• Country: Odessa, Ukraine
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: NRC
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-02-05

1. Role and responsibilities

The Area Programme Manager (APM) is responsible for implementing holistic and need-based programmes and representing NRC at coordination forums, as delegated by the Area Manager (AM). The APM is a member of the Area Management Team (AMT).

The following is a brief description of the role.

Generic responsibilities 

1. Line management for Core Competencies (CC) Project Managers or Coordinators
2. Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
3. Responsible for ensuring programme support to integrated programme, coordination and technical quality in the Area office
4. Provide area specific input relevant for NRC Ukraine and CC strategies
5. Compliance to donor standards, and grant management and regular reporting to donors in Area, within the NRC Ukraine grants management structure
6. Responsible for grants management and BPO allocations in Area
7. Ensure compliance with contractual commitments and extracting and implementing key learnings from project implementation
8. Coordinate emergency responses in Area
9. Ensure a capacity building plan for all technical staff is developed and implemented

Specific responsibilities 

• Acting AM when appointed
• Ensure systems for program quality control, monitoring and evaluation, and approach to identifying and acting on key learning in project implementation
• Lead AO proposal development, identify targeted population needs, develop area protocol for go / no go decisions on funding opportunities
• Regular conference calls, assist with visits and coordination with Donors and other external stakeholders at the area level, in coordination with the AM
• Contribute to planning and implementation of needs assessments, with CC Specialists/PDMs, including for new areas of operation
• Work with CC Specialists/PDMs to develop programmatic strategy for both emergency and transitional/ durable solutions responses (with a focus on returns)
• Responsible for the implementation of the Project Cycle Management (PCM) system
• Oversight of projects implementation, including targets and budgets, in coordination with all Project Managers and Coordinators
• Coordinate with finance department to ensure effective and transparent project progress forecast
• Regular 1:1 meeting with direct line reports and support with drafting and following up on the Work and Development Plans (WDPs) for all direct reports
• Oversight of reporting for AO level projects

Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

1. Proposal development: Area Manager, Specialists/PDMs, Head of Program (Hop)
2. Budget Programme Overview and allocation of shared costs: Finance Manager, Area Manager, PDMs, ASM
3. Grant management: Area Managers, Grant Manager, HoP
4. Donor reports: CC Specialists/PDMs, PMs/Coordinators, Grants, M&E, HoP

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