DRC: Program Manager- Response Rapide aux Mouvement de Populations

Aug 6, 2018 | Mercy Corps
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Mercy Corps has been operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since August 2007, with a staff of around 200 people working in North and South Kivu, with the overall country goal to support vulnerable communities through crises, while fostering programs that build resilience and promote long-term change. Mercy Corps’ national office is in Goma with sub-field offices in North Kivu and South Kivu. Mercy Corps’ key programming areas include a combination of longer-term development and immediate humanitarian response programs in order to: 1) Improve water service delivery and ensuring equitable access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene services, in urban and rural areas; 2) Improve food security and nutrition; 3) Promote diversified livelihoods, economic recovery and development. Mercy Corps DRC’s humanitarian programs aim specifically to assist populations affected by the conflict and crisis in Eastern Congo. With funding from humanitarian donors including OFDA and UN-donors, the humanitarian portfolio continues to expand in order to provide multi-purpose cash assistance and emergency WASH to displaced and host populations. Mercy Corps plans to scale up and expand its humanitarian response to reach more beneficiaries with additional and varied assistance in a wider geographic area. All Mercy Corps interventions in DRC are implemented in a conflict and gender sensitive manner.

General Position Summary

The Program Manager is responsible for coordinating and implementing the delivery of an of a multi-million dollar UNICEF-funded Réponse Rapide aux Mouvement de Populations (RRMP). The RRMP Consortium is a partnership of three international humanitarian aid agencies to model and deliver innovative, effective and efficient humanitarian assistance to conflict-affected communities in North Kivu. The RRMP Consortium needs a strong leadership and coordination function in order to operate effectively and deliver on its intended impact. The PM is an effective communicator able to work with internal and external stakeholders to achieve common objectif and to represent the consortium as a whole, represents the interests of the partnership, and ensures it is working effectively and efficiently across member agencies.

S/he will manage the contractual relationship between the different partners and the current primary donors (notably UNICEF); coordinate the delivery of high quality programming; report on the activities implemented based on donor regulations and build relationships between the consortium and the donors, UN and UN coordination structures and the government where needed. S/he will be the primary program representative to donors, cluster system, relevant government entities, partners, other implementers and external stakeholders.