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Cordaid is one of the leading CSO’s in the Netherlands, working in fragile contexts on Health, Resilience, Economic opportunities, Humanitarian aid and Security & Justice. Apart from our work abroad we also contribute to new forms of job creation and social innovation in The Netherlands.

Cordaid is a member of the international Catholic networks Caritas and CIDSE and we are active in worldwide civil society networks. We work in around 30 countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia.

For the Cordaid Country office in Central African Republic, Bangui, Cordaid is looking for a

Coordinator Resilience / Food Security

Introduction

Central African Republic, a landlocked country, has struggled with violence and political instability for decades. About 2.7 million Central Africans, over half of the population, are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance. Recurring violence and ineffective government have resulted in a lack of access to basic services and education. Health services are sparse. People do not have the economic opportunities to provide for themselves, let alone their families. Poor infrastructure and attacks on aid workers, including kidnappings, further exacerbates the dire humanitarian and economic situation. It is in this context that Cordaid secured funding through a Consortium for a livestock project to improve the food security situation of households in Bangui and surrounding areas by increasing the supply of quality animal protein at an affordable price. In addition, Cordaid is working on several proposals to expand its resilience and food security programming.

Position and responsibility

The CAR Resilience/Food Security Coordinator is responsible for the program design, and technical support to ensure quality implementation, standardization, monitoring and evaluation of all activities in the Resilience/Food Security sector in accordance with Cordaid’ strategy. S/he will strengthen sector activities and provide technical oversight of the program across all sites of implementation in CAR. S/he will focus on development and emergency response capability, with the ability to respond to a fluid programming context, and deliver key services rapidly and effectively. The Coordinator reports to the Program Director.

Specific objectives

Program quality and strategic management:

  • In collaboration with the Senior Management Team, ensure that the Resilience/Food Security projects are delivered according to the donor contractual requirements and that all activities and deliverables are completed within the agreed timescale and budget;
  • Design and regularly update detailed work plans and ensure these are used by the team appropriately to monitor progress towards completion and achievement of program objectives;
  • Ensure that all resilience and food security activities are consistent with established best practices, are evidence-based and gender-sensitive and remain relevant with the developing trends in the CAR food security cluster and working groups and adjust the programmatic priorities as necessary;
  • Collaborate with the Program Director to update the Resilience/Food Security strategy of the Country 2018-2010 Strategic Plan;
  • Provide technical supervision and support of the country Resilience/Food Security activities; with a focus on vouchers and cash-based programming;
  • Ensure that the Resilience/Food Security activities have and utilize customized protocols, policies and guidelines;
  • Ensure that project implementation adherence to Cordaid’s values, mandate and internal procedures;
  • Supervise the development of relevant M&E systems and ensure regular follow-up on monitoring data relevant to Resilience/Food Security programs to feed into on-going review of project cycle and decision-making for programming.

Fundraising and Program Development:

  • Develop program and project proposals, including theories of change, logical frameworks, program design and implementation plans and SMART indicators for the Cordaid CAR Resilience/Food Security program under the supervision of the Program Director and in consultation and collaboration with field-based technical and management staff;
  • Assist with the preparation and revision of budgets, authorizing and monitoring expenditure in line with the different budgets, donor guidelines and Cordaid’s management and financial regulations;
  • Ensure that programmatic and financial reports for donors are prepared as required, ensuring these are of the highest quality and submitted in a timely manner to the donor;
  • Be fully aware of the contract compliance regulations of Cordaid and donors;
  • Collaborate with other in-country program teams to ensure an integrated strategy to achieve the Resilience/Food Security results in the country’s SAP.

Coordination and Representation:

  • In coordination with the supervisor, represent Cordaid to UN, international and national NGOs, relevant line ministries, and donors meetings for economic recovery, resilience and food security as well as relevant technical clusters and working groups;
  • Coordinate closely with the Cordaid HQ and support offices including finance and administration, HR, and supply chain as they relate to the program;
  • Actively participate in periodic program meetings and ensure a summary of progress and challenges are prepared and presented with follow-up actions as required;
  • Participate in internal coordination and management meetings to promote effective and efficient information sharing and program integration;
  • Participate actively in national resilience and food security, early warning networks and technical working groups.

Qualifications

  • Degree preferably at Master level in agricultural science and technology, agrozootechnical sciences, agronomy, international development, economics, business management, etc;
  • Minimum of five years’ managing experience in field based resilience, food security, cash programming, nutrition and emergency, recovery and development programming;
  • Proven coordination skills with the ability to bring together multiple program requirements and stakeholders;
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and French;
  • International work experience with preference in Africa and experience working in a multicultural setting is essential;
  • Demonstrated skills in strategic planning, budget development and management, and program reporting for diverse audiences;
  • Experience working in development and/or humanitarian assistance;
  • Must be familiar with international donors rules, regulations and policies including EU, USAID;
  • Proven skills in leadership and supervision, with an ability to work effectively and efficiently in a challenging, complex work environment;
  • Ability to work both independently and as a team;
  • Ability to work long hours in stressful environments, insecure, unstable and / or rigorous;
  • Flexibility, ability to easily overcome the pressure, ability to improvise, flexibility and sensitivity to cultural diversity;
  • Commitment to the mission and goals of the Cordaid program and the security policy.

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Cordaid is the Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid (CORDAID). It is one of the biggest international development organizations, with a network of around a thousand partner organisations in 36 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and has a disposable annual budget of around 170 million euros (2006).

 Cordaid directly employs 400 people, amongst them 300 are based in the Netherlands and the rest are stationed all over the world (2010). Cordaid is also known under the names of the funds it manages: Cordaid Memisa, Cordaid Mensen in Nood (People in Need), Cordaid Bond Zonder Naam (Association Without Name), Cordaid Kinderstem (Children's Voice).

Cordaid was founded in 1999 in The Hague, with the aim of helping people in distress and fighting structural poverty. It is a merge of three Dutch Catholic development organisations: Memisa Medicus Mundi (created in 1925), Mensen in Nood (People in Need, created in 1914) and Lenten Campaign/Bilance. The history of these organisations goes back to the beginning of the 20th century when the organisations were active in the area of shelter and (missionary) care for refugees, providing direct aid in the event of disasters, medical care and direct improvement of social and economic position of poor people.

The merge allowed the newly created NGO to benefit from broader resources, rationalised management and organisation and aimed at coordinating actions and projects. Each organisation became a fund with Kinderstem (Children's voice) being part of Mensen in Nood, until October 2004, when Cordaid's General Assembly voted the creation of a separate fund focusing on aid to children living in slums. Cordaid Microcredit was formed in October 2006, following the tenth anniversary of the microfinance activities. On 1 January 2007, the Dutch NGO Bond Zonder Naam (founded in 1938) joined Cordaid. Since 2012 the campaigning cooperation with the Lenten Campaign Foundation ('Vastenaktie') has ended.

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Cordaid is one of the leading CSO’s in the Netherlands, working in fragile contexts on Health, Resilience, Economic opportunities, Humanitarian aid and Security & Justice. Apart from our work abroad we also contribute to new forms of job creation and social innovation in The Netherlands.

Cordaid is a member of the international Catholic networks Caritas and CIDSE and we are active in worldwide civil society networks. We work in around 30 countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia.

For the Cordaid Country office in Central African Republic, Bangui, Cordaid is looking for a

Coordinator Resilience / Food Security

Introduction

Central African Republic, a landlocked country, has struggled with violence and political instability for decades. About 2.7 million Central Africans, over half of the population, are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance. Recurring violence and ineffective government have resulted in a lack of access to basic services and education. Health services are sparse. People do not have the economic opportunities to provide for themselves, let alone their families. Poor infrastructure and attacks on aid workers, including kidnappings, further exacerbates the dire humanitarian and economic situation. It is in this context that Cordaid secured funding through a Consortium for a livestock project to improve the food security situation of households in Bangui and surrounding areas by increasing the supply of quality animal protein at an affordable price. In addition, Cordaid is working on several proposals to expand its resilience and food security programming.

Position and responsibility

The CAR Resilience/Food Security Coordinator is responsible for the program design, and technical support to ensure quality implementation, standardization, monitoring and evaluation of all activities in the Resilience/Food Security sector in accordance with Cordaid’ strategy. S/he will strengthen sector activities and provide technical oversight of the program across all sites of implementation in CAR. S/he will focus on development and emergency response capability, with the ability to respond to a fluid programming context, and deliver key services rapidly and effectively. The Coordinator reports to the Program Director.

Specific objectives

Program quality and strategic management:

  • In collaboration with the Senior Management Team, ensure that the Resilience/Food Security projects are delivered according to the donor contractual requirements and that all activities and deliverables are completed within the agreed timescale and budget;
  • Design and regularly update detailed work plans and ensure these are used by the team appropriately to monitor progress towards completion and achievement of program objectives;
  • Ensure that all resilience and food security activities are consistent with established best practices, are evidence-based and gender-sensitive and remain relevant with the developing trends in the CAR food security cluster and working groups and adjust the programmatic priorities as necessary;
  • Collaborate with the Program Director to update the Resilience/Food Security strategy of the Country 2018-2010 Strategic Plan;
  • Provide technical supervision and support of the country Resilience/Food Security activities; with a focus on vouchers and cash-based programming;
  • Ensure that the Resilience/Food Security activities have and utilize customized protocols, policies and guidelines;
  • Ensure that project implementation adherence to Cordaid’s values, mandate and internal procedures;
  • Supervise the development of relevant M&E systems and ensure regular follow-up on monitoring data relevant to Resilience/Food Security programs to feed into on-going review of project cycle and decision-making for programming.

Fundraising and Program Development:

  • Develop program and project proposals, including theories of change, logical frameworks, program design and implementation plans and SMART indicators for the Cordaid CAR Resilience/Food Security program under the supervision of the Program Director and in consultation and collaboration with field-based technical and management staff;
  • Assist with the preparation and revision of budgets, authorizing and monitoring expenditure in line with the different budgets, donor guidelines and Cordaid’s management and financial regulations;
  • Ensure that programmatic and financial reports for donors are prepared as required, ensuring these are of the highest quality and submitted in a timely manner to the donor;
  • Be fully aware of the contract compliance regulations of Cordaid and donors;
  • Collaborate with other in-country program teams to ensure an integrated strategy to achieve the Resilience/Food Security results in the country’s SAP.

Coordination and Representation:

  • In coordination with the supervisor, represent Cordaid to UN, international and national NGOs, relevant line ministries, and donors meetings for economic recovery, resilience and food security as well as relevant technical clusters and working groups;
  • Coordinate closely with the Cordaid HQ and support offices including finance and administration, HR, and supply chain as they relate to the program;
  • Actively participate in periodic program meetings and ensure a summary of progress and challenges are prepared and presented with follow-up actions as required;
  • Participate in internal coordination and management meetings to promote effective and efficient information sharing and program integration;
  • Participate actively in national resilience and food security, early warning networks and technical working groups.

Qualifications

  • Degree preferably at Master level in agricultural science and technology, agrozootechnical sciences, agronomy, international development, economics, business management, etc;
  • Minimum of five years’ managing experience in field based resilience, food security, cash programming, nutrition and emergency, recovery and development programming;
  • Proven coordination skills with the ability to bring together multiple program requirements and stakeholders;
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and French;
  • International work experience with preference in Africa and experience working in a multicultural setting is essential;
  • Demonstrated skills in strategic planning, budget development and management, and program reporting for diverse audiences;
  • Experience working in development and/or humanitarian assistance;
  • Must be familiar with international donors rules, regulations and policies including EU, USAID;
  • Proven skills in leadership and supervision, with an ability to work effectively and efficiently in a challenging, complex work environment;
  • Ability to work both independently and as a team;
  • Ability to work long hours in stressful environments, insecure, unstable and / or rigorous;
  • Flexibility, ability to easily overcome the pressure, ability to improvise, flexibility and sensitivity to cultural diversity;
  • Commitment to the mission and goals of the Cordaid program and the security policy.
2019-06-05

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