Team Lead - Urban Resilience

Description
Team Lead
Position is contingent on new funding

Knowledge and Experience
• Master’s degree or higher in management, agriculture, economics, business administration and/or related fields;
• Demonstrated competence in project cycle management and minimum of eight (8) years managing projects comparable in size and scope;
• Significant Experience in resilience and systems
• strengthening programming, private sector engagement, urban agriculture, inclusive employment, and/or other related fields, with demonstrated Experience in urban contexts.
• Significant Experience managing SDC projects of similar complexity preferred;
• Professional Experience in dynamic contexts, preferably in Sub
• Saharan Africa;
• Strong managerial and analytical Skills, including results
• oriented management, evidence use for learning and advocacy, strategic planning, human resources management, financial management, and reporting Skills;
• Strong Experience in steering and mentoring, capacity to anticipate issues and identify forward
• looking solutions;
• Proven track record of cooperating with a large number of stakeholders;
• Demonstrated ability to be collaborative across activities while utilizing strong communication and interpersonal Skills, with evidence of the ability to productively interact with a wide range and levels of organizations (government, private sector, other activities, NGOs);
• Demonstrated capacity to manage complex teams, including problem solving Skills, and capacity to meet deadlines and deliver quality deliverables to meet objectives; and
• Very strong written and verbal communication Skills (proficiency in English).

Strategy & Vision
• Lead the development of a program
• wide urban resilience
• building framework to guide coordination and integrated implementation.
• Recognize opportunities for innovative action and create an environment where alternative viewpoints are welcomed.
• Set direction by prioritizing and organizing actions and resources to achieve objectives.
Program Management & Leadership
• Oversee program start
• up and ongoing program management and administration of consortia members and teams across various field locations.
• Supervise project staff and ensure accountability to Mercy Corps policies and SDC rules and regulations.
• Lead the development of detailed implementation plans, flowing from annual strategic work
• plans, and ensure the delivery of the same.
• Ensure that participants are effectively targeted according to established vulnerability criteria.
• Integrate community approaches, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate.
• Provide managerial and programmatic oversight to consortium partners.
• Provide leadership to ensure the Urban Resilience project remains agile and adaptive to shifting context/reality on the ground and responds to emerging evidence of resilience and landscape related changes.
• Document processes and achievements to ensure best practices are captured and disseminated. This will include the continual re
• evaluation of program activities and information, with resulting activity adjustments in keeping with new insights.
• Produce written reports on program activities, capturing the impacts of activities.
• Oversee efforts to design effective M&E systems for the program, and linkages with internal M&E systems.
• Create and follow effective stakeholder management plans, ensuring sound and proactive communications with Mercy Corps Zimbabwe, consortium partner organizations, Mercy Corps headquarters, SDC, Government of Zimbabwe authorities, and colleague agencies.
• Conduct frequent field visits to all project sites.

SAFEGUARDING AND ETHICS
Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme