Deputy Team Leader – Somalia
Stability Fund
DAI
is an employee-owned global development company.
For
40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development,
tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient
markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering
results that matter in some 60 countries.
Our
integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together
fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple
disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance
and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector
development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control,
water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change.
Our
clients include international development agencies, international lending
institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national
governments.
About
the Programme
The
UK Prime Minister’s London Conference on Somalia (February 2012) concluded that
support for local stability should be in accordance with the New Deal for
engagement in fragile states and build on the stabilisation strategies prepared
by relevant authorities, including the Intergovernmental Authority and the
Government of Somalia .
Improved
coordination of international support to build stability and a need to
integrate political, security and development initiatives was recognised.
To that end, the Conference announced the establishment of a multi-donor
Somalia Stability Fund (SSF) and a set of principles to guide international
support.
The
donors contributing to the SSF (Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, United Arab
Emirates, and United Kingdom) reviewed existing funding mechanisms to Somalia
and agreed that a new, multi-donor Fund was required.
The
SSF offers donors a means to respond rapidly and flexibly to the ebb and flow
of opportunity that Somalia’s complex operating environment offers, to develop
an approach that fully integrates political, security and development
interventions, and to improve the coherence and impact of international support
to promote stability.
The
Fund offers Somali stakeholders a source of multi-year funding that can respond
to local, small-scale needs and opportunities, provide resources equitably
across Somalia to take to scale existing programmes and establish new
initiatives, and can link local interventions to regional and national
political processes.
The
SSF will incorporate innovative approaches to promote transparency, manage
risk, and monitor results.
Its
governance structure is designed to promote coordination and cooperation with
other programmes and to allow representation of core international and Somali
stakeholders, while ensuring it is sufficiently agile to capitalise on
opportunities and leverage greater impact from complementary programming.
The
aim of the fund is to provide sustained support over the longer term to local
processes of building stability in Somalia, and to help areas become stable
over the medium-term, whilst linking them to national processes.
It
seeks to be flexible, and to respond to an evolving context and lessons learnt,
addressing priorities and approaches set out by local stakeholders.
The
Fund aims to provide sustained and graduated support to stability issues in the
short, medium, and longer term as needed.
The Fund’s expected outcome is to provide more stability for poor Somalis by building peace and security, strengthening administrations, and improving infrastructure and services.
The Fund’s expected outcome is to provide more stability for poor Somalis by building peace and security, strengthening administrations, and improving infrastructure and services.
It
will fund development projects led and implemented by communities, support
legitimate and representative local administrations, and increase the number of
inclusive local, regional and national peace agreements. SSF outputs are:
- A
greater number of inclusive local, regional and national peace
settlements.
- A
greater number of communities who are safe and more secure.
- Target
communities’ priority development needs met.
- A
greater number of legitimate and representative local administrations
- International
support to local areas of stability is better managed and coordinated.
DAI
is seeking an experienced Deputy Team Leader who
will be responsible for all operational aspects of the Project, including
oversight of grant, logistics, finances, and subcontracts, and administrative
matters.
S/He
will deputise for the Team Leader as required, leading on the annual
workplanning process, and will act as a liaison between Somali-based teams and
the project office.
Based
in Nairobi, the Deputy Team Leaderwill be expected to travel to Somalia
on a regular basis.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Overall
responsibility for project administration as the Team Leader’s delegated
representative.
- Directly
supervise Operations personnel – including Logistics, HR, finance,
procurement and grants.
- Support
the Team Leader in the day to day management of the grants programme and
the activities fund, including procurement, tracking of results and
administrative oversight
- Deputise
on behalf of the Team Leader when required
- Serve
as liaison with other project components (including Regional
Managers) on matters of project operations
- Serve
as the Team Leader’s advisor on all contractual and financial matters with
the donors, Partners, and Subcontractors and play a key role in the
preparation of the budget
- Work
with counterpart consultants to improve systems, policies, procedures, and
structures in targeted governmental and non-governmental
institutions.
- Provide
support to the technical components of the project to help staff overcome
specific bottlenecks and to provide results documentation and publicity
for a wider audience.
- Assist
technical staff with planning and preparation of grants and activities
- Assist
in the documentation of project results, via contributions to articles,
reports and other deliverables.
- With
Team Leader, oversee programme’s annual workplanning and budgeting
process.
- Maintain
project results files and documentation of deliverables achievement,
including regular drafting and compilation of monthly, quarterly and
annual reports, as indicated by the Team Leader
- Recruit
and manage new staff with Team Leader
Requirements
- Minimum
of 7 years of experience in international development, with at least 5
years in management positions in fragile states, conflict contexts.
- Experience
and strong understanding of governance and stability issues in Horn of
Africa.
- Previous
management experience in Somalia essential
- Proven
understanding of how to do business in Somalia, with established networks
through which to mobilise support and smooth operations.
- Experience
in managing international and national teams from diverse cultural
backgrounds
- Programme
strategy development experience, including work planning, and activity
budgeting
- Experienced
in DFID systems and processes, including demonstrated understanding of the
value for money agenda, and its application to programme implementation
and monitoring.
- Ability
to oversee programme financial manager, with proven experience in
financial accountability.
Project
Start Date: May
2013
Duration:
29
to 41 months
Application
Deadline:
28th February 2013
How
to apply:
Please
submit your application via the following link: