Country: Denmark
Closing date: 03 Jan 2020
Do you thrive in an environment with a multitude of tasks and changing contexts? Are you motivated by tight deadlines, and the need to joggle between the role as a facilitator, motivator, supporter and coordinator? And can you maintain an overview and instil clarity on processes?
The Programme Support Coordinator (PSC) supports DCA’s humanitarian programmes with grants management, project implementation, administration and M&E. The Programme Coordinator will be working under the management and guidance of the Team Leader Operations.
The DCA Humanitarian Response and Mine Action (HRMA) Unit currently consists of 20 employees including 4 roving experts based outside DCA HQ in Copenhagen. The humanitarian programmes include strategic interventions in areas of humanitarian mine action and protection, cash-based programming and risk education, emergency livelihoods, psycho-social support, risk mitigation and capacity building of local actors.
HRMA provides advice, support and quality assurance to humanitarian operations in which DCA is doing direct, co- or partner led implementation and ensures coordination of the support provided to the humanitarian operations including back stopping support on fundraising efforts, grant managements, monitoring of budgets, project/programme implementation and compliance to donor requirements.
Key tasks and responsibilities:
Grants management and fundraising
- Support Country Offices in development of humanitarian response and humanitarian mine action projects in coordination with GPDR (DCA fundraising unit)
- Ensure high quality donor proposals through quality assurance and dialogue with Country Offices (including DANIDA, EU and US requirements)
- Ensure that programme documentation is timely produced, including Reports to document outputs and outcomes
Project Support and Administration
- Ensure that programmes and projects are timely implemented in accordance with Programme Strategies and project documents
- Support DCA Country Directors and Head of Programmes in understanding and utilising the DCA administrative procedures, PPM, maconomy and intranet as required for humanitarian response
- Responsible for timely use of all funds including Danida earmarked, unearmarked and special grants in specific geographical areas
- Ensure that all humanitarian programmes including CO and partners have established procedures in line with the Core Humanitarian Standards
Key Competencies
The successful candidate will have documented experience with grants management and project support within the humanitarian sector. You should:
- Have at least 2 years of field experience in humanitarian assistance and/or mine action, preferably in a managerial role
- Be able to travel – a minimum of 6-8 weeks of annual international travel should be expected
- Demonstrate understanding of the project management cycle and ability to use logframes, Theory of Change and M&E
- Have proven experience in writing proposals and reports to institutional donors such as Danida, US Department of State, EU
- Fluent in English, French fluency is a strong advantage
- Have a degree in international development, social or political science or equivalent
- Be committed, flexible, result oriented and possess strong interpersonal skills
- Be a persuasive and clear communicator, with an eye for detail
- Have the ability to manage a busy workday with conflicting deadlines, and have an organised, structured approach
DCA offers:
- Contract starting as soon as possible
- Good colleagues in a rewarding and empowering work place
- Salary based on DanChruchAid's collective agreement - an attractive pension scheme and insurance scheme will apply
- Work time is 37 hours per week including lunch break
- An interesting and challenging experience addressing humanitarian needs
Contact and application: If you have questions regarding this position, please send them to Charlotte Billoir, Team Leader Operations, chbi@dca.dk
Interested and qualified candidates, regardless of race, age, gender, religion, or ethnicity are encouraged to apply. Please read the minimum qualifications of this position carefully. If you do not meet the minimum requirements for this position, please save your time and ours and refrain from applying. The position in based in DCAs HQ in Copenhagen, and only candidates with a valid work permit for Denmark will be considered.
How to apply:
Please upload your motivated application and CV no later than 3 January, 2020. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applications received by email will not be considered. We anticipate having interviews in w/o 6 January.
Only applications uploaded through our recruitment website will be taken into consideration. https://www.noedhjaelp.dk/det-goer-vi/om-os/job/job-i-danmark/programme-support-coordinator-humanitarian-response-mine-action-unit