Christian Aid is the official relief, development and advocacy agency of 41 sponsoring churches in Britain and Ireland and is part of the world-wide church community. The essential purpose of Christian Aid is to expose the scandal of poverty, to help in practical ways to root it out from the world and to challenge the structures and systems which favour the rich and powerful over the poor and marginalized.

Description Of Job

PROGRAMME OFFICER, MARKET ACCESS, GHANA
1 year fixed term contract
Based: Accra with extensive travel in country

Christian Aid is looking for a Programme Officer, Market Access, to develop and manage a number of Pro-Poor market initiatives in Ghana. The post-holder is responsible for the development of programme strategy, the identification and management of effective partnerships, and the effective raising and disbursement of funds. This will include providing capacity development support to partners, the development of appropriate policy interventions and the representation of the programme to donors, Government, the private sector as well as support internal communication of the programme.

The PO is responsible for results based monitoring and documentation of change and the sharing of best practice amongst partners and work as part of a dynamic programme team contribution to the achievement of the Ghana programme goal. The post-holder may be required to spend up to 30% of their time in the field.

Qualification Required & Experience

•  Candidates must be educated to at least degree level in a development related discipline, preferably on governance, economics or agriculture, and have at least 3 years experience of appraising, monitoring and evaluation programmes
•  Experience of contract management, budget management and proposal development as well as providing support to partners in market development programming is essential
•  Strong writing and computer skills are a must

Please show your suitability for this post by giving answers to the following questions: Using the guidance notes may help you formulate your answers:
Building partnerships:

Describe a time when you have listened to and taken on board fresh perspectives and views where you initially disagreed with them. What was the situation? What was your approach and why did you decide to use if? What was the disagreement based on? What effect did you approach have? What was the outcome?

Stewarding resources:

Describe a time where you have set and communicated realistic timelines for achieving tasks, working out how best to adapt as priorities change or unforeseen circumstances arise. What was the context? What was your responsibility? How did you establish that the timescales were realistic? How did you communicate this information to others? Did any circumstances arise to change the tasks or timescales? How did you react? What was the result?

Realising potential:

Please give us an example of when you shared your knowledge and skills to help others to be more effective in their role. What was the situation? What knowledge or skills did you have to share? What was your particular task or responsibility? What action(s) did you take to help someone(s)? What were the results? Were you successful? How did you know?

You will require current and valid permission to work in the country

How To Apply For The Job

To apply for this post, please download an application pack and role profile from www.christianaid.org.uk/jobs and email your completed form to: ghanarecruit@christian-aid.org quoting the reference number.

Job reference: GHANA/001/POMA

Closing Date: 06 February, 2013

Christian Aid values diversity and aspires to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief

Shortlisted candidates will attend interviews int he 1st week of December and must be ready to start work soon after