ROLE PURPOSE: 

Sudan is currently embroiled a protracted and escalating conflict. The ongoing conflict exacerbates the recurrent natural and man-made crises such as armed tribal clashes, disease outbreaks, floods, and droughts, resulting in significant human and physical damage with unprecedented numbers of people in need of lifesaving and life sustaining humanitarian assistance. SCI is committed to support the vulnerable populations experiencing such emergencies through providing humanitarian assistance to reduce suffering and saving lives to improve their quality of life. 

The Humanitarian Coordinator supports the coordination of humanitarian response programme development, implementation and reporting, as well as capacity-stengthening initiatives to strengthen humanitarian response. 

He/She will provide support and coordinate activities related to anticipatory action, disaster response and disaster response preparedness. 

The Humanitarian Coordinator will ensure tracking of all emergency awards, through proposal, implementation and reporting periods; and will liaise between departments in both Country Office and across Field Offices to ensure that humanitarian response projects are implemented in a timely, efficient and effective manner; including identifying and flagging issues that require troubleshooting.  The Humanitarian Coordinator will ensure both internal and external reporting on emergency responses are consolidated and submitted to a high standard and on time. 

The Humanitarian Coordinator will play a key role in supporting the implementation of inititatives to support internal and external initiatives capacity-strengthening and the localisation of humanitarian response.  This will include supporting the organisation of training events, workshops and management of coordination networks and fora.  The Humanitarian Coordinator is expected to coordinate closely with other key humanitarian actors, including through regular attendance at coordination meetings and with donors; co-chairing sub-national forums as required; and will seek to develop and strengthen relationships with local actors.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

1. Sudan Humanitarian Fund (SHF) Management and Coordination

• Support the Humanitarian Director in overseeing SCI’s SHF portfolio across Sudan, ensuring effective and compliant implementation of all SHF-funded projects.
• Coordinate with PDQ, Field Offices, Awards, and Finance to ensure timely project start-up, implementation, and closure, including activity planning, budget phasing, and reporting.
• Support the liaison with OCHA on all SHF-related matters, including project proposals, budget revisions, no-cost extensions, and monitoring visits.
• Lead the internal coordination process for SHF calls for proposals from OPS side, ensuring timely review, technical validation, and submission of high-quality concept notes and proposals.
• Monitor the overall implementation progress and expenditure rates of SHF projects, identifying delays, bottlenecks, and compliance risks, and escalating issues to the Humanitarian Director as needed.
• Support the awards in preparation of narrative and financial reports for submission to OCHA, ensuring accuracy, coherence, and alignment with project results frameworks.
• Maintain an updated SHF tracking matrix capturing project status, deliverables, financial performance, and upcoming reporting deadlines.
• Participate in OCHA-led coordination meetings, allocation briefings, and technical review panels as required, representing Save the Children’s interests and priorities.
• Support documentation of lessons learned and best practices from SHF projects to inform future proposals and humanitarian programming.

Monitoring, Quality Assurance, and Field Support

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits to SHF project locations to assess progress, quality of implementation, and compliance with humanitarian standards.
• Work closely with PDQ, MEAL, and Technical Advisors to ensure robust monitoring systems are in place and that data is used for adaptive management.
• Provide on-site support and mentoring to field teams and partners to strengthen compliance, financial management, and reporting practices.
• Ensure that cross-cutting themes (child safeguarding, gender, protection, accountability to affected populations) are integrated into all SHF project activities.
• Coordinate post-distribution monitoring (PDM), after-action reviews, and lessons-learned exercises for SHF-funded interventio

Coordination and Representation

• Support SCI’s representation in SHF coordination and review fora (OCHA-led), ensuring effective communication and information flow between OCHA, clusters, and SCI teams.
• Ensure strong internal coordination with PDQ, Finance, Supply Chain, and Awards Teams on all SHF matters.
• Participate in humanitarian coordination meetings, particularly when discussions relate to SHF allocations, priorities, or performance monitoring.
• Facilitate regular internal meetings with relevant departments to review SHF progress, performance, and challenges.
• Represent Save the Children Sudan in external meetings and consultations as delegated by the Humanitarian Director.

Humanitarian Planning and Capacity Strengthening

• Support the integration of SHF projects within SCI’s broader humanitarian strategy, ensuring complementarity with other funding sources.
• Coordinate with PDQ and HR to plan and facilitate capacity-building activities for field and partner staff on SHF processes, donor compliance, and humanitarian standards.
• Contribute to annual planning processes, including the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and Emergency Preparedness Plan (EPP).
• Support documentation and dissemination of SHF performance analyses, donor lessons, and audit follow-up actions

Child Safeguarding:

• Acts as an ambassador for child safeguarding in both professional and personal life. 
• Keeps children we work with safe from deliberate harm/risk or inadvertent harm/risk. 
• Behaves towards children in a way, which reflects the Code of Conduct, CSG Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (e.g. political science, social sciences, economics, international humanitarian law).

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• At least 3 years of progressive responsibility working in humanitarian programmes with INGOs.
• Appetite for learning and making a difference in complex and challenging environments.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic.
• Demonstrated capacity to work autonomously under pressure and with tight deadlines. Excellent organisational skills.
• Good computer skills in MS packages (Computer Applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc).
• Excellent coordination and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels. 
• Willingness to learn and share information.  Patience to manage delays and set-backs.
• Capacity to coordinate with multiple other stakeholders, including government authorities, community representatives, the UN and other humanitarian agencies.
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively, including under challenging and sometimes insecure circumstances. Commitment to work longer hours/weekends when needed.
• Specific experience of working within a rapid-onset large emergency response with an aid organisation.
• Specific skills and experience of facilitation training, coaching and capacity-strengthening.

Desirable

• Previous experience of co-coordinating / co-chairing at sub-national level a working group or other interagency forum.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian coordination and funding mechanisms.
• Prior experience in assessment, design and implementation of humanitarian programming.
• Strong analytic and planning skills.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.