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The Solidaridad Country Program in Ghana seeks to recruit a highly qualified and motivated Senior Programme Officer for Oil Palm. The position would be based initially in Accra.

POSITION SUMMARY
Under the direction of the Programme Manager, Oil Palm, s/he will support the Oil Palm Programme team to ensure high quality programming, strong proposal designs that are in line with Solidaridad’s objectives and donor priorities.

S/He will directly support the programme’s initiative to promote climate-smart oil palm systems, best management practices, engage with relevant policy makers and ministries, agencies and departments, improved technology use of extraction efficiency, service delivery systems, market linkages and policy enabling environment.

The Oil Palm Senior Programme Officer will liaise internally with Solidaridad’s partners and with external stakeholders, and ensure all Solidadridad’s Oil Palm programmes in the country maintain high standards, in line with international standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist the Programme Manager, Oil Palm in the development and the implementation of project/program plans and activities in close coordination with partners (public and private) 
• Support in developing strategies, guidelines, manuals, and procedures for programme implementation
• Co-operate with and ensure regular contacts, dialogues with the local communities, relevant organisations, non-governmental bodies and persons within the programme/project’s environment as well as with other projects in order to enhance and maintain good working relationships
• Communicate and channel local interest and aspirations and exchanges ideas and information for the benefit of the programme
• Support the overall programme management of the Oil Palm programme and ensures timeous, continuous delivery of activities
• Lead partnership development and resource mobilization
• Prepares appropriate input to the various project/program reports/publications including annual reports; contributes to other reports required by the Programme Manager
• Monitor programme progress, review reports and documents concerning the progress of collaborative programs, determine bottlenecks and make recommendations for management action to the Programme Manager.
• Support the preparation of budget for key events and related financial documentation