Turkey: Police Component Delivery Manager

The AJACS project aims to enable people in opposition-controlled Syria to experience increasingly effective accountable and transparent services, which are delivered on a progressively formalized basis by civilian-led institutions; in increasingly resilient partnership with the communities.

Role Description:

The role of the Police Component Delivery Manager is to plan and manage the Police Components deliverables against the AJACS and Police Component strategy and work plan. The role will focus on supporting FSP provincial, district and station planning activities in order to drive the resourcing of the FSP, build FSP capacity and deliver ongoing professionalization of the FSP where and when the tactical situation permits.

Primary Responsibilities:

1. Leads the Police Component delivery effort ensuring that programme management systems and processes are put in place in order to deliver professionalization of local partners within donor guidelines. Line manage the programme management office and delivery functions and deliverables in order to align provincial, district and station level planning with ongoing capability and capacity building projects, with specific focus on;

2. Integrating other project work streams to enhance community policing outcomes, in line with the objectives of the programme strategy.

3. Mentoring, advising and assisting the programme's local partners in line with the AJACS and police component strategy

4. Supporting local partners to recover capabilities and/or reform where appropriate, in support of each component lead’s documented and agreed strategy, programme approach and planned and agreed set of priorities.

5. Holds line management responsibility for the Police Component Programme Management Office (Programme Management Unit PMU), ensuring that planning, control and measurement of agreed police component work plans and deliverables support the wider AJACS programme requirements and the capstone level AJACS work plan, as defined by the AJACS Deputy Team Leader.

6. Ensures the Police Component deliverables reflect the needs of the AJACS programme strategy and the AJACS police strategy.

7. Acts as deputy for the Police Component Lead, ensuring the Police Component has consistency of planning and delivery.

8. Oversees the Police Team’s deliverables by the AJACS Implementation Unit ensuring time, cost and scope are within agreed and planned tolerances, ensuring activities are delivered within the Activity Budget of the Police component

9. Undertakes and co-ordinates capability reviews with stakeholders and other components, in order to gain supporting evidence for capability grading assessments in order to assess local partners' organisational and capacity development against the AJACS police development work plan.

10. Provides supporting guidance on the Police Component’s agreed strategy and programme approach to AJACS employees and programme stakeholders.

11. Ensures sustainment and recruitment of the police delivery team personnel consistent with the AJACS HR policy.

Skills and Experience

Essential

1. Excellent written and spoken English
2. Excellent interpersonal skills
3. Excellent communication and coordination skills
4. Able to work effectively in a team
5. At least 10 years of previous program management and supervisory experience
6. Experience of managing relationships with local partners and stakeholders
7. Working knowledge of Arabic

Desirable

1. Knowledge of Syria and the sensitivities of working in a conflict-affected area
2. Experience remote managing teams
3. A police background, or prior experience of working on policing projects

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