Consortium Manager

Project Overview

Emergency nutrition, health, WASH and food security projects targeting displaced, conflict- and drought-affected vulnerable populations in central and southern D.R. Congo.

Key Activity Areas

Partner Coordination and Communication

• Primary contact for consortium partners during the life of the grant period.
• Responsible for handling reporting of partners and Medair, ensuring overall quality of the consortium is being upheld.
• Flag issues to Country Director and consortium steering committee as required.
• Enable information sharing and partner communication in a spirit of collaboration.
• Build and foster healthy working relationships with consortium partner staff.

Grant Management

• Monitor progress of consortium towards achieving project targets, flagging any concerns to the consortium steering committee.
• Monitor consortium expenditure and forecasting, liaising with partners on under/over spend as required.
• Compile and synthesise reports from all consortium partners to produce timely and accurate donor reporting.

Financial Management

• Maintain link between partner finance departments and Medair finance.
• Ensure smooth, timely cash flow to consortium partners, ensuring partners understand cash request requirements.
• Ensure compliance requirements maintained within consortium, including audit notification and coordination.

Quality Assurance

• Flag issues where quality might not be maintained, and seek solutions for challenging issues.
• Support partners with advice in challenging liaison with authorities and help share lessons learned.
• Form working groups where lessons learned can be shared and experience learned from between partners.

Donor Relations and Representation

• Act as primary contact for BHA for consortium-related matters.
• Flag concerns from donor to County Director/ Head of Country Programmes/ Programme Funding Manager.
• Maintain Medair’s reputation throughout the grant.
• Help form follow on projects and partnerships.

Risk Management

• Ensure consortium partners are fully aware of agreed incident reporting requirements.
• Follow-up on any reports received and flag to County Director and Head of Country Programmes for donor reporting as required.
• Ensure that consortium partners have appropriate mechanisms in place for proper support, oversight and monitoring of activities.

Team Life

• Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, beneficiaries, and external contacts.
• Fully contribute to the life of your team.

This job description covers the main tasks that are anticipated. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary.

Qualifications

• University degree. Post-graduate degree in the humanitarian sector desirable.
• Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written).

Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in grant oversight/management.
• Experience of working with BHA funded grants.
• Problem solving ability. Excellent communicator
• Thorough donor knowledge. Financial literacy. Writing and synthesising skills.
• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels.
• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner.
• Able to cope with basic living conditions in the field and during field trips.
• Advanced leadership and management skills.
• Committed to consultative and servant leadership.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritising and delegating as required.
• Able to build trust and enforce procedures.
• Dynamic, mature. Self-motivated, energetic, hard-working, servant-hearted.
• Passionate about humanitarian partnerships.
• Team-player with good inter-personal skills.
• Positive communicator and ability to handle conflict.

All new deploying international staff to Medair’s country programmes (and other roles which require field travel) should be fully vaccinated with a WHO-approved COVID vaccine, supported with a COVID vaccination certificate as evidence.