Create, maintain, and close donor grant files and ensure that the Grants Management filing system is maintained following the established grant management protocols and that all grant documentation is properly filed therein. Manage sub-grantee agreements as per donor/sub-grantee requirements to ensure the dissemination and understanding of the organization's Grant Management Manual and other relevant policy documents by all stakeholders. Facilitate the understanding of donor contracts and compliance issues among Programme Managers, budget holders, and those responsible for overhead cost recovery. Prepare donor reports and other documents as required by donors in liaison with budget holders and Finance. Ensure that donor reports and income reconciliations are collated and checked, per grant management scheme of delegation, and submitted to the sub-grantee and/ or the donor within given deadlines. Ensure compliance to the donor compliance checklist for all new grants and the dissemination and discussion with budget holders/ project Managers. Support in proposal writing particularly with the budget preparation. Ensure that all proposals, contracts, and amendments are appropriately authorized. Advise budget holders on receipt of new funding source codes to ensure the upload Assist the Finance Manager and budget holders to monitor expenditure and progress against allocations, and time frames monthly. Produce and maintain monthly grants monitoring schedule.

Consultancy: Capitalization of the Value Chain Assessment methodology with a focus on food security, resilience to climate change, and access to markets in three provinces of The Philippines. Analysis of the methodology implemented to assess the Value chain of 5 commodities in three provinces of The Philippines.Evaluation on how climate change, the access to market impact on the different value chains and the food security of the local farmers.

Evaluation of food security projects in Africa implemented by local and international NGOs, and financed by multinational companies.Technical assistance for the development of monitoring and evaluation systems, impact analysis in assigned project portfolios of two client companies. Execution of Cost-Benefit Analysis of food security projects in South Africa and Chile.Development of a monitoring instrument to assess the results against 4 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 7, 9, 11 and 13).

Analysed and assessed the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and the impact of a climate change adaptation project in The Philippines.Evaluated the quality of the intervention.Identified the institutional, administrative, organisational and community challenges and constraints related to the implementation of the project.Identified good practices, lessons learned mitigation strategies.Project evaluation and knowledge management reports and publication prepared.

Areas of work: Human rights; capacity building, socioeconomic development, national legal and institutional frame analysis.Coordination of the Biodiversity global program and of the Responsible Investments in Agriculture for Latin America program, including monitoring of activities, evaluation of program outputs, and reports submission.Monitor compliance with program contracts and subcontracts.Business Development (bid coordination, proposal development, proposal writing, scoping, donor engagement) aimed to innovate and expand the organization’s program portfolio. Review and analyse documents and information received from partners and/or field teams.Collaborate with country program staff and local partners ensuring that perspectives and expectations are shared in the design of the project and to gather support in its implementation. Communication and coordination within the different departments of the organization.

Areas of work: Financial education and inclusion in rural areas; rural development, women and youth’s economic empowerment; Children education and health; food security and livelihoods, rural employment and entrepreneurship; small scale producers and access to value chains and commerce.Institutional and legal representation of the organization in Guatemala.Project management, monitoring, reporting, evaluation: Ensure the proper implementation of the activities in accordance with the contract, agreements, and country strategy plan; assure the compliance with monitoring and evaluation, financial and administrative procedures; assure interim and final project reporting (narrative reports and financial reports).Projects’ identification and design: Assess needs, design project proposals for private and institutional donors.Networking: Develop and strengthen the relationship with civil society (partnering NGOs, potential new partners and NGOs network), local authorities, UE Delegation, UN system, AECID; USAID and all relevant International Cooperation Agencies and Development Partners operating in the country.Administration, and Office Management: Ensure the management of Country Office (human, financial and physical resources, logistics; accounting and reporting in compliance with national rules, coordination with HQ).

Areas of work: Food security, policy analysis.Analyze Central American regional strategies and policies on food security and nutrition.Lead 3 field missions to analyze the application of the food security and nutritional regional strategy in 90 municipalities of 5 trans-borders areas of Central America.Manage the institutional relationship with the Central American counterpart as well as with ministries, municipalities and civil society organizations.

Areas of work: Intercultural dialogue, institutional capacity building, vocational training for youth.Project management: activities planning, monitoring, and reporting.Assure the achievement and compliance of the project deliverable, respecting of guidelines, administrative and procurement procedures.Ensure coordination with the donor, national and international institutions, local partners and communities. Leadership, management, and supervision of 12 staff and of 40 national and international consultants.

Areas of work: Capacity building, socioeconomic development, Youth and women entrepreneurship.Provide strategic leadership and oversee technical and operational implementation of DANIDA B2B project aimed to support small and medium scale farms in improving the quality and commercialization of coffee.Operational support to Danish coffee experts during training, workshop, and field visits.Facilitate communication and coordination with national and international partners.Develop a Corporative Social Responsibility strategy for the Nicaraguan Specialty Coffee Association.Provide technical assistance in the creation of instruments for project monitoring and evaluation, administrative and logistic procedures for the Nicaraguan Specialty Coffee Association.Manage a 7 members team.

Areas of work: Food security, capacity building, disaster risk reduction.Lead and supervision of the regional office in Mindanao.Plan and coordinate all food security and disaster risk reduction interventions, ensuring technical quality andthe coherence with project documentation and with the country strategy plan.Represent the organization and promote advocacy initiatives towards national authorities and institutions.Plan, check and approve project and office expenditures.Management of all administrative, logistic and human resources issues. Organize regular training to the national team on internal monitoring procedures.

Areas of work: Food security and livelihoods, capacity building, disaster risk reduction.Midterm project evaluation and management of food security project aimed to support communities affected by a natural disaster.Provide technical assistance in the elaboration of food security mission strategy.Participate in missions (needs assessment, context analysis and project proposal preparation). Represent the organization towards local authorities, institutions, and international agencies. Coordinate and network with national and international actors.Organize visibility campaigns on nutrition and food security. Budget forecast, follow up, and procurement management.

Areas of work: institutional capacity building, food security, health, disaster risk reduction.Supervise the technical and operational implementation of the projects focused on: Provide technical and operational guidance to project managers.Evaluate external project proposals from Latin-American and Italian institutions. Application of financial procedures and budget expenditures.Prepare and follow technical missions to/from the countries. Liaise with Italian and Latin-American institutions.

Areas of work: Community rehabilitation and food security, youth and women economic empowerment.Representation of the organization at the country level.Programs coordination and management.Overall management of the mission office (financial, logistics, human resources management).Coordinate the implementation of a community rehabilitation and food security projects.Liaison with the donor, governmental institutions, provincial and municipal authorities, international organizations and partners.

Areas of work: Institutional capacity buildingTechnical, operative and financial management of two regional projects aimed to assist the City of Niš in establishing of an assistance center for small and medium enterprises and a joint customer info call center for two public companies (water supply and waste management).Capacity building to local authorities and public companies (transfer of know-how and technology).Represent the organization at the local level and liaise with local institutions and international organizations.

Need assessment, context analysis. Lead field and institutional meetings.Project proposal preparation.

Writing of a project proposal for trans-border cooperation between Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.

Analysis of the citizen participation in the creation of the Regional Development Strategy in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua