Various Positions

Project Management: Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting

• Lead the implementation of climate resilience and adaptation interventions, ensuring alignment with project objectives and adherence to quality standards across all three targeted programme districts and with all international and local NGO partners.
• Develop and manage detailed work plans, budgets, and activity schedules to ensure timely and effective delivery of project components.
• Oversee the integration and implementation of sustainable agriculture practices, including the procurement and distribution of climate-resilient agricultural inputs such as drought-tolerant seeds.
• Provide technical oversight for the rehabilitation and strengthening of small-scale irrigation schemes, ensuring adherence to technical standards.
• Coordinate the scaling up of community-led disaster risk reduction initiatives, including the Community Disaster Fund (CDF) and other climate financing mechanisms.
• Lead implementation of Build Back Better (BBB) strategies that promote sustainable, resilient reconstruction following shocks.
• Establish and maintain strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including government departments, NGOs, and private sector actors at district and national levels.
• Track project progress using appropriate monitoring tools and frameworks and evaluate the effectiveness of resilience interventions.
• Produce high-quality reports, including monthly, quarterly, annual, and donor-specific progress reports, ensuring timely and accurate documentation of project results.
•  Ensure that all resilience activities, particularly related to irrigation, meet technical quality standards and donor compliance requirements.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance in the design and delivery of all resilience and climate adaptation interventions, including local partners.
• Support internal learning and capacity building by offering technical advice and mentoring to programme staff and partners.
• Represent Concern Worldwide in key coordination platforms such as the District Disaster Risk Management Coordination Committee and District Agriculture Extension Coordination Committee working groups.

• Facilitate participatory processes to engage communities in identifying climate risks, resilience priorities, and locally appropriate adaptation solutions.
• Oversee the establishment and effective operation of community-level Complaints and Feedback Response Mechanisms, ensuring timely resolution and escalation of issues in line with Concern’s accountability standards.

• Monitor expenditure ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance with donor regulations.
• Oversee procurement planning and logistics, ensuring timely availability of supplies and services.
• Ensure compliance with Concern’s policies on finance, logistics, transport and security.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science, Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Management, Development Studies, Natural Resource Management, Project Management or relevant field
• At least five years of similar work experience in programme management, climate change and adaptation and staff and financial management
• Proven experience in managing multi-agency and multi-stakeholder collaborative projects and collaborating with local government institutions and structures
• Experience working in Chikwawa or Nsanje Districts or other similar contexts is an added advantage
• Strong programme management, coordination and communication with extensive experience in building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change.
• Skills in developing and implementing programmes that focus on irrigation, community disaster funds, and build back better initiatives.
• Skills in reporting, monitoring and evaluation and financial management
• Strong skills in inter-personal communications, able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-actor environment.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work effectively across a wide variety of cultural contexts.
• Strong team player, able to develop and maintain effective working relationships within a distributed and dynamic team.
• Flexible, creative and solution-oriented approach in an innovative environment
• Strong skills in partnership building, influencing, and negotiating with a diverse range of actors, including governments, UN agencies, networks, donors, national/local NGOs, and community groups.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian codes and standards, including the Common Humanitarian Standard, SPHERE, People in Aid Code, and HAP, along with their practical application.
• Competence with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook

• Provide technical leadership and specialist engineering support for climate-resilient WASH and community infrastructure interventions across programme districts.
• Lead technical assessment, design review, and quality assurance of climate-resilient water supply systems, drainage and stormwater ,management systems, flood mitigation and protection infrastructure, small-scale irrigation schemes, water harvesting systems and community resilience infrastructure
• Develop and review engineering designs, technical specifications, Bills of Quantities (BoQs), drawings, and tender documentation.
• Ensure infrastructure interventions comply with national engineering standards, humanitarian standards, environmental safeguards, and climate adaptation principles.
• Provide technical guidance on resilient infrastructure approaches, including Build Back Better (BBB), nature-based solutions, and ecosystem-sensitive engineering.
• Conduct regular technical monitoring visits and infrastructure quality inspections.
• Support climate and environmental risk assessments related to infrastructure and WASH systems.
• Ensure engineering interventions integrate gender-sensitive, disability-inclusive, and community-led approaches.
• Provide technical guidance on operation, maintenance, and sustainability planning for community infrastructure assets.
• Build technical capacity of programme staff, local partners, government departments, artisans, contractors, and community structures.
• Develop technical guidance materials, SOPs, engineering quality standards, and training tools.
• Support and mentor district engineering and field teams during implementation.
• Support technical documentation of lessons learned, innovations, and best practices.
• Contribute to technical case studies, learning briefs, and evidence generation related to climate resilience.
• Provide technical input into proposal development, concept notes, budgets, donor reports, and programme strategies.
• Advise programme teams on technical feasibility, cost-effectiveness, sustainability, and resilience considerations.
• Support integration of climate resilience, WASH engineering, DRR, and environmental sustainability into programme design.
• Contribute technical expertise to resilience financing and community resilience fund approaches.
• Support innovation and identification of scalable engineering, resilience adaptation solutions suitable for flood-prone and climate-vulnerable contexts.
• Represent Concern in relevant resilience/ adaptation/ climate technical coordination forums
• Liaise with District Councils, technical government departments, contractors, and partners on resilience, adaptation and engineering and infrastructure matters.
• Support technical engagement with departments responsible for irrigation, water, public works, disaster management, and environmental management.

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Water Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Irrigation Engineering, Environmental Science, Disaster Risk Reduction or relevant field
• At least five years of similar work experience in WASH engineering, infrastructure development, climate resilience and adaptation programming, climate change and staff and financial management.
• Demonstrated experience in design and supervision of resilient infrastructure in flood-prone or climate – vulnerable contexts.
• Proven experience in managing multi-agency and multi-stakeholder collaborative projects and collaborating with local government institutions and structures
• Strong technical expertise in climate-resilient infrastructure and WASH engineering.
• Knowledge of flood mitigation, drainage systems, irrigation systems, and resilient infrastructure design.
• Experience developing technical drawings, BoQs, specifications, and tender documentation.
• Strong programme management, coordination and communication with extensive experience in building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change.
• Skills in reporting, monitoring and evaluation and financial management
• Strong skills in inter-personal communications, able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-actor environment.
• Strong team player, able to develop and maintain effective working relationships within a distributed and dynamic team.
• Strong skills in partnership building, influencing, and negotiating with a diverse range of actors, including governments, UN agencies, networks, donors, national/local NGOs, and community groups.
• Strong understanding of humanitarian codes and standards, including the Common Humanitarian Standard, SPHERE, People in Aid Code, and HAP, along with their practical application.
• Competence with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook.

• Liaise with project staff to ensure timely preparation of monthly cash projections.
• Make payments in accordance with Concern’s financial policies and procedures.
• Review and verify all payment requests, ensure they are supported by complete and appropriate supporting documentation is attached.
• Record all cash and bank transactions, using correct descriptions, budget coded and amounts.
• Ensure that cash is available in the required denominations to support the field team activities.
• Monitor compliance with cash holding limits (maximum and minimum) as set by the Head Office and DOA
• Verify all cash payments and ensure that they are properly authorised and supported with sufficient & required supporting documentation.
• Ensure that all payment requests are fully processed within four days of being received by finance department.
• Receive/collect monthly bank statement from all banks and prepare monthly bank reconciliation and cash recap every month.
• Review and clear outstanding reconciling items in a timely manner.
• Ensure all financial documents are properly filed and submitted to Head Office in a timely and organized manner.
• Scan and store all cash and bank transactions before sending the original documents to Head Office for archiving.
• Maintaining proper financial and operational records and files
• Preparing and submitting relevant financial and operational reports
• Participating and contributing towards Concern’s Emergency response and comply with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
• Adhering to, support and promote the standards of conduct outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct & its Associated Policies
• Upholding and promoting Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion values

• Certificate/Diploma in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration or relevant field.
• At least one year experience in a similar role. NGO experience is an advantage.
• Good knowledge of accounting practices, policies and procedures
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, documentation time management and analytical skills
• Ability to multitask, work within deadlines and work effectively under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Proficient using Microsoft applications especially Excel and financial software packages
• Integrity and a high degree of honesty
• Good team player