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PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
The Senior Program Officer (SPO) will principally be responsible for managing the Grant Acquisition and Grant Management in emergency Response program in Central Mozambique. He/She will manage proposal design, timely and quality donor reporting, grant management, information management and support local implementing partners, WV support (fundraising) offices, and donor engagement. The position will support Zonal Director in designing the response strategy and operations plan. This position will manage and supervise program officers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Oversee proposal design, project reporting, implementation including consortium partners.
- Coordinate with technical specialists, operations, finance and procurement staff and WV support offices to ensure programming according to donor regulations.
- Monitor funding status for each sector of the program to identify possible funding gaps.
- Obtain funding for program’s unfunded sections by identifying grant opportunities.
Programmatic Grants Management:
- Work closely with consortium partners and WV teams to ensure timely and quality reporting on monthly, end of project narrative, situation report.
- Ensure that program implementation is in line with the principles of the Red Cross Code of Conduct, SPHERE standards and relevant WV internal standards and policies.
- Manage support offices and donor reporting.
Partnership & External Relations:
- Develop and maintain strong relationships and information sharing with Support Office representatives.
- Participate in joint agency assessments, task-force teams, workshops, clusters, etc.
- Support the programs team to identify potential partners to work with and through in projects.
- Ensure alignment with WV’s established external engagement, GAM, partnering steps, and response strategies.
Information Management:
- Proactively gather information from relevant cluster partners, UN agencies and other organisations which may be of use world vision for informing decisions.
- Provide information management services to support population data management activities including population estimation, information flows from established systems, movement tracking, standard-setting/promotion and dissemination.
Other Duties:
- Assist in annual operating plan preparation including: design, needs assessment, proposal writing, marketing, evaluation and reporting.
- Be aware of the emergency procedures in a response and ensure that necessary preparedness measures have been implemented.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- 6 years’ experience in humanitarian assistance work with a minimum of 4 years experience in grants acquisition and management.
- Demonstrated understanding of key humanitarian principles, standards and best practices.
- Experience in program management and implementation of multi-sectoral emergency response projects.
- Demonstrated experience in leading a multi-cultural team of professionals.
- Experience in engaging with governmental institutions and multilateral agencies.
- Experience in managing humanitarian operations that facilitate innovation and calculated risk taking.
- Good understanding of working with the donor regulations of key humanitarian donors e.g. BHA (OFDA).
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, humanitarian studies, International Development, International Relations or related field. Masters level preferred.
- Good command of the English language. Spoken Portuguese language is desired.
Preferred:
- Strong capacity building and facilitation skills.
- Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner with ability to pursue thoroughness and appropriate attention to detail.
- Ability to express self clearly in all forms of writing and to identify gaps, trends, priorities and key issues.
- Ability to maintain strong links with major NGO’s, donors and government agencies.
- Ability to explain WV’s work in relation to issues of poverty, power, justice and peace.
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships.
- Ability to interpret and present information with influence and impact.
- Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible world view, emotional maturity and physical stamina.
- Ability to maintain performance expectations in psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.
Work Environment/Travel:
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally 25%.
Physically and psychologically fit to withstand long working hours in harsh environments.
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