• Job Title: Programme Officer- Programme and finance support
• Location: Bangui
• Reporting to: Project Manager , with dotted lines to the ECAP Programme Director.
• Duration: March 2024- 30 December 2025.
• Gross Salary: XAF 1,112, 042 per month – including statutory taxes such as CNSS, AFCPE. In
• addition, the employer will make a 9% contribution to pension and medical insurance.
• Responsible for: Consultants and occasional volunteers
• Deadline: 22 March 2024 09:00 UK time

Job purpose
The Programme Officer will provide programmatic, MEL, financial, logistical and partners support primarily to the Bangui office and to the rest of the East and Central Africa Programme (ECAP) and partners as necessary. The post-holder plays a key role in liaising with partners across the areas in which we work, and in supporting ECAP on programme activity implementation, finance support to the partners, fundraising and proposal development, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and donor and partners reporting requirements. The Programme Officer will also contribute to the programmes’ strategy, learning, security and keeping people safe to ensure integrity and sustainability of Conciliation Resources’ peacebuilding work. The Programme Officer is expected to undertake travel within CAR and other programme context, where necessary. The Programme Officer will report to the PM based in Bangui with dotted line to ECAP Director.

Person specification
Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and French
• Excellent numeracy and accuracy skills, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project areas outside Bangui.
• Experience of supporting financial management including experience in preparing budgets, monitoring organisational and partner expenditure and supporting financial reporting
• Experience of working in a role that supports project design, implementation and on-going support for processes of financial and narrative reporting, planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Experience of working with databases, handling diverse sources of information and maintaining accessible filing systems.
• Strong organisational skills including planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining administrative systems.
• Experience of revising and contributing to the drafting of substantive reports
• Experience of supporting partners on joint delivery of work.
• Experience of supporting implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of projects
• Experience of working in an administrative and support position to a team.
• Understanding of and interest in peacebuilding and conflict transformation processes
• Experience of undertaking supervised research work
• Experience of working in a multicultural environment
• Willingness to work irregular hours occasionally and to undertake some international travel
• Appreciation of issues of confidentiality, and cross-cultural and political sensitivity
• Initiative, enthusiasm, and a problem-solving approach to new challenges
• Ability and willingness to travel to areas affected by conflict
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages, databases, email, internet
• Right to work in the Central African Republic