About
Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Founded in 1968, Concern Worldwide works in 25 countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean with its headquarters in Ireland. Active in Malawi since 2002, Concern’s vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. Concern strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression. Our culture is values driven and we believe that our people are central to all that we do and are key to delivering on our goal of Reaching the Furthest Behind First. We are committed to ensuring a workplace where everybody feels valued and are enabled to succeed in their work and contribute to delivering on our mission.
Concern invites applications from interested candidates qualified for the following temporary positions:
Key Duties
- Provide technical leadership and specialist engineering support for climate-resilient WASH and community infrastructure interventions across programme districts.
- Lead technical assessment, design review, and quality assurance of climate-resilient water supply systems, drainage and stormwater management systems, flood mitigation and protection infrastructure, small-scale irrigation schemes, water harvesting systems and community resilience infrastructure.
- Develop and review engineering designs, technical specifications, Bills of Quantities (BoQs), drawings, and tender documentation.
- Ensure infrastructure interventions comply with national engineering standards, humanitarian standards, environmental safeguards, and climate adaptation principles.
- Provide technical guidance on resilient infrastructure approaches, including Build Back Better (BBB), nature-based solutions, and ecosystem-sensitive engineering.
- Conduct regular technical monitoring visits and infrastructure quality inspections.
- Support climate and environmental risk assessments related to infrastructure and WASH systems.
- Ensure engineering interventions integrate gender-sensitive, disability-inclusive, and community-led approaches.
- Provide technical guidance on operation, maintenance, and sustainability planning for community infrastructure assets.
- Build technical capacity of programme staff, local partners, government departments, artisans, contractors, and community structures.
- Develop technical guidance materials, SOPs, engineering quality standards, and training tools.
- Support and mentor district engineering and field teams during implementation.
- Support technical documentation of lessons learned, innovations, and best practices.
- Contribute to technical case studies, learning briefs, and evidence generation related to climate resilience.
- Provide technical input into proposal development, concept notes, budgets, donor reports, and programme strategies.
- Advise programme teams on technical feasibility, cost-effectiveness, sustainability, and resilience considerations.
- Support integration of climate resilience, WASH engineering, DRR, and environmental sustainability into programme design.
- Contribute technical expertise to resilience financing and community resilience fund approaches.
- Support innovation and identification of scalable engineering, resilience adaptation solutions suitable for flood-prone and climate-vulnerable contexts.
- Represent Concern in relevant resilience/adaptation/climate technical coordination forums.
- Liaise with District Councils, technical government departments, contractors, and partners on resilience, adaptation and engineering and infrastructure matters.
- Support technical engagement with departments responsible for irrigation, water, public works, disaster management, and environmental management.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Water Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Irrigation Engineering, Environmental Science, Disaster Risk Reduction or relevant field.
- At least five years of similar work experience in WASH engineering, infrastructure development, climate resilience and adaptation programming, climate change and staff and financial management.
- Demonstrated experience in design and supervision of resilient infrastructure in flood-prone or climate – vulnerable contexts.
- Proven experience in managing multi-agency and multi-stakeholder collaborative projects and collaborating with local government institutions and structures.
- Strong technical expertise in climate-resilient infrastructure and WASH engineering.
- Knowledge of flood mitigation, drainage systems, irrigation systems, and resilient infrastructure design.
- Experience developing technical drawings, BoQs, specifications, and tender documentation.
- Strong programme management, coordination and communication with extensive experience in building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change.
- Skills in reporting, monitoring and evaluation and financial management.
- Strong skills in inter-personal communications, able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-actor environment.
- Strong team player, able to develop and maintain effective working relationships within a distributed and dynamic team.
- Strong skills in partnership building, influencing, and negotiating with a diverse range of actors, including governments, UN agencies, networks, donors, national/local NGOs, and community groups.
- Strong understanding of humanitarian codes and standards, including the Common Humanitarian Standard, SPHERE, People in Aid Code, and HAP, along with their practical application.
- Competence with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and Outlook.
How to Apply
Interested candidates, who meet the above qualifications, should send their CV (Maximum 3 pages and including three professional referees) and Cover Letter to malawi.hr@concern.net with the subject of the email as “Programme Manager – Resilience – Chikwawa“. The deadline for applications is Monday, 15th June 2026. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview. Due to the urgency to fill this position, applications will be shortlisted on a regular basis, interviews conducted on a rolling basis and we may offer the position before the closing date. Any offer shall be subject to donor funding confirmation.
Safeguarding at Concern: Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.
During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.
Concern is an equal opportunities employer. Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply. Concern does not charge for any kind of recruitment.