Senior Program Management Specialist

Provides senior programme management and strategic advisory support to FAO Cote d’Ivoire, strengthening portfolio coordination, climate-finance positioning, donor engagement, quality assurance and results-based oversight across ongoing and pipeline agrifood systems projects.

• Advise the FAO Representative on portfolio coherence, programme positioning and delivery oversight
• Coordinate management follow-up across FAOCI projects using dashboards, reviews, risk tracking and budget monitoring
• Backstop the GCF-funded flagship project across work planning, delivery review, safeguards, reporting and scale-up
• Promote synergies across climate, biodiversity, aquaculture and food systems projects
• Lead climate-finance and donor intelligence analysis and support resource mobilisation planning
• Engage government, donors, IFIs, UN agencies and private-sector actors on programme priorities
• Quality assure project documents, donor reports, budgets and partner deliverables
• Strengthen results-based management, monitoring, reporting, data quality and learning

• Advanced university degree in a relevant agrifood, climate finance, public policy, programme management or development field, or bachelor’s degree plus two additional years
• At least 10 years of progressively senior international experience in programme or portfolio management, strategic advisory, resource mobilisation, donor relations, climate finance, agrifood systems or emergency/development coordination
• Working knowledge of French and English

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