About Us
Action Against Hunger leads the global movement to end hunger. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 24 million people every year through proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. Operating in more than 50 countries, our teams work alongside communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequality, displacement, and emergencies.
Action Against Hunger USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network and currently manages operations in Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Haiti.
In partnership with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre, Action Against Hunger is implementing a DG ECHO-funded Regional Disaster Preparedness Program across Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti.
We are seeking a Regional Consortium Coordinator to provide strategic leadership, consortium governance, donor engagement, and operational oversight for this complex, multi-country disaster preparedness and anticipatory action program.
About the Role
The Regional Consortium Coordinator will serve as the overall operational lead for the DG ECHO Regional Disaster Preparedness Program across Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti. Based in Nairobi and reporting to the Regional Program Development and Quality Director, this role will lead end-to-end program management, partner coordination, technical quality, donor compliance, financial oversight, and regional representation throughout the 24-month program.
The program strengthens regional and national anticipatory action systems through cross-border trigger matrices, validated standard operating procedures, government-owned preparedness planning, multi-sectoral early action systems, and a trigger-based Crisis Modifier that enables rapid assistance following a verified emergency trigger.
This position is ideal for a senior humanitarian leader with extensive experience managing multi-country consortia, DG ECHO-funded programs, disaster preparedness, anticipatory action, climate-risk governance, and institutional partnerships across the Greater Horn of Africa.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and day-to-day coordination across all program result areas and operations in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti.
- Ensure program implementation remains aligned with DG ECHO requirements, the IGAD Anticipatory Action Roadmap, SCALAA methodologies, national disaster-risk management priorities, and changing humanitarian conditions.
- Serve as the primary coordination interface among Action Against Hunger country teams, IGAD, ICPAC, DG ECHO, national disaster-risk management authorities, consortium partners, and humanitarian coordination bodies.
- Lead the development and operationalization of cross-border anticipatory action protocols, trigger matrices, contingency plans, standard operating procedures, simulations, and pilot activations.
- Coordinate with complementary regional initiatives, including SCALAA, IGAD PREPARE, EU CLIMHoA, BRCiS, SomReP, and the Somali Cash Consortium, to promote coherence and prevent duplication.
- Lead the consortium governance structure, including the Consortium Steering Committee, partner coordination meetings, inter-agency mechanisms, and timely resolution of implementation challenges.
- Manage partnership agreements, sub-grants, performance reviews, and capacity-strengthening plans for international, regional, and local partners.
- Serve as the primary DG ECHO focal point for strategic engagement, donor reporting, operational updates, grant amendments, budget revisions, and adaptive management discussions.
- Ensure technical quality across anticipatory action, climate services, early-warning systems, disaster-risk reduction, cash preparedness, health, WASH, nutrition, protection, and urban preparedness activities.
- Oversee the program’s MEAL framework, ensuring evidence, learning, and performance data inform program improvements, donor reporting, and regional knowledge-sharing platforms.
- Ensure protection, conflict sensitivity, gender and inclusion, PSEA, accountability to affected populations, and DG ECHO Minimum Environmental Requirements are integrated throughout the program.
- Lead Crisis Modifier readiness and activation processes, including trigger verification, rapid decision-making, financing readiness, pre-approved early-action packages, field deployment, and post-distribution monitoring.
- Provide full oversight of the consortium budget, financial forecasting, compliance, risk management, partner expenditure, and audit readiness.
- Lead and mentor the regional program team while maintaining matrix-management relationships with country-based program managers and technical staff.
- Represent the program at regional and global disaster-risk reduction, anticipatory action, humanitarian financing, and climate-resilience forums.