Principal accountabilities and ownership

1. Strategic regional/country Portfolio Management: Coordinating, drafting, and adapting country or regional strategies, typically a portfolio of 3-5 countries, depending on the size/complexity of the country activities. Own the investment strategies and revise them to adapt to changes within portfolios.
2. Operational grant-making and management: Coordinate country teams with overall responsibility for programming. Responsibility for aligned, efficient, effective, and compliant grant-making and management. Work closely with grantees and have full accountability for context, political and security analysis. Manage portfolio-level budgets and work plans.
3. Relationship/partnership management: Building and strengthening relations with in-country stakeholders, P/CVE actors such as UN agencies, among others.
4. Event management: Organise events and visits related to the portfolio, including but not limited to field visits ed to the Board meetings, Learning and Exchange events, and meetings with in-country government stakeholders and members of the international community.
5. External representation: represent and promote the work of GCERF in external events.

Qualifications
Knowledge/Experience/Qualifications

• Master’s degree in International Development, International Relations, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Business or related topic.
• At least 10 years of prior relevant experience in development, NGOs or foundations.
• At least 4 years, ideally up to 8 years, of lived or professional experience in an ODA-eligible country. Preferably in more than one country and ideally in GCERF partner countries.
• At least 2 years, ideally up to 6 years, of prior experience working with donors and government officials.
• Experience living and working in MENA region
• Experience working with and overseeing complex programmes funded by USAID and various EU-funding mechanisms is a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of principles of P/CVE.
• Experience in multi-stakeholder settings
• In-depth understanding of the work & challenges of community-based and grassroots organisations and experience working alongside them including knowledge sharing and exchange.
• Knowledge and experience with Safeguarding practices.

Technical skills

• Strong Project Management skills.
• Strong competency in programme design and development, project cycle management, and financial budgeting and reporting.
• Fluent in English and Arabic at a professional level (C2-level in Arabic). Excellent verbal and written capacity. Ideally a working knowledge of French (B2-level).

Personal skills and attributes

Demonstrate GCERF values:

• Making a difference
• Achieving together
• Acting with integrity
• Embracing diversity
• Realising potential

Other key attributes:

• Proactivity and innovation
• Diplomacy & effective communications
• Drive for results – solution orientation
• Good judgement, informed and fair decision- making
• Entrepreneurial spirit

Interdependencies

What this role must provide for key working relationships

Other Regional Managers (primary)

• Share learnings and ideas for the ultimate benefit of the entire PMU portfolio.
• Share and support leagues with regard to thematic expertise.

Deputy of Portfolio Management Unit (primary)

• Provide clear status of portfolios and overview of challenges in order for the DHPMU to ensure adequate support and decisions.

Direct reports (primary)

• Clear objectives, support and feedback.
• Meaningful learning and development plans.

Head of Portfolio Management Unit / Deputy Executive Director (secondary)

• Provide high-level information about relevant portfolios and thematic area.
• Contribute ideas to strategy of the global portfolio.

In-country stakeholders (primary)

• Build, maintain and monitor relationships with key partners and relevant in-country stakeholders.
• Represent and promote GCERF in all relevant external events.

Grantees (primary)

• Build relationships to ensure achievement of the accountabilities.
• Ensure principle of inclusivity in grant-making, management and capacity-building.

Grants Finance team (primary)

• Work closely to ensure grants monitoring and compliance with internal and external standards and regulations.
• Jointly drive capacity building of grantees.

Performance & Impact team (primary)

• Collaborate on the development and implementation of grant and portfolio level Theory of Change.
• Contribute to GCERF policy and performance reviews and creation of learning and research materials for external communication.
• Jointly drive capacity building of grantees.

Resource Mobilisation team (secondary)

• Communicate to ensure alignment of RM strategy and in-country RM efforts.
• Provide structured to donor proposals and reports.

Communications team (secondary)

• Support creation of rich content for outreach materials. Help identify communications opportunities.

General information:

• Our offices are located in Geneva, Switzerland. We currently have a hybrid working model.
• GCERF offers competitive salaries and benefits package.
• All appointments are subject to availability of funding.
• GCERF is committed to diversity within its workforce and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. We encourage applications from across the world as we are able to employ all nationalities.