Senior Project Manager- Somaliland

GLOPPI

Job Type

Full Time

Location

Gabiley, Somaliland

Description :

Job title: Senior Project Manager- Somaliland

Location: Gabiley, Somaliland.

Responsible to: Country Director- Kenya, Somaliland and Somalia

Starting date: February or late January, 2017

Duration: Six months initial contract with possibility of extension.

Working hours: Full time (40 hours per week)

Closing date: 31^st January, 2017.

GLOBAL PEACE AND PROSPERITY INITIATIVE (GLOPPI) is international NGO that strives to eliminate underlying causes and impacts of violent conflicts, and poor governance. It also strives to eliminate or reduce poverty and related climate and environmental changes. In collaboration with others, GLOPPI intends to empower the poor, marginalized, excluded and the suffering people to lead peaceful and prosperous life.

Global Peace and Prosperity Initiative (GLOPPI) would like to recruit a dynamic and energetic person as a senior Project Manager to be based in Gabiley, Somaliland. This is the most senior position in Somaliland and will have overall responsibility of representation, leading the strategic direction and the country team, managing projects, human and financial resources. This position reports to Country Director-Kenya, Somaliland and Somalia. The position holder will manage a small field office with a small team and will work with local partners. The position holder will specifically be responsible for the management and implementation of “Bottom up Approach to building Accountable Somaliland Local Governments through Empowering Civil Society (BATASOLGEC) to be piloted in Gabiley, Somaliland before scale up.

This project focuses on building the capacity of the civil society in Gabiley region. More specifically, it will establish Gabiley Accountability and Good Governance and Development forum (GAGADEF), a civil society accountability forum, to enhance civil society and local government interactions; build the capacity of civil society (youth & women groups, religious & traditional leaders, university students, business people, CSOs and NGOs etc) to work with the local government and the local municipality council; increase the level of awareness of the general public on good governance and accountability and making the local elected municipality council accountable, transparent and responsive; and create an incentive/reward system for the highly performing leaders on good governance, leadership and accountability.

This is a great opportunity and an exciting position for qualified and experienced individuals who are interested to make a difference on the lives of the communities and to demonstrate their leadership in transforming society in the context of growing organization. The senior project manager who is passionate for accountability, good governance and development will play a key role in achieving our visions by providing effective project leadership and management. Therefore, GLOPPI would like to receive applications for this interesting and exiting position from qualified and experienced candidates.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Overall direction

· Contribute to the strategic direction of the country and participatory country strategic paper (CSPs) for the coming 3-5 years.

· Ensure that programmes and projects fit into the overall country strategy and thematic areas

· Contribute to the development of policies and strategies on key issues to influence a range of stakeholders.

· Represent GLOPPI in key forums and coordination meetings and ensure that GLOPPI joins the key forums and NGO consortiums.

· Participate and represent GLOPPI in coordination meetings with other agencies and line ministries and county governments at the county level.

2. Program Development and Planning

· Lead the development and expansion of the GLOPPI programmes especially Governance, livelihoods/ food security, protection, human rights, and peace building projects

· Develop assessment tools and to conduct periodic quality assessments and researches,

· In coordination and consultation with the partners and the GLOPPI team, take the lead in the development of quality winning concept notes, letter of enquiries (LOI) and proposals and in the development of new projects and initiatives.

· Generate new creative and innovative project/program ideas and develop new programs.

· Conduct regular assessments and initiate new project ideas and write concept notes and proposals.

1. Program Planning, implementation and monitoring

v Take responsibility for planning and implementation of ‘’Bottom up Approach to building Accountable Somaliland Local Governments through Empowering Civil Society Project’’ (BATASOLGEC).

v Facilitate the establishment of Establish Gabiley Accountability and Good Governance and Development forum (GAGADEF) in Gabiley.

v Work with the local partners to facilitate the establishment of accountability and good governance forums in Arabsiyo, Tog-wajale and Allaybadey etc.

v Conduct the capacity assessment of the different forums and identify gaps for capacity building.

v Organize and conduct series of relevant training, workshops on identified areas which may include accountability and good governance, development and leadership.

v Train staff and civil society on participatory planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation etc.

v Conduct the capacity assessment of the Gabiley municipality council and development committee in the target districts and identify gaps for capacity building.

v Conduct relevant trainings for the Gabiley local municipality council and other development committees in the region

v Work with the Gabiley local municipality council and senior officials to enhance accountability and good governance in the region.

v Design and implement awareness-raising communication programme to increase awareness of the general public on accountability and good governance.

v In consultation with the committee, identify and assess the high performing leaders and individuals on accountability and good governance, and nominate the accountability prize.

v Monitor regularly the activities and achievements of the ‘’Bottom up Approach to building Accountable Somaliland Local Governments through Empowering Civil Society (BATASOLGEC)

v Write clearly and comprehensive monthly, quarterly and annual reports to the Country Director covering progress of BATASOLGEC project.

v Provide management support to the Country Director.

v Maintain regular communications on Project work to the country director

v Coordinate with UN-Joint Programme for local governments (JLPG) and its partners as well as other NGOs in the region.

A) SUPPORT SYSTEMS (FINACE/ADMIN/PROCUREMENT AND HR) AT FEILD LEVEL.

v Line the admin and finance officer at the project level

v Ensure that all supporting documents are available for all financial transactions

v Ensure that the financial system is effectively functioning at field office.

v Ensure financial, procurement and budgetary guidelines and controls are in place at field office.

v Work with the finance/Admin and compliance manager/Accountant and ensure that the Project administrative system is update and up to the international standards.

v Ensure that contributions of the personnel to the project is documented and appropriately filed.

v Work with the admin/fiancé officer and ensure that all assets are well registered, maintained, and filed in line with donor regulation.

v Ensure that HR system is functional and that all staff issues are addressed timely.

v Ensure that project complies with donor policies/requirements and organizational policies and procedure at field level.

v Pay regular visits and ensure the field offices comply with the donor requirements/donor and organizational policies and procedures.

v Ensure that GLOPPI complies with income tax regulations of Somaliland.

QUALIFICATIONS/COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCE:

v BA in political science, leadership, governance, international relations/study and diplomacy, public management/administration, sociology and social anthology or a related degree, Master preferred.

v At least 3 years working experience as project coordinator in an INGO environment.

v At least 3 years experience in capacity building of civil society coalitions and alliances.

v At least 3 years experience in and capacity assessment and capacity building preferably in the areas of governance.

v At least 3 years experience in managing good governance and accountability projects.

v At least 3 years of experience in coordination of projects

v At least 3 years of experience in gender mainstreaming.

v At least 3 year experience in managing project financial, physical and human sources.

v At least 3 years experience in donor-funded projects such as DFID, USAID and other donors.

v Extensive knowledge on Gabiley local context and social dynamics and the impact it can have on the success of the project

v Extensive experience in monitoring and evaluations and the ability to develop and use monitoring system effectively

v Excellent report and proposal writing skills.

v Excellent representational and diplomatic skills

v Ability to work under minimum supervision and deliver results timely

v Ability to influence high level officials and high personalities of civil society with divergent opinions

v Experience in working with local government officials and local municipality council as well as diverse civil society including Diaspora etc.

v Excellent communications skills and commitment to GLOPPI’s vision mission and values.

v Extensive leadership knowledge and skills and the ability to transform society

v Fluency in English and Somali is a must.

v Must be already living or planning to live in Gabiley or nearby towns of Somaliland

v Willingness and ability to travel to remote areas of the region and ability to link the grass-root communities and coalitions with the forum.

v Must be Somalilanders and a person with high level of integrity, transparency and accountability.

v Experience in working with local NGO partners etc

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