Food, Income and Markets Programme Manager in Mozambique

Contract Grade: B Contract Length: 24 months Date Needed By: 20th August 2013 New Post or Replacement: Replacement Accompanied / Unaccompanied: Accompanied, not recommended for children, due to poor quality Health and Education facilities. Exact Job Location: Quellimane Province, Mozambique Reports To: ACDP Responsible For: Project Managers and FIM team Liaises With: Country Financial Controller, Country Director, National General Systems Manager, Project Support Officer and Partnerships and Approaches Coordinator Job Purpose: To manage the implementation, strategic and technical direction of the Food Income and Markets programme in Mozambique. Main Duties & Responsibilities: • Reporting to the Assistant Country Director for Programming, the FIM PM will lead in defining the programme strategy and technical direction as well as overall planning, managing, implementing, monitoring of the Programme activities, and the accountability for the Programme impact. • The PM is responsible for directly managing 2 - 3 FIM Project Managers positions (local project staff) – the FIM Project Managers in turn manage a team of 2-3 Project Officers depending on their location, who in turn manage a team of (4-6) FIM Community Mobilisers and Social Capital Community Mobilisers . The FIM PM will ensure that their responsibilities are fulfilled to the required highest standard. • The PM has overall responsibility for ensuring that the team under their management have performance appropriate objectives in place and have routine PDR’s and managed follow-up of performance • The FIM Programme is a component within the wider country programme which will include nutrition. The FIM PM will work closely with the nutrition/health managers and contribute to conjoined implementation, research, M+E and reporting of findings on the relationship between FIM and nutrition. • The is also required to oversee the organizational development aspects of the Programme, document & communicate lessons learned, meet Donor requirements, and develop Project Proposals in collaboration with the Assistant Country Director for Programmes and the Country Director. • Ensure the efficient financial management, recruitment, procurement, and administrative functions of the Programme. • Build and develop strong relationships with relevant Government departments and ensure that those departments buy into the learning opportunities within the Concern FIM programme. In this ensure that there are established MoU’s with the relevant ministries stating the practice and responsibility of Concern and the Ministry in the course of the implementation with at least bi-annual learning and review mile-stones. • Pro-actively build links with Private Sector Agri-Businesses as sources of demand for programme area production, developing value added production and establishing sustainable relationships of supply and demand from the programme areas. • The FIM PM will establish, manage and build relationships with key partner organizations. This will include implementation partners and service providers, including training institutions. This will involve serving as a liaison person between the teams and these external partners. National liaison technicians may be recruited, where they are in place, the FIM PM will support the technicians in contributing technical findings to the national level advocacy and technical exchange forums. • The FIM PM will be assisted by the ACD-P and work in close collaboration with the ACDP in assuring the program quality, donor liaison, contract management and meeting donor compliancy. This will be achieved by maintaining effective PM&E and learning systems for the livelihoods FIM programme in line with the M+E framework, plans and Concern and Donor policies. • The FIM PM will seek support and manage technical input from the Concern Technical Advisors in Food Security, DRR and WASH and ensure accountability and efficiency. • To ensure that FIM livelihoods programme reports are produced to a high standard and in a timely manner. • To lead research and advocacy interventions related to the livelihoods FIM programme and present findings in Mozambique and contribute to Concern’s research programmes at and the international level. In this and ensure that a robust M&E system is consistently followed within the programme. • To represent Concern at national and international Livelihoods networks and meetings. • To coordinate the capacity buildings of livelihood staff and partners. • To ensure the mainstreaming of HIVAIDS, equality and DRR across the programme. • Contribute and participate in the ongoing development of policy and good practice in Concern Mozambique.

PERSON SPECIFICATION ESSENTIAL Education, Qualifications & Experience Required:
• Minimum bachelors’ degree in, agriculture or agricultural economics and/or experience in working in agricultural programmes and other relevant related fields • Minimum 5 yrs experience working overseas in private sector or development programmes focused on poverty reduction via rural livelihoods and small-scale agriculture • Proven ability to link programmes to the private sector for value added production/out grower systems/technology transfer etc. • Experience of incorporating government in implementation and learning for policy and implementation change. • Experience in social protection projects • Experience working with vulnerable populations • Experience of programme design and management • Experience in managing research and advocacy • Experience with HIV&AIDS and gender mainstreaming and disaster risk reduction

DESIRABLE Education, Qualifications & Experience Required: • Masters degree in an appropriate discipline including development studies and social sciences. • Recognized qualification in training or capacity building • Emergency response experience • Experience working in politically sensitive programmes and contexts • Experience of capacity building with partner organisations

Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements: ESSENTIAL: • Be a strong team player with a can do attitude • Conversational Spanish or Portuguese • A strong commitment to helping the poorest people in the world to improve their well-being and achieve their goals. • Climate Smart Agriculture programming experience • Experience in conceptualising and managing programme based Operational Research • Effective data management and analysis skills – basic statistical analysis of programme M+E • In depth knowledge of development issues including a Rights Based Approach to development. • Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and Gender Mainstreaming issues • Leadership qualities • Strong report-writing skills in English and Portuguese • Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure • Possess strong proven delegation, time management and prioritising skills • Effective networking abilities DESIRABLE: • Previous experience in a similar capacity

Any Other Special Requirements: • Knowledge of Southern African Social and Political Context • Familiarity with Concern policies and the strategic plan. • International driving license

How to apply:

All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by the closing date. CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length. Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer posts before the closing date.