Trócaire has been working through local partners in Haiti since 1991. Given the scale of the destruction caused by the January 2010 earthquake, Trócaire launched an emergency response. During this period, Trócaire recommitted to working in Haiti throughout both the relief and recovery phases, as well as for long-term development.

Trócaire is part of the Caritas Confederation, which has 162 member organisations globally. In the first six months of the response, the strategy was to primarily focus the Trócaire relief effort on work with fellow member organisations in the Confederation (CRS, CAFOD, Cordaid and Caritas Haiti).

Since then a coherent humanitarian programme with just fewer than 20 Haitian partners has been developed and a local office has been established in Port au Prince to ensure closer links with partners and better follow up of the recovery process.

It is now envisaged that this humanitarian programme will be divided into several thematic programmes (livelihoods, humanitarian – with a focus on shelter and disaster risk reduction – and governance and human rights). This recruitment is part of Trócaire’s ongoing efforts to strengthen the Haiti team’s ability to provide quality support to its partners for long-term development.

Trócaire has a Regional Office for Latin America in Honduras. Globally Trócaire’s work focuses on six themes, articulated in our strategic plan - Governance and Human Rights, Building Sustainable Livelihoods, Preparing for and Responding to Emergencies, the Environment, HIV and Gender. This position is part of the Latin America Region.

Trócaire is now seeking for a Programme Officer to focus on governance and human rights issues that intersect with humanitarian and livelihoods as well as gender and HIV/AIDS related issues. It is envisaged that the governance and human rights programme will focus on participatory and accountable governance, protection of rights and advocacy.
Trócaire does not directly implement programmes, but works with local civil society actors and Caritas and other alliances to ensure that local people are responsible for their own development. The coming year will be dedicated to building and strengthen the governance and human rights program by identifying Haiti’s core priority areas, working with new partners and the needs of existing partners.

Programme Management and Development
- Responsible for ensuring that Trócaire Haiti’s Governance and Human Right (GHR) programme is coherent, addresses critical GHR issues in the country and targets the most excluded
- Consolidate the development of a GHR Programme Proposal Document (PPD) based on consultations with key stakeholders
- Develop new partnerships with local NGOs and civil society
- Review and critically assess project/ and programme progress collectively with partner organisations
- Ensure that gender and HIV are mainstreamed in programme and projects
- Maintain a relationship with Trócaire’s technical GHR team to ensure ongoing sharing of information

Partner Relationships & Capacity Building
- Constructively support partners’ management of GHR initiatives in the various stages of project cycle management, from project appraisal to reporting.
- Consider new partnerships which ensure a creative and dynamic GHR programme through new contacts and field visits
- Work with partners to identify and address their capacity building needs in terms of both project management and organisational development.
- Ensure effective mainstreaming of Gender and HIV/AIDS in programme and project planning and implementation
- Carry out regular monitoring visits to partners
- Develop and review impact of the GHR programmes and its contribution towards the achievement of Trócaire’s regional and global strategies
- Strengthen programme’s impact through design of a results based monitoring framework using Trocaire’s common field indicators
- Promote Trocaire’s programmatic approach by encouraging and facilitating alliance-building, development of advocacy messages and learning exchanges between partners

Programme Finances
- With the Haiti Country Reprtesentative (HCR) develop annual budgets and work plans for the GHR programme and monitor their implementation
- Keep abreast of in-country funding opportunities and nuture Trócaire's relationship with existing and potential donors
- With the Regional Funding Officer develop programme and project proposals to be submitted to institutional donors
- 16.Support partners in producing timely proposals and reports, which comply with Trócaire standards

Advocacy, policy & communications
- Maintain a comprehensive analysis of the GHR sector in Haiti and of its various influences, focusing specifically on the promotion of human rights and advocacy.
- Maintain constant contact with communications, policy and advocacy officers within head office and contribute to the realisation of the Haiti country advocacy plan.
- Support partners to engage in policy development and advocacy where appropriate and build alliances between partners and international advocacy networks.
- Organise and host in conjunction with HCR and other team members visits of media teams, advocacy networks, political and expert delegations and colleagues from Head Office

Networking & information sharing
- In collaboration with HCR participate in international advocacy networks , liaise with other INGOs and LNGOs, UN and donors where appropriate and report regularly to the HCR on discussions.
- In collaboration with the RLO in Head Office, establish and maintain links with other organisations (including members of the Caritas and CIDSE families), institutions and professional groups working in and on Haiti
- Attend internal and exernal workshops or seminars on relevant issues as appropriate and agreed with the HCR
- Provide comprehensive analyses of the GHR situation in Haiti for Trócaire, communications teams and sister agencies e.g. CIDSE

Internal Links in Trócaire
- Develop reports to satisfy the requirements of Trócaire head office and donors, and to use as learning tools to review the programme locally.
- Ensure coherence between project/programme implementation and Trócaire policies and plans.
- Contribute to organisational learning through systematic documentation, monitoring, evaluation and sharing of information with other staff working in the region and the relevant Programme Teams, in particular the Governance and Human Rights team

Security
- Follow all Trócaire’s security protocols for Haiti
- Actively seek out security information and report regularly to the HCR

Other Tasks
- Any other duties as requested by HCR
- Participate in Regional planning and review meetings

- Relevant postgraduate qualification, substantial work experience is acceptable in lieu

- Knowledge of the current situation in Haiti
- At least 3 years experience of working in partnership on Governance and human rights issues.
- Experience and understanding of capacity building of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
- Knowledge of project cycle management
- Knowledge of a rights based approach, governance and human rights issues.
- Fluent written and spoken English and French, Creole is an advantage
- Strong proposal and report writing skills
- Knowledge of gender equality
- Excellent financial literacy
- Dynamic and willing to take initiative
- A team player but also willing and able to work with minimal supervision
- Willingness to work as part of and with other Church based organisations
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Computer literate-
- Capable of working in physical and organizationally challenging environments
- A sensitive and patient approach to advising and mentoring of staff and partners
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- Willingness to travel throughout the country to meet with partners, sometimes including weekends.

Only applications that meet the deadline will be considered. Due to the high volume of applicants only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ANY EMAIL THAT DOES NOT FOLLOW ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Please note that this is a local hire position, therefore, no allowances will be provided (housing, vehicle, home leave travel cost, etc.)

Please include letter of motivation (in English) and salary expectation. Also attach updated c.v. or resume (including phone number).