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, sex, 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 risk 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.
- Promote consortium priorities and contribute to 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 work plans, 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 multi-stakeholder 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).

**Ethical Conduct at International Medical Corps**

As part of a global, humanitarian team dedicated to saving lives, easing suffering, and building self-reliance, International Medical Corps staff are responsible for adhering to our *Code of Conduct and Ethics* and for knowing and abiding by International Medical Corps policies and standards. All staff play a vital role in preventing violations of our *Code of Conduct and Ethics*, including conflicts of interest, fraud, corruption, and any kind of exploitation or abuse. International Medical Corps is also committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment free of harassment, bullying, and other misconduct, enabling staff to build and maintain professional, respectful working relationships.

International Medical Corps prioritizes safeguarding the populations with whom we work from exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk, and/or any form of trafficking in persons. International Medical Corps is committed to engaging members of crisis-affected communities to participate in meaningful ways in a crisis response, including making informed decisions about the assistance they receive, mitigating potential risks, and holding us accountable for the commitments we make. All staff are expected to support International Medical Corps’ culture of accountability toward our stakeholders, particularly the crisis-affected communities and individuals we serve.

As part of International Medical Corps’ commitment to a speak-up culture and as one of the primary ways we collectively hold ourselves accountable for complying with the ethical principles and standards of conduct outlined in the *Code of Conduct and Ethics,* all staffare required to report suspected or actual misconduct or violations of organizational policies. Our *Code of Conduct and Ethics* and *Whistleblower Policy* prohibit any form of retaliation against whistleblowers or individuals who report a concern in good faith. Staff who violate these protections may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment or contractual relationship with International Medical Corps.

**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.