Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 20, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Climate Justice & Resilience Facility for Africa Coordinator
• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification BA/BSc/HND
• Experience 5 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field NGO/Non-Profit

A. POSITION DESCRIPTION
Employment: Full time
Working hours: Monday to Friday reporting in the office from 8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Supervisor: Head of Programmes
Repotees None
Duration of Contract Two years, renewable subject to satisfactory performance
Duty station: PACJA Continental Secretariat, Nairobi Kenya
Grade and Salary level Grade 4, Annual gross salary range of 42,000-66,000 USD

B. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development of a robust strategy for the CJRFA
o Development of the CJFA Strategy and coordinate its implementation
o 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
o 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
o 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
o Facilitate the establishment of a CJRFA Steering Committee to provide technical support and enhance transparency of the Facility
o Under the guidance of the CJRFA Steering Committee, develop Recipients’ application, monitoring and reporting frameworks, criteria and guidelines.
o Develop a portal for the announcements for the call for proposals for accessing small grants from the Facility
o Ensure efficient communication channels with credible local stakeholders.
o Facilitate and manage community engagement processes in relation to the calls for small grant project concepts (i.e., briefing sessions)
o Together with the Steering Committee review and screen project concepts against a set of criteria
o Monitor the implementation of the small grants’ projects activities
o Provide timely quarterly progress activity reports (narrative and financial) to the AACJ PMU’s as per the donor requirements
o 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
o Map out the landscape and explore whether such initiatives exist for possible synergy and best-practice experience-sharing and learning
o Support processes to communicate and share insights from the Facility at national, regional and international community.
o Advise on the most practical and innovative methods to grow and sustain the Facility beyond the AACJ Project
o In collaboration with the MERL leads of the PMU and consortium members, coordinate the small grants projects mid-term and end review processes
o Document and disseminate the impact and success stories of the Facility within and beyond the project countries.
• Fundraising for the Facility (growing the facility)
o Grow, sustain and scale-up the Facility through fundraising from public funders, philanthropists and local and international corporates
o Respond to calls for proposals for funding to replenish the Facility
o 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

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
If you meet the requirements, kindly submit your applications to;
Human Resources and Partnership Manager
Email: hr@pacja.org  copy to info@pacja.org  
by 27th May, 2021.
Citizens from all African countries are eligible to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. "

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