IRC seeks to recruit Camp Manager – Melkadida, Ethiopia

Requisition ID: req5865

Job Title: Camp Manager

Sector: Program Administration

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Melkadida, Ethiopia

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Job Description :

Under direct supervision of the Field Coordinator, the Camp Manager is responsible for overall management of programs and operation in Bokolmayo refugee camp. Ensuring IRC’s goal and programs’ objectives are met. Lead project Plaining, Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation processes. Develop standardized proposal and report. Ensuring safety and security of IRC’s staff, image and assets. S/He provides supervision and direction to the assigned camp office, with an emphasis on coaching and mentoring the staff to build their capacity. Manages their performance as per IRC’s Performance Management Plan guideline. Ensures high level representation in various forums and maintains IRC’s interest.

Responsibilities :

 Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

Leadership :

• Ensure the consistent implementation of the IRC policies, guidelines, manuals and procedures.
• Actively participate in decision making process and contribute to strengthen over all Melkadida Filed Office Management.
• Encourage key staffs to participate in problem solving and decision making.
• Maintain system to strengthen inter-departmental /camp collaboration through facilitating action oriented sector specific and staff regular meetings.
• Preserve close, open and professional relationships with all actors; facilitate donor M&E visits.

Operations: Human Resource Management, Finance and Supply chain :

• Ensure IRC’s National Staff Personnel Policy and Human Resource Manual; the IRC Way; IRC’s Refugee Staff Personnel Policy; Supply Chain Policies and Procedures; Finance rule and regulations; donor and government policies are respected and properly practiced.
• Mentor and support staff’s capacity needs and their professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming include a concrete formal and informal capacity planning and training for staff.
• Ensure all staff performance objectives are well set and they have clear understanding about their role and responsibilities.
• Conduct mid-term and annual staff performance evaluations and assist the office in developing a framework for staff career development, training and coaching.
• Provide counseling and support in resolution of employee relations problems. Ensure Office disciple is in place; control embezzlement of any kind; ensure individual staff actions are in line with IRC’s goodwill. Take disciplinary action as per IRC’s personnel policy when deemed necessary.
• Maintain system and IRC best practices for regular staff evaluation, and standard procedures for new position posting, interviewing and applicant selection.
• Conduct PR/PO follow up; remind SC and program team (Addis and Melkadida) to address issues on time.
• Monitor camp level warehouse management; control and monitor use of IRC assets and report to field office on time for any misuse, theft and damage of IRC properties.
• Verify/approve all camp-based payments, purchase requests, contracts etc. for the camp within the given limit
• Work closely and communicate effectively with Melkadida Field Office’s staff to ensure timely payments and procurements.
• Maintain office records and disseminate information and correspondence from Addis/Field Office, IRC Offices to all operation and program staff in the camps and vice-versa.
• Ensure proper budget management of Bokolmayo refugee camp with effective use of online BVA system.
• Lead all staff meetings (monthly quarter, biannual and annual); oversee trainings/workshops Bokolmayo refugee camp projects that are organized to refugee communities, IPs, OPs, ARRA, UN agency, etc.; conduct opening/closing remarks.
• Take all rounded action for cost management (efficient and effective utilization of all resources); lead staff towards cost management practice.
• Coordinate and facilitate, spot checking, warehouse reports, review meetings etc.
• Conduct monitoring of IRC’s materials (electromechanical equipment, construction, education etc.) which are found in the field; keep their record, control embezzlement and provide timely advice/corrective actions if appropriate; ensure effective and efficient material utilization.
• Ensure proper asset, acquisition, management and disposal in Bokolmayo refugee camp
• Mentor and support staff’s capacity improvement needs and their professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming include a concrete formal and informal capacity planning and training for staff once every quarter.

Programmatic :

• Provide support and camp oversight on program implementation on daily basis; assist staff to develop sector specific M&E plans
• Oversee the implementation of Bokolmayo refugee camp projects; ensure the projects are implemented according to well- plan schedule annual, quarterly, month work-plan and budgets-spending plan, and that projects objectives are well-met.
• Follow up the implementation of field level mandatory reporting timeline (sector reports, management reports, donor reports and government reports)
• Be proactive to facilitate regular surveys on the provided services; collected data are analyzed, documented and accessed by relevant staff.
• Mobilize and ensure the refugee community is involved in the design, implementation, monitoring, review and evaluation of all IRC’s programs.
• Lead in overall quality of all projects assessment, assessment tools design/contextualize, methodology and final quality assessment report.
• Work closely with all programs staff and ensure planned trainings, workshops and awareness raising events are organized on time, in a systematic and coordinated manner.
• Ensure best grant administration; for Bokolmayo refugee camp, develop and maintain grant opening/closing power point presentations, activity plans, spending and procurement plans. Participate in all grant opening, and closing meetings, tracking expenditures; and ensure they are allowable and allocable according to IRC and donor compliance and regulations; review monthly BvA and bring any over/under expenditure, miss-charge or double charging issues etc. to the attention of the Field Coordinator/Finance team in a timely manner and jointly develop corrective plan.
• Participate in new project and concept note development; provide timely, informative and quality inputs to funding proposals (project descriptions, log frames, Work plan, and budgeting); ensure program staff provide timely and quality inputs to technical managers that will be used for standard project reports. Review all Helloweyn & Bur amino refugee camps plus Dolo reception center updates/reports to be shared to technical managers of Melkadida and camp based ARRA, UNHCR, RCC, IPs, OPs.
• Ensure projects timely and quality monitoring and evaluation; ensure good project monitoring and evaluation tools are in place/update; and ensure evidence based actions are in practices to demonstrate quality project progress, impact, learning and recommendation; ensure all are well documented for next project formulation and administrative actions.
• Ensure the inclusion of vulnerable children, women and elderly including people with disability and HIV/AIDS infected and affected people to have access to all IRC’s program interventions and other service deliveries
• Contribute to IRC’s institutional learning; document relevant reading materials, encourage staff to use them, develop and share success stories to Melkadida staff.
• Improve the overall IRC’s camp environment in consultation with the camp and field office staff

Coordination and Representation :

• Pursue effective working relationships with all stakeholders at all level in best representation of IRC with Bokolmayo refugee camp based UN Agencies, ARRA, IPs, Ops, RCC, zone leaders and local authority to enhance multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination; ensure that relevant information from interagency, coordination, sector, working group meetings is timely shared to Bokolmayo refugee camp concerned staff, Melkadida technical managers and field coordinator.
• Contribute to the realization of Country Strategic Action Plan /SAP/.
• Coordinate with Melkadida Field Office managers to achieve IRC’s strategic objects; support/receive resources; plan together to wise use of IRC resource; provide parallel advice to managers to best implement Melkadida projects.
• Develop reports and share to all concerned on time; ensure camp staff submit quality report to all concerned bodies on time;

Safety, Security and Health :

• Conduct regular discussions with key stakeholders to identify and determine approaches to address staff’s stress levels,
• Assists the Field Office in updating Field Office’s Security Management Plan
• Facilitate security related trainings to camp based staff
• Assist the Field Office during the implementation of IRC-Ethiopia safety and security plan
• Ensures effective communications among Helloweyn & Bur amino refugee camps plus Dolo reception center camp staff and other staff across all camps- and among different levels of responsibilities at field and Addis levels
• Ensure communication three is respected; and educate staff to adhere it
• Develop strict local vehicle safety policies and ensures that they are consistently implemented as per IRC SOP,
• Ensure all kinds of incidents in Helloweyn & Bur amino refugee camps plus Dolo reception center camp are tracked and reported to FC within 24 hours,
• Ensure IRC’s staff, goodwill (brand), assets are safe and secured,
• Closely work with the security network and take timely security measures,

NB: Any other duties and responsibilities that are given by immediate supervisor

Qualifications :

• MA/MSc/BA/BSc in Development Management, Business Management, Hydraulic Engineering, Social Work or related field of studies.
• Four years relevant experience for MA/MSc and Five years for BA/BSc holders
• Ability to deliver a concise quality reports in English; demonstrated experience in proposal development, including practical experience with budgeting, log frame development, and writing of technical descriptions; excellent spoken English skills; and additional local languages is a plus,
• Management of multisector projects at international NGOs preferably in refugee camps is highly required.
• Demonstrated ability and experience in working in an emergency and post emergency/recovery program.
• Excellent project management/administration experience; excellent representational communication and interpersonal, negotiation skills.
• Experience in working with multicultural and diversified workforce.
• Proven Ability to work under pressure
• Good knowledge of humanitarian and protection principles.
• Proven management and leadership skills.