ECW CORE Consortium Lead

About the role

The ECW CORE Consortium Lead provides overall coordination and program management leadership for the ECW CORE consortium, acting as the primary day‑to‑day focal point across consortium members. Reporting to the EECD Coordinator, this role ensures the program operates as a coherent consortium, meeting workplans, results, budgets, timelines and donor commitments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead daily coordination and management of the consortium, ensuring timely information flow, joint planning and coherent implementation across partners, outcomes and geographic areas.
• Support IRC and AAA as Co‑Lead Grantees and Co‑Chairs in preparing and facilitating Consortium Steering Committee meetings, including agenda setting, performance review, risk assessment and decision follow‑up.
• Ensure consortium governance structures and Task Teams operate in line with agreed Terms of Reference, the Consortium Agreement and ECW requirements.
• Coordinate across Technical, PGI, MEAL, Finance, Safeguarding/PSEA and implementation functions, maintaining clear roles, accountability and facilitating cross‑functional problem‑solving.
• Promote equal partner participation, transparency, shared accountability and locally led decision‑making in line with localization commitments.
• Escalate strategic issues affecting scope, results, budgets, risks or partner performance to Co‑Leads and Steering Committee with clear recommendations.
• Lead development, consolidation and regular review of the overall consortium workplan, ensuring alignment across partner workplans, outcomes, results framework, budgets and timelines.
• Maintain consolidated oversight of implementation, regularly reviewing progress against activities, outputs, targets, milestones and donor commitments.
• Convene regular consortium implementation and performance reviews to identify delays, bottlenecks, cross‑partner dependencies and emerging risks, and track corrective actions.
• Work with MEAL Task Team and partner MEAL focal points to maintain a consolidated view of performance, ensure data consistency and support harmonized monitoring and beneficiary deduplication.
• Collaborate with IRC Finance and sub‑partners to maintain a consolidated program‑level view of financial performance and integrate financial considerations into planning and risk management.
• Lead IRC’s responsibilities under Outcome 3, coordinating with MEHE, the Education Sector, consortium members and stakeholders to strengthen sector‑level crisis preparedness and education continuity mechanisms.
• Lead the consortium’s ECW reporting calendar and process, consolidating partner inputs into high‑quality narrative and performance reports and ensuring consistency across program narrative, results, indicators, reach, expenditure, risks and partner reporting.
• Serve as the key program‑level focal point with ECW on implementation and reporting matters, coordinating preparations for ECW monitoring visits and program reviews.