Food, income and markets programme manager

Job Purpose

Purpose

- to develop and deliver the Food, Income & Markets Programme in line with CSP and to ensure that it compliant with both Concern and Donor policies and procedures.

Project management

- responsible for the successful delivery of all the outputs of the FIM programme as specified in the project documents.
- Work closely with WASH team and integrate WASH and FIM activities wherever is possible.

Line management

- responsible for leading, supporting and building the capacity of a small team comprising Korean project officers and a part-time conservation agriculture expert.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Programme implementation

- to coordinate the FIM programmes in DPR Korea;
- responsible for all aspects of the project cycle management system (PCMS) of on-going and upcoming projects within the agreed plans, budgets, time frame and donor guidelines. As of late 2011, we have two large EU funded projects: a UNFS project (March 1st 2010 start date to end date August 2012) and a MSNFS project schedule to start early 2012 and running for 3 years and a CLASS project schedule to start in mid 2012 and running for 4 years.

Finance

- responsible for the financial management, budgeting, procurement planning and review of all aspects of the programme budget: expected to be in the region of €650,000 in 2012;
- liaising closely with the in-country support team;
- regularly updating the monthly analysis of expenditure and review stipulated financial donor reports drawn up by the country accountant;

Staff management

- responsible for ensuring that the team delivers agreed outputs, ensuring the monitoring of delegated tasks to the assigned project officers (will be 2 in early 2012 and likely to expand by the end of the year);
- ensuring compliance with donor guidelines on time allocated to the project by staff, consultants and promoting learning, capacity building, organisational values and leadership where required and carrying our regular Performance Development Reviews ( PDRs) and setting objectives etc.

Technical expertise

- responsible for the sound provision of technical (Agriculture, Food processing, Fish farming, Conservation Agriculture, DRR, NRM etc) advices in the DPRK context;
- liaison with in-country and overseas experts for technical inputs as required.

Work planning

- responsible for the elaboration of the FIM program annual plan and to ensure that each project has updated and detailed quarterly work plans with targets related to each of the activities according to output;
- highlighting any changes to the plan and log frame that would require donor consent.

Logistics

- responsible for ensuring that all tendering and procurement is both compliant with donor and CW approved practices and procedures;
- and ensuring that CW meets the donor requirements on project ‘visibility’.

Monitoring & evaluation

- to ensure the highest standards of progress and impact monitoring;
- ensure the continued roll out of the PM&E guide: elaborating impact chains and M&E matrices for each of our on-going projects;
- identifying key indicators and tracking changes over time using both quantitative and qualitative field survey methods (as permitted in DPRK);
- periodic (12 month) review and learning exercises with all key stakeholders to feed into the annual country program report;
- undertake baseline and end line survey;
- develop high quality ToRs for external evaluation of the projects and for technical consultants.

Reporting

- ensuring that all our donor funded FIM projects fulfil their reporting commitments;
- especially according to the EU guidelines & other donors, beginning with an initial inception report and thereafter the preparation of periodic (interim reports as specified in the donor contracts) donor reports showing progress and achievements against the implementation plan and highlighting any changes, constraints etc.
- Developing sectoral (FIM) annual / six monthly reports.

Program development

- responsible for the future direction, planning, preparation and design of our future donor funded projects within the FIM program and to ensure that they are in line with the country strategic plan. This will involve annual submissions to the EU and other donors for calls for proposals that meet:
• the DPRK government priorities,
• the Donor/ EU call guidelines
• Concern’s global FIM objectives (as specified in the FIM global framework).
- This is likely to include:
• Expanding conservation agriculture and crop production ( especially soybean) on sloping lands for an EU food security call in 2012 and for Irish Aid
• Community oriented natural resource management (agro forestry) for an EU environment & NRM theme call in 2013;
- After 12 months in the position to elaborate a 3 – 5 year FIM country strategy in line with the new Organisational and Country Strategic Plan planned for 2012 – 2016. This will include an advocacy strategy (using Concern’s ‘A guide to advocacy’ manual) on issues around urban food insecurity, technology transfer, conservation agriculture, forest rehabilitation, back yard gardens etc and building on an existing Inter Agency advocacy paper that addresses some of the underlying root causes (structural and systemic) with the FIM sector.

Organisational development

- to respect, uphold and actively support the broader CW organisational development initiatives within the context of the FIM program e.g. Equality, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change, Advocacy, Program Participant Protection, the Environment and of course Capacity Building etc.

Networking advocacy & representation

- Active engagement in the Food Security related issues with UN agencies and other EUPS units, international agencies and the FAO agriculture forum;
- liaison with the line Ministry of Agriculture and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences including the Vegetable Research Institute; and with the Ministry of Lands and Environmental Protection and the Academy of Forest Sciences etc.

Concern Worldwide Policies

- Understand and adhere to all CWW policies, including HR and in-country security procedures and the P4.

Work Targets

- set for this post over the contract period (Please be specific & realistic)
• Inception report for the MSNFS and CLASS projects: revising project plans based on more in depth discussion with stakeholders and baseline reports
• Revising / Developing the procurement plans and establishing the 12 month annual implementation and M&E plan;
• Final evaluation (including end line survey) and report for the UNFS project
• Interim narrative reporting as per donor requirements; monthly analysis of expenditure against the budget with feedback to the country accountant;
• Organising at least 2 national level and one international workshop / conferences on Agriculture / food security issues.
• Establish performance development targets and indicators with line manager;
• Contribute to the DPRK programme annual and monthly (Sit reps) reports Other targets correspond to the main outputs and activities detailed in the MSFNS, UNFS and CLASS project log frames.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications & Experience Required

Essential

- Degree level education with agricultural science/ natural resource management/ agricultural engineering/ agricultural economics/ sustainable development specialism.
- At least five years of overseas project management development experience with an NGO;
- strong technical skills in rural livelihoods especially principles and practice of sustainable agricultural development;
- sound financial management skills.
- Leadership experience with the ability to motivate & develop skills of others; experience in monitoring & evaluation methods;
- and of sensitively influencing policy, advocacy and networking. Experience of working with Government & state structures who our sole partners at National and Local level.
- Sense of humour;
- ability to build strong working relationships with committed national staff;
- respectful and sensitive to different cultural values and norms;
- good training and facilitation skills.
- Flexibility, adaptability & patience

Desirable

- Relevant Masters degree or appropriate post degree qualification Prior experience of working with Concern Worldwide;
- knowledge of our values and culture;
- knowledge of international procurement and logistics systems etc;
- experience of working on EU food security projects;
- and prior experience of working in DPRK;
- Experience in Conservation Agriculture ;
- Experience in organising national/ international level events such as workshops and seminars