Key Skills and Competencies
- Strong leadership, coordination, and people-management skills.
- Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong analytical, report-writing, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership, coordination, and management of humanitarian programs in line with CENSCOPE strategy and donor requirements.
- Ensure effective planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities.
- Manage program budgets, work plans, and timelines, ensuring efficient use of resources.
- Lead and supervise program staff, fostering teamwork, capacity building, and performance management.
- Ensure compliance with donor guidelines, organizational policies, and humanitarian core standards.
- Coordinate with donors, government counterparts, UN agencies, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Identify risks, challenges, and opportunities, and propose adaptive management solutions.
- Contribute to proposal development, needs assessments, and strategic planning.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, International Development, Social Sciences, or a related field (Master’s degree is an advantage).
- Minimum of 5–8 years’ relevant experience, with at least 3 years in a project or program management role within humanitarian settings.
- Strong knowledge donor compliance, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
- Willingness to travel to field locations
- Ability to work independently with minimal or no supervision.
- Excellent knowledge of the humanitarian principles and practices
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Confidentiality, integrity, and a sense of conflict-of-interest prevention.
IMPORTANT NOTE
- Applicants are encouraged to apply both via the application link and by email. Applications submitted only through the email address, without completing the application link, may not be considered.
- CENSCOPE operates in an equal opportunity environment and has policies that actively encourages inclusion and diversity,
- CENSCOPE has zero tolerance for Sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the organization reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the stated deadline once a suitable candidate is identified.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Female candidates are encouraged to apply
- CENSCOPE does not charge any fee to facilitate any recruitment process.