Position Overview
This is a superb opportunity for a development professional to work alongside national and international staff, leading on the grant writing, reporting, and evaluation of SEED’s WASH and Schools programmes.
Our WASH and Schools programmes use community-led, participatory approaches, working with local communities to identify and implement projects that meet their needs and priorities. SEED’s WASH programme focuses on delivering interventions in rural schools and health clinics, WASH infrastructure is complimented by facilitated approaches to sustainable management and behaviour change. SEED’s education infrastructure programme focuses on building school infrastructure such as classrooms, toilet blocks, handwashing stations, rainwater harvesting systems, and menstrual hygiene management facilities to support learning.
This is an exciting position for someone who has existing field experience to work alongside national and international staff, coordinating the development, grant writing, reporting and evaluation of our WASH and Schools programmes. You will be responsible for generating funds across the programmes and expanding our network of partners in-country and internationally to maximise impact. This post will partner our national implementation teams, managing donor compliance, ensuring proposals and reports are to a high standard and budgets are appropriately managed.
It is essential that the post holder has grant writing experience, WASH knowledge and is able to work in English to a high standard and have at least basic French. Candidates who do not meet these criteria will not be considered.
About the organisation
SEED Madagascar is a British Charity working in partnership with communities in the south east of Madagascar. We integrate high quality community health, sustainable livelihoods, education infrastructure and conservation programmes to support long term, sustainable change and add to international best practice through research and publication across all of our programmatic areas.
More information on the work of SEED can be found at www.madagascar.co.uk
Location:Â Fort Dauphin, Anosy Region, Madagascar *Timeframe:*18 months extendable
Contract Minimum duration: 2 years (probationary period 3 months) *Terms and conditions:*Local salary of 2,000,000 – 2,500,000 Ar plus contributions of up to £1200 to a return flight to post and £600 to insurance
Reporting to:Â Director of Programmes & Operations
Duties and responsibilities
Programme Development
Programme Management
People Management
Budget Management
General
Person specification
Essential
Desirable
Practicalities
The successful candidate will need to be equipped with their own laptop computer (non-tablet).
Interested applicants should send a CV and covering letter in English outlining how their skills and experience match the requirements in the job description criteria to SEED Director of Programmes and Operations, Lisa Bass, at lisa@seedmadagascar.org
Applications deadline: 29th July 2022. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis throughout this period. Long-listed applicants will have an initial informal online chat with Madagascar-based staff. Short-listed applicants will then be offered a formal interview with the London team.
SEED Madagascar actively encourages equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace and aims to create a working environment free of bullying, harassment, victimisation, and unlawful discrimination, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued.
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