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Mercy Corps Emergency Strategic Support Director – Sudan Sudan Mercy Corps Jobs 2024

Mercy Corps looking for “Emergency Strategic Support Director – Sudan”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 19-Jul-24.

The Mercy Corps has published a job vacancy announcement on 04/07/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Emergency Strategic Support Director – Sudan to be based in Port Sudan , Sudan. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org

Company Name: Mercy Corps

Job Title: Emergency Strategic Support Director – Sudan

Duty Station: Port Sudan , Sudan

Country: Sudan

Application Deadline: 19-Jul-24

Responsibilities:

• Ensure MC Sudan’s humanitarian relief and development portfolio is aligned with the overall country strategy and reflective of Mercy Corps global objectives as defined in the Pathway To Possibilities (P2P) vision.
• In partnership with the Country Director, Director of Programs and Cash Consortium of Sudan Lead, set the direction of the humanitarian relief to resilience portfolio by developing an overarching strategy for humanitarian to sustainable solutions strategies in Sudan.
• Ensure programs are implemented in ways responsive to the communities, and in line with Mercy Corps principles, values, strategic plan, and compliance procedures.
• Proactively keep abreast of humanitarian issues and priorities in Sudan and ensure Mercy Corps is well positioned and prepared to respond.
• Identify suitable opportunities to develop new and innovative programming and to secure the necessary funding to drive this forward.
• Regular travel to program implementation sites across the country to support program delivery.
• Develop and promote systems for enhanced cross-program integration and joint analysis, learning and adaptive management, promoting and leveraging Mercy Corps’ signature technical approaches in protracted and active crises, such as markets in crisis and crisis analytics.
• Lead and leverage the crisis analytics team to generate critical analysis of the situation in Sudan that leads to actionable forward-thinking initiatives that address key drivers of instability and ongoing fragility.

• Manage and oversee the implementation of humanitarian relief and recovery programming targeting vulnerable populations in Sudan and ensure programs are on time, on scope and on budget.
• Ensure all MC administration, logistical, human resources and financial procedures are followed in relation to implementation of humanitarian grants.
• Work closely with the Finance team to review monthly budget versus actual financial management information to ensure that all program expenditure is on track and does not exceed approved budget variance limits.
• Work closely with the MEL team to ensure that all essential program, organizational metrics, and lessons learned are being adequately captured.
• Facilitate synthesis of best practices and lessons learned and promote an overall culture of adaptive learning through systematic analysis and reflection on program data.
• Ensure that all donor reports are submitted on time and to the highest possible standards.
• Foster a collaborative team atmosphere which engages and supports all team members and supports a culture of adaptive management.
• Provide support and identifying opportunities for mentoring and training for the team members to deliver impactful humanitarian and sustainable solutions programming.

• Work closely with Country Leadership and team to identify new program opportunities, and develop concept notes in partnership with team to share with potential donors.
• In partnership with the Area Managers and Team Leads oversee the design of new emergency relief and resilient recovery programs based on needs analysis, assessments and sectoral information.
• Engage team in adaptive management practices to influence the design of new innovative and sustainable approaches to programming in humanitarian contexts
• Coordinate with program leadership (including DoP and other program leaders) of development and peacebuilding focused programming to proactively develop concept notes to strategically integrate, sequence and layer programming.
• Proactively seek potential funding sources among traditional as well as non-traditional donors, in line with MC’s overall strategy in Sudan.

• Serve as a thought leader in MC Sudan’s humanitarian, development, and resilience community and ensure full coordination and communication across the sectors.
• Represent MC Sudan with relevant INGO/UN agencies and within humanitarian cluster coordination structures
• Represent MC Nigeria with relevant national, local government officials and other national and local agencies.
• Work collaboratively to build a range of mutually beneficial partnerships with other stakeholders both national and international.
• Identify, build, and manage collaborative partnerships with consortium partners, sub-grantees, donors, government, and other stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively to ensure overall project targets and donor obligations are met.

• Other duties as reasonably requested.

• MA/S or equivalent in international Humanitarian and development or related field preferred.
• 8+ years of combined experience in humanitarian response and international development preferred.
• Comprehensive understanding of humanitarian donor ways of working and funding mechanisms required.
• Previous experience in writing humanitarian response proposals and rapidly designing emergency response programs
• Demonstrated success in programs related to emergency response required, with preference for experience in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance, markets in crisis, WASH, Nutrition, etc
• Thorough understanding of the context and current environment in Sudan preferred
• Proven managerial skills required
• Demonstrated ability to function as a solution-seeker and proven success with building, managing and leading a team of professionals and the ability to function as a team player among peers.
• Effective verbal and written communication, multi-tasking, organizational, prioritization skills are necessary.
• History of working effectively and respectfully with host country government, private sector, INGO, and NGO partners in complex conflict environments.
• Prior work experience in Africa strongly preferred; an ability to work comfortably, effectively and creatively within the cultural environment of Sudan and areas of poor security required.
• Fluency in English written, and oral communication required.
• Fluency and Arabic written, and oral communication strongly preferred.