Hiring AREA-BASED COORDINATION COORDINATOR, SUDAN, SUDAN - Sudan - Khartoum

Lead coordination. Strengthen collective action. Help shape a more effective humanitarian response across Kordofan.

CARE is seeking an experienced, strategic, and highly collaborative ABC Coordinator, Kordofan, to lead and oversee Area-Based Coordination (ABC) platforms across South, North, and West Kordofan. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in strengthening how humanitarian actors work together in one of the world’s most complex and rapidly evolving humanitarian contexts. You will bring together INGOs, NNGOs, UN agencies, private sector actors, local responders, and other stakeholders to strengthen joint analysis, service mapping, prioritization, and coordinated response.

About CARE in Sudan

CARE has been operating in Sudan since 1979, delivering humanitarian and development programming focused on women and girls’ empowerment, gender justice, humanitarian action, and resilience building. Today, CARE has more than 280 staff across 12 offices and remains committed to delivering impactful, accountable, and locally informed programming in some of Sudan’s most challenging environments.

CARE is a member of the Collective Sudan Consortium (CCS), a collaborative platform of international and national NGOs working to strengthen multi-sectoral humanitarian programming, coordination, and collective impact across Sudan.

Building on the rollout of Area-Based Coordination in Darfur, CCS is expanding the model into Kordofan. The ABC approach provides a field-driven, neutral, and inclusive coordination mechanism that enables humanitarian actors to jointly assess needs, identify gaps, map services, prioritize response, and improve operational alignment—particularly in hard-to-reach and conflict-affected areas.

The Opportunity

As ABC Coordinator, Kordofans, you will provide strategic leadership across the Kordofan ABC platforms, ensuring consistency and coherence across the three states while strengthening the connection between field-level coordination and national humanitarian architecture.

You will lead regional coordination processes, consolidate and quality-assure state-level analysis and service mapping, support ABC State Leads, and ensure effective interoperability with national mechanisms including the A-ICCG, clusters, INGO Forum, and the SI-led Emergency Response Mechanism (ERM).

Importantly, this is a facilitative coordination and leadership role—not an implementation or operational oversight position. Your influence will come through your ability to convene diverse stakeholders, build consensus, generate actionable analysis, and enable humanitarian actors to work together more effectively.

What You Will Do

Lead Strategic Coordination

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of ABC platforms across South, North, and West Kordofan.
• Facilitate regional coordination and support State Leads to deliver effective state-level platforms.
• Strengthen alignment between ABC mechanisms and national coordination structures, including clusters, A-ICCG, and the INGO Forum.
• Support joint, multi-sectoral planning across areas such as MPCA, FSL, WASH, Health, Protection, and Livelihoods.
• Identify cross-state response gaps and facilitate coordinated solutions.

Strengthen Information & Decision-Making

• Consolidate and quality-assure state-level service mapping, gap analysis, and prioritization outputs.
• Strengthen links between field-level data and national information management systems.
• Standardize tools and approaches for service mapping, referral tracking, prioritization, and coordination.
• Ensure information generated through ABC platforms informs broader humanitarian planning and decision-making.

Lead and Develop State-Level Teams

• Line manage ABC State Leads across the three Kordofan states.
• Provide coaching, technical guidance, mentoring, and capacity strengthening.
• Promote consistency in coordination approaches, tools, standards, and outputs.
• Support State Leads to navigate coordination challenges and operational bottlenecks.

Navigate Access, Security & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with the INGO Forum on access constraints, advocacy priorities, and humanitarian operating challenges.
• Engage with INSO and integrate security analysis into coordination processes.
• Maintain strong relationships with local authorities, communities, humanitarian actors, and other stakeholders.
• Represent ABC in relevant regional and national coordination forums.
• Engage private sector actors, including Chambers of Commerce and market actors, to strengthen market-based programming.

Drive Learning & Adaptation

• Capture lessons from ABC implementation across Kordofan and translate them into improved approaches.
• Facilitate learning and exchange between Kordofan and other ABC contexts, including Darfur.
• Lead or support after-action reviews and continuous improvement of coordination mechanisms.

The Leader We Are Looking For

Beyond technical expertise, this role requires someone who can bring people together when systems are fragmented, create clarity when circumstances are uncertain, and build trust across organizations with different mandates and perspectives.

You will be at your best if you are:

A Strategic Convenor – able to bring diverse humanitarian actors around shared priorities and translate complex analysis into coordinated action.

A Collaborative Influencer – able to build relationships and influence without relying solely on formal authority.

A Contextual Leader – able to understand shifting conflict, access, market, and humanitarian dynamics and adapt coordination approaches accordingly.

A People Developer – committed to strengthening State Leads and creating a culture of collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.

An Effective Facilitator – able to create neutral, inclusive spaces where humanitarian, development, government, private sector, and local actors can contribute meaningfully.

Why This Role Matters

Across Sudan, humanitarian needs are immense, access is constrained, and resources are stretched. Fragmented responses can leave critical gaps—particularly in areas affected by conflict and displacement.

Effective coordination can change that.

Through stronger area-based coordination, this role will help humanitarian actors develop a shared understanding of needs, identify where assistance is missing, prioritize resources, and work together more effectively to reach communities.

If you are a strategic humanitarian leader who thrives on complexity, builds bridges between organizations, and believes that better coordination can deliver better outcomes for communities, we would like to hear from you.

Join CARE and help strengthen collective humanitarian action in Sudan.

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