Consortium Manager South Sudan Juba

Background:
NRC works to protect the rights of displaced and vulnerable people during crisis and meet immediate humanitarian needs, prevent further displacement, and contribute to durable solutions. Through our mobile emergency response capacity, we provide lifesaving multisectoral assistance to crisis affected populations in hard-to-reach areas across South Sudan. In areas throughout the country where we have established operations, we ensure that displacement affected people are safe, can exercise their rights, access quality services and protection and secure durable solutions. To that end, we contribute to safe and stable environment needed to allow for return and reintegration or integration of displaced communities. We do this through advocacy, coordination, and collaboration, as well as integrated and multi-sectoral long-term interventions.
In South Sudan, NRC established in 2004 and provides humanitarian assistance and supports durable solutions with integrated and multi-sectoral long-term interventions in six core competencies: Information Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA), Protection from Violence, Education, WASH and Shelter. In line with NRC global direction, our WASH and Shelter programmes are transitioning from mainly humanitarian response to support communities with more sustainable water systems and sanitation facilities in response to securing lasting solutions. Also, NRC has the ambition to grow its urban programming to facilitate durable solutions for the swelling urban population in South Sudan.
What you will do:
NRC South Sudan leads an EU-funded Education Agri-TVET Consortium in partnership with a wide network of both national and international partners. The Agri-skills for Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Economies (ARISE) Consortium aims to bridge the critical skills gap in South Sudan’s agricultural sector by delivering competency-based Agri Value Chain TVET skills aligned to profitable value chain commodities being developed by Green Resilience Economy partners across targeted states in South Sudan. ARISE will strengthen South Sudan’s Agri–value chain TVET system so youth, especially girls/young women and displacement-affected learners, gain market-relevant, green and transferable skills that lead to decent work and viable self-employment. The action is designed to complement the EU’s Green and Resilient Economy (GRE) investments by building a reliable skills-to-jobs pipeline into existing value chain and MSME ecosystems, rather than duplicating market systems or production programming.
The Consortium Manager will oversee the Consortium and be responsible for their overall management. This position is responsible for strategic advice on the management and direction of the consortium programme(s), the operational management and implementation of the project(s), including project implementation in terms of coordinating delivery and the inputs from consortium members. The Consortium Manager will facilitate the strategic development of consortium programmes, responsible for forging strong relationships with and between consortium members, donor(s) and other relevant stakeholders, as well as ensuring compliance with donor contractual requirements, and NRC and/or Consortium internal procedures.
General Responsibilities:
Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, CC tools, handbooks and guidelines.
Provide overall direction and leadership of the Consortium to ensure seamless operations, leveraging complementarity among partners
Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff where relevant.
Specific responsibilities:
Coordinate with consortium members to ensure high-quality implementation of activities, compliance with donor and consortium rules, and accountability to beneficiaries.
Oversee day-to-day management of the project, including planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and budget spending, ensuring project is always on scope and schedule
Represent the Consortium towards relevant stakeholders, including national authorities, donors and counterparts, promoting the best interests of Consortium partners
Line Manage and supervise the work of the Consortium Management Unit; carry out any needed recruitments, including for consultants
Lead the consultations, design and preparation of the next phase of the Consortium based on evidenced needs, donor expectations and drawing from partners’ diverse expertise
Please refer to the full Job Description as the above-mentioned responsibilities are just a snapshot.
What you will bring:
Minimum BA in relevant areas preferably