Programme Manager – Climate Resilience Pillar at People in Need

People in Need is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1992 in the Czech Republic on the principles of humanism, freedom, equality, and solidarity. It operates in over 40 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Central America, addressing global issues like climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and social inequality. Its activities are organized into three core programmatic pillars: Emergency Response and Recovery, Climate Resilience, and Civil Society and Inclusive Governance. The Emergency Response and Recovery pillar focuses on providing humanitarian aid, followed by recovery and resilience-building programs. The Climate Resilience pillar aims to enhance the resilience of those vulnerable to climate change through green growth and circular economy principles. The Civil Society and Inclusive Governance pillar works to strengthen civil society’s engagement with governments to promote inclusive public services and participatory democratic processes. In Zambia, People in Need started its operations in 2017 where it implemented projects focusing on nutrition, humanitarian aid, WASH practices, and biogas innovation. The current programmes encompass initiatives to provide clean energy through biogas technology, address acute malnutrition in children and pregnant and/or lactating women, support smallholder farmers through biogas appliances, biochar, and livestock projects and conserving the local ecosystem, restoring biodiversity and creating alternative and climate-resilient livelihood opportunities, especially for the smallholder farmers residing in the Barotse Floodplain of Mongu and Limulunga districts.

Scope of Works:

The scope of work encompasses diverse responsibilities across project, financial, human resource management, monitoring and evaluation, logistics and procurement, coordination, communication, visibility, and safety measures. This includes overseeing project cycle management, conducting regular review meetings, ensuring the regular updating of project documents, providing strategic input, and integrating cross-cutting issues into projects. Financial management involves budget oversight and compliance with donor guidelines, while HR duties encompass recruitment and capacity building for project staff. Monitoring and evaluation tasks focus on maintaining data quality and establishing feedback mechanisms for improvement, while logistics coordination ensures project needs are effectively met. Coordination efforts involve liaising with key stakeholders at the district and provincial levels, while communication strategies aim to increase project and organizational visibility. Overall, the scope aims for effective project implementation while adhering to

increase project and organizational visibility. Overall, the scope aims for effective project implementation while adhering to organizational and donor standards.

1.      Tasks and Responsibilities

a.      Program management

• Overall supervision of project cycle management of all projects under the Climate Resilience pillars currently implemented within the country programme
• Ensure through the Project Managers timely execution of project review meetings, update of ITT, results framework, PowerBI and IPR and project reports encompassing progress, risks and challenges, mitigation measures and lessons learned

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