Job Title: Food Security and Nutrition Project Coordinator – CESAL Haiti (Jacmel)
Work location: The work headquarters and permanent residence will be in Jacmel.
Fieldwork will be carried out in the municipality of Thiotte (Southeast Department). A minimum of two one-week visits per month or one two-week visit per month will be required to monitor project activities and teams.
Objective: The objective of the position is to coordinate CESAL’s Food Security and Nutrition projects in the Municipality of Thiotte.
Functions:
- To ensure compliance with objectives, results and activities, according to the schedule, resources and budget approved in the projects, trying to maximize the parameters of effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, feasibility, impact and coverage.
- Management, coordination and monitoring, both technical and economic, of the various project actions, together and in close collaboration with the project managers and the logistics team.
- Coordination and planning of the work of the project teams in Thiotte, together with the managers of the local partner that is part of the project.
- Preparation of progress reports and final technical and financial reports, in coordination with the local partner and the CESAL financial and administrative team, following the requirements of the funders.
Inter-institutional dialogue with the various stakeholders present in the territory, generating synergies and complementarities. - To ensure the sustainability of the intervention, as well as to identify both new local and international funding opportunities, as well as synergies and/or future proposals that expand the objectives of these, participating in their formulation.
- Close coordination and collaboration with the rest of the CESAL projects and teams.
Required profile:
- Only CVs from individuals with a work permit in any European Union country will be considered. Fluency in spoken and written Spanish and French is required. Knowledge of Creole will be considered an asset.
- A minimum of three years of work experience in development cooperation is required. Experience managing large-budget programs or projects and experience coordinating projects on the ground implemented by local partners are essential. Experience managing interventions funded by Spanish cooperation and international organizations will be considered an asset.
- Experience working in the food security, nutrition, and education sectors will be valued. Other development interventions in Haiti will also be considered.
- Training in the field of development cooperation and advanced knowledge of project management tools. Specific knowledge of AECID’s project monitoring and reporting regulations will be valued.
- Strong management and leadership skills and the ability to manage teams around a vision, a project.
- High work capacity. High stress resistance and willingness to work in degraded security environments.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and diplomacy skills with local authorities and partners.
- Ability to coordinate, plan and train teams.
- Identification with Cesal’s methodological principles and willingness to engage in dialogue that provides feedback on them.
Contract conditions: Permanent expatriate contract (continuity subject to budget availability). Salary according to the organization’s scale. International private health insurance. Travel: 2 annual flights to your home country at CESAL’s expense. Annual leave: 27 working days plus travel days to your home country plus the option of two R&R (rest and recovery) days.
Immediate start.
How to apply
REF 2026.02 Project Coordination SAN HAITI.
Interested parties should send their CV and cover letter to the following email addresses: haiti@cesal.org and patricia.velasco@cesal.org, indicating their name, surname, and the job reference in the subject line. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.