SayPro Country ERT Emergency Response Team Coordination

Program design and proposals development• Identify potential donors for project funding• Identify projects and concepts using program data, assessments, and coordination efforts;• Lead the design of projects and development of project proposals• Identify local partners and entities• Support local partners to develop proposals aligned with programming.Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning• Ensure new program proposals adhere to donor requirements and expectations regarding MEAL, demonstrating the country mission’s commitment to quality, accountability, and continual improvement.• Ensure the allocation of necessary budget and human resources for implementing MEAL activities across all grants.• Ensure the implementation of MEAL activities in line with donors’ requirements and IMC’s minimum standards.• Ensure formal design, implementation, training, and monitoring of community-based feedback and response mechanisms (CBFRM) to capture, monitor, respond to and act on community feedback and complaints.• Ensures findings, lessons, feedback and evidence from the previous project cycles inform future program strategy, planning and design.• Ensures partner-level activities/training about MEAL are resourced.• Ensure MEAL staff and findings are incorporated into program review and planning meetings.• Regularly check on the complaints handling to ensure local guidelines are followed concerning documentation, referrals, reporting pathways, and feedback loop.• Ensure effective use and implementation of MEAL minimum standards across program management.• Provide technical support to the MEAL department while developing the MEAL strategy for the country’s mission.• Ensure Managers at all levels are aware of their roles and responsibilities related to CBFRM staff training and handling feedback/complaints referred by MEAL.Effective implementation of the portfolio• Provide good leadership to enable program activities on time, on target, and to a high-quality standard.• Hire, orient and supervise new team members as necessary.• Determine training needs, advocate and plan for professional development. Train relevant national staff to undertake greater responsibility and thus ensure sustainability.• Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback via regular performance reviews.• Draft agreements with partners, government bodies, and relevant local entities.• Ensure donor compliance in activities and programming.• Ensure effective monitoring and plan for program evaluation.• Collaborate with human resources in the identification and selection of personnel.• Request technical and operational support as needed through the Response Management Team.• Draft and submit high quality and timely situation reports, donor reports, and local government report.• Visit existing and potential Emergency Program partner’s offices and project locations.• Identifies problems, bottlenecks and issues impacting implementation and coordinates identification and implementation of solutions.