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We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 24 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a non-profit organization that works across over 50 countries, our 8,300 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. We strive to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good. \n Action Against Hunger USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network. As an independent NGO, Action Against Hunger USA currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Haiti. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $100 million in programs, and approximately 1,100 permanent staff based in New York City, Washington D.C, Nairobi, and country offices. Additional growth is anticipated. \n Organization context and rationale for this position \n Action Against Hunger (ACF), in close institutional partnership with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), is implementing a DG ECHO-funded Regional Disaster Preparedness Program across Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti, operationalizing the SCALAA methodology and the IGAD Anticipatory Action Roadmap through four interdependent Result Areas over twenty-four months. The Djibouti component under Result Area 3 focuses on comprehensively strengthening urban preparedness and service continuity systems in Djibouti Ville, a city of approximately six hundred thousand people increasingly exposed to flash flooding from the Ambouli Wadi drainage system, extreme heat regularly exceeding forty-five degrees Celsius, epidemic risks and waste-related environmental hazards, reaching fifty-two thousand, two hundred and eight direct beneficiaries across ten priority neighborhoods in six municipalities. Simultaneously, Djibouti is a critical national anchor of Result Area 1, which operationalizes the IGAD Anticipatory Action Roadmap at national level including the development of municipal SOPs, school DRM integration and the establishment of urban resilience committees linked to the national DRM framework. The Project Manager and Coordinator position exists because the full breadth of Result Area 3, combined with the AA Roadmap policy integration mandate and the formal secondment obligations to CIGRC, ONARS and IGAD, requires a dedicated senior national manager with the institutional presence, government liaison authority and program coordination competence to drive all Djibouti activities simultaneously. This role is the cornerstone of the program's government ownership strategy in Djibouti. \n SUMMARY OF POSITION \n This position wil be hired through our local partner in Djibouti\n The Project Manager and Coordinator is the most senior ACF program position in Djibouti, responsible for the overall coordination and day-to-day operational management of all Result Area 3 urban preparedness activities and Result Area 1 AA Roadmap outputs. Seconded to IGAD and embedded within CIGRC and ONARS, the incumbent serves simultaneously as ACF's Djibouti program lead and as a trusted technical advisor to national government institutions, driving implementation of the eight-activity urban preparedness agenda while building the institutional ownership, municipal SOP infrastructure and government-embedded DRM systems that will protect communities in Djibouti Ville long after the project period concludes. \n Purpose To provide overall coordination and management of all Djibouti Result Area 3 activities, leading urban DRR functions including municipal SOP development, school DRM integration, heatwave and flood preparedness planning and urban resilience committee establishment, while simultaneously acting as the primary government liaison with CIGRC and ONARS and overseeing workplan and budget management for the full Djibouti component. \n Engagement To engage daily as both an ACF program coordinator and a seconded government advisor, working with CIGRC, ONARS, municipal authorities across all six target districts, school administrations, urban DRR committees, IGAD's AA Technical Working Group, IOM, the Red Cross and the broader humanitarian coordination architecture in Djibouti. \n Delivery To deliver, on time and to quality, all Result Area activities and all Djibouti-specific Result Area outputs including the National AA Roadmap, municipal SOPs and school DRM integration, within budget and in full compliance with DG ECHO contractual requirements. \n ESSENTIAL JOB ROLES \n Overall Program Coordination and Workplan Management \n Hold primary operational and coordination responsibility for all Djibouti program activities under the DG ECHO Regional Disaster Preparedness Program, maintaining a comprehensive living implementation plan covering all eight Result Area 3 activities and Result Area 1 AA Roadmap outputs, tracking progress against activity timelines and output targets, escalating risks and delays to the Regional Consortium Coordinator and ACF Djibouti Country Director, and ensuring all outputs are delivered to the quality standards required by DG ECHO's Results Framework and Annex 2 reporting obligations. \n Lead all program planning, coordination and review cycles for the Djibouti component, facilitating monthly operational review meetings with CIGRC, ONARS, municipal authorities, implementing partners and ACF field staff, convening quarterly joint review sessions with the Regional Consortium Coordinator, Regional MEAL Specialist and Regional Finance Manager, and preparing high-quality narrative progress reports with accurate evidence-based updates on activity progress, expenditure and adaptive management actions. \n Manage the Djibouti component budget in close coordination with the Regional Finance Manager, reviewing field expenditure against approved activity budgets, monitoring the Result Area 3 budget at activity level, initiating budget reallocation requests as programmatic needs evolve, ensuring all field-level expenditure documentation meets DG ECHO audit standards, and supporting ACF Djibouti's Country Finance function with timely submission of financial documentation. \n Lead workplan adaptation and adaptive management throughout the program cycle, regularly reviewing implementation progress against MEAL evidence, After-Action Review findings, government feedback and evolving urban risk conditions, and proposing targeted workplan adjustments to the Regional Consortium Coordinator to ensure the program remains responsive, effective and aligned with DG ECHO results requirements. \n Contribute to the consortium's regional learning and knowledge management agenda, systematically documenting Djibouti implementation lessons on urban preparedness in extreme climate environments, government secondment models, school DRM integration approaches, heatwave preparedness programming and urban resilience committee governance, and sharing findings through IGAD AA TWG, SCALAA, ICPAC learning platforms and the Eastern Africa Dialogue Platform as replicable models for the Greater Horn of Africa. \n 2. Government Liaison and CIGRC, ONARS and IGAD Secondment \n Serve as the primary ACF liaison and embedded technical advisor to CIGRC and ONARS, providing day-to-day technical support on the operationalization of urban contingency plans, municipal early warning system governance, urban DRR committee management, and the integration of anticipatory action provisions into national DRM policies and Djibouti's Vision 2035 development framework, in accordance with formal secondment agreements between ACF, IGAD, CIGRC and ONARS. \n Serve as ACF's technical liaison embedded within IGAD's operational presence in Djibouti, supporting the IGAD AA TWG in its coordination and convening role, facilitating the development and operationalization of Djibouti's National Anticipatory Action Roadmap, supporting the establishment of a National Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action within Djibouti's DRM framework, and contributing to cross-border SOP development across the Somalia-Djibouti and Ethiopia-Djibouti border corridors. \n Lead all formal government engagement processes, representing ACF and IGAD in high-level technical meetings with national and municipal government counterparts, securing formal government endorsements of program outputs including municipal contingency plans, heatwave preparedness plans, school DRM frameworks and urban resilience committee governance structures, and maintaining authoritative written records of all government agreements for DG ECHO reporting. \n Strengthen CIGRC and ONARS institutional capacities for anticipatory action and urban DRM governance, designing and delivering targeted technical advisory support and capacity-building activities, building government staff knowledge on AA trigger management, multi-hazard contingency planning, urban early warning system operation and urban DRR committee governance, embedding institutional ownership before the project end date. \n Facilitate regular coordination meetings between CIGRC, ONARS, municipal authorities, IOM, the Red Cross and ACF, mapping existing urban preparedness initiatives, confirming distinct coverage boundaries, avoiding duplication of community structures, and documenting all complementarity arrangements in formal coordination minutes for DG ECHO institutional compliance reporting. \n 3. Municipal SOP Development and Urban Preparedness Planning \n Lead the design, facilitation and finalization of Municipal Standard Operating Procedures for multi-hazard emergency response across all six target districts, ensuring SOPs cover flash flood response, extreme heat emergency protocols, epidemic outbreak response, waste management crisis procedures and cross-hazard cascading risk scenarios, and are formally endorsed by CIGRC and municipal authorities with clear trigger thresholds linked to the IGAD and ICPAC multi-hazard trigger matrix under Result Area 1. \n Integrate ICPAC climate projection data and trigger calibration outputs produced by the Regional Climate and AA Modeling Specialist into the municipal SOP framework, ensuring SOPs are anchored in scientifically sound, regionally consistent trigger thresholds including flash flood frequency, extreme heat duration and epidemic early warning indicators, and that SOP activation mechanisms are fully compatible with the IGAD AA TWG trigger verification and Crisis Modifier activation procedures. \n Lead the development of Contingency Planning workshops and validation simulation exercises for municipal SOPs, coordinating CIGRC, ONARS, municipal authorities, school administrations, DRR committees, emergency responders, IOM and Red Cross participation, conducting structured After-Action Reviews within thirty days of each exercise, integrating findings into SOP revisions and contributing simulation evidence to IGAD AA TWG and the Eastern Africa Dialogue Platform. \n Develop a municipal SOP monitoring and maintenance system, establishing a formal review calendar under CIGRC's institutional governance, training CIGRC and municipal authority staff to independently update and adapt SOPs as urban risk profiles evolve, and ensuring the system is formally embedded within Djibouti's national DRM governance framework and funded through CIGRC's recurrent budget before the project end date. \n Align all municipal SOPs with 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