Consortium Manager

• Master's degree in humanitarian affairs, development studies, public health, international relations, or a related social science field.
  
• A bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public health, law, or equivalent is required as a minimum; the Master's is strongly preferred.
  

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of senior-level project or programme management experience in humanitarian or development contexts, including at least 2 years in a consortium lead or multi-partner coordination role.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-sector ECHO-funded actions, with strong familiarity with Single Form reporting, ECHO compliance requirements, and KRI/KOI indicator frameworks.
  
• Proven experience managing local and international NGO partnerships in high-risk, refugee-hosting or displacement-affected contexts; familiarity with partnership tools such as PEERS, PCA, and GIA frameworks is an asset.
  

Consortium Leadership and Coordination

• Provide overall strategic and operational leadership of the VITAL consortium, championing a collaborative 'one team' ethos across IRC, LWF, URCS, and AWYAD.
  
• Convene and chair the Project Management Committee (PMC) monthly and support the Steering Committee (SC) quarterly, ensuring inclusive partner participation, documented action points, and follow-through.
  
• Lead integrated work planning processes, ensuring alignment across Protection, MPCT and EPR results, shared resources (fleet, offices), and complementary service delivery in all 18 target locations.
  
• Facilitate cross-result integration: Protection-EPR joint screening referral protocols, MPCT-Protection mainstreaming linkages, and Crisis Modifier contingency readiness.
  

Partner Management and Capacity Strengthening

• Working with the partnership coordinator, serve as IRC's primary partnership focal point for LWF, URCS, and AWYAD, managing partnership agreements in line with IRC's PEERS framework.
  
• Oversee partner capacity analyses (PCA), development of capacity-sharing plans, and delivery of agreed organizational and technical support to URCS and AWYAD as local/national NGO partners.
  
• Lead joint quarterly field monitoring visits across consortium partner sites; review partner narrative and financial reports for quality, accuracy, and ECHO compliance.
  
• Coordinate with IRC's Partnership Coordinator and technical coordinators (Health, protection, ERD) to ensure integrated partner oversight and timely escalation of compliance concerns.
  

Program Quality and Technical Oversight

• Ensure all VITAL activities are implemented in line with approved workplans, ECHO Single Form obligations, and relevant humanitarian standards (IASC, SPHERE, Minimum Standards for Child Protection, GBVIMS, EPR protocols).
  
• Oversee Protection programming quality across GBV and CP case management, PSS (including Self Help+), protection mainstreaming, Signpost information dissemination, and RTC surge response.
  
• Oversee MPCT programming quality, including vulnerability-based targeting, BIMS biometric verification, digital transfer delivery, PDM cycles, and referral-out systems (LWF-led)
  

Financial Management and Compliance

• In coordination with IRC finance and grants teams, maintain overall budget oversight for the VITAL action, monitor BvA against consortium workplans and flag variance early.
  
• Lead the quarterly financial review cycle with consortium PMC and ensure findings are fed into adaptive programming and reforecasting decisions.
  
• Oversee Crisis Modifier financial management: monitor trigger utilization and document all Crisis Modifier activations.
  

Donor Reporting

• Compile, edit, and submit high-quality narrative and financial reports at interim and final stages, ensuring compliance with Single Form reporting requirements, indicator disaggregation standards (sex, age, disability), and ECHO KRI/KOI guidance.
  
• Ensure all partners update and submit project tools (workplans, procurement plans, staffing plans, spending plans, MEAL plans) quarterly, and that data flows into consolidated donor reporting.
  
• Coordinate visibility and communication obligations in line with ECHO branding requirements and IRC/EU communication plans, including human interest stories, social media, and the eu.rescue.org landing page.
  

Stakeholder Engagement and External Representation

• Maintain strong working relationships with OPM, UNHCR, WFP, WHO, MoH, district local governments (DLGs), DDMCs, DOHTs and other humanitarian stakeholders in target areas.
  
• Ensure VITAL's 'one team' resource-sharing approach (fleet, offices, staff) is coordinated with sector cluster coordination structures to avoid duplication.
  
• Represent IRC and the VITAL consortium in ECHO partner meetings, field monitoring visits, and any donor missions or evaluations as directed by the project lead and grants coordinator.