CCCM/SMC Coordinator

                                                                                                                              JOB DESRIPTION

CCCM/SMC Coordinator

Background

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) in conjunction with Danish Demining Group (DDG) has been operating in Yemen since 2008 using a protection of human rights framework. DRC initially worked in Yemen with mixed migrants coming from the Horn of Africa who are displaced by conflict and drought. Since then, DRC expanded its sectors of intervention and is now providing humanitarian assistance in nineteen governorates throughout the country. There are currently over 250 staff working between the Sana’a main office, two hub offices in Aden and Hajja and seven field offices. Current programme sectors include protection (mixed migration, IDP, child), FSL, WASH, Shelter, and CCCM/SMC. Our operations in Yemen have both grown and changed as needs escalate following the country’s descent into civil war in 2015.

Purpose

Reporting to the Head of Programs and in direct coordination with the Area and CCCM Managers, the overall responsibility of the Yemen CCCM/SMC Coordinator is to monitor and coordinate assistance and protection, setting up and supporting governance and community participation mechanisms, managing and disseminating information, providing multisector feedback mechanisms, and maintaining infrastructure. Primary focus is on sites where people are displaced (planned sites, collective sites, transit centres, reception centres), dispersed settlements (self-settled sites, rural self-settlements, unmanaged collective sites) and/or urban displacements and outside of sites.  The Yemen CCCM Coordinator will work across all Yemen.

In response to the critical and constantly evolving humanitarian situation in Yemen, DRC has formed a Consortium which has assumed a leading role in the development and implementation of Site Management Coordination (SMC) sector activities. Focusing primarily on CCCM, WASH, shelter, and protection programming at IDP hosting sites, the Consortium aims to improve overall coordination capacity while providing a wide range of site level services through direct implementation and advocacy. The Camp Management (CCCM) Technical Coordinator, reporting to Head of Programmes for DRC Yemen, will be expected to work to:

• Provide strategic direction and technical support to CCCM initiatives
• Strengthen effective CCCM capacity of international and national staff
• Support advocacy initiatives undertaken at the field level
• Improve the accountability of the humanitarian response at IDP hosting sites

Core Functions and Responsibilities

CCCM Technical Support

• Lead the development of DRC CCCM strategy in Yemen
• Lead the harmonization of CCCM methodology, tools, processes, and outputs to consortium partners
• Provide technical support and overall coordination in the roll-out of CCCM programming
• Contribute to CCCM related MEAL planning and implementation
• Diversify the DRC CCCM portfolio through proposal development and donor engagement

Oversight of CCCM implementation

• Support the implementation of DRC CCCM activities
• Conduct frequent field visits to monitor the quality of CCCM implementation
• Improve utilization of site monitoring data in informing humanitarian response at IDP hosting sites
• Contribute to implementation of beneficiary feedback mechanisms at IDP hosting sites
• Oversee protection and gender mainstreaming in all DRC CCCM activities

Advocacy and Resource Mobilization

• Identify core advocacy concerns for DRC CCCM programming and support field staff with advocacy
• Engage the humanitarian community in mobilizing resources to target critical areas with services
• Actively support field staff in holding humanitarian actors and other stakeholders accountable

Capacity-building

• Support strengthening of national and hub level coordination of interventions at IDP hosting sites
• Improve DRC integrated programming through building CCCM capacity within DRC teams
• Develop diverse methods to build coordination capacity among the humanitarian community
• Ensure integration of protection considerations and gender-sensitive programming in CCCM activities

Information management & reporting

• Support setup of centralized CCCM reporting and information management systems
• Support efforts to harmonize CCCM tools, processes, procedures, and information management
• Support efforts to collect and aggregate accurate and up-to-date information on IDP hosting sites
• Support efforts to improve sequencing of assistance and linkages to WFP GFD programming
• Consolidate CCCM internal and donor reports in collaboration with CCCM staff
• Support the CCCM team with generating and disseminating visual information products

Competencies

All DRC staff members are expected to demonstrate the following core competencies:

• Striving for excellence – constantly and actively seeking ways to develop professionally
• Collaborating – working respectfully with DRC staff, partners, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders
• Taking the lead – showing positive initiative in situations where leadership is required
• Communicating – ability to listen, give space, and convey thoughts and ideas to others respectfully
• Demonstrating integrity – adhering to high personal and professional ethical standards

Qualifications

Essential:

• A Masters degree in a relevant field.
• At least six years INGO experience, including at least three years in management or coordination in insecure environments.
• Significant professional knowledge of CCCM strategies, policies, and modalities
• Proven experience in strategic planning and organizational development
• Proven experience in managing and supporting CCCM teams with technical guidance and training
• Strong capacity in inter-agency coordination and networking
• Strong analytical, organizational, and management and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability with project grants management, including project design, budget preparation, expenditure tracking, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, supervision and performance.
• Proven commitment to accountable practices and knowledgeable of quality assurance systems.
• Hands on experience in leading staff in insecure locations and strong human resource management skills in general.
• Good communicator and proven diplomacy with all types of stakeholders.
• Fluent and articulate in spoken and written English.
• Ability to work independently, but also coordinate effectively as part of a team.
• Ability to lead a multi-cultural team with a high level of respect for local culture.
• Strong computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point).
• Ability and willingness to work and live in diverse, challenging and potentially unstable environments.

Preferable:

• Previous experience in working in a consortium
• Strong protection, shelter or WASH background is an asset.
• Fluency in written and spoken Arabic

Others:

• Yemen is a stressful environment; interested candidates should be ready to accept challenging conditions.

Conditions

Availability: 1^st July , 2019

 Duty station: Sanaa (with frequent travel in the country)

 Reporting: Head of Programs

 Duration: 12 Months with possibility of extension, subject to funding.

 Contract Salary and conditions in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Global Expatriates (available at www.drc.dk under Vacancies). This position is graded as G Non-Manager.

 Commitments

DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework.

Application

Qualified candidates are invited to access the full job description and the requirements for this position under vacancies at www.drc.dk. Please submit applications online by June 8, 2019. Due to the urgency of this hiring, interviews will be done on a rolling basis; and a candidate maybe identified before the closing date.