Impact Partnership Coordinator at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Overview

• To coordinate, facilitate, and technically support the work of CIFOR-ICRAF and its consortium partners in their joint role as an Agriculture/Agri-food Systems and Climate Action Impact Partner Organization (IPO) while ensuring integration and synergy with wider Q4I and CIFOR-ICRAF initiatives.

Duties and responsibilities

• Coordinate the consortium and donor relationship.
• Coordinate consortium partners on inputs required to plan work, design budgets, or deliver on assignments.
• Monitor and provide periodic updates on assignment progress, while devising and implementing solutions to overcome emerging bottlenecks.
• Lead in the preparation of budgets for key assignments internally and liaise with consortium partners to do the same.
• Work with Finance to oversee and coordinate the overall IPO budget and that of CIFOR-ICRAF, while liaising and coordinating with the finance staff of the consortium partners as needed.
• Support the delivery of selected assignments, either through literature review, reviewing draft products, engaging communication experts, or participating in such assignments directly.
• Coordinate with relevant projects within CIFOR-ICRAF to ensure mutual learning and strategic alignment.
• Support proposal development where opportunities arise.

Other Responsibilities.

•  Identify and mitigate potential risks within your work area.
• Take reasonable care of own occupational health and safety and that of others as obliged by CIFOR-ICRAF’s Occupational Health and Safety Policy and cooperate with CIFOR-ICRAF in complying with requirements under any statutory health and safety provisions of relevant Country laws.
• Participate in (insert team as appropriate) projects as may be required

Education, knowledge and experience

• Master’s or equivalent in experience.
• At least 5 years of experience, ideally in the international development sector in general and in the agriculture and climate change sectors in particular
• At least 3 years of project management experience, particularly in projects involving multiple partners and in financial budgeting and management.

The application deadline is 11 Aug, 2023