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Job Title

Director, Field Site Programs Implementation

Location

Sudan - SD (Primary)

Category

Programs

Date Needed By

7/1/2024

Program Description (Background)

International Medical Corps has worked in Sudan since 2004, offering primary healthcare, nutrition and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programs, often integrating them with existing services in the country to achieve more effective outcomes. 

We currently provide all three services in 71 health facilities to residents across five of Sudan’s 18 states, including three in Sudan’s Darfur Region, and in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur has claimed thousands of lives, uprooted millions of people, disrupted already fragile healthcare systems and prevented families from returning to their homes. Despite limited access and chronic instability, we provide humanitarian assistance to more than 2 million people per year.

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY: The primary function of the Field Site Programs Implementation Director is to support the Country Director in providing technical oversight to all programs’ implementation and operational support the country field sites. As part of the senior leadership team, the Field Site Programs Implementation Director also plays an active role in providing strategic leadership in the day-to-day coordination of programs, logistics, finance and administration functions at all field sites. The Field Site Programs Implementation Director will execute the implementation of country programs by ensuring alignment and technical proficient of projects to donor specifications, and coordination with operational support units. S/he is expected to provide programs implementation aligned with national protocols to ensure that IMC’s role and mandate in the country are appropriate to the programming context. The Field Site Programs Implementation Director is based in a field site and conducts frequent visits to the various program field sites.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation:

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Program Management
• Manage the programs’ implementation, ensuring their objectives and achieving impact are met;
• Oversee the day-to-day coordination of program, logistics, finance and administration functions at all field sites.
• Provide oversight and guidance to all field site management personnel and their respective teams. This support focus on all aspects of field office control and efficiency.
• Support and ensure timely completion of all logistics, financial and administrative matters in the field sites.
• Ensure all country field sites offices are running efficiently, with frequent visits to them.
• Ensure that meetings between all Field Site Coordinators and their respective teams are held on a regular basis.
• Oversee the burn rate of all grants in line with donor regulations at the field level in consultation with the Finance and Administration Director and Country Programs Director.
• Review/Assist in development of action plans and compare actual implementation of the planned activities
• Together with the Country Programs Director and Field Site Management team support and spearhead implementation of projects in each of IMC operational areas.
• Together with the Field Site Management team establish complaint feedback mechanisms. Through assessments, analysis, and recommendations for priority interventions.
• Provide inputs to audit issues and corrective action plans.

Training/ Capacity Building
• Conduct regular staff evaluation, design and implement capacity improvement plan for the Field Site Management team and other field-based staff.
• In coordination with Human Resources ensure field-based staff hiring is executed efficiently and in compliance with local labor law and IMC policy.
• Work with Human Resources in ensuring policies and procedures are adequately documented, disseminated and consistently applied.

Working Relationship
• Maintain frequent communication with the Country Director and Country Program Department to identify program development opportunities, to contribute to the design of new program concepts and to support International Medical Corps country program development.
• Provide input to the Finance and Administration Director on potential areas of concern related to: operations spending; effectiveness of in-country reporting and planning and adherence to financial requirements. Support in budget development process, reviews and realignment of budgets.
• Establish and maintain a management information system that effectively captures performance data from country and field offices. Work with Finance and Administration Director, Country Programs Director and Country Director to proactively identify, analyze and respond to trends either through reinforcement or corrective action.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
• Overall responsibility for ensuring field site’s commitments towards donors and IMC’s requirements on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) requirements.
• Integrate MEAL into site strategies, frameworks, policies and plans for the field site.
• Include MEAL related roles and responsibilities to all staff who are working in the field site and responsible for program management and implementation. 
• Direct site level management to adequately budget for MEAL activities across all grants.
• Ensures country level Community Based Feedback and Response Mechanism (CBFRM) is functioning, and adequately resourced. 
• Ensures all highly sensitive complaints and feedback from the CBFRM are addressed and closed appropriately. 
• Raises profile/awareness and importance of MEAL with other senior management members through routine review and briefing sessions.

Security
• Work in collaboration with the Country Security Manager to ensure field staff are well trained and operating in compliance with the Security Management Plan

Representation
• Liaise closely with local authorities, donor and partner agencies at the Field Site level to ensure compliance with donor policies and regulations and complementary with other agencies' efforts
• Support coordination with the Federal Government and regional member states line ministries.
• Ensure maximum visibility of the organization amongst the INGO/UN community

Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.

Job Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
•Typically, a Master’s Degree in related field is preferred. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate;
• Typically, 12 years of relevant and progressive experience in development field, NGO project and personnel management experience, inclusive of minimum 8 years of international work experience in an operations management role;
• Knowledge of IMC procedures and policies and donors’ regulations (ECHO), UNHCR, BPRM, OFDA, etc.) preferred;
• Familiarity with project management cycle.
• Familiarity with international humanitarian operations, coordination structures and the mandates of donors, UN agencies and NGO’s;
• Excellent write and oral communications skills;
• Solid organizational skills, ability to be flexible and with well under pressure in a fast paces multi task team environment;
• Profound cross-cultural awareness;
• Fluent in written and spoken English is essential;
• Previous experience working in emergency and conflict situations.
 

Additional Technical or Language Requirements

English and Arabic (not essential).

As applicable to this position, an individual must promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the organization and maintain a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Staff are also responsible for preventing violations to our Code of Conduct and Ethics, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment. If you see, hear or are made aware of any violations to the Code of Conduct and Ethics or Safeguarding Policy, you have an obligation to report. If this is a supervisory position, one must set an example of ethical behavior through one’s own conduct and oversight of the work of others; ensure that those who report to you have sufficient knowledge and resources to follow the standards outlined in the Code of Conduct & Ethics; monitor compliance of the people you supervise; enforce the Code of Conduct & Ethics and International Medical Corps’ policies, including the Safeguarding Policy and the Protection from Harassment, Bullying and Sexual Misconduct in the Workplace Policy, consistently and fairly; support employees who in good faith raise questions or concerns.

It is all staff shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children, adults at risk, or LGBTI individuals; and any form of trafficking in persons.

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran.

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.