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Responsibilities:
Ensure appropriate Financial and Logistical NRC systems/procedures are adhered to within the SM team.
Ensure timely and accurate development of procurement plans, recruitment plans, and spending plans per project and ensure the same is shared with relevant support colleagues.
Responsible for ensuring timely submission of monthly CC-specific cash forecast to Finance and relevant Procurement Requests to Logistics.
In line with project needs and funding availability, continuously and proactively plan CC-specific staff requirements and liaise with HR and Admin to ensure the same.
Performance management of all direct reports, including regular 1:1 meetings and completion of work and development plans.
Ensure all new team members are adequately briefed on arrival and departing team members are debriefed
Map out the operational requirements for the response within IDP gathering sites, and identify and establish (where necessary) standards and guidelines that facilitate interoperability to ensure that activities are carried out.
Develop and update agreed response strategies for the camps, including “exit”/transition strategy for site closures and action plans for the Site Management Cluster and ensure that these are adequately reflected in overall State strategies.
Conduct contingency planning based on worst-case and most likely scenarios in terms of population movements; ensure relocations/returns are voluntary, dignified and safe.
Support the Shelter and Settlements Specialist to develop tools, processes for the field teams to improve data collection, and guide the Information Management (IM) teams for the development and regular update of IM products to be used for external sharing aiming to inform humanitarian response and advocacy (4Ws, Service Mapping, Site Profiles, Service Monitoring, etc.).
Support the development of Complaints Feedback and Response Mechanisms at the site level, ensuring proper participatory process to identify preference around CFM channels.
Ensuring operational partners are engaged for the establishment of referral pathways.
Conduct community participatory assessment to map existing community representation structures and encourage community representation of marginalized groups.
Strengthen capacity of representation structures on Site Management and ensure their inclusion to the site coordination and decision-making mechanisms.
Establish Site Level and Zone level Coordination mechanisms with Humanitarian Service Providers, Authorities representatives, Community Leaders and other key representatives, ensuring meeting minutes are shared and action points are followed.
Identify Care and Maintenance needs through data analysis that the field teams collect and plan operational maintenance and rehabilitation activities, to improve the lives of the displaced in the sites and mitigate risks and hazards.
Coordinate with State and security providers, as well as host and affected communities for the establishment of an early warning system (ERW) in the camps. Support the installation of ERW equipment to the camps and monitor its operation. Link ERW with Security and Response plans and support integration of the activity with the ERW State strategy.
Implement trainings on different topics, in particular on Community Engagement and Coordination, Site Management, UDOC, SIP, in cooperation with relevant experts, for the field teams aiming to improve their capacity.
Overall responsibility for effective and efficient management of the Site Management (SM) projects consistent with the project management cycle, safe and inclusive programming and relevant NRC site management guidance and standards.
Ensure engagement of representation structures in Site Coordination and decision-making fora.
Provide the Area Manager and Shelter and Settlements Specialist with required reports and input for development of the Site Management section of the Shelter and Settlements strategy and project proposals, including feedback on successes and challenges.
Overall budget management for all the SM projects/portfolio implemented in the Area and ensure appropriate burn-rates are maintained and that solutions to over/under expenditure are applied.
Ensure that projects target affected community members most in need of protection, and explore and asses new and better ways to assist them; promote the rights of IDPs in line with the advocacy strategy.
Provide timely and methodical updates regarding needs and trends specific to protection from violence to the responsible Area Manager.
Requirements:
Minimum 3 years of experience from a related senior level project implementation position in a humanitarian/recovery context.
Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
Technical camp management expertise.
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
