The Food Security Programme Development Manager (PDM) will be responsible for redeveloping the strategy of the Food Security department, securing funding to consolidate it, and for its overall technical management and planning in close collaboration with the other technical program departments. The PDM will also support and manage implementation in close collaboration with the Area Managers of Carnot, Sibut, and Ndélé.
Job description
- Develop Food Security strategy, technical SOPs / guidelines and Macro LFAs
- Ensure compliance and adherence to NRC policies, CC tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Responsible to develop and manage funding proposals, project budgets and donor reports
- Responsible for overall management of project staff
- Coordinate and manage Food Security project implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements
- Ensure capacity building of project staff and transfer key skills
- Liaise and collaborate with relevant local and national authorities and stakeholders and represent NRC in relevant forums/cluster/working groups.
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years’ experience from working as a Project Manager in a humanitarian and recovery contexts
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Food Security expertise – associated to both urban and rural livelihood contexts,
- Expertise in cash based intervention and marked based approaches incl. value chain analysis
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
- Fluency in English and French, both written and verbal
- Knowledge of the context in CAR is desirable
- Experience with start-up
- Experience with urban programming
- Valid driver’s license
Personal qualities
- Planning and delivering results
- Analysing
- Managing recourses to optimize results
- Strategic thinking
- Empowering and building trust
- Handling insecure environments
We offer
- Commencement: As soon as possible
- Contract period: 3 months
- Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions
- Duty station: Bangui with travels to field (50-75%) on request. Central African Republic is a non-family duty station. Recreational and social facilities are limited, and international staff will be expected to live in shared accommodation of moderate standard.
- Approved health certficate will be requested before contract start
- Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location