Project Coordinator for Emergency Aid (m/f/d), Bogotá, Colombia/Venezuela

On behalf of Caritas Germany, AGIAMONDO is seeking to fill the following position in the National Caritas Organisation in Colombia at the earliest possible date:

Project Coordinator for Emergency Aid (m/f/d), Bogotá, Colombia/Venezuela

Your new field of activity

Caritas Germany, the worldwide social welfare organisation of the German Caritas Association, helps to ensure the survival of people after natural disasters and in crisis areas.
With social projects, Caritas Germany supports people who are particularly in need of protection: Children and young people, the elderly, the sick and people with disabilities. Every year Caritas Germany provides support for approximately 1,000 aid projects worldwide, regardless of the religion, ethnic identity or nationality of those affected.

Caritas Columbia (SNPS) acts on behalf of the Colombian Bishops’ Conference and coordinates national programs, which are usually conducted by diocesan Caritas organisations in various parts of Colombia and in border areas of Venezuela and Ecuador. Its main areas of work include emergency aid for conflict victims and after natural disasters, psychosocial support for conflict victims, community development, political lobbying and public relations work, disaster prevention and peace-building. Caritas Germany already has two staff members in Colombia who have been working successfully for years and now require further competent support in coping with the diverse tasks they face. To ensure that people from Venezuela and Colombia who need humanitarian aid due to the large refugee movement, internal displacement and ongoing conflicts can be helped effectively, you as project coordinator support the implementation of the aid measures according to the specifications of the donors. In order to provide the best possible humanitarian aid in the current situation, you help the partners to expand their capacities and take advantage of their strengths and resources.

You will be responsible for the following tasks:

• You support and advise local partners in the implementation of aid projects and in narrative and financial reporting.
• You support the partners in organisational and institutional further development and provide advice in particular on the planning of new projects and work processes.
• You are responsible for preparing and accompanying visits from the Caritas Germany network e.g. from consultants or journalists, at partner organisations and relevant local institutions (German embassy, EU, ECHO).
• You take on public relations tasks.
• You are responsible for monitoring and evaluating the content and administration of ongoing aid programmes and the progress of the project, in particular by travelling to the project regions.
• You identify further project and financing possibilities and coordinate the identification of requirements for emergency aid measures.

Your profile

• You have a degree in the area of Humanitarian Aid or Development Cooperation and have gained several years of professional experience, ideally in a church context.
• You have knowledge of project management (planning, monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, indicators) and basic knowledge of budget planning, financial management and financial administration.
• You use your communication and consulting skills in a culturally sensitive manner to deal with a wide variety of local and international actors in a partner-like way, and you have already gained professional experience abroad in supporting local partner organisations.
• You are business fluent in written and spoken Spanish and German.
• As a member of a Christian church, you identify with the goals and concerns of church development cooperation and support them convincingly.
• You are a citizen of the EU or Switzerland.

What AGIAMONDO offers

• Individual and thorough preparation
• Two-year contract, social security and remuneration in accordance with the German Development Aid Workers Act (Entwicklungshelfergesetz)
• Cultural, language or other professional training, as well as coaching, supervision and individual consulting

Corona – Information for applicants

Dear applicants,

even in the current situation, we will gladly accept your application via the online application portal. We are currently conducting the selection process online. We offer our preparatory courses as digital services and partly also as face-to-face courses in cologne in compliance with the necessary hygiene regulations.

Currently, many of our development workers work from home. Some had to leave their places of work temporarily and stay in their home countries. We hope that the global situation will continue to improve and that we will be able to make a responsible decision, together with our partners, to have development workers on the ground working on projects again.