Coordinator, Consortium, Chad

Coordinator, Consortium, Chad Organization: International Medical Corps Country: Chad City: N'Djamena Office: International Medical Corps N'Djamena, Chad 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. 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, compl