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Programme Manager - Peacebuilding

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Country: Sierra Leone
Organization: Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
Closing date: 29 Aug 2022

Starting Salary: £37,877 p.a

Contract: Fixed term – 3 Years, with possibility of extension (subject to funding)

Hours of work: Full time 40 hours per week

Location: Sierra Leone (Freetown)

This position is contingent on CAFOD being awarded funding and is anticipated to begin in December 2022.

Job Profile

CAFOD is currently accepting expressions of interest from qualified candidates for Programme Manager for an anticipated USAID People to People Peacebuilding project in Sierra Leone. The Project Manager will provide overall management, coordination, and oversight on the programmatic and operational side of the activity. This individual will be the key liaison with USAID, government, and all other counterparts, implementing partners and other partners involved with the activity. The individual's primary responsibilities are aimed at providing overall leadership management and general technical direction of the entire activity, ensuring an integrated vision among different components and actors, and a focus on achieving the results defined in the Agreement. The Programme Manager will identify issues and risks related to the activity implementation in a timely manner and suggest appropriate activity adjustments.

The position will ensure that activities are results-oriented, ensure high quality deliverables, and relevant and timely reporting. The Project Manager must focus on achieving results in all areas on schedule and ensuring synergies and cohesion between the various result areas. This individual must participate and engage in technical meetings and maintain positive relationships with partners. CAFOD’s programme work is underpinned by an Integral Ecology Programme Model, where Programme Strategies are developed with partners to focus on addressing the causes and symptoms of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation.

The scope of the post falls into the following functions:

  • Lead the design, development and management the project portfolio
  • Overseeing effective relationships with partners
  • Financial and funding management
  • Internal and external representation
  • Systems and compliance
  • Security management
  • People management
  • Peace Studies & Conflict Management

The post-holder will be responsible for building effective working relationships with peers in the International Programmes Group. This role will also need to work closely with other teams across CAFOD including Programme Quality and Capacity Strengthening Team, Emergency Response and Support Team, Advocacy, Communications & Education Group, and Finance teams.

The post holder will be expected to undertake frequent travel (up to 12 weeks per year) connected with the management of the programme portfolio, and the achievement of strategic objectives. They could also be expected to deputise for the Country Representative.

Key Responsibilities

Lead, manage and review thePeople-to-People Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone project:

  • In line with the overall direction set by the USAID People to people peacebuilding project strategy and the Country Representative, cocreate CAFOD-supported programmes and projects; supporting them in their design and creation, ensuring that they meet agreed programme quality standards and donor/contractual obligations and ensuring monitoring, evaluation and learning;
  • Lead the development of a vision and strategy for the program shared with the program team and key stakeholders.
  • Play an active role in identifying and developing new initiatives that foster and/or improve strategic objectives of the program
  • Responsible for sign off, management and delivery of assigned programme portfolio
  • Oversee program start-up, management and administration. Ensure program implementation is on time, target and budget, using effective M&E systems to reach desired impacts.
  • Ensure that program implementation is responsive to communities and partners and consistent with CAFOD partnership guidelines, principles, values, quality standards and strategic plan.
  • Confirm people and communities are effectively targeted according to transparent criteria.
  • Ensure that cross-cutting themes (safety, access, dignity, inclusion, gender, downwards accountability, safeguarding, etc.) are effectively managed within and across the programme, working with the relevant staff to achieve this.

Overseeing effective relationships with partners:

  • Provide guidance and support to Programme Officers and other members of the Programmes team in their work, to develop and nurture effective relationships with partners. In some cases (e.g. strategic partners), the post-holder can take a more active role in developing those relationships.

Financial and funding management:

  • Manage the programme and costs budget and cash flow (implementing manager/budget holder responsibilities), monitoring income and expenditure, and ensuring that the latter is done in compliance with agreed parameters and policy.
  • Identify opportunities for co-financing from institutional donors, and provide leadership in securing and managing such funds, working with the Programme Funding and Development Officer and Major Gifts teams.
  • Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting on programme work.
  • Ensure the programme complies with CAFOD’s financial management standards, including managing financial risks.

Internal and external representation:

  • In co-ordination with the Country Representative and the Programmes team develop, nurture and sustain relationships and effective communications with relevant stakeholders, seeking opportunities for funding where appropriate.
  • Effectively communicate with other teams within CAFOD to ensure that the programmes are well understood, and that information is available for fundraising and other communications, including publications, media briefings, development education, etc. This may involve participating in communities of practice, working groups, supporter events, etc, as agreed with the Country Representative.

Systems and compliance:

  • Overseeing the effective use of CAFOD’s systems to share programme knowledge and inform decision making. This includes overseeing compliance with agreements, regulations and requirements attached to our work.

Security management:

  • Supporting the Country Representative in delivering effective security management. This includes among others, acting as security manager when delegated by the Country Representative; support the development of security risk mappings, country security plans; standard operating procedures; contingency plans (e.g. medical evacuation, relocation/evacuation and hibernation), etc.

Safeguarding

All CAFOD staff share responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.

Your role is responsible for ensuring that both you and your staff understand and implement minimums on programme quality into your work (related to safety, accessibility, dignity, and inclusion) and that all safeguarding standards are upheld and reported on effectively.

This list of duties and responsibilities is by no means exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or has responsibility for people who will do, and applicants will be subject to specific checks related to safeguarding issues. If based in the UK the post holder is required to present or obtain a Disclosure from the DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service). If the post is based outside the UK the post holder will be subject to a different checking process.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Understanding our context

A Understanding Catholic identity;

B Understanding CAFOD.

C Understanding international development: Understanding and experience of international development and programme management and quality standards.

Working together

D Managing ourselves

E Working with others.

F Communicating.

G Looking outwards; Understanding and first-hand experience of effective and values-based partnership work between northern and southern organisations and communities.

Making change happen

H Managing resources; Makes effective use of ICT, particularly for distance communication

I Achieving results;

J Managing our performance; Able to manage competing work demands; Able to manage a team of staff including staff at a distance

K Taking the lead; Sets an example of what can be achieved

Job-specific competencies

  1. A minimum of a master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in public/business administration, international relations, other social sciences, or a similar relevant field.
  2. Solid of experience in donor-funded project management.
  3. Experience using programme cycle management tools effectively to deliver work within an agreed programme framework, including programme integration.
  4. A master’s degree may be substituted by a bachelor’s degree and equivalent experience in relevant management, supervisory, technical experience working with activities that are of a similar scope and scale to this activity.
  5. Financial management understanding and experience.
  6. Ability and willingness to travel for approximately 12 weeks per year), sometimes at short notice and to areas of potential risk
  7. Professional and/or technical knowledge of peace studies/conflict management processes in Africa, or a post-conflict or fragile state is essential and required.

Please clickherefor a full list of CAFOD’s Staff Benefits

Come and join us and help make a real difference in the lives of the world’s poorest communities.

CAFOD is an equal opportunities employer. Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

This position is contingent on CAFOD being awarded funding and is anticipated to begin in December 2022.

How to apply

For more information on this vacancy as well as the application process please visit the CAFOD jobs site Work with us | CAFOD


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