Development Sector
Regional Team Leader
Development Sector
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Posted date 26th November, 2021 Last date to apply 19th December, 2021
Country Pakistan Locations Peshawar
Category Community Development
Salary 382507.33
Type Contractual Position 1
Experience 2 years
Status Closed

The Community Resilience Activity-North (CRA-North) Project is designed to support community level resilience development and conflict prevention activities within the newly merged districts (NMD’s) of Khyber, Kurram, North Waziristan and Orakzai Districts within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province, while pursuing a multi-disciplinary and community participatory approach and working in close coordination with the Government of Pakistan (GoP) at the regional and district level. The current CRA-North project duration is scheduled to run until July 2023 with a strong possibility of extension for 2 more years. The Regional Team Leader will be working under the direct leadership and overall supervision of the CRA-North Deputy Chief of Party/ Deputy Program Manager. The Regional Team Leader will strengthen CRA-N’s abilities to develop and apply evidence-based resilience programming solutions to support the reintegration of Temporarily Displaced Persons, Enhance Community Cohesion & Increase Civic Engagement, while reducing marginalization and increasing resilience amongst remote communities within the newly merged districts. The Regional Team Leader will provide technical leadership, administrative support and expertise to the program, while maintaining overall responsibility for district-based community resilience programming and immediate oversight of regionally based resilience programming. The Regional Team Leader will also be responsible for building partnerships with key program stakeholders, while ensuring that all regional programmatic, financial, administrative and logistical components of CRA-North’s community resilience programming is in accordance with IOM and USAID guidelines, policies and procedures.

I)Responsibilities and Accountabilities

  • Oversee and implement the regional programmatic, financial, administrative, logistical and security components for CRA-North’s community resilience programming activities; ensuring that these activities are in accordance with both IOM and USAID standards and operating modalities.
  • Responsible for supporting the design and development of programmatic strategies and resource allocations in accordance with the community resilience requirements at the regional level; and within the target districts of Khyber, Kurram, North Waziristan and Orakzai Districts
  • Supervise and coordinate the efforts of the Regional Team and District Team Leaders, ensuring that programmatic strategies, implementation modalities and systems are aligned with overall CRA-North project objectives and Deputy Chief of Party expectations.
  • Proactively monitor and support the identification of resilience interventions, inclusive of background information, objectives, theory of change, implementation plans,modifications/amendments, close out and security requirements in coordination with the CRA-North Deputy Chief of Party, Grants, Livelihoods, Gender, Communications, Security and M&E.
  • Responsible for program monthly & quarterly reports submission by respective team leaders ensuring that all the reporting requirements are fulfilled and provide necessary support to CRA – North’s Communications team in identification of potential impact stories at regional and district level as well as coordinate other media activities on resilience programming as and when required.
  • Oversight and management of the regional and district team workplans, ensuring that appropriate levels of technical assistance are provided to confirm that community resilience interventions are effectively designed and implemented. Enforce and strengthen anti-corruption measures and ensure the transparent use of donor funds.
  • Provide strategic input to coordinate CRA-North programming objectives with relevant government strategies, these include the Khyber Paktunkhwa Sustainable Development Strategy and Tribal Decade Strategy; and participate in required Coordination Committee Meetings with the relevant government authorities.
  • Proactively engage with Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s), Community Based Organizations (CBO’s), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) and Implementing Partners with respect to the collaboration, design and implementation of community resilience programming at the regional and district level; ensuring that this programming includes key cross cutting components related to gender mainstreaming and youth engagement.
  • Responsible for ensuring data quality, integrity, precision, validity, reliability and timeliness as required by the CRA-North Deputy Chief of Party, Grants Department, Communications Department, M&E Department and Resource Management Unit, while also recording and integrating lessons learned and best practices for community resilience programming interventions.
  • In accordance with IOM Security Guidelines, undertake regularly scheduled field missions within the target districts to ensure oversight of the programmatic activities, while also building relationships with district-based partners and stakeholders.
  • Organize and maintain Regional programming records, while ensuring that district and regional program team members utilize existing programming matrixes, track grant activity progress while supporting the production of scheduled reports and deliverables.
  • Develop and maintain strategic relationships with program stakeholders and partners, ensuring a clear and comprehensive understanding of the CRA-North resilience programming objectives and progress against defined indicators.
  • Perform such other duties as may be assigned

II) Required Qualifications and Experience

a) Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Finance, Business, Economic Development, Social Sciences, Humanities or a related field with four years of relevant professional experience; or a Master’s Degree with two years of relevant professional experience.

b)Experience 

  • Relevant senior level professional experience working with civil society organizations and peace building processes, ideally within a conflict or a post-conflict setting; preferably with experience in community development, grants management, identification and addressing community resilience gaps and understanding how to strengthen community cohesion.
  • Demonstrated experience in leadership positions on USAID funded programs, with experience in managing/oversight of grants under contract preferred.
  • Extensive project management leadership experience, including applying collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA) principles, knowledge management and communications and monitoring, evaluation and learning, documenting project performance; evaluating subcontractor and grantee activities and providing overall operational direction.
  • Prior experience as a District/Regional Team Leader on complex resilience focused donor funded activities is strongly preferred; with a clear record of managing resilience focused programming.
  • Proven experience in report writing, editing and critical thinking.
  • Capacity to understand and analyze the local, district and regional implementation environment and how this environment caters to the effective design and implementation of community resilience focused programming suitable to the geographical, cultural and political context.
  • Knowledge of the newly merged districts (NMD’s) geography, culture and government structure is a distinct advantage.
  • Knowledge and experience working with USAID, IOM and/or other UN Agencies is preferred.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Urdu, with proficiency in Pashto considered a distinct advantage.

 III) Languages

Required

(specify the required knowledge)

Desirable

Fluency in English & Urdu

 

Pashto

 

 We would encourage Female candidate to apply

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