Turkey: Programme Quality and Grants Manager - Turkey

Background

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental and non-profit organization, founded in 1956, that works in more than 30 countries around the world. DRC has been operating in Turkey since early 2013, working with by and large with non-camp Syrian refugees and affected host communities. DRC is committed to basic humanitarian principles; including impartiality and neutrality, and offers the highest standards of accountability to the people it serves.

The overall objective for DRC in Turkey is the protection and promotion of durable solutions to displacement affected populations on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights with more immediate objectives focusing both on the immediate subsistence needs, protection and self-reliance support as well as a more long term focus on capacity building. In Turkey, DRC works in Turkey partially through partners, providing intensive capacity building support. DRC is supporting partners to work with the Syrian non-camp population in specific provinces of south/southeaster Turkey.
DRC Turkey is looking for a Grants Manager for the operations in southeaster/southern Turkey, with the following qualifications and whose responsibilities are outlined below:

Duties and Responsibilities

External relations

• Liaise with donor representatives involved in information management (specifically UNHCR, BPRM, ECHO, DFID);
• Participate in donor meetings;
• Assist the Country Director in providing briefings to external (and DRC regional and HQ) persons requesting information on the DRC Turkey program.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning

• Manage a team of monitoring staff at Country Office level and provide technical supervision for field based monitoring staff;
• Lead the development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks for all projects, and together with Project Managers design appropriate project monitoring and evaluation methodologies and tools;
• Put in place mechanisms for collecting data to monitor the progress of defined indicators;
• Provide feedback to Project Managers and Head of Programmes on monitoring data collected to guide programmatic decision making;
• Support the documentation of lessons learned and facilitate sharing across DRC Turkey;
• Coordinate with the MENA regional office and DRC HQ to ensure M&E activities are aligned with regional and global initiatives;
• Oversee and support external consultants undertaking programme reviews and evaluations in coordination with programme staff;
• Participate in the drafting/editing of assessment and monitoring reports;
• Ensure a high quality and harmonised approach to accountability and beneficiary participation in all DRC Turkey projects and locations, in line with HAP standards.
• Provide capacity building support to DRC and partner staff in M&E, reporting and accountability

Information Management and Communication

• Establish and maintain internal project reporting system for DRC and partners;
• Support the Communication Officer in the production and design of DRC Turkey’s communication and visibility tools, monitoring for Turkey related articles, editing DRC Turkey-specific articles, drafting case studies and web content, and providing input into regional or HQ communications materials;
• Support the drafting and editing of strategic documents.

Grant Management

• Guarantee DRC compliance with donor and DRC reporting guidelines.
• With support from programme staff ensure high-quality, well-written and timely reports meeting donor requirements are submitted according to the internal quality assurance procedures.
• Act as focal point for the DRC Grant Management System (GMS).

Program Development

• Draft/coordinate/edit concept notes, proposals and project amendments, ensuring the incorporation of lessons learned from previous projects.
• Support DRC needs assessments in coordination with program staff and Country Director.
• Work with the Head of Programmes to design logical frameworks setting realistic and measureable targets for new projects.

Other

• Directly supervise the responsibilities of the Monitoring Officers, Database Officer and Communications Officer;
• Participate in Country Management Team meetings;
• Any other duties as agreed with the DRC Country Director.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in international relations, communications, journalism, or other relevant field, masters preferred.
• 3 to 5 years of INGO field experience in a similar position: grants management, proposal development (program narratives and budgets) and donor reporting.
• Knowledge US (USAID/BPRM), ECHO, DFID and UN (UNHCR/UNICEF/WFP) donor regulations, procedures and requirements.
• Proven experience to develop successfully-funded proposals to public and private-sector donors.
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential; with working knowledge of Turkish and/or Arabic are advantages.
• Ability to work with tight deadlines for proposal development/ reports, etc.
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to determine priorities and attention to detail are musts.
• Willingness to travel to project locations as needed.
• High-level of knowledge and practice with Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. required.

Other Essential Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, working with different groups, partners and nationalities.
• Strong initiative and self-motivated, with a strong commitment to teamwork and humanitarian principles.
• Flexible, enthusiastic and willingness to learn from others.
• Ability to multi-task and cope with competing demands under tight deadlines.
• Identify priority activities and assignments, adjust priorities as required.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships in a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment.
• We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, irrespective of nationality, race, gender or age. Since this is a re-advertisement, previous applicants need not re-apply.
  

Conditions
Availability: ASAP
Duty station:*Antakya, Turkey with frequent domestic traveling to the different fields of operation.
*Contract: 6 months initially, renewable based on funding and performance.
Position is a non-family duty station and accommodations will be in a shared DRC guesthouse.

Salary and conditions in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to www.drc.dk under Vacancies. The position is placed at salary level A13.

Further information

You are welcome to contact Mr. Chris Bender, DRC’s Country Director at chris.bender@drc-turkey.org for more information about the position.

Please note that application are not to be sent to Ms. Saleh; we only accept applications sent online via www.drc.dk under Vacancies > Current vacancies > Grant Manager - Turkey. Applications sent directly to Mr. Chris Bender will not be considered.

For general information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult www.drc.dk.

Commitments
DRC has a Humanitarian Accountability Framework, outlining its global accountability commitments. All staff are required to contribute to the achievement of this framework (http://www.drc.dk/HAF.4265.0.html).

About DRC

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a private, independent, humanitarian organization working on all aspects of the refugee cause in more than twenty five countries throughout the world. The aim of DRC is to protect refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) against persecution and to promote durable solutions to the problems of forced migration, on the basis of humanitarian principles and human rights. DRC works in accordance with the UN Conventions on Refugees and the Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
The protection and assistance to conflict affected population is provided within a long-term, regional and rights-based approach in order to constitute a coherent and effective response to the challenges posed by today’s conflicts. Assistance consists of relief and other humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, support to return and repatriation as well as promotion of long-term solutions to displacement and its causes. In addition, support and capacity building of local and national authorities and NGOs form an integral part of DRC’s work.

Only motivated applications that address the stipulated duties and meet the required qualifications, sent together with a CV, will be considered. CV-only applications will not be considered. Please provide references, but do not attach any written recommendations.

We only accept applications online on www.drc.dk> Vacancies > Current vacancies > Grant Manager - Turkey (click on the vacancy, then on “Apply” at the bottom of the window that opens).

Please submit your application, in English and marked “Programme Quality and Grants Manager- Turkey” no later than 16 August 2015.

Please contact HR at job@drc.dk if you have questions to the application process or experience problems with your online application.