About the Position: 

The Senior Emergency Project Manager the efficient implementation of short-term (six-month) multi-sector emergency grants in Gambella and Amhara. The role ensures timely, high-quality delivery of integrated responses including health, nutrition, WASH, protection, and shelter interventions. The position oversees full project cycle management, ensuring strict donor compliance, sound financial management, and timely reporting. As Consortium Coordinator, it strengthens partner collaboration, harmonizes implementation standards, and ensures consolidated planning and reporting. The role provides strong leadership to multidisciplinary teams, promotes accountability to affected populations, and ensures effective MEAL systems. It also represents the consortium with regional authorities, clusters, and donors, ensuring principled and coordinated humanitarian response.

Job Summary

The Senior Emergency Project Manager is responsible for strategic leadership, coordination, and overall management of complex, multi-sector emergency programs implemented through a consortium model. The position ensures high-quality, timely, and accountable delivery of humanitarian interventions in compliance with donor regulations and organizational standards. The role provides both operational leadership and consortium governance oversight, ensuring effective collaboration among partners, alignment with national humanitarian priorities, and strong representation with donors, government authorities, clusters, and other stakeholders.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY/DUTIES

A. Strategic Leadership & Program Oversight

• Provide strategic direction for emergency response programming, ensuring alignment with humanitarian needs and organizational strategy.

• Lead design, start-up, implementation, and close-out of multi-sector emergency projects (Livelihoods, Health & Nutrition, WASH, Protection).

• Ensure integration of cross-cutting themes including gender, safeguarding, protection mainstreaming, conflict sensitivity, and accountability to affected populations.

• Conduct periodic context and risk analysis to inform adaptive programming.

• Represent GOAL and the consortium formally to donors, government authorities, cluster forums, and other stakeholders, communicating its position, progress, and interests professionally and authoritatively

B. Consortium Coordination & Governance

• Serve as the primary focal point for consortium management and coordination

• Facilitate consortium governance structures, including Steering Committees and Technical Working Groups

• Ensure compliance with consortium agreements, MoUs, and partnership frameworks

• Strengthen collaboration, communication, and information-sharing among partners

• Monitor partner performance and provide capacity strengthening where needed

• Ensure harmonized reporting, financial tracking, and quality standards across all consortium members

C. Project Management & Delivery

• Oversee project planning, implementation, and monitoring in accordance with approved proposals and donor requirements.

• Develop and monitor detailed implementation plans, procurement plans, and spending forecasts.

• Ensure achievement of targets and timely delivery of outputs and outcomes.

• Supervise project teams and ensure performance management and staff development.

• Lead budget oversight and ensure effective financial management and burn-rate monitoring.

D. Grants & Compliance Management

• Ensure compliance with donor regulations (DoS, UNOCHA, European Commission, UNHCR, ECHO, UNICEF)., 

• Oversee high-quality and timely submission of narrative and financial reports.

• Lead proposal development, budget revisions, and extension requests

• Ensure audit readiness and compliance with internal and external standards.

E. Coordination & Representation

• Represent the consortium at national and regional coordination forums (e.g., Cluster meetings, NGO forums, government coordination platforms).

• Maintain strong working relationships with relevant government authorities and line ministries.

• Engage with donors through meetings, field visits, and reporting.

• Advocate for humanitarian access and principled programming.

F. Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL)

• Ensure strong MEAL systems are in place across consortium partners

• Oversee data quality assurance and ensure evidence-based reporting.

• Promote learning, best practices, and adaptive management

• Ensure functional community feedback and complaints mechanisms.

G. Risk & Security Management

• Conduct regular risk assessments and ensure mitigation measures are in place.

• Ensure adherence to safety and security protocols.

• Lead contingency planning and emergency preparedness initiatives.

The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Job Requirements

Do you want to join an exciting organization that brings high level impact to the community and add value to your professional advancement?  Then join us if you have:

Education

• Master’s degree in international development, Public Health, Humanitarian Affairs, Public Health, Development Studies, or related field.

• Project Management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is an advantage.

Experience

• Minimum 8–10 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian program management.

• At least 3–5 years managing multi-partner consortium programs

•  Proven experience managing large-scale emergency responses in complex and fragile contexts.

• Demonstrated experience with institutional donors

Required Skills & Competencies

• Strong leadership and team management skills.

•  Excellent coordination and partnership management abilities.

•  Advanced financial management and budget oversight skills.

• Strong proposal writing and reporting skills.

• High-level negotiation and representation skills.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

• Strong understanding of humanitarian principles and Sphere standards

 REMUNERATION and BENEFITS: 

• GOAL will pay a competitive basic salary based on the salary grading with addition benefits.

• A chance to develop tangible experience.

• Being part of a team who continue to make a real difference to the lives of the most vulnerable people.  

Commitments: 

GOAL’s recruitment procedure is fair and transparent which is also in line with the organization’s commitment to its integrity, honesty and culture. GOAL is committed to ensure that, its performance complies with the terms and conditions of relevant agreements, applicable laws & regulations. 

GOAL highly promotes Equality, diversity and inclusion and works with women and men, People with disabilities, and employees of various ages including youth, supports their empowerment and appreciates their achievements constantly. GOAL also encourages applications from diverse candidates including women, people with disabilities, people with diverse backgrounds, and youth to apply.

GOAL has zero tolerance to discrimination on the basis of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, religion, race, economic status etc . we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

Hence, pre-employment background checks will be conducted, and employees are required to read, understand, sign and implement different polices including safeguarding and child protection policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse policy, sexual harassment policy, code of conducts and any other rules and regulation of the organization. GOAL is strongly committed not to harm the people under its care. 

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with GOAL as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates. 

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.

• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.

• Report any concerns about inappropriate behavior of a GOAL staff or partner.

You are welcome to include your sex (Male or female) and any disability issues in your CV (please note that this information will only be used to comply with affirmative action policy of the organization)

How To Apply

Interested and qualified applicants need to submit ONLY once their non - returnable application with CV for one vacancy. The vacancy reference number along with the title & Duty station need to be written in the application letter. 

• Applicants can directly apply through green “Apply now” button

Please be sure your application and CV should be in PDF or Word only. (The system couldn’t accept other than PDF and Word.)

GOAL strongly encourages female candidates to apply!

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview and exam.

Shortlisted candidates will need to submit other supporting documents upon request at later stage.

GOAL is not able to contribute towards any costs incurred by candidates

Job Requirements Applicants must hold a Master’s degree in international development, public health, humanitarian affairs or a related field and possess advanced project management knowledge. The role requires expertise in leading multi-sector emergency responses and managing consortium partnerships. How to Apply Click the apply button below