Consortium Manager

Responsibilities

• Consortium Leadership and Coordination
• Provide overall strategic and operational leadership of the VITAL consortium, championing a collaborative 'one team' ethos across IRC, LWF, URCS, and AWYAD.
• Convene and chair the Project Management Committee (PMC) monthly and support the Steering Committee (SC) quarterly, ensuring inclusive partner participation, documented action points, and follow-through.
• Lead integrated work planning processes, ensuring alignment across Protection, MPCT and EPR results, shared resources (fleet, offices), and complementary service delivery in all 18 target locations.
• Facilitate cross-result integration: Protection-EPR joint screening referral protocols, MPCT-Protection mainstreaming linkages, and Crisis Modifier contingency readiness.
• Proactively identify operational bottlenecks, partnership tensions, and risk escalation scenarios; develop and implement timely mitigation measures.
• Represent the VITAL Consortium to DG ECHO, including donor meetings, site visits, and performance reviews; maintain open, transparent communication throughout the grant cycle.
• Partner Management and Capacity Strengthening
• Working with the partnership coordinator, serve as IRC's primary partnership focal point for LWF, URCS, and AWYAD, managing partnership agreements in line with IRC's PEERS framework.
• Oversee partner capacity analyses (PCA), development of capacity-sharing plans, and delivery of agreed organizational and technical support to URCS and AWYAD as local/national NGO partners.
• Lead joint quarterly field monitoring visits across consortium partner sites; review partner narrative and financial reports for quality, accuracy, and

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future. Position Overview The VITAL Consortium is a multi-partner, multi-sector humanitarian action funded by DG ECHO, implemented by IRC (lead) in partnership with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS), and African Women & Youth Action for Development (AWYAD). The action responds to increasing health and protection risks facing refugees and host communities across Uganda's refugee-hosting districts, driven by sustained displacement from South Sudan, DRC and Sudan, recurring disease outbreaks, and declining humanitarian funding. VITAL delivers integrated lifesaving interventions across four results: Result 1 - Protection: Safe, dignified access to GBV, child protection, PSS and community-based protection services for newly arrived refugees at priority RTCs and settlements. Result 2 - Multi-Purpose Cash Transfers (MPCT): Timely vulnerability-based cash assistance to newly arrived households in six priority refugee settlements, led by LWF. Result 3 - Epidemic Preparedness and Response (EPR): Strengthened disease surveillance, IPC, community engagement and district health system capacity across seven refugee-hosting districts, led by IRC and URCS. Result 4 - Crisis Modifier: Rapid-onset contingency mechanism for deployment within 72 hours in the event of sudden refugee influx or emergency-level disease outbreak. The action is implemented across 18 service delivery locations in West Nile, Acholi, Western and Southwest sub-regions, reaching 733,410 direct beneficiaries. Operational sites include Bidibidi, Rhino Camp, Palorinya, Palabek, Kyangwali, Nakivale and Kiryandongo settlements, alongside key points of entry (PoEs) and reception/transit centres (RTCs). Job Overview The Consortium Manager is the operational and strategic hub of the VITAL project. S/he will be responsible for the overall coordination, management, and quality delivery of the VITAL Action, serving as the primary focal point for IRC as lead partner, consortium partners (LWF, URCS, AWYAD), and key external stakeholders including UNHCR, OPM, WHO, WFP and district authorities. The Consortium Manager will ensure cohesive 'one team' implementation across Protection, MPCT and EPR results, driving integrated programming, accountability, and adaptive management throughout the 12-month action. S/he will maintain strategic oversight of partner performance, financial management, MEAL compliance, donor reporting, and risk management while proactively supporting partners' technical and operational capacity.

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