Impact Partnership Coordinator at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

The World Agroforestry Centre, is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978. The Centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforest and natural reserves.

Overview

To coordinate, facilitate, and technically support the work of CIFOR-ICRAF and its consortium partners in their joint role as an Agriculture/Agri-food Systems and Climate Action Impact Partner Organization (IPO) while ensuring integration and synergy with wider Q4I and CIFOR-ICRAF initiatives.

Duties and responsibilities

• Coordinate the consortium and donor relationship.


• Coordinate consortium partners on inputs required to plan work, design budgets, or deliver on assignments.


• Monitor and provide periodic updates on assignment progress, while devising and implementing solutions to overcome emerging bottlenecks.


• Lead in the preparation of budgets for key assignments internally and liaise with consortium partners to do the same.


• Work with Finance to oversee and coordinate the overall IPO budget and that of CIFOR-ICRAF, while liaising and coordinating with the finance staff of the consortium partners as needed.


• Support the delivery of selected assignments, either through literature review, reviewing draft products, engaging communication experts, or participating in such assignments directly.


• Coordinate with relevant projects within CIFOR-ICRAF to ensure mutual learning and strategic alignment.


• Support proposal development where opportunities arise.

Other Responsibilities.

•  Identify and mitigate potential risks within your work area.


• Take reasonable care of own occupational health and safety and that of others as obliged by CIFOR-ICRAF’s Occupational Health and Safety Policy and cooperate with CIFOR-ICRAF in complying with requirements under any statutory health and safety provisions of relevant Country laws.


• Participate in (insert team as appropriate) projects as may be required

Education, knowledge and experience

• Master’s or equivalent in experience.


• At least 5 years of experience, ideally in the international development sector in general and in the agriculture and climate change sectors in particular


• At least 3 years of project management experience, particularly in projects involving multiple partners and in financial budgeting and management.

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