SAFE-PATH Senior Consortium Manager

Responsibilities

• Consortium Leadership & Coordination
• Provide strategic and operational coordination ensuring harmonized methodologies and partner‑led decision‑making where feasible.
• Maintain full oversight across operational, financial, compliance, and programmatic aspects, ensuring timely escalation and support to partners
• Ensure alignment through joint review with partners; facilitate program adjustments through participatory decision‑making.
• Facilitate regular consortium coordination meetings and ensure effective communication among partners.
• Identify and address gaps in implementation, including partner performance, operational challenges, and coordination bottlenecks.
• Project Oversight & PCM (Project Cycle Management)
• Lead consortium‑wide oversight, ensuring progress against targets, budget utilization, compliance requirements and risk management.
• Liaise with the Grants focal point to structure Project Cycle Meetings (PCMs), including agenda setting and identification of priority issues.
• Establish and maintain the consortium Dashboard, tracking progress, risks, and action points.
• Facilitate PCMs, ensure documentation of decisions, and monitor follow-up actions.
• Escalate key issues (budget, scope, risks, under/over-performance) to DDP/DDFM as required.
• Integrated Program Quality & Technical Oversight
• Ensure strong localization of technical approaches through capacity‑sharing, joint supervision, and partner‑led quality assurance.
• Ensure integrated and harmonized service delivery across:
• Protection risk analysis and monitoring
• Case management and legal assistance
• Cash for Protection and Individual Protection Assistance
• Targeted evacuation and transit support
• CCCM/Shelter interventions
• Promote strong referral pathways and coordinated service delivery across partners and sectors.
• Work closely with technical teams to ensure adherence to protection principles, SOPs, and quality standards.
• Develop and oversee quality assurance and monitoring systems in coordination with technical and METAL teams.
• Partner Support & Capacity Strengthening
• Provide mentoring, technical guidance, and formative supervision to partners as needed.
• Promote shared learning, best practices, and harmonized approaches across partners.
• External Representation & Coordination
• Represent the consortium in Protection Cluster, relevant sub-clusters, and working groups at regional and national levels.
• Engage with government stakeholders, social services, and other service providers to strengthen coordination and referrals.
• Ensure complementarity with other protection and shelter interventions in Ukraine.
• Advocacy, Learning & Knowledge Management
• Support development of evidence-based advocacy messages in coordination with Advocacy and Policy teams.
• Contribute to documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices.
• Support assessments, evaluations, and reporting processes across the consortium.
• Safeguarding, Accountability & Inclusion
• Ensure safeguarding and GESDI principles are consistently integrated across all consortium activities by coordinating with designated safeguarding, acc

Benefits

Additional Information

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. The SAFE-PATH Senior Consortium Manager will provide strategic leadership, coordination, and oversight of a multi-partner consortium implementing integrated protection and shelter interventions in Donetsk and Kharkiv Oblasts. The role will ensure effective, coherent, and high-quality implementation of activities delivered by IRC and partners across the evacuation cycle, including protection risk analysis and monitoring, case management and legal assistance, targeted evacuation and transit support, and CCCM/Shelter components. The position will act as the central coordination, accountability and communication hub for the consortium ensuring alignment with program objectives, donor requirements, and protection standards, while strengthening integration across sectors and partners with a strong emphasis on localization, accountability to affected people, and partner‑led implementation, in line with donor expectations and IRC's partnership principles of equality, complementarity, mutuality, solidarity, results-orientation, and humility

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