Organization
COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale is a relief and development organization founded in Italy in 1965. COOPI’s envisions a world without poverty where diverse cultures live together sharing equal rights and equal opportunities. COOPI mission is to reduce poverty in the global South through interventions of long-term sustainable international cooperation and with advocacy activities in Italy, to fight the cause of the serious economic gap between the North and South. Its core values are:
- Partnership: we work together with local institutions and communities to find the best solutions to problems;
- Respect: we believe that cultural values and differences are the key for sustainable development;
- Responsibility: we account for our work to our donors but above all to the communities and local institutions we work with;
- Effectiveness and innovation: we are constantly improving our capabilities for guaranteeing high level interventions, uniting long-term vision and know-how.
DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS
Position: Field Programme ManagerReporting to: Country Coordinator
REQUIREMENTS
Advanced university degree in one of the following fields: economics, agriculture, agrarian economics
Knowledge of donors’ procedures, in particular DFID/EC/ECHO procedures
Working knowledge of English.
Team player, good attitude towards national staff
Previous employment with COOPI will be an added value.
Tasks:
The objective of this position is to ensure overall oversight for projects implemented in Salima District, and to provide technical support for other projects in other geographical areas in Malawi. The main tasks linked to this position are:
PROJECT MANAGEMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND SUPERVISION
§ Responsible for ensuring effectiveness and implementation of projects activities to ensure the timely achievement of targeted results in Salima Districts;
§ Provide strong leadership for the Salima Districts projects, working to ensure both short and long-term positive impacts and outcomes for the beneficiaries, local authorities (where applicable) and local staff.
§ Responsible for the monitoring and supervision of Salima Districts projects field activities to ensure good progress of planned activities and timely achievement of expected results;
§ Responsible for the elaboration and updating of the Salima Districts projects monitoring plan, including forecasting costs/expenditures, according to the projects budget and strict monitoring of the same; co –funding sources identification in collaboration with the administrative staff present;
§ In collaboration with the field teams, responsible for the generation of action plans and compilation of field reports (this includes monthly progress reports, quarterly progress reports and other external reports as per the donor requirements);
§ To ensure good visibility of the projects’ overall goals, policies and envisaged and/or results achieved as per COOPI and donor communication policies;
§ Ensure sector integration, learning, sharing and adoption of best practices;
§ Responsible for field security issues.
PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
§ A key responsibility of the PM will be the human resource management and guidance to ensure that the projects staff promotes community participation and community decisions in all the projects strategies and implementation.
§ Guide the supervised staff in Salima Districts on COOPI objectives, policies, strategies and Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs), and respect to the humanitarian principles;
§ Guide the Field Teams in planning for implementation of activities and monitoring in line with program plans in their districts.
PROJECT COORDINATION AND LIAISON FUNCTIONS
§ Liaise with the Country Coordinator on issues pertinent to the projects;
§ PM will ensure that cross-cutting issues are accounted for while alleviating risks and while preparing communities to face disasters.
§ Attend projects’ related meetings at field level (including those with donors as requested);
§ Participate in cluster meetings and other coordination meetings in the field;
§ Under directions of the Country Coordinator, act as link / liaison between COOPI and stakeholders, representing COOPI at relevant forums (including coordination), joint assessments and providing feedback on the same;
§ Update the logistic department on any pertinent security or access issues.
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