Organizational Context

The Worldwide Federation of Purple Cross and Purple Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian group, with a community of 191-member Nationwide Societies (NSs). The general goal of IFRC is “to encourage, encourage, facilitate, and promote always all types of humanitarian actions by NSs with a view to stopping and assuaging human struggling and thereby contributing to the upkeep and promotion of human dignity and peace on this planet.” IFRC works to fulfill the wants and enhance the lives of weak folks earlier than, throughout and after disasters, well being emergencies and different crises.

IFRC is a part of the Worldwide Purple Cross and Purple Crescent Motion (Motion), along with its member NSs and the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross (ICRC). The work of IFRC is guided by the next basic ideas: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality.

IFRC is led by its Secretary Common, and has its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The Headquarters are organized into three predominant Divisions: (i) Nationwide Society Growth and Operations Coordination; (ii) International Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization; and (iii) Administration Coverage, Technique and Company Companies.

IFRC has 5 regional workplaces in Africa, Asia Pacific, Center East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. IFRC additionally has nation cluster delegation and nation delegations all through the world. Collectively, the Geneva Headquarters and the sector construction (regional, cluster and nation) comprise the IFRC Secretariat.

The Challenge Coordinator will report on to the Head of Delegation (HoD) who’s supported by a staff of delegates and officers primarily based in Amman and on the Regional Workplace in Beirut.

Job Goal

The Challenge Coordinator will act as the focus for all managerial features of the ECHO funded Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) 2024 undertaking to be carried out by Palestine Purple Crescent Society (PRCS) in Gaza and the Egyptian Purple Cresent Society (ERCS), guaranteeing environment friendly, efficient, coordinated, and well timed implementation. This consists of help and supervision of undertaking delegates, shut collaboration, and coordination with the 2 associate NSs (i.e. PRCS and ERCS).

Beneath the direct supervision and line administration of the Head of Delegation, the Challenge Coordinator will act as the first focus for all coordination/administration features of the HIP undertaking to be carried out in Palestine and Egypt, being carried out by Palestine Purple Crescent Society (PRCS) and Egypt Purple Crescent Society ERCS). The post-holder will guarantee environment friendly, efficient, coordinated, and well timed implementation of the HIP Challenge. This consists of shut collaboration, and coordination with PRCS Challenge Administration Unit and ERCS for the undertaking. The Challenge Coordinator will probably be chargeable for the help, steerage and high quality management in planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of actions inside the scope of the ECHO HIP Challenge.

Job Duties and Tasks

Challenge Administration and Coordination

• In shut collaboration with PRCS and ERCS, plan, implement, monitor, and report on the IFRC supported ECHO HIP Challenge.
• Help PRCS in strengthening its service supply programs and within the designing and delivering of undertaking actions.
• Lead a collaborative and cooperative strategy throughout all of the features of the (technical) help, guaranteeing that PRCS and ERCS undertaking staff have steady entry to technical recommendation and steerage to help efficient implementation, together with mobilisation and/or backstopping for technical help as required.
• Set up shut technical coordination with PRCS and ERCS to make sure optimum technical help for the set priorities.
• In shut coordination with the HoD, HIP Challenge Delegates and the regional technical counterparts, improve the planning, arrange and implementation of monitoring actions (together with design of PMER – Planning, Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting – instruments the place essential); Monitor and comply with up the actions via common discipline journeys.
• Observe up on challenges and alternatives for the implementation of deliberate actions and coordinate quick mitigation and adaptation.
• Report tasks progress as requested internally and by exterior donors.
• Help the event and design of recent tasks, idea notes, and proposals as requested.
• Handle undertaking monetary and operational processes. Be sure that inside and donor-specific high quality requirements are met and effectively documented.
• Make sure the undertaking supply is predicated on frameworks and approaches which might be according to PRCS and ERCS inside requirements and pointers and IFRC insurance policies, procedures, and instruments.
• Ensures the logical undertaking construction of results and outcomes in accordance with present pointers.
• Observe -up with PRCS and ERCS on points associated to the every day working of the undertaking.
• Actively monitor progress towards set targets, timelines and monetary indicators and interact with Companions to make sure high quality and well timed supply of all deliberate actions.
• Produce high-quality month-to-month and quarterly undertaking studies.
• Facilitates mid-term and ultimate analysis and design and implementation of related finish line workout routines to measure undertaking success.
• Stories to the HoD points associated to undertaking administration and implementation and choices to deal with them.
• Put together quarterly studies, annual studies and supplies enter into indicator monitoring tables if/as essential.
• Carry out duties and duties not coated on this job description and supply help to colleagues when essential and assigned by the road supervisor.

Partnerships:

• Preserve a cooperative working relationship with the host Nationwide Societies i.e. PRCS and ERCS, offering administration steerage and technical help within the growth of capacities, high quality assurance, administration, and reporting.
• Help NS employees/ counterparts, to strengthen promotion, coordination, and administration of undertaking.

Common Administration and Help:

• Help the IFRC HoD in duties associated to the operations of the undertaking.
• Contribute to inside and exterior communication in regards to the undertaking and the context on the whole, together with visibility within the undertaking actions.
• Guarantee compliance with relevant legal guidelines and agreements to reduce the danger of hurt to the IFRC and its Secretariat personnel, properties, and sources. Particular consideration is to be given to compliance with procurement procedures and requirements.

Duties relevant to all employees

1. Actively work in direction of the achievement of the IFRC Secretariat’s objectives
2. Abide by and work in accordance with the Purple Cross and Purple Crescent ideas
3. Carry out some other work-related duties and tasks that could be assigned by the road supervisor

Schooling

• College Diploma in related space – Required.
• Related post-graduate diploma (grasp’s or equal) in social science, the humanitarian or growth fields or different related domains – Most well-liked.
• Related coaching in Challenge Cycle Administration – Required.
• Primary Delegates Coaching Course or IMPACT, FACT, ERU, RDRT coaching – Most well-liked.

Expertise

• No less than 5 years of working expertise within the discipline of Emergency response and/or growth programming – Required.
• Minimal of three years {of professional} expertise and confirmed experience in undertaking administration – Required.
• Minimal of three years of confirmed expertise within the design and implementation of undertaking cycle administration instruments and mechanisms, ideally working with native companions – Required.
• Skilled reporting and proposal writing expertise; stable expertise with donor-funded tasks and dealing with completely different donors – Required.
• Confirmed expertise in Monitoring and Analysis (M&E), accountability and institutional studying – Required.
• Robust background in Consequence-Primarily based Administration (RBM) – Most well-liked.

Information, Expertise and Languages

• Efficient staff and undertaking administration expertise. Good mentoring and capability growth expertise – Required.
• Glorious analytical expertise and resolution orientation – Required.
• Glorious communication and negotiation expertise (oral and written) – Required.
• Good report-writing expertise – Required.
• Skill to work independently, extremely solutions-oriented and as a staff participant – Required.
• Demonstrated accountability – Required.
• Good information of organizational growth – Most well-liked.
• Technical information about community-based programming in growth context is an asset – Most well-liked.
• Skill to work effectively underneath stress and with tight deadlines – Required.
• Inter-personal expertise, cultural sensitivity and talent to work in a cross-cultural and cross-functional atmosphere in addition to to speak in such atmosphere – Required.
• Skill to intently monitor and full a undertaking inside the correct scope, price range and timeline – Required.
• Self-supported in digital instruments and programs (MS Workplace suite, web, web-conferencing, collaborative platforms, and so on.) – Required.
• Fluent spoken and written English and Arabic – Required.
• Good command of one other IFRC official language (French, Spanish) – Most well-liked.

Competencies, Values and Feedback

• Values: Respect for range; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability.
• Core competencies: Communication; Collaboration and teamwork; Judgement and choice making; Nationwide society and buyer relations; Creativity and innovation; Constructing belief
• Useful competencies: Strategic orientation; Constructing alliances; Management; Empowering others
• Managerial Competencies: Managing Employees Efficiency; managing Employees Growth.

NB: Wage Vary talked about beneath is NOT correct, it will depend on the related expertise of the chosen candidate and primarily based on the worldwide IFRC wage scale.

IFRC ensures equal employment alternatives.