03/06/2026
Various Positions
June 3, 2026 Admin-T
TemporaryChikwawa, MalawiPosted 18 minutes ago
Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide
Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries
Founded in 1968, Concern Worldwide works in 25 countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean with its headquarters in Ireland. Active in Malawi since 2002, Concern’s vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. Concern strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression. Our culture is values driven and we believe that our people are central to all that we do and are key to delivering on our goal of Reaching the Furthest Behind First. We are committed to ensuring a workplace where everybody feels valued and are enabled to succeed in their work and contribute to delivering on our mission.
Concern invites applications from interested candidates qualified for the following temporary positions:
1. Programme Manager – Resilience (1 Vacancy)
Contract Type: Nine(9) Months Temporary Contract
Duty Station: Chikwawa
Job Summary
Reporting to the Programme Coordinator and managing Programme Officers and operations staff, the Programme Manager will lead the planning, implementation and oversight of the project’s resilience and climate adaptation components. S/he will work closely with implementing partners to ensure high quality, timely and coordinated delivery of programme activities in Chikwawa District. The role also involves establishing and maintaining positive and productive relationships with all stakeholders. Key responsibilities include coordinating with programme teams and other stakeholders to assess resource needs, ensuring adherence to technical and operational standards, managing day-to-day implementation, and overseeing project monitoring, reporting and ensuring effective, efficient and compliant logistics, administration and finance processes within Chikwawa district. The Programme Manager will also lead the integration of a comprehensive resilience and adaptation package, which includes scaling up the Community Disaster Fund (CDF) model, distributing climate-resilience agricultural inputs, supervising the rehabilitation of small-scale irrigation schemes, and promoting the Build Back Better (BBB) approach.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Project Management: Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Reporting
Lead the implementation of climate resilience and adaptation interventions, ensuring alignment with project objectives and adherence to quality standards across all three targeted programme districts and with all international and local NGO partners.
Develop and manage detailed work plans, budgets, and activity schedules to ensure timely and effective delivery of project components.
Oversee the integration and implementation of sustainable agriculture practices, including the procurement and distribution of climate-resilient agricultural inputs such as drought-tolerant seeds.
Provide technical oversight for the rehabilitation and strengthening of small-scale irrigation schemes, ensuring adherence to technical standards.
Coordinate the scaling up of community-led disaster risk reduction initiatives, including the Community Disaster Fund (CDF) and other climate financing mechanisms.
Lead implementation of Build Back Better (BBB) strategies that promote sustainable, resilient reconstruction following shocks.
Establish and maintain strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including government departments, NGOs, and private sector actors at district and national levels.
Track project progress using appropriate monitoring tools and frameworks and evaluate the effectiveness of resilience interventions.
Produce high-quality reports, including monthly, quarterly, annual, and donor-specific progress reports, ensuring timely and accurate documentation of project results.
Ensure that all resilience activities, particularly related to irrigation, meet technical quality standards and donor compliance requirements.
Technical Leadership and Capacity Building
Provide technical leadership and guidance in the design and delivery of all resilience and climate adaptation interventions, including local partners.
Support internal learning and capacity building by offering technical advice and mentoring to programme staff and partners.
Represent Concern Worldwide in key coordination platforms such as the District Disaster Risk Management Coordination Committee and District Agriculture Extension Coordination Committee working groups.
Community Engagement and Accountability
Facilitate participatory processes to engage communities in identifying climate risks, resilience priorities, and locally appropriate adaptation solutions.
Oversee the establishment and effective operation of community-level Complaints and Feedback Response Mechanisms, ensuring timely resolution and escalation of issues in line with Concern’s accountability standards.
Finance and Administration
Monitor expenditure ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance with donor regulations.
Oversee procurement planning and logistics, ensuring timely availability of supplies and services.
Ensure compliance with Concern’s policies on finance, logistics, transport and security.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science, Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Management, Development Studies, Natural Resource Management, Project Management or relevant field
At least five years of similar work experience in programme management, climate change and adaptation and staff and financial management
Proven experience in managing multi-agency and multi-stakeholder collaborative projects and collaborating with local government institutions and structures
Experience working in Chikwawa or Nsanje Districts or other similar contexts is an added advantage
Strong programme management, coordination and communication with extensive experience in building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change.
Skills in developing and implementing programmes that focus on irrigation, community disaster funds, and build back better initiatives.
Skills in reporting, monitoring and evaluation and financial management
Strong skills in inter-personal communications, able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-actor environment.
Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work effectively across a wide variety of cultural contexts.
Strong team player, able to develop and maintain effective working relationships within a distributed and dynamic team.
Flexible, creative and solution-oriented approach in an innovative environment
Strong skills in partnership building, influencing, and negotiating with a diverse range of actors, including governments, UN agencies, networks, donors, national/local NGOs, and community groups.
Strong understanding of humanitarian codes and standards, including the Common Humanitarian Standard, SPHERE, People in Aid Code, and HAP, along with their practical application.
Competence with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook
2. Technical Advisor – Resilience (1 Vacancy)
Contract Type: Nine (9) Months Temporary Contract
Duty Station: Chikwawa
Job Summary
Concern Worldwide is seeking to recruit a Resilience Technical Adviser, with expertise in WASH engineering to provide strategic technical leadership and specialist resilience and WASH engineering support across the climate resilience, WASH, irrigation, and community infrastructure components.Reporting to the Programme Coordinator and working closely with the Programme Manager – Resilience and local partner teams, the adviser will ensure the technical quality, appropriateness, sustainability, and climate resilience of all engineering and infrastructure interventions implemented under the programme. The role is primarily technical and advisory in nature rather than operational management focused. The adviser will lead on technical design, engineering standards, quality assurance, technical capacity strengthening, innovation, and technical oversight of resilience infrastructure interventions, including flood mitigation works, drainage systems, resilient WASH infrastructure, small-scale irrigation rehabilitation, and Build Back Better (BBB) approaches.The adviser will support the integration of climate adaptation, environmental sustainability, and disaster risk reduction principles into infrastructure and resilience programming, while strengthening local technical capacity among government stakeholders, contractors, artisans, community structures, and implementing partners.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Provide technical leadership and specialist engineering support for climate-resilient WASH and community infrastructure interventions across programme districts.
Lead technical assessment, design review, and quality assurance of climate-resilient water supply systems, drainage and stormwater ,management systems, flood mitigation and protection infrastructure, small-scale irrigation schemes, water harvesting systems and community resilience infrastructure
Develop and review engineering designs, technical specifications, Bills of Quantities (BoQs), drawings, and tender documentation.
Ensure infrastructure interventions comply with national engineering standards, humanitarian standards, environmental safeguards, and climate adaptation principles.
Provide technical guidance on resilient infrastructure approaches, including Build Back Better (BBB), nature-based solutions, and ecosystem-sensitive engineering.
Conduct regular technical monitoring visits and infrastructure quality inspections.
Support climate and environmental risk assessments related to infrastructure and WASH systems.
Ensure engineering interventions integrate gender-sensitive, disability-inclusive, and community-led approaches.
Provide technical guidance on operation, maintenance, and sustainability planning for community infrastructure assets.
Build technical capacity of programme staff, local partners, government departments, artisans, contractors, and community structures.
Develop technical guidance materials, SOPs, engineering quality standards, and training tools.
Support and mentor district engineering and field teams during implementation.
Support technical documentation of lessons learned, innovations, and best practices.
Contribute to technical case studies, learning briefs, and evidence generation related to climate resilience.
Provide technical input into proposal development, concept notes, budgets, donor reports, and programme strategies.
Advise programme teams on technical feasibility, cost-effectiveness, sustainability, and resilience considerations.
Support integration of climate resilience, WASH engineering, DRR, and environmental sustainability into programme design.
Contribute technical expertise to resilience financing and community resilience fund approaches.
Support innovation and identification of scalable engineering, resilience adaptation solutions suitable for flood-prone and climate-vulnerable contexts.
Represent Concern in relevant resilience/ adaptation/ climate technical coordination forums
Liaise with District Councils, technical government departments, contractors, and partners on resilience, adaptation and engineering and infrastructure matters.
Support technical engagement with departments responsible for irrigation, water, public works, disaster management, and environmental management.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Water Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Irrigation Engineering, Environmental Science, Disaster Risk Reduction or relevant field
At least five years of similar work experience in WASH engineering, infrastructure development, climate resilience and adaptation programming, climate change and staff and financial management.
Demonstrated experience in design and supervision of resilient infrastructure in flood-prone or climate – vulnerable contexts.
Proven experience in managing multi-agency and multi-stakeholder collaborative projects and collaborating with local government institutions and structures
Strong technical expertise in climate-resilient infrastructure and WASH engineering.
Knowledge of flood mitigation, drainage systems, irrigation systems, and resilient infrastructure design.
Experience developing technical drawings, BoQs, specifications, and tender documentation.
Strong programme management, coordination and communication with extensive experience in building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change.
Skills in reporting, monitoring and evaluation and financial management
Strong skills in inter-personal communications, able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-actor environment.
Strong team player, able to develop and maintain effective working relationships within a distributed and dynamic team.
Strong skills in partnership building, influencing, and negotiating with a diverse range of actors, including governments, UN agencies, networks, donors, national/local NGOs, and community groups.
Strong understanding of humanitarian codes and standards, including the Common Humanitarian Standard, SPHERE, People in Aid Code, and HAP, along with their practical application.
Competence with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
3. Finance Support Officer (1 Vacancy)
Contract Type: Nine (9) Months Temporary Contract
Duty Station: Chikwawa
Job Summary
The Finance Support Officer will play a key role in ensuring effective and efficient financial operations at the field level. S/he will be responsible for managing and processing financial transactions, including the maintenance of accurate and up-to-date financial records. Key responsibilities include the daily management of the bank and petty cash systems, ensuring timely and correct entries into both the bank book and petty cash book, performing daily and monthly reconciliations of both the bank and petty cash accounts. Accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to internal controls and financial procedures are essential to this role.
Duties and Responsibilities
Liaise with project staff to ensure timely preparation of monthly cash projections.
Make payments in accordance with Concern’s financial policies and procedures.
Review and verify all payment requests, ensure they are supported by complete and appropriate supporting documentation is attached.
Record all cash and bank transactions, using correct descriptions, budget coded and amounts.
Ensure that cash is available in the required denominations to support the field team activities.
Monitor compliance with cash holding limits (maximum and minimum) as set by the Head Office and DOA
Verify all cash payments and ensure that they are properly authorised and supported with sufficient & required supporting documentation.
Ensure that all payment requests are fully processed within four days of being received by finance department.
Receive/collect monthly bank statement from all banks and prepare monthly bank reconciliation and cash recap every month.
Review and clear outstanding reconciling items in a timely manner.
Ensure all financial documents are properly filed and submitted to Head Office in a timely and organized manner.
Scan and store all cash and bank transactions before sending the original documents to Head Office for archiving.
Maintaining proper financial and operational records and files
Preparing and submitting relevant financial and operational reports
Participating and contributing towards Concern’s Emergency response and comply with Concern’s health, safety and security guidelines during emergencies
Adhering to, support and promote the standards of conduct outlined in the Concern Code of Conduct & its Associated Policies
Upholding and promoting Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion values.
Qualifications
Certificate/Diploma in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration or relevant field.
At least one year experience in a similar role. NGO experience is an advantage.
Good knowledge of accounting practices, policies and procedures
Excellent interpersonal, communication, documentation time management and analytical skills
Ability to multitask, work within deadlines and work effectively under pressure
Attention to detail
Proficient using Microsoft applications especially Excel and financial software packages
Integrity and a high degree of honesty
Good team player
How To Apply
Interested candidates, who meet the above qualifications, should send their CV (Maximum 3 pages and including three professional referees) and Cover Letter to [email protected] with the subject of the email as “Programme Manager – Resilience – Chikwawa“. The deadline for applications is Monday, 15th June 2026. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
Due to the urgency to fill this position, applications will be shortlisted on a regular basis, interviews conducted on a rolling basis and we may offer the position before the closing date. Any offer shall be subject to donor funding confirmation.
Safeguarding at Concern: Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.
During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.
Concern is an equal opportunities employer. Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.
Concern does not charge for any kind of recruitment.
