Program Officer

Program Officer

About CBM

CBM (registered as CBM Christoffel-Blindenmission Christian Blind Mission e.V.) is an international development organisation committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the persons communities of the world. Based on our Christian values and more than 100 years of professional expertise, we address poverty as a cause and a consequence of disability. We work in partnership to create an inclusive society for all. For our office in Guatemala City, we are looking for a Program Officer. This position is only filled locally. With contractual conditions of the respective country. An expatriation is not intended.

These are your responsibilities

• Provide programmatic leadership in the development and implementation of the CBM project portfolio, aligned with the organizational strategy.
• Lead, guide and coordinate joint project and/or multi-year planning processes with partners, CBM Initiatives/technical teams and fundraising departments, ensuring the quality and sustainability of results in line with CBM and donor requirements.
• Ensure high quality of project and programme plans with effective delivery and fulfilment of objectives, utilisation of budgets as well as compliance with human rights standards ethnic and gender perspective/balance.
• Put in place an effective Monitoring, evaluation and learning framework to regularly measure progress on implementing CBM projects, drawing and sharing lessons learned and applying adaptive management.
• Support the Programme Representative in maintaining strong partnerships and diversifying partnerships, alliances, and collaborations.
• Organize and conduct initial and regularly updated organizational capacity assessments and/or partnership reviews, jointly develop plans to address capacity gaps, identify solutions, monitor implementation, and document learning.
• Manage engagement with national alliances, partners and Organizations for Persons with Disabilities to define and support national advocacy priorities.
• Develop proposal for institutional donors.
• Support the Central America team in organizing institutional events in the country, regional workshops conferences or high-level meetings and annual learning events with partners.
• Work with partners to gather and share frequent and updated quality project information and content to support CBM’s internal and external communication enabling fundraising departments to demonstrate impact in their donor communication with success stories from the field.

These are your qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, international development, or related field.
• Professional experience of five (5) years in national or international NGOs, with a track record in successfully designing and managing large development programmes in collaboration with national partners.
• Experience in developing and managing large scale institutionally funded projects. Experience of managing complex consortium an advantage.
• Proven proposal writing skills in English for donors as USAID and EU (mandatory).
• Proven experience in results-based management and project cycle management, including assessment, monitoring and evaluation, with a sound understanding of log frames and budgets. Project finance experience advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience in managing internal and external relationships and partnerships particularly with government and delegations.
• Experience of developing rights-based programmes and working with marginalised and organization of people with disabilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and intercultural skills and teamwork.
• Spanish (Compulsory) / English (Professional Proficiency, strong written and conversational skills)
• Proficient in MS Office
• Identification with the Christian values and mandate of CBM.

What we offer

• A meaningful position with a lot of creative freedom in the world's leading organisation in the field of Disability Inclusive Development.
• A fair salary and other social benefits based on the local conditions in the country you apply for.
• An approachable, agile organisation with self-reliant people in a diverse and collegial team and great team spirit.
• Health insurance.
• The employment contract is for a period of one year.