Chief of Party - Bogota, Colombia - Accion Contra el Hambre

Descripción

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The Cash for Urban Assistance Consortium (CUA) is a strong partnership between three international organisations, Action Against Hunger (AAH) as the leading party of this project, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Danish Refugee Council (DRC), that unite their experience to deliver effective cash assistance to support high vulnerable people in Colombia, including Venezuelan migrants, Colombians returning from Venezuela and host community members in Colombian territory.

The CUA Consortium requires strong leadership and in order to operate effectively and deliver cash assistance in response to the impact of the Venezuela situation.

The position of Consortium Project Director aims to ensure the programmatic, technical, financial and logístical development of AHH actions in the department where the actions are developed, in line with the strategic criteria of AHH in Colombia and the internal processes and regulations of AHH, donor and colombian laws.

He coordinates the delivery of high-quality actions.


Key activities in your role will include:


Objective 1:
Assures the quality in the implementation of those actions.
Tasks

• The overall supervision and coordination of the Consortium in tight coordination with the Steering Committee (SC) and the Programme Management Unit (PMU).
• Chairing the SC and coordinating the PMU and the Committees.
• Reporting on a regular basis to the SC on behalf of the PMU.
• Providing technical support to all Consortium Members (NRC & DRC).
• Ensures and leads the implementation and monitoring of the activity plan (monthly report + activity progress sheet based on activity indicators).
• Validates monthly report of activities; review of planning and followup of activities.
• Prepares quarterly planning and monitoring of activities.
• Develops and monitors the achievement of results and objectives (baseline using indicators established in the planning matrix).
• Plans, coordinates, monitors and provides technical assistance for the implementation of activities.
• It participates in the elaboration of documents that are necessary in the framework of the implementation.
• USAID/OFDA/FFP focal point.
• Ensuring that the action is implemented in a timely and coordinated manner.
• Supervising the Consortium Technical Unit and Working Groups.
• Reviews and capitalizes recommendations and lessons learned.

Objective 2:
Human Resources Management.
Tasks

• Prepares, revises and adapts job descriptions of team members.
• Plans and leads, in coordination with the CD and the HR Department the processes of recruitment of staff.
• Prepares and inducts new staff.
• Responsible for the periodic evaluation of staff performance.
• Organizes, motivate, and follows up on priorities of staff.
• Coordinates, reviews and comments on reports from staff.

Objective 3:
Logistic, administrative, financial, accounting and treasury management.
Tasks

• Coordinates and validates budget planning.
• Supervises the preparation of expenditure forecasts.
• Monitors and validates expenditure and budget execution. Work closely with the Cash Consortium Finance Coordinator, AAH finance and AAH HQ to ensure timely financial reporting on behalf of the Consortium.
• Follows and validates the purchase processes that are carried out.
• Supervises treasury management (bank accounts and cash) of the project according to the accounting criteria of the donor, AHH and Colombian legislation.
• It monitors and validates accounting information.
• Monitoring the evolution of the context, the impact on implementation and activity progress including progress on expenditure rate.
• Coordinates, monitors and supervises logístical management of the project.
• Ensures and complies with AHH's logístical rules and procedures.

Objective 4:
External relations.
Tasks

• Develops and maintains relationships with key stakeholders (authorities, local and international organisations).
• Participate in meetings and forums in external representation of the consortium with different stakeholders.
• Coordinates, supervises and maintains relationships with counterparties or subcontractors.
• Identifies and implements partner capacity studies.
• Elaborates Termes of References (TOR) for agreements and agreements between AHH and external institutions.
• Liaising with USAID/OFDA/FFP's third party monitoring program.
• Coordinate with the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) members in Colombia.
• Participation on humanitarian coordination structures and ensure that consortium is well represented (Cash Working Group, Group Inter-Agencies OIM/ACNUR (GIFMM), Colombian authorities and others as requested).

Objective 5:
Security management.
As head of security for AAH at the project where it works by delegation from the CD, lead the management of security at the activities to facilitate access to populations and intervention areas in the safest possible way for the organizatio