Humanitarian Coordinator (Khartoum) – SAVE THE CHILDREN

By Osama Elsheikh Last updated Dec 3, 2025

Job Description

Job Identification	14638
Job Category	Programme, Development and Quality
Posting Date	11/30/2025, 09:32 AM
Apply Before	12/15/2025, 01:59 AM
Job Schedule	Full time
Locations	Khartoum

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.