Climate Justice & Resilience Facility for Africa Coordinator at Pan African Climate Justice Alliance

A. POSITION DESCRIPTION

B. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development of a robust strategy for the CJRFA
  • Development of the CJFA Strategy and coordinate its implementation
  • Work closely with the MERL leads of both the core programme management unit (PMU) and the consortium Partners to ensure proper monitoring of activities funded through the Facility
  • Stay abreast regarding new tools, approaches and methodologies on small grants facilities and recommend to PACJA and the Consortium Partners the best ways to grow the Facility
  • Popularize the role and achievements and lessons learnt from the Facility through various platforms, including, but not limited to, media, conferences and forums at national, regional and global levels
• Small Grants management
  • Facilitate the establishment of a CJRFA Steering Committee to provide technical support and enhance transparency of the Facility
  • Under the guidance of the CJRFA Steering Committee, develop Recipients’ application, monitoring and reporting frameworks, criteria and guidelines.
  • Develop a portal for the announcements for the call for proposals for accessing small grants from the Facility
  • Ensure efficient communication channels with credible local stakeholders.
  • Facilitate and manage community engagement processes in relation to the calls for small grant project concepts (i.e., briefing sessions)
  • Together with the Steering Committee review and screen project concepts against a set of criteria
  • Monitor the implementation of the small grants’ projects activities
  • Provide timely quarterly progress activity reports (narrative and financial) to the AACJ PMU’s as per the donor requirements
  • Conduct capacity building sessions with prospective Small Grant Recipients to improve their proposal writing skills, reporting and gender mainstreaming of small grants projects
• Learning and linking for sustainability
  • Map out the landscape and explore whether such initiatives exist for possible synergy and best-practice experience-sharing and learning
  • Support processes to communicate and share insights from the Facility at national, regional and international community.
  • Advise on the most practical and innovative methods to grow and sustain the Facility beyond the AACJ Project
  • In collaboration with the MERL leads of the PMU and consortium members, coordinate the small grants projects mid-term and end review processes
  • Document and disseminate the impact and success stories of the Facility within and beyond the project countries.
• Fundraising for the Facility (growing the facility)
  • Grow, sustain and scale-up the Facility through fundraising from public funders, philanthropists and local and international corporates
  • Respond to calls for proposals for funding to replenish the Facility
  • Develop a face-to-face fundraising strategy for non-solicited funding to sustain the facility.

C. REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• An agile and strategic and critical thinker, with the ability of setting process, performance, and outcome goals.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written English, knowledge of French will be an added advantage
• Innovative and tech-savvy knowhow to support projects from the start to the end with the use of technology
• Strong in building teams
• Ability to embrace diversity
• Good negotiations and diplomatic skills
• Works well autonomously and in a team

D. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Academic education in the areas of economics, Business Finance, or any other relevant field
•  At least 5 years of work experience in sub-grant management, especially in intermediary organisations and sub-granting to quasi-formal groups and communities
• At least 5 years of work experience of working with consortia and especially in a diverse work environment
• Ability to support consortium to reach out and build relations with stakeholders at the local, national, continental, and global levels