protection

Languages:

• Fully proficient in written and spoken English

Personal requirements:

• Ability to deal with stress and demanding working environment
• Adaptation skills to basic standard living conditions during field missions
• Readiness to commit and adhere to the values, mission and vision of INTERSOS