Overview

INTRODUCTION

The Development Fund (DF) of Norway is a Norwegian International Non-Governmental Organization working with smallholder marginalized people in rural communities to end hunger, poverty, and injustice by strengthening climate adaptation, agrobiodiversity, and sustainable food systems. The organization’s overarching goal is to enable small scale agriculture communities to become resilient and part of sustainable food systems.

DF is implementing a Climate Resilience and Livelihood Programme aimed at increasing climate resilience and wellbeing of rural communities in selected districts of Malawi and Mozambique.

The organization is also implementing a project entitled “Improving Smallholder Resilience through Customized Climate Services,” through a Consortium together with NORCAP, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE). The consortium brings together expertise across the research practioner divide to address Identified needs and gaps in the climate services value chain.

The Development Fund of Norway invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidate to fill two vacant positions at its Country Office in Lilongwe as follows.

PROGRAMME COORDINATOR, INFORMATION SERVICE PROJECT CLIMATE

The Programme Coordinator will coordinate and support local implementing partners in the designing, management, and implementation of the climate information service (CIS) project in selected districts for quality, sustainable and well documented results.

Duties and Responsibilities.

  1. Responsible for all aspects of grant management for the programme in collaboration with relevant functions within DF and local partners.
  2. Ensuring the development and management of a functional team with implementing partners, smallholder farmers and government.
  3. Responsible for delivering quality results in line with DF’s strategy, national development frameworks, grant agreements, result frameworks and budgets.
  4. Actively participate in the development of new funding proposals to different donors
  5. Responsible for adherence to quality standards in climate and weather-related and other relevant thematic areas and interventions within DF supported programmes.
  6. Coordinate and actively participate in the development of gender transformative and inclusive climate information service programme designs and budgets.
  7. Represent the interest of DF and actively participate in relevant networks.
  8. Ensure productive synergies between the CIS project and other programmes within DF.
  9. Coordinate advocacy work on climate services, agrobiodiversity, climate adaptation and sustainable food systems with active participation of marginalized groups.
  10. Collaborate with the MEAL function in the development and management of an effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning system for the CIS project.
  11. Responsible for producing and consolidating quality reports
  12. Ensuring a functional system for well documented results within the project is in place.
  13. Ensure full compliance of donor requirements by implementing partners and relevant functions within
    DF.
  14. Adherence to DF policies, branding, procedures, internal controls, and systems.
  15. Coordinate programme review and learning sessions with local implementing partners, relevant government departments and other key stakeholders.

Professional Qualifications and Experience.

  • A minimum of 3 years’ experience in managing programmes relating to climate services, climate adaptation and agrobiodiversity.
  • Master’s Degree in agriculture, seed systems, agrobiodiversity, natural resource management or other related fields.
  • Practical experience in strategy development, proposal development, project management and advocacy.
  • Previous experience in managing grant-funded projects on climate services or related fields.
  • Proven experience in maintaining and developing partner and donor relations.
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
  • Experience with the start-up of new projects and project proposals to donors
  • Proven experience in financial and narrative reporting to donors.
  • Work effectively and independently, with minimal supervision and under varying degrees of stress
  • A team player, effectively collaborating with other team members.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks within the set deadlines.
  • Extensive driving skills.

Qualified and interested candidates should submit their applications to tamara@developmentfund.no. The applications should include a cover letter, Curriculum Vitae (CV) with three traceable referees (with mobile phone numbers and e-mail addresses). All applications should reach DF not later than COB on 23rd January 2024.

The Development Fund is an equal opportunity employer and highly qualified and deserving women are especially encouraged to apply.