Search for Common Ground is hiring a
Officer, Cross-Regional Programs

Summary

The job description is for a Programme Officer role at Search for Common Ground, a global peace movement organization. The role involves coordinating the implementation of multi-year, multi-country consortia programs supporting Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) and Security & Rule of Law (SRoL).

Requirements

• Coordinates the development of the annual international workplan and budget, and coordinates the submission of the country-level workplans and budgets
• Ensures the tracking of international expenses and supports the effective tracking and forecasting of country project expenditures by the project team through budget versus actuals (BVA) meetings, in line with the approved budget; participates in country BvA meetings to foster shared understanding and accountability
• Collaborates with country programme managers and partners in the preparation of timely and quality project reports for donors in compliance with the donor and internal Search requirements
• Facilitates global grants reviews, and closure meetings amongst Search staff and follows up on action points
• Coordinates programme knowledge and information management and sharing. Documents lessons learned in the course of implementation
• Ensures that reflection sessions and discussions on adaptation take place and participates in these. Facilitates support for technical assistance where appropriate
• Captures output and outcome level results, working with Strategy Alignment Team and country team colleagues, analyses trends, suggests adaptations to consortium
• Coordinates with the programmes team as well as country communication teams in highlighting and documenting success stories
• Conducts on-boarding of relevant new programme staff and familiarizes them with the donor and internal rules as regulations on grants management

Responsibilities

• Coordinates program implementation activities and grant close-out, documenting lessons learned
• Facilitates program implementation review, spending review, and forecasting
• Ensures report development, coordinating and consolidating inputs from colleagues
• Serves as primary focal point with consortium leads and partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience living or working experience in a conflict geography where Search works preferred
• Familiarity with EU policy making related to Security and Rule of Law and/or Freedom of Religion and Belief preferred
• Experience of coordinating consortium grants preferred
• Experience in working on grants funded by the Dutch government preferred