Starting date: As soon as possible

About the organisation

CARE is one of the world’s leading development and humanitarian aid agencies, fighting poverty and injustice in over 100 countries and helping more than 70 million people each year to find paths out of poverty, with a specific focus on the empowerment of women and girls. CARE saves lives in disaster and conflicts and stand with women, girls, and their communities to achieve lasting change for a better future.

To learn more about CARE Austria, visit www.care.at and for information in English please go to www.care.at/resources/ 

About the role

In line with CARE’s mission, vision and core values, the Senior Program Officer develops and oversees CARE Austria´s project portfolio in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. Current programs of CARE Austria have a geographic focus on Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda. The thematic scope includes economic empowerment programming, food & nutrition security, good governance, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, support to youth, and gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.

Your responsibilities

• Overall coordination of CARE Austria projects and activities in the target regions in collaboration with CARE Country Offices and consortium partners
• Management of donor contracts in collaboration with project controlling and in accordance with CARE program standards and donor guidelines – mostly the European Union and Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
• Mentoring and backstopping of country office staff, in particular regarding donor contract compliance
• Technical assistance and/or supervision of technical experts mainly in the areas of economic development, food & nutrition security, health, climate change, good governance, and human rights
• Monitoring and evaluation of projects, including field visits to project areas, and project reporting
• Identification of new funding opportunities, development of new projects, and proposal writing
• Management of donor relations and liaison at country and regional level
• Contributing best practises from the target regions to knowledge management and learning within CARE
• Support to CARE Austria’s and CARE International’s advocacy, media, and fundraising efforts