Coordinator, Consortium - (4547)

Job Title

Coordinator, Consortium

Location

Chad - TD (Primary)

Category

Programs

Date Needed By

4/1/2026

Program Description (Background)

**The position is contingent upon successful bidding and donor agreement**

The consortium operates in Chad, responding to large‑scale displacement from Sudan and the Central African Republic, climate‑related shocks, and chronic food insecurity. The role requires close coordination with OCHA Chad, relevant clusters (Protection, Shelter/NFI, WASH, Health, Nutrition, FSL), and government authorities such as CNARR. The operational environment includes remote or semi‑remote field locations in eastern Chad, significant logistical constraints, and evolving cross‑border dynamics. Knowledge of Arabic (Chadian dialect) is an asset in addition to French and English.

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

The Consortium Coordinator provides senior level leadership, strategic oversight, and authoritative coordination for a multiagency consortium delivering humanitarian or development programming. The role is accountable for shaping the consortium’s strategic direction, ensuring high quality and principled programming, and representing International Medical Corps at senior levels with donors, government authorities, and coordination bodies. The Coordinator holds decision making authority within consortium governance structures and leads donor engagement, risk management, and compliance across all partners.

The position strengthens collective impact by setting technical and operational standards, harmonizing programmatic approaches, and ensuring that the consortium functions as a coherent, high performing platform. The Coordinator must demonstrate strong political acumen, advanced partnership management, and the ability to influence complex multistakeholder environments.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership and Coordination

• Provide senior strategic leadership for the consortium, ensuring alignment with response plans, donor priorities, and organizational strategy.
• Lead the development and periodic revision of the consortium’s strategic framework, including technical, operational, and partnership strategies.
• Chair consortium governance bodies (Steering Committee, Technical Working Groups) with delegated authority to make strategic and operational decisions on behalf of International Medical Corps.
• Serve as a senior representative of International Medical Corps within the Steering Committee, presenting critical analysis, recommendations, and risk assessments to support decision making by IMC leadership and the SC.
• Facilitate joint planning, harmonized implementation, and coordinated decision‑making across consortium members.
• Ensure unified external representation with donors, coordination bodies, authorities, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor contextual developments, emerging risks, and opportunities, guiding adaptive management across the consortium.

Program Management and Quality Assurance

• Lead the establishment and oversight of robust coordination and communication mechanisms across consortium partners, including project kick‑off, technical review, and close‑out processes.
• Provide senior oversight of program implementation across partners to ensure delivery meets agreed targets, quality standards, and humanitarian principles.
• Approve harmonized M/E systems, joint assessments, and learning agendas, ensuring evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Lead high level risk management, including operational, fiduciary, safeguarding, and contextual risks, ensuring mitigation measures are implemented across partners.
• Ensure integration of cross‑cutting themes such as protection, gender, accountability to affected populations, and localization, and oversee the development of related strategies.

Grants, Compliance and Reporting

• Serve as the senior donor liaison for all consortium matters, including negotiation of modifications, extensions, and compliance interpretations.
• Lead and approve consortium wide project planning, ensuring alignment across programmatic, financial, and operational components.
• Hold final approval authority for consolidated narrative and financial reports prior to submission, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and donor compliance.
• Oversee transparent budget management, value for money analysis, and financial harmonization across partners.
• Maintain and own the consortium wide risk register, leading high-level mitigation, escalation, and audit readiness processes.
• Ensure partners receive timely support to meet compliance requirements and implement corrective actions.

Partnership Management

• Maintain strong, strategic relationships with consortium members, ensuring equitable participation, transparency, and accountability.
• Lead partner selection, due diligence, and onboarding processes, ensuring alignment with IMC standards and donor requirements.
• Provide senior level support to national and local partners in line with localization commitments, including capacity strengthening and shared leadership.
• Serve as the final arbiter for escalated inter-partner issues and ensure adherence to consortium governance frameworks.

Representation and External Engagement

• Represent the consortium at senior levels in coordination forums, donor meetings, and inter‑agency platforms.
• Advocate for consortium priorities and influence sector strategies through active engagement with government authorities, UN agencies, INGOs, and local actors.
• Strengthen IMC’s strategic positioning within the humanitarian architecture through high level representation and relationship building.

Team Leadership and Management

• Supervise senior members of the Consortium Coordination Unit (e.g., M/E, Finance/Admin, Grants, Technical Leads).
• Ensure clear workplans, performance management, and professional development for consortium staff.
• Lead capacity strengthening initiatives for consortium partners and IMC staff to enhance program quality and operational excellence.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement across the consortium.

Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.

Job Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in International Development, Humanitarian Affairs, Public Administration, or related field.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible humanitarian or development experience, including leadership of large, complex, multi-partner consortia.
• Demonstrated experience in high level donor engagement, negotiation, and strategic representation.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian architecture (clusters, coordination systems, response plans) or relevant development frameworks.
• Proven ability to manage complex grants, budgets, and compliance requirements at scale.
• Experience supervising senior staff and leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience working in complex, high risk, or multistakeholder environments preferred.
• Experience with national/local partner capacity strengthening and localization approaches preferred.
• Technical familiarity with sectors commonly funded by humanitarian or development donors preferred.
• Strategic thinking and systems leadership.
• Partnership building and diplomacy.
• High level risk management and problem solving.
• Financial and compliance acumen.
• Cultural and political sensitivity.
• Ability to operate under pressure and in dynamic environments.
• Commitment to safeguarding, accountability, and humanitarian principles.

Additional Technical or Language Requirements

Knowledge of Arabic (Chadian dialect) is an asset in addition to French and English (required).

CODE OF CONDUCT

As applicable to this position, an individual must promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the organization and maintain a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Staff are also responsible for preventing violations to our Code of Conduct and Ethics, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment. If you see, hear or are made aware of any violations to the Code of Conduct and Ethics or Safeguarding Policy, you have an obligation to report. If this is a supervisory position, one must set an example of ethical behavior through one’s own conduct and oversight of the work of others; ensure that those who report to you have sufficient knowledge and resources to follow the standards outlined in the Code of Conduct & Ethics; monitor compliance of the people you supervise; enforce the Code of Conduct & Ethics and International Medical Corps’ policies, including the Safeguarding Policy and the Protection from Harassment, Bullying and Sexual Misconduct in the Workplace Policy, consistently and fairly; support employees who in good faith raise questions or concerns.

SAFEGUARDING

It is all staff shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children, adults at risk, or LGBTI individuals; and any form of trafficking in persons.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran.

MISCONDUCT DISCLOSURE SCHEME

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

How to apply

https://internationalmedicalcorps.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/4547