Project, Relations & Connecting People Coordinator Honduras (PMER Coordinator)

The Project, Relations & Connecting People Coordinator will be one of two people collaborating in this role, working alongside MCC Nicaragua & Honduras Representatives and admin in accompanying the various projects and partners of MCC Honduras & Nicaragua through planning, monitoring, evaluation, and coordination of MCC exchange programs through relationship building, site visits, and coordinating exchange events.

The MCC Nicaragua & Honduras program oversees projects in both countries and this position will be part of a team that works together to share the program monitoring and evaluation (PME) and MCC Connecting People Coordinator (CPC) functions. As a part of this team, this role will be supervised by the MCC Nicaragua & Honduras Representatives and will work alongside a PME Coordinator counterpart in Nicaragua. The strength of this position will be in the diversity, collaboration and flexibility in learning, serving and complementary working styles. The Honduras team member will take the lead on responsibilities related to the Global Service Learning (GSL) program, the Nicaragua team member will take the lead on responsibilities related to PMER processes, and the Nicaragua & Honduras Rep will take the lead on emergency response processes. Each of these roles has the responsibility for both PME and GSL processes in their respective countries but will have the support of the other team members as needed (see attached Roles in the PME/GSL team document).

Project, Relations & Connecting People Coordinator will be located in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and will be traveling to Nicaragua occasionally.

Qualifications:

1. Demonstrated skills in planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting (PMER), previous experience supporting local institutions in PMER, and community development preferred.
2. Ability to listen to and accompany partners.
3. Ability to handle work under challenging circumstances and patience when not seeing immediate results from own work.
4. Ability to work as part of a team and willingness to learn from others.
5. Ability to work independently and take initiative.
6. Willingness and ability to use public transportation.
7. Commitment to live simply and model MCC values to Global Service Learning (GSL) participants.
8. Skills in managing people and connecting to volunteers making them feel safe, welcome and listened to while also challenging them to grow and learn new things.
9. Skills in administration and program software (Microsoft Office & Databases) are needed.
10. Prior experience working internationally in a similar organization is helpful.