Position: Technical Monitoring Officer for Coastal & Marine Ecosystems
Official Work Station: Quezon City
Deadline of Application: July 26, 2024
About the Project
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded the Investing in Sustainability and Partnerships for Inclusive Growth and Regenerative Ecosystems “INSPIRE” Project to the Gerry Roxas Foundation on September 14, 2021. INSPIRE is a five-year project that aims to contribute to NRSG’s goal of advancing natural resource resilience, security, and governance through the increased participation and critical engagement of CSOs, media, Indigenous Peoples (IPs), local communities, and the private sector.
About the Post
The Technical Monitoring Officer (TMO) for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems will work closely with the INSPIRE Project personnel to support attendant activities in assigned project sites. The TMO will proactively monitor and provide technical assistance to grantees/partners in work plan implementation and the application of USAID grants management guidelines. The TMO will serve as the first line of review of all partner deliverables including financial and technical reports.
Duties and Responsibilities
Specifically, the TMO performs the following functions:
- Maintain a calendar of activities for assigned grantees/partners and conduct regular check-ins for updates on activity plans and deliverables against targets. Discuss urgent concerns and performance variances that require actions from the grantee and/or INSPIRE.
- Conduct periodic field validation to document on-site results, capture stories of interest and good practices, gather feedback from local partners, and assess site conditions that may impact field implementation activities.
- Perform initial reviews of annual work plans, accomplishment reports, activity designs, budgets, and other proposals submitted by grantees. Ensure submissions are complete, technically sound, compliant with project guidelines, and consistent with the objectives and strategic approaches set out in the approved grant proposal. Provide necessary feedback and guidance to grantees to improve the quality and content of submissions, documentation of outputs/results, and timeliness of deliverables.
- Identify training, coaching, and mentoring needs of grantees/partners to enhance their skills and technical competencies in various aspects of coastal and marine resource management. Recommend suitable capability-building interventions.
- Provide timely and quality inputs to INSPIRE’s weekly reports, annual work plans, quarterly/annual reports, and other submissions required by USAID.
- Support the planning, organization, and documentation of INSPIRE-led events and USAID visits to project sites.
- Participate in the INSPIRE team’s efforts to develop operating policies and procedures to improve overall grants management.
- Perform other functions as required by the Deputy Chief of Party and Senior TMO.
Qualifications
- Bachelor or advanced degree in fisheries, marine or environmental science, development studies, or a related discipline;
- Minimum of two (2) years of relevant experience in environment-related projects focusing on marine ecosystems;
- Strong knowledge of relevant national policies, frameworks, and priority programs and the problems and challenges pertaining to coastal and marine biodiversity conservation and protection, and coastal resource and fisheries management;
- Knowledge and experience in the use of coastal and marine resource assessment, planning, and evaluation tools, methods, and processes;
- Experience working with relevant national agencies, local government units, civil society organizations, fisherfolk organizations, local communities, and other stakeholders in the coastal and marine sector; and
- With good communication, documentation, and reporting skills, both oral and written.
Submission Instructions
Interested applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter highlighting relevant experiences. Include a list of three references with contact information. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted by GRF.
Send applications via email to: [email protected].
The deadline for applications is at 5:00 PM, July 26, 2024.
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