Consortium Coordinator

Summary

Join People in Need as a Consortium Coordinator for a proposed consortium project in Afghanistan. The successful candidate will lead the coordination of the project, supervise PIN's project teams, and ensure compliance with donor and PIN requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in development or related field
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in managing and coordinating projects with multiple stakeholders and proven capacity to coordinate consortium partners
• Proven expertise in Livelihoods sector

Responsibilities

• Lead liaison activities with the consortium partners as the key focal point for strategy, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the consortium project
• Facilitate coordination meetings among consortium partners' programs, finance, and M&E teams, consortium's working groups, and relevant advisors
• Lead partners in sharing lessons learned and development of best practices relevant to the scope of interventions
• Promote and support the development of key knowledge-sharing materials and Best Practice Guidelines across different themes
• Act as the key focal point for routine liaison with donor's representatives and for daily external actors' relations
• Represent PIN and the consortium in relevant clusters and other coordination forums, as necessary
• Directly supervise PIN's project teams in two different geographic areas
• Oversee the project implementation, quality standards, and adherence to SoPs and donor/PIN internal guidelines in PIN's target areas
• Provide strategic and operational guidance to consortium partners and lead the consortium in the direction of achieving the project objective
• Supervise, in cooperation with relevant PMs and consortium partners, all program progress, outputs, and challenges across all sectors within the consortium project
• Ensure that rigorous monitoring & control mechanisms are in place to ensure compliance with donor and PIN's requirements
• Coordinate the reporting schedule and requirements for the consortium's project: request, review, and compile inputs from partners and develop quality reporting based on partners' and PIN's inputs
• Provide key support to the Country Program in program design and proposal development in Livelihoods sector

Benefits

• Flexible and challenging working environment with room for personal growth
• Possibility of remote work
• Robust and thorough induction training (2 weeks)
• HEAT training (unless the candidate participated in one recently)
• Salary as per PIN salary scale, between 2,750 – 3,000 EUR gross depending on previous experience
• 1350 EUR subsistance allowance and 400 EUR hardship allowance
• Reimbursement of flight tickets to the country of residence once every 6 months of work
• 1200 USD allowance per flight for R&R trips (total of max two R&R flights per year)
• Reimbursement of costs of visas and vaccinations
• Comprehensive travel insurance
• Medical helpdesk and psychological consultation available online
• 25 days of paid leave annually and 12 additional days of R&R leave per year
• Accommodation in PIN compound