Regional Consortium Coordinator

Who We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Disaster Risk Reduction, Development Studies, Humanitarian Action, Climate Change Adaptation, Urban Development, International Relations, Public Policy, Statistics with GIS experience, or a related field.
  
• A PhD in anticipatory action, climate-risk governance, or humanitarian systems leadership is a strong advantage.
  
• Additional professional qualifications in anticipatory action programming, humanitarian coordination, DG ECHO grant management, or institutional donor compliance are preferred.
  
• Minimum ten years of progressive experience in humanitarian program management, disaster preparedness, anticipatory action, or climate-risk governance.
  
• At least five years of experience in a senior regional, multi-country coordination, program director, or comparable leadership role.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-partner consortia involving intergovernmental institutions, international NGOs, local organizations, and government counterparts.
  
• Strong experience managing DG ECHO or comparable institutional donor grants, including donor reporting, compliance, amendments, partner performance, and multi-million-euro budgets.
  
• Proven technical expertise in anticipatory action, multi-hazard trigger development, early-warning systems, forecast-based financing, and crisis-modifier mechanisms.
  
• Strong knowledge of the Greater Horn of Africa humanitarian landscape, including climate risks, cross-border displacement, pastoral livelihood systems, and regional disaster-management structures.
  
• Experience working with institutions and platforms such as IGAD, ICPAC, national disaster-risk management authorities, SCALAA, BRCiS, UN OCHA, or similar coordination bodies.
  
• Demonstrated ability to influence policy, support institutional change, and maintain effective relationships with donors, governments, technical institutions, and humanitarian partners.
  
• Experience integrating protection, gender and inclusion, conflict sensitivity, PSEA, environmental safeguards, and accountability standards into complex programs.
  
• Strong leadership, strategic planning, negotiation, representation, problem-solving, and team-management skills.
  
• Full professional fluency in written and spoken English is required. Working knowledge of Somali, Amharic, or French is a strong advantage.
  
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively across Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, and other regional locations, including travel to challenging or high-risk operating environments.
  

• Provide strategic leadership and day-to-day coordination across all program result areas and operations in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti.
  
• Ensure program implementation remains aligned with DG ECHO requirements, the IGAD Anticipatory Action Roadmap, SCALAA methodologies, national disaster-risk management priorities, and changing humanitarian conditions.
  
• Serve as the primary coordination interface among Action Against Hunger country teams, IGAD, ICPAC, DG ECHO, national disaster-risk management authorities, consortium partners, and humanitarian coordination bodies.
  
• Lead the development and operationalization of cross-border anticipatory action protocols, trigger matrices, contingency plans, standard operating procedures, simulations, and pilot activations.
  
• Coordinate with complementary regional initiatives, including SCALAA, IGAD PREPARE, EU CLIMHoA, BRCiS, SomReP, and the Somali Cash Consortium, to promote coherence and prevent duplication.
  
• Lead the consortium governance structure, including the Consortium Steering Committee, partner coordination meetings, inter-agency mechanisms, and timely resolution of implementation challenges.
  
• Manage partnership agreements, sub-grants, performance reviews, and capacity-strengthening plans for international, regional, and local partners.
  
• Serve as the primary DG ECHO focal point for strategic engagement, donor reporting, operational updates, grant amendments, budget revisions, and adaptive management discussions.
  
• Ensure technical quality across anticipatory action, climate services, early-warning systems, disaster-risk reduction, cash preparedness, health, WASH, nutrition, protection, and urban preparedness activities.
  
• Oversee the program’s MEAL framework, ensuring evidence, learning, and performance data inform program improvements, donor reporting, and regional knowledge-sharing platforms.
  
• Ensure protection, conflict sensitivity, gender and inclusion, PSEA, accountability to affected populations, and DG ECHO Minimum Environmental Requirements are integrated throughout the program.
  
• Lead Crisis Modifier readiness and activation processes, including trigger verification, rapid decision-making, financing readiness, pre-approved early-action packages, field deployment, and post-distribution monitoring.
  
• Provide full oversight of the consortium budget, financial forecasting, compliance, risk management, partner expenditure, and audit readiness.
  
• Lead and mentor the regional program team while maintaining matrix-management relationships with country-based program managers and technical staff.
  
• Represent the program at regional and global disaster-risk reduction, anticipatory action, humanitarian financing, and climate-resilience forums.